Life — November 21, 1907 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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A Nature Fake TWAS the venerable John Burroughs, not Presi- dent Roosevelt, who started the campaign against state faking. Mr. Burroughs has for years, with técule no less than with logic, punctured the nature baker's ‘Ata dinner in Boston he narrated a nature fake. pwas as casy to believe, he said, as many of the jyure writers! anecdot “My cousin’s wife's baby was very ill, and finally tecrsis came, and the little one fell into a deep p sleep was to be decisive. On the child's snening «the doctor would know whether it would fre or di “Well, in order that this momentous slumber sight not be disturbed, my cousin’s wife, going on tiptoe, mufiled everything—chair legs, d saucers, plates, the doorbell. “And Sa, the noble dog, from his seat on the sofa, thing in the situation at a glance, silently got up on sdair and stopped the eight-day clock by touching Sependulum with his paw." —New York Times. HE Medical Press, replying to a correspondent who asked whether dogs ever suffer from sea- ys. “Your y question is rather an odd one, but we are versed in comparative anatomy to be Ml Ne to assure you that dogs do suffer from sca- sckness. Nor are they the only animals which do, horses and cattle are subject to the malady, too. Tse question was ‘treated of in the spring by M. lundrieux, who read a paper before the Société de | Padologic Comparée in Paris, in which he gave soe striking instances. One fox-terrier puppy, even months old, fell an easy prey to the malady. Tee symptoms were practically the same as in man. | Lack of interest in surroundings, dejection, saliva- Sa and vomiting, with rapid recovery on reaching tors firma.” A New Definition RATHER cynical joke has been recently credited to Senator Platt. The Senator on his last visit to the Manhattan Bach Hotel allowed a pretty little girl, a Western silionaire’s daughter, to be presented to him, The little girl, in the course of one of her many | &lghtful chats with the aged statesman, said “Tell me, .won't you, Senator, what poli my 132” Political economy, my dear child,” Senator Patt reputed, “is the art of never buying more votes an you actually need.""—Washington Star. 'HE very complex and sensitive emotional nature of the dog shows itself in the extraordinary apxity for affection, for devoted love—for love | this special characteristic, that the affection of te dog for its own kind is altogether inferior to its Section for man, ‘That man has given largely his vm love to the dog is the only explanation, and that the dog has accepted his love as the most precious ‘ting, the love of a higher being, and has responded ‘it with a completeness that gives to the canine | te the right to be called preeminently the friend w lover of man,—The Abolitionist, URING a high-browed discussion at the Play- ers’ Club, in New York, the other day, a friend tked Raymond Hitchcock to define the difference ‘etween a tragedian and a comedian, to which the “Yankee Tourist” star replied: “Well, I hate to Uk about myself, but I have come to believe that a median is simply an actor with blond hair, while a ‘agedian is a brunette who thinks he is an actor.” “How about the brunette comedians and the jians?” © nature-fakers.""—Harper’s Weekly, GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER “Its parity has made it famous.” Only One Way Home from California Use the SHASTA-NORTHERN PACIFIC route and see Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, snow covered peaks, 14 Empire Country, Make the tour of Yellowstone Park aod follow the ings of the historic Clark Fork aad Yellowstone rivers. for “Eastward Throogh The ‘A new and improved Sead six cer Storie edition Northern Pacific Railway A. M. CLELAND, G. P. A. ‘Saint Paul, Mian. Alaska-—-Yekoo—Pacific Exposition, 1909 COOK'S BZ EXTRA DRY “Waiter, be sure and bring me Cook's Imperial; I have known that champagne for years and can depend on its uniformity of quality—it equals the best vintages of the Old World.” Served Everywhere JOHN JAMESON WR) WHISKEY You are offering the best when you serve Jameson’s Sole Agents W. A. TAYLOR & CO. New York The Sled that Steers With 19778 Improvements, The swittest, 01 ated, Th MODEL SLED FREE. Write for cardboard model showing Just how Ut works ; sent free BAA colored Christmas booklet, and prices. S. L. ALLEN @ CO., Box 1102X Philadelphia, Pa. and LIFES BRIDGE PAD Hymorously Mustrated by Life's Artists and thdegraghed. ia ta colors oa Rad: lirdge™ theee-rulber Copyright Life Pub, “1 registr 3 3 fr $1.00. Of all dealers or the manufacturers Radcliffe & Co., New York,144 Pear! St.,& London, E.C. comicbooks.com