Life — January 23, 1908 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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OUR FOOLISH. — (ONTEMPORARIE WILLIE'S WISH I wish that Luther Burbank, Who gives old Nature points, Would just get up a gobbler All made of second joints. —Harper’s Weekly. A DISTINCTION A journalist at a dinner was talking to William Dean Howells about literary fame. “But, after all,” said Mr. Howells, with his gentle smile, “literary fame is not so very highly regarded by the people, is it? T remember when I was in San Remo some years ago secing in a French newspaper a notice that bears upon this question was a notice inserted by a rat-trap maker of Lyons, and 4 “*To Whom It May Concern—M. Pierre Loti, of Lyons, inventor of the automatic rat-trap, begs to state that he is not the same person, and that he has nothing in commoa, with one Pierre Loti, a writer.'”—Washington Star. As to Round the World travel— An exclusive atmosphere is assured guests of TUE COLLVER TOCIS COMPANY, KERKELEY RCILDISG, NosTUS THRICE! Cesar had thrice refused the crown, And I didn’t demand the right to pick my successor, either.” he boasted. ‘Thus we see that ancient rulers were modest. —New Yare Sun. Writtast Jase, the famous psychologist of Harvard, said at a dinner in Boston “An odor often recalls to us a childhood scene. A voice brings back memories that we had thought buried forever. As we regard some strange landscape, it often seems to us that we have been just here before. ‘The oddest, the most momentous associations oftentimes attach themselves to the most trifling things. “Thus, at a Thanksgiving dinner that I once attended, the hostess said to a sour-faced man on her left “*May T help you to some of the boiled rice “*Rice? No, thank you; no rice for me,’ S vehemently. ‘It is associated with the worst mistake of my life. Rochester Herald. ir, Smith ?* h answered, Tux Sout rox Hosvrratity: The Manor, Asheville, North Carolina, is the best inn South.—Booklet. A rittaxtitRoric Cleveland man heard the other day of a family down in the flats that was in extreme need of financial aid He made a trip down to the poor, miserably furnished home and found that the family was, indeed, having a struggle to get enough to eat He pulled three five-dollar bills out of his wallet and handed them to the gaunt, half-starved-looking mother and told her to take it and spend it as she thought best. A few days later he returned to see how the family were getting along. All the members in sight still looked poorly fed. “Did you buy some groceries with that fifteen dollars,” he asked. “Well, no,” said the woman, with some hesitation, “you see it was the first time we had had so much money all at once, and it looked like such a good chance that we each went up and had a dozen cabinet photographs taken." —Cleveland Plain Dealer Beauty, Simplicity, Utility combined in “Rad-Bridge” Scores. 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