Life — January 2, 1908 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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R. & L. Electric Coupe Our 1908 Model Coupe is the most per- fect car ever designed for city use. Controlled from inside and will accommodate four passengers. It is easy riding, easily controlled, noiseless, handsome and strong. One lever controls the car; there are no foot brakes to demand attention; this feature together with the Elec- tric Brake Control absolutely insures safety of operator. The new R. & L. locking device which protects car against theft and permits starting it only in the right way, is a most important feature. MANY NEW AND EXCLUSIVE IMPROVEMENTS R. & L. Coupe bodies are interchangeable with the Stanhope body on same chassis. Agents in all the principal cities. Write for our 1908 illus- trated catalog which gives detailed description of our I different models of Electrics. THE RAUCH & LANG CARRIAGE CO. 631 SUPERIOR AVENUE CLEVELAND, OHIO A room without pictures is like a room without windows.—RUSKIN Life’s Prints Copyright 100th Lire Pe Ca, “~ WONDER IF THEY'RE TRUE TO ME” Alter W. L. Jacobs Photogravure in Green, 13} by 16 in. 50 cents “TOMMY BROWN, IF YOU HAD BEEN ADAM IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, EVE NEVER WOULD HAVE HAD A CHA! AT THE APPLE” After HH. Tooker Photogravure in Sepia, 134 by 16 in. cents A copy of our illustrated catalogue for 1908 will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 31st Street, New York Last Winter's Things OTHER wears last winter's hat Also wears last winter's furs, Ani the coat she wears—why, that All last winter, too, was hers. ‘Though she sighs and frets a lot Of the trouble hard times brings, All the clothes that mother’s got Are her old last winter's things. Sister says it breaks her beart Her last winter's things to wear; Gowns that then were voted smart Now have quite a dowdy air But she wears them, just ‘To the dinner and the dance, ‘Though till now it was her aim Always to be in advance. Tam wearing the old suit That I wore last winter through; Tt was out of style, to buot. On the day that it was new My last winter’s shoes are whole, ‘Though they are half-soled at that, And a patch conceals a hole— And 1 wear last winter's hat. Father wears last winter's things, And he says ‘twould help his roll If through some weird monkeyings We could bura last winter's coal And he frowns and says when we Kick about our bitter pills ‘That we're better off, for he Has to pay last winter's hills! Chicago Port. “This Is a Baby!” HE. little family group was gathered round the font, and the clergyman, about to officiate, felt called upon for remarks. “No one,” he began, “can foretell the future of this little chap. Who knows but that he may grow up to be a great general like Grant himself. Or, it may be, a world-famous scientist like the immortal New- ton. He may become a soul-saving divine or a wis- dom-breathing judge.” ‘Then, turning to the fond mother, he added, “What name is the child to bear “Matilda Mary Florence,” was the reply.—Lip- pincott’s. E IS a good safe horseman, but rarcly takes unnecessary jumps. He was riding out curbing a young horse which he was trying, and in case the young horse showed any unpleasant characteristics he had brought out his second horseman with a steady old hunter. ‘The young horse went very kindly, and a brook | coming in the line, he set the horse hard at it, and went over very cleanly. Later in the morning as they jogged homeward he said to his second horseman, “Did you see me take the water, Smith?” “I did, sir,” answered the man. “Was the horse running away with you?"— Sporting Times. MASSACHUSETTS person having com- plained that it was in bad taste for the Toronto chaplain to preach a sermon on “The Lust of Drink” to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, upon a recent Sunday, the New York Sun replies that the sermon was highly appre- ciated by the corps: ‘Their untiring zeal in destroying, sofar as in them lies, the drink supply has made them pethaps one of the most practical and fruitful of temperance forces, and the subject of the sermon was 3 compliment which gratified them highly. Whether on the Heights of Abraham or in the Vaults of Bourbon these heroes will always be an honor and an ornament to Massachusetts: and Scotland, Jamaica, Santa Cruz, Plymouth, Holland, Rye and a hundred other places of renown are irreparably associated with the deathless glory of this legion. nurse Jo all th