Life — December 5, 1907 — page 46: what you’re looking at

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WISDOM OF EXPERIENCE “This,” said the village minister, as he entered his wife ting-room with an open letter in his hand, “is a call to Grass. ville, Kan. I understand it isa very nice place.” “What salary do they offer?" queried his practical better half. ‘One thousand dollars a year, free rent and wo donation ¢ parties—one in the spring and one in the fall,” replied the good METHODICAL CORDIALITY man. “What do you think of it, my dear?" Dr. A. FW, Ingram, the Bishop of London, sat at a dinner i “I think," answered his wife, “that you had better write and shington Avion ask if they would be willing to make the salary $809 a year and y 1 overdo athletics, but T don't, really. Exercise cut out the donation parties." —Chicago News. I don’t overdo it any more than the parliamentary . Jugsins, overdid his cordiality. AT “Ir Looxs as if these trusts,” said Mr. Sinclair," ave to "Juggins was running for a slum district ia Birmingham, and Gace, obey the law, of else their owners will find themselves as badly his cordiality among the slum voters excited a good deal of sur- sold as the rich Bostonian who bought an estate in Scotland ‘Two canvassers fell into talk abou iis called Glen Accra. It's a grand idea of Candidate Juggins,’ said the first. ‘In. “ The Bostonian bought this estate without having s¢ it. He stead of just shaking hands with a voter in the ordinary way, be 5 believed that he could trust the man he bought it from. And lst rushes up and grabs the man's two hands, shaking them long YY summer he went over to have a look at the place. and warm; Y VY _, “The drive from the nearest railway station to Glen Accra But isn’t that rather overdoing it?’ said the other canvasser. < ZB # was a matter of twelve miles, The Bostonian hired a Highlander Overdoing it? No, indeed. It may look like overdoing it, _ g to drive him. but Juggins knows his way about. As long as he holds both the y As the cart jogged along, the Bostonian said: fellow's hands, he knows his purse is safe." —Washington Star. yy I suppose you know the country hereabouts pretty well, SS tnend?* ye, ilka foot o 't,’ the Scot answered. FUN FOR THE BOY. GT, ‘And do you know Glen Accra?’ ‘The parents of a Baltimore lad, a pupil in one of the public , <i ip > ‘Aye, weel,’ was the reply. schools, are fond of boasting that their hopeful has never missed. : th’ : What sort of a place is it?" the American asked. a day’s attendance at school during a period of eleven years. ¢ . The Scot smiled grimly. On one occasion the proud father was asked to explain how $ SN) Aweel,' be sald: if ye sai the dell rethered on ies ye'a jut this apparently impossible feat had been accomplished. “Did say, “Poor brute! ‘cw York Tribune. he have the usual childish diseases—measles, whooping-cough, g and so on?” the father was asked. ‘Ob, yes." BENEATIC HIS NOTICE THE REAL VICTIMS How, then, could he have always been at school?" aaa Kyicxrr: Retrenchment is hard on the poor. “The fact is,” explained the father, “he always had 'em during “Hattoa, Bilkins! Who are you working for now?” Bockrr: Yes; when you have to give up your auto the ooes the holidays."—Harper's Weekly “Same people—a wife and five cbildren.”"—Tit- Bits. who suffer are the chauffeur's friends—New Vork Sun Lire. is published every ‘Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England, Acexts. 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