Life — May 2, 1907 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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red, thorough-ripened, for long years it has lain, Till it’s rich, rare and royal—The Great Western Champagne. “Ten Acres Enough,” was curtailed in the The fine wine grape, possessing the same qualities as those ensuing controversy to “Five Acres ‘Too grown in France, with the French method of making, give Much.” Concurrently, there arose and spread the Myth of the Hen. Practition G re at We Ss t ern ers of Letters and the humbler professions E D everywhere abandoned their callings for xtra Dry the nobler and more lucrative pursuit of Champagne agen p We were simpler in those days; since the exquisite taste and sparkling effervescence of the best foreign wines. then we have become nothing if not sci- Great Western is made under the same identical methods as the most select entific. What science has left undone, French Champagnes, and it is aged for five years in the same kind of cellars. tegen vee hile This gives Great Western an excellence which the French connoisseurs sociology” has completed. While Mr themselves recognize. Camegie has been promoting the Cultiva- Nearly one hundred years of cultivation of Great Western vineyards in tion of V cant Minds by the Unemployed, New ‘Yorks State have given the soil the denens that reduce ie. same a more practical philanthropy has been peculiar quality Champagne grape as grown in the famous vineyards of France. ‘ Soe cote ane At the Paris Exposition Great Western Champagne was awarded a gold experimenting with city lots and suburban medal for quality. ‘tater patches. We have it on Mr. Hall’s Great Western Champagne costs 50% less than the imported. The U. S. Custom authority that “an acre will produce in House receives no revenue from Great Western and you get 1007; wine vate. | vegetables”: Try Great Wester —we like comparisons. A sparagus, 3,000 bunches, at 20c. per PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CO., Sole Makers, RHEIMS, N. Y. bunch, $600; cauliflower, 100 to 300 bbls., at Sold by dealers in fine Wines and served in Hotels, Restaurants and Cafes. $r.§0, say, $450; onions, 600 bu., at 75¢ per bu., $450; cabbage seed, 1,000 Ibs., at 4oc. ab. $400; Brussels sprouts, 3,000 qts., at roc. a qt., $300; celery, 6,000 bunches, at sc. a bunch, $300; parsnips, 300 bu., at $1 a bu., $300; lettuce, 9,000 heads, at 3c. a head, $270; lima beans, 50 bu., at $5 a bu., $250. * * € HE. prizes of literature and the drama == ‘ are for the few. Not every one can ‘email piece of ico i fa hope to be a Ralph Connor, a Hamilton SCOT eal ant amvotnly,youveants pen thas ren AS medina, takers Z Wright Mabie, a George M. Cohan. But , 20 ket A pen that’s even or point, buy the Spencerian ru inch coo! ile almost anybody, with practice, can learn to ‘Slade of the best ateet,b and workers, Ever the warmest hoe potatoes and sow cabbage seed. “We Spa vestect; Ne seoacda, here'ea Spencerian Fen made ‘ see a great future for some of our novelists. venti Eichler eel tinal ain atl spreintstees tor With onions at 73 cents per bushel, it is Spencerian Pen Co., 349 Broadway, NewYork Burlington Basket Co. more profitable to raise 1,800 bushels than 20 Male street Bertin | to produce the average work of fiction a ‘There is a better market for asparagus than for essays. Poetry often goes begging— parsnips never. As for literature—no longer entitled to the capital “L”—Mr. Hall has been telling us that even Walter . Pater's English is execrable. Perhaps Type XIV, Touring Car, 30 horsepower, $3000 ff) rst, t00, might have been much better Four vertical cylinders, Sliding-gear, roller-bearing transmission. ‘Three epeeds forward and occupied in cultivating cauliflower for the reverse. Direct shaft drive. 112-inch wheei base. Téree-potnt unit suspension of pewer-plant. table of an Epicurean. The Autocar Runabout, Type XV, 12 horsepower . . . . $1200 “| WOULD sell my shoes to buy a ¢ volume of Kipling,” exclaimed Molly The Futocar Company Elliot Seawell, once upon a time, in a 14TH ST., ARDMORE, PA. burst of confidence. Miss Seawell, we are glad to ncte from recent observation, is still bien chaussce. But she no longer owns a certain copy of “The Five Nations.” In a moment of in- discretion she committed to the fly-leaf the four lines that mark her only essay in verse; and the book was promptly “bor- rowed.” If memory serves, the quatrain ran: To sit beneath the cedar boughs, and bask In the soft splendor of thy witching eyes: A skin of wine, a loaf of bread I ask, A book of verse—preferably by that lower- z middle-class cad and ruffian, Rudyard M ion Licensed sas * ices "ttemodlie Mamufsetasees = QNelrabdilits e Jor the Antocar Book Kipling—and this were Paradise. comicbooks.com