Life — October 17, 1907 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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IMPERATIVE “The suitable garment for chauffeurs, Said Stickler, “is settled at last. ‘The fabric is quite unessential, So long as the colors are fast!" September Lippincott s "Away (om "is ‘olidays): Fancy livin' 'ere all yer life! Ain't yer ever been to London and seen the sights? Ot Sarr: No, sir; but some of the sights comes hup and ‘THE MISSION OF LETTERS “So you are writing stories,"" said the friend. “ ly,” answered the cynical litterateur; ing. a certain amount of text to keep the illustra~ tlons from running into one another." —IWashington Star. IN A FRENCH COURT Cownset (addressing the judge after he had got his client, thie}, acquitted in the Jace of strong evidence): Your honor, 1 woul! be obliged if you would order that this man be not released {rom custody until to-morrow, Jupce: Certainly; but what is your reason? “Well, you see, the road near my bome is rather lonely, and ‘as my client knows quite well that I shall have money on me be might possibly lie in wait for me.""—Bon Vivant. WALL STREET WATER Cueren: Have you read the stock ay? Gora: Yes; just waded through it!—Vonkers Statesman For my part, I can't see the difference between gambling and speculating by buying or selling things on a margin.” “There is a big difference. A man who gambles has a certain number of chances out of a thousand to win."—Chicago Record: Herald. “THE TOUCH OF A VANISHED HAND” Warr (t0 her husband): Poor children! When you get up they have gone to school. When you come back from the club they are asleep; send them a picture post-card from time to time — Kuryer. EVERYTHING IN PROPORTION For many weeks his bed by typhoidWéver. Now he was convalescin clamored for somethin to eat, declaring that he was s:arving “To-morrow you may have something to eat,” promised te doctor, The merchant realized that there would be a restrat to his appetite; yet he saw, in vision, a modest, steaming med placed at his bedside. Here is your dinner,” said the nurse next day, as sbe gue the glowering patient a spoonful of tapioca pudding, ° and the doctor emphasizes that everything else you do must be ia the same proportion.” ‘Two hours later the nurse heard a frantic call {rom the bet chamber. wurse," breathed the man, heavily, “I want to do some reading; bring me a postage stamp.” —Harper’s Weet/ WHAT WOULD THE LETTER BE? A Mr. . of Worcester, stuttered so that it was paiefs! to bear him try to speak. One day his lawyer in Boston wrot, asking him to send a letter stating certain facts about a awe soon to be tried. ‘The next noon he appeared at the office anf said, “I th-th-thought I'd c-c-c-come down m-m-m:myself, as 1 ce-cecan talk b-b-b-b-better'n I c-c-can write,” —Boses Herald. HIS REMEDY A pompous city official, upon reaching his home one ee ning, found the street blockaded and a heap of earth piled against his doorstep, Observing a workman wickling bs shovel in a near-by ditch, he accosted a passing police:nan an complained that the laborer was trespassing upon printe property “What do yez mean by trowin’ diert om th’ gintleman’s steps? den anded the officer, pompously, “Sure, an’ there's noo other place t’ trow it, d’ ye replied the workman, indifferently. “Well, thin, in thot case, yez hed better dig another bole and trow it in there."—Har er's Monthly. 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