Life — July 4, 1907 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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Ss OUR FOOLISH ‘GNTEMPORARYE Tnackeray almost beoke the heart of a silent worshiper in Charlotte Bronte when first they met at table. ““Bebold a lion cometh out of the north,” she quoted as he entered the drawing- room, while he, as one of his biographers tells us, was feeling nothing but a poor but ravenous specimen of an Englishman, At dinner she was placed, by her own request, opposite Thack- eray. “And I had,” he said, “the miserable humiliation of see ing her ideal of me disap jown my throat, as everything went into my mouth and nothing came out of it. At last, as I took my fifth pot ¢ Jeaned across, with clasped hands and te reyes, and breathed imploringly,*Oh, Mr. Thackeray, don't a Tur So} Carolina, i Ax O1tio author, now in Chicago, recently had a visit from a friend who still lives in the town gether. He gives this account of one memory of that call * Nesbit,’ said he. with the pleasantest kind of a look on his face, ‘you remember that little old bouse on Main Street where you were born ?? When he said that it brought house as clear as the reality. I saw the queer little win- dows, the nice, friendly door, the yard, the lilacs—everything. *Yes, Bill,’ 1 said with emotion. ‘I remember very well.’ ‘Well,” he said, ‘the folks have gone and put a tablet on that old house.” At first I coukdn’t speak. I had all I could keep the tears from coming. ‘The folks hadn't lost sight of me, then! They knew what I had been doing. A tablet was. L admitted to myself, somewhat beyond my deserts, but—but there it Whea I could speak “And what does the tablet say, Bill, old man?" Bill looked away out of the window * Main Street,’ said be, Argonaut, Hotel Vendome, Boston The ideal hotel of America for permanent and transient | guests. | Twain-weeckine is giving literary production quite a run for he honor of being the principal industry of Indiana. Detrow Journ A Sovtures telegraph directing the move trains, clai ty four consecutive b ‘The difference between a fatal accident on that line and homicide would be hard to determine del phia Ledger Milk That fs Wholesome Since the scientific handl nated by Gail Ih c ! s become general; bi an Tk is Brand Ey A wre low, decided to take radical steps to impress ity for contributing liberally to the chu Accordingly, at the close of the serm ind then proceeded as T hab found it necessary, on account ob de astringency ob fe hard times an’ de gineral deficiency ob de circulatin’ mejum in connection wid dis chu’ch, t’ interduce ma new ottermatic ‘lection box. It is so arranged dat dollah of quahtah a nickel will ring a small bell distinetually heard by de congregation, an’ a sus button, ma fellow mawtels, will fiah off a ‘n yo'selves accordingly. Let de c'lection now p'oceed. T takes off ma hat an’ gibs out a hymn." —Inde pendent Kenilworth Ian, Biltmore, N.C. 4 finished hotel south of New York. A san of somewhat caustic wit who had been dining sumptu. ously et the table of a nowveaw riche declared to a friend on his | homeward way that he felt a new and strange sensation about | his heart. | “1 it isn't is ventured the friend, “I think it must | be gratitude."—Vouth's Companion. Tue prosperity imply ignores what is called a panic must be the real thing.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. “A health to the girl with yellow hairs A health to the girl with red; A health to the black; A health to the brown; But a deeper draught than all To her with the silver crown.” Souk reorninrons Green Label. ESTABLISHED TE, HENTZ & CO. Palla cad New York AT ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERE 1793 “A room without pictures is like a room without windows.” —Ruskin Life’s Prints At 1 by Lite PEA. Co, MOONSTRUCK Alter Henry Hutt Photogravure in Brown, 20 by 15 in. $1.00 Copyrtett 108 by Lite PAA. Cm AFTER THE WEDDING Alter A. D. Blashfeld Photogravure in Sepia, 20 by 15 in. ‘50 cents LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 31st Street New York wr ey eh. Cea anunw ney fie ov