Life — October 3, 1907 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

R. AND MRS. LAW returned on the Sickania last Wednesday from an auto tour through the Holy Land. Mr. Lawe-Dodger him- ii remarkable Biblical scholar. was one of the South Caro- : ys. All charming girls. Lord Hellapus after his enthusiastic re- ception at Newport in August oe Ed Ul el a put on his own shoes. It all came from a rumor that his valet had gone away. There was nothing in it. The Robert Goldengrafts have returned to town. Mrs. Goldengraft never eats maple sirup on squab. She walked down the avenue last Thursday morning as far as Thirty-fourth Street. Her clothes were new, and the joke of it all was that no so- ciety reporters knew it until after she had reached home. Society is convulsed. Tt now appears that the accounts of fire during this last season, of Mrs. Jimmy Overload, who has been spending the summer in Scotland with her sister, the Duchess of Bossmore. Her elder sister. it will be remembered, married Count Boodleseekor about ten years ago. They were not divorced until nearly three years after the wedding One Thing or the Other HEN fickle Fortune tackles men, We're hither, thither hurled; + And then 'tis said of certain folks, world! visited the Stok-Sharpes at Lenox. Reports are afloat of his engagement to Miss Kis- sie Sharpe. But who can tell? It would be a lovely match, as she will inherit millions and his lordship is a most cultivated gentleman and—at times — quite temperate and reliable. Mrs. Stok-Sharpe—as every one knows, of course- asister of Mrs. Octave Schwindler. They were the sprightly daugh- ters of the Hon. Bulby Strutt. And the Strutts have always been fashionable. It is whispered in smart cir- cles that Mrs. I. Amitt, who entertains so lavishly, is or is not something or other, we for- get which. Society papers will please copy ‘Trowsers Van Guzzle had a narrow escape in his new B. & S. car last Friday. About two in the morning, while going at a good pace, his machine suddenly swerved and ran into a telegraph pole. Heritage Doolittle and two young ladies were also in the car. Trowsers was driving himself. All were partially intoxicated, but the accident was entirely the fault of the machine. “Something suddenly weat wrong with the steering-gear,” as we s37 in English. Mrs. John Jones, whose mother was a saysit were “better the caranditsoc- cupants should be forever lost thana good telegraph pole injured.” She has a sharp tongue. The Wises are a Boston family. Mr. and Mrs. Gottitto-Byrne are stili at Lenox. Some excitement was caused in fashionable circles recently by the an- nouncement that their son Loafingwell the in They're way up But others, not so lucky in This buffeting about, Are thus described, in pointed ua Phrase, Poor things, they're down and out!” Glad to Oblige Mr. Bok Byer eopys old friend, Mr. Edward Bok, inquires of the Times Saturday Review for “information as to the leg- end which associates the bat with literature.” He says that none of the reference books give him any light on this subject. That is because he is not on the trail of the right bat. The association, Mr. Bok, comes down from a time (sce Plato’s Dialogues; Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, etc.) when the use of alcohol in the processes of the siterary art was much more customary and extensive than now. Itwas the bats the writers MRS. MERGER-HOGG in the Mergor-Hogg’s Adirondack camp were much exaggerated. Onl one end of the laundry and a part of the servants’ dining-room were destroyed. ‘The entire loss will scarcely exceed six hundred thou sand dollars. A Velasquez and a Rem- brandt that hung in the laundry were slightly scorched. The marble and bronze partitions prevented the fire reaching further. But Mrs. Hogg lost a portion of a morning sleep. Merger, however, is do- ing well. He loves the simple life. Newport has regretted the absence, of past generations went on that started the association, which was probably aiready ancient at the time of Socrates, and was strengthened by him. ‘The same subtle connection is dis- cernible in the assignment of the owl— the boiled owl of contemporary allusion —to Minerva, and its association with wisdom. HEN you call on a girl whose father and mother will not let her be alone with you, do not think too harshly of them. Maybe they are thinking of you. comicbooks.com