Life — May 16, 1907 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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a RESEP: JENNER & COMPANY Undivided Estates Exclusively 55 BROADWAY, NEW YORK Telephewe 40: Werter oes UNDIVIDED ESTATES II Kinsts of undivided estate lee Wt propanats are adepate for Known the world over (AF WHITMAN SADDLES “Everything from Saddle to Spur” CATALOGUE FREE The Mehlbach Saddle Co. i 108 Chambers St. New York as potent an influence in releas- ing Americans from the thraldom of the tyrants as did “Uncle Tom's Cabin” in liberating the negro from bondage: A Victim of the Trusts. THE FHANCIS. Largest Retailers India EUROPE zc" $270 up North Cape, Round World, Japan, etc. FRANK GC. CLARK, 96 Broabway. N. ¥. CITY MELLOW AS MOONLIGHT At the Factory Gate PATHETIC little sketch from life, given by Mr. James Greenwood, in his “Low Life Deeps,” is particularly interesting just now, when the child-labor question is so prominent. One chilly i ireenwood stood by the door of a fac- and and watched the laborers go in. It was an establishment where high-grade work was done, and in it two hundred girls, from thirteen to sixteen years of age, were employed. It was pre- tended that no younger children were engaged, but many of the poor little mites could not have been more than nine or ten. ‘They were sharp-shouldered little things,shrunken and shrewd, with hungry cyes. It was noontime, and, therefore, a free hour. ‘Three clean, tidy-haired little girls were looking out of the factory gate. “Here comes father!” cried one. ather” was a slouching, lazy-looking man, with a short black pipe in his mouth, He had brought the children’s dinner. It was not a bulky affair. “Here, catch hold!” he called. “It’s a pretty day for me to come lugging up here. Make haste and cat it up and cut away to your work.” I saw the small parcel unfolded. It contained three morsels of fried fish and three slices of bread. This being fairly divided, the three sisters retraced | their steps toward the factory, eating as they went. Father” turned back, his great hands thrust deep | into his pockets, and made haste to get home out of | the disagreeable weather. He may have been un- avoidably out of work, but my instinct is at fault if he | was. | At the end of the noon hour two shivering little girls were late. I found them in great distress, locked out for half an hour, with the certainty of afine. They stood, miserable and bonnetless, their dirty faces streaked with rain, and grew quite confi- dential with me. Some one, for a “lark,” had told them of a cook- | shop where might be bought enormous pennyworths of pudding left cold from yesterday. ‘The dinner with which they were provided consisted of a slice of bread and a ha’penny apiece. ‘These last they had | made into joint stock, and had run a mile and a half | to get the pudding. No such shop was to be found and the children had returned hungry, disappointed and late. Every Little Helps HEN a stowaway is found on an ocean steamer he is immediately set to work to pay for his passage. One such was recently discovered in the hold of the Medfterrancan liner Cretic, and was or- dered to the galley, where the cook found plenty to keep him out of mischief. A lady on a tour of inspection paused near the stowaway as he sat busily peeling potatoes. “How soon do you think we'll reach Naples?” “Well, madam,” he replied, cheerfully, “I'm doing all I can to get her in by Tuesday.”"—IWoman's Home Companion. | HEN Whistler started his class in Paris he inquired of each pupil with whom he had studied before. “ With Julien,” said one. “Couldn't have done better, _ sir, Whistler answered. “With Cha: replied another. “Couldn’t have done better, sir.” “With Mowbra: replied a third. ‘“Couldn’t have done better, sir,” and so on. He approached a student slightly deaf, who stam- mered in reply: “I beg pardon?” done better, sir,” responded Whistler placidly, passing on to the next.—Bellman. Ss) ATOR PLATT says the rumor that he is to follow Spooner’s example and resign is a “lie of the worst kind.” Oh, surely not of the worst Ikind, Senator.—Indiana polis Star. Couldn't have | Of Interest To Artists THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for ILLUSTRATIONS ARTISTS ARE INVITED ‘TO SUBMIT PIC: TURES ILLUSTRATING ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING QUOTATIONS. $250 will be paid Jor the best illustration oj 1. Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! — Burns $250 will be paid jor the best illustration of 2. When lovely woman stoops to folly. —Gold smith. $250 will be paid jor the best illustration of 3. God helps them that help themselves. —Benja- min Franklin, $250 will be paid jor the best illustration of 4. 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