Life — August 15, 1907 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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A THANKFUL WOMAN Tis 10 as On the Fourth of July, a thankful woman, Indeed am 5 A With my seven-years’ boy Asleep on my knee, "m thankful as only A mother can be He's burned his fingers And lost his hat And torn his tre But what ¢ that? For ah And a be Anda year use and a barn Is next Four Cora J Af July Maton Dolson, in New Idea THE GAME WARDEN AND THE LIAR A Colorado man who is visiting in Wellington told H The &. out in the mountains t The officer suggested that that ought to be a good untry for hunting L. Woods this story me warden of Colorado was walking when he met a hunter with It certainly is," , proudly. “I killed one of the finest bucks yesterday 1 ever sew, and he weighed over two hundred.” It was the season when deer may not be shot with out subjecting the hunter toa h Well, that is 2 fine one who yo said the ward you know are talk the officer sid that he did the ch Being assu “Why, Fa The hunter was ooly taken back a moment, when he said “And do you know who you are talking to?” did not know “Well, sir," said the hunter, apparently much relieved, f game warden of Colorado.” The warden you are talking to the biggest liar in the whole State of Celo. rado."—Kansas City Star. -LIFE- JT SCISSORS Aut NULLUS BY INSTALMENTS y Dawe: Save me! Oh, save me: Vil do my best, mum, but I'm afraid I shall have to take you down in instalments. —Bon Vivant SOME EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES [President Roosevelt, in his Jamestown speech, advised the newspaper editors of the country to be temperate in their ex pressions.| ‘The temperate expression is a fine thing, we admit, And the sinctum’s always better for a wholesale lot of it; But suppose some gentle poetess of forty years or more Brings in her latest poems and sits down and reads them o'er? And suppose some old subscriber brings a column letter in, And in trying to unroll it you are skewered with a pin? Please tell us, Mr. President, among such dread killjoys, Just how is any editor to keep his mental poise? face Suppose a cub reporter has stirred up the office ire By falling down completely on the story of a fire? Or some compositor has knocked an article sky high By carefully inserting there a line of printer's" pi”? Suppose a wreck or war breaks loose and photo there is none ‘The editor's “official” was not there with his gun, While man was Johnny-on-the-Spot— How's an editor to hold himself from writing things red bot? Arte years of effort the scientist was certain that Mars was wigwagging. An expert in the code was summoned hastily, while the throng waited beeathlesly, TI nal looks to us like thirty cents.""— silence was broken hated rival’s pict ns the expert read," You Philadelphia Ledger Suppose the umpire from our team has stolen one whole game, nd the sporting editor sits down to call that ump. a name? Do you think he's going to seek a term of mild and soft reproof Or will he jump upon the verbal hoof ? just a few small things that drive the press man n with spikes There are others where it can't be hoped he'll d mild But still, to we And be as mi aw his language Js intemperate he'll strive ne'er to give vent, Fitic as—well, sey our President! Denver Republican TAFT “When T was in Washington recently,” said a well-known wtland man, “1 was honored with an invitation to a dinner which a number of Senators, members of the Cabinet and her prominent public men were present Secretary of War Taft, who naturally came in for a great deal of attention. As is generally known, Taft is a good joker, that is. he can give and take; and during the course of the evening he came in for a gteat deal of good-natured ‘joshing." the crowd v who is on very good terms with him, both personally and politically, and who is also an joker. Just as the party was sitting down at the table, this man, who w fn opera hat Among them was Tne late James MeNeil Whistler was standing bareheaded in sone person 1 hat shop, the clerk having t other part of the hed in with his hat in his en his hat to p for comparison, A ma hand, irrepressibl . supposing Whistler to be a clerk, angrily confronted him alongside Taft, slipped ” ‘on the chair so that the corpulent Secretary would sit on it With surpn ‘aft sprang up and held up to view the “See here,” be said, Whistler eyed the stranger critically fr then drawled out this hat doesn’t ft The signal was given, and they all sat down. x celerity, however, fattened hat ntlemen,’ shouted the perpetrator of the joke, ‘I call ‘Taft has been sitting on another n head to foot, and “Well, neither does your coat, What's more, if you'll pardon my saying 0, I'll be hanged if I care much for the color of your trousers your attention to this incident lid. He has the habit “Ge replied the Secretary, when Laughter subsided, I call your attention toa still more important part of this incident. See," he said, snapping the up to its beight is not broken; I'm losing weight.!"— Pacife Monthly. ybody's HIS COUNTRY HOUSE. Traur (looking ot his jriend"s body in the Paris morgue): He always said that he would spend his list days in a little house lemme the roar ot attened hat on the edge of the water !—Translated jor Transatlantic Tales Lire. is published every Thurstay countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year; to Canada, Back numbers, after three months from date of publicatie Lire: is for sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain. Building, Chancery Lane, London. F..C., England, Acrnts. Brentano's, 37 Avenue di Paris For guarartee of purity, see back \abel on every baile; Wat's WY $5.00 a year in advance 32_cents, . 25 cents. ‘The International News Company. 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