Life — June 6, 1907 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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the train, with its few windows, and with all the appointments of a club, has started, they do not know it: ‘The botanist touches my arm and nods towards a pretty little lead-paned window, through which we see a village sleeping un- der cloudy moonlight go flashing by. ‘Then a skylit lake, and then a string of swaying lights, ¢ with the leap of a camera-shutter. Two hundred miles an hour! Their observation is but momentary; for when one travels beyond a certain speed there is nothing but fatigue in looking out of a window, says the author, “and this corridor train, twice the width of its poor terrestrial brother, will have no need of that distraction.” + * * $ ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE has pointed out, mankind through all the centuries preceding the nineteenth knew nothing much better than the ox- cart. Then, presto! the steam locomotive, and civilization moved forward at one enormous stride. And now: One hundred and fifty miles an hour! New York to San Francisco in a day! Only a few weeks ago, Mr. Harriman was pointing out what others had pointed out in years gone by— the need of widening the railway gauge. But Mr. Brennan’s wheels go round on a single rail. It only goes to show that our captains of industry need the counsel of the ve novelist. Or was Mr. Wells, er all, in the confidence of Mr. Brennan? James IX THE first of four papers to be con- tributed sequentially to Harper's Bazar— which are, in point of fact, launched, so to speak, with the April instalment of that instructive publication—Mr. Henry James, lingering on the American scene, delivers himself, as we might say, of “The Man- ners of American Women,” which deliver- ance, did it proceed from a source, say, less alive to the propricties of cultivated speech, might, as the case stands, more explicitly convey in the title the subsequent implication that the superficial behavior (and, inferentially, the innate breeding) of the female American is not, as the phrase is, all that it is cracked up to be. * * * N COMMENDING this record of an acute observer to the Daisy Millers and other women of to-day, we trust we make ourselves clear. Never has the literary deportment of Mr. James been more fas- tidiously correct. Never has he cried out against us in more delicately modulated tones. We recall his half-concealed im- pulse—cherished in the long ago—to spank a certain little miss on roller skates, and compare it, to his advantage, with the refined restraint of his present attitude toward four little giggling girls who en- | Let me suggest an ideal summer vacation trip for you. Go West and see the Colorado Rockies —the Switzerland of, America Grand Canyon of Arizona —the world’s wonder California Sierras and Beaches —it’s cool there in midsummer Very low excursion rates ‘Write for the following souvenir travel books: “A Colorado Summer,’’ ‘Titan of Chasms,’’ "Yosemite Valley,"” “*To California Over the Santa Fe Trail,”’ “California Summer Outings.”’ They will be mailed absolutely free. You need only mention this magazine and say: “Send me your vacation books.’? Address W. J. Black, Passenger Traffic Manager, A. T. & 8. F. No. 1118-N Railway Exchange, Chicago. luncheon deligh R ° folly cool for Pic- ‘ Haste Raion efrigerator sain es If he does bi not handle them, send us Strong imported reed your order z body, hinged lid, B 5 and we will nickeled lining, interlined with asbestos and hair felt. Removable ice com. 5 ship you a partment. Botlom dressed with mineral paint—proof against dampness. — basket to try REGULAR . ‘oe uxRs S = for 30 days. If it Size2, - 20x13x10 - $3.75 Siz a1 es 00 does not prove eoeee tisfactory in 210 - $10.00 S i estaciony, +20x13z10 - ” $7.00 very way, return Let us mail you Free illustrated booklet with endorsements from folks you know ejand we will re comicbooks.com