Life — January 2, 1908 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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We Go - FRIEND of Lire sends us the fol- lowing: To Tuat Literary Zoo Hope springs eternal in the human breast, And, born to scribble, what else can we do? We grasp at Lire, and offer it our best— But MASSON, stern protector of the ZOO And mighty censor in the field of fun, Wiclding a pen concise and very clear, Says, “Prove in some other ficld what you have done; No unknown animals admitted here.” J.W. Dear Mapa: You are wrong. No animal is barred out, provided his fur is of the right quality. TL HM. The Atherton-Bigelow Hen Ranch Fo® some time past we have been en- deavoring to run down Mrs. Gertrude Atherton—not, we hasten to explain, in the sense of her critics’ endeavors before. she set a trap for them with the anony- mous “Aristocrats.” But, as she flits from hemisphere to hemisphere—from Berlin to the Blue Grass and San Francisco, and from Macmillan’s to Harper’s—we have been trying to reach her ear with an in- quiry: Why have you started a hen-ranch at Malden-on-Hudson? A not too in- quisitive questioning, we trust; but one that we have made in vain. Yet lacking her direct testimony, we have, in the course of this quest, accumulated circumstantial evidence of her purpose. Mrs. Atherton, as everybody knows, journeyed all the way to Alaska to get material for one chapter in her “Rezanov.” Unlike Tom Moore, who wrote “Lalla Rookh” without ever secing India, and sang of peris and pearly gates without ever getting nearer them than Lord Byron was likely to get, in the esti- mation of Mrs. Grundy; unlike Jane Porter, who wrote “Thaddeus of Warsaw” without a glimpse of Poland; unlike the clever hack writers who will take you globe-trotting on the strength of their travels, or travail, in libraries—Mrs. Atherton believes in personally conducted fiction only when the author has actually examined the ground. For all we know, she may at the present moment be some- where in the tropics—quite near the equa- tor, where people and literature are never anemic—collecting a paragraph for her next novel. It would not in the least sur- prise us, since, fresh from the perusal of her “Ancestors,” we have come upon the clue to her singular interest in hens: to hatch her plot, she took to hatching chickens, and saw them scratch ere she put pen to paper. The above picture shows the Model 70 C, Removable Coupe Top Pope-Waverley Electric in action. This is the one car in the electric sections of the New York and Chicago National Automobile Shows that created widespread and favorable comment from both press and public, as marking a long step in advance in Electric Automobile construction. As the cuts show, the Coupe ‘Top is readily removable, making it ‘atvonce a stylish and comfortable storm:proof Coupe: fortinclement weather, and a graceful, luxurious open car for summer. $2,000; We furnish this superb car, with Removable Coupe Top, for $1,900; with Leather Top, $1.700; with both Re- movable Coupe Top ahd Leather Top, |: Writefor Catalogue. Agentsin pribcipal gies. Pope‘Motor Car Company Indianapolis, Indiatia without Leather Top, $},600. Waverley Department The OXYGEN Tooth Powder Does all and more of the work usually left to a vigorous adiion of the tooth brush. Try it and see how white your teeth get. At all druggists, 25 cents. Dainty triat size can and booklet sent om receipe of § cent McKESSON & ROBBINS, 91.97 Fulton.St., N.Y. coc ~TOURS During January, February and Marth MADEIRA SPAIN 19 days, $131 37 days, $320. ITALY | -~ 56 days, $410 * ALGERIA 62 days, $565 RIVIERA 63 days, $800 EGYPT and the NILE Rates include alt expenses aboard shipand ashore HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE ~ Boston, Chicage, Philadelphia, St. Loals; Ban Prancleo “4 comicbooks.com