Life — January 30, 1908 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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HIS LUMINOUS VIEWS ‘The statesmaa leans back in his chair, Looks out across the park, every word with care, remark fis a meaty nut; T think it should be altered, BUT"— Nes with his pen, Debuting means and ways, Looks out across the park again ‘The statesman is not a skid; ‘The tariff will be altered, 1 Louisville Courier-Journal England isthe home of Bridge; London isa home of “Rad-Bridge” A QUAINT COMPLAINT ‘On Mark Twain's seventy-second birthday a Hartford clergy man said of him “No wonder ke finds happiness in old age. All the aged ppy if they were as sympathetic and as kind as he. y to please others, and the himself would be He is constantly going out of his wa result is that he Listen, for instance, to the quaint compliment he paid me the last time he came to hear me preach. He waited for me at the church door at the end of the service and, shaking me by the hand. said gravely mean no offence, but I feel obliged to tell you that the preaching this morning has been of a kind that T can spare. 1 go to church, But to-day I co You forced me to attend to you f beg that this may not occur again.” to pursue my own train ot thought. You interfered with me. nd Jost me a full half bour. New Vork Tribune, in't do ‘Tue Sov ro Hosprratiry: The Manor, Asheville, Nozth Carolina, is the best inn South —Booklet Tur late Sir Joba Millais was a very keen fisherman. He used to tell a story of an old man who was his attendant during a day’s sport in the north of England. The old man was full of local gossip and small scandal, and, where the natural supply failed him, he was clearly able to manufacture enough of his ‘own to go on with. “I were out with the bishop yesterday,” said the old man, referring to a popular church dignitary, who is also a good fisherman. “Ah,” replied M he’s a good man.” “Well.” continued the old fellow, y be, but 'e do swear a bit when ‘e's fishin'.” “Oh, nonsense!” replied Millais, “I don’t believe that.” The old man insisted that he was right, however. “I'll give you an instance.” he said. Jing “longside o° the bishop, same as I might be aside 0! you, an’ "ed got a big fellow at the end of “is line that was pretty nigh pullin’ ‘im off ‘is feet, an’ 1 turns to ‘is lordship an’ T says, *e pulls ‘ard, don’t 'e?? and the bishop says, *Yes, ‘edo.’ Well, now, ain't that swearin’?"—aM. A. P. was ‘To break in new shoes, always shake in Allen's Foot-Fase. « powder, then patent leather can't crack. THE TROUBLE WITH CARR “TL rather like your friend." Mrs. Page said, graciously, after Carr had gone home. “He is good looking and agreeable, but you can't call him a brilliant conversationalist.. The Lawton rts talked all round him “Unfortunately,” reptied Mr. Page, “Carr cannot talk on a subject unless he knows something about it.""—Vouth's Com cou do drink, drink Try wy Lf. one” Y Mba» Trimble Whiskey High Ball The best of all Green Label: AY ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS "sone s¥ornierons ITE, HENTZ& CO. Phila. low York STABLISHED. Drawings and Text by OTHO CUSHING The Rooseveltian Saga in Homeric Form The Severely Classic Style of the Drawings and their Heroic Narrative Form will recom- mend them to Students of the Past and Present. Bound in Boards with illustrated Cover Thirty-two Large Pages. $1.00 panion, “NOTHING DOING” "Is that slang? T thought it was until Last night. when I came upon the words in Dickens's “ Dombey & Son." In chapter IV, old Sol Gills is explaining to his nephew Walter why the shop “Nothing doing ust be closed and the business abandoned. | “You see, Walter,” said he, “in truth this business is merely a habit with me. 1am so accustomed to the h=bit that I could hardly live if I relinquished it; but there's nothin; doing, noth. ing doing.” So you see, the phrase had its pathetic fitness half a century ago. and is not slang at all.—IWasp. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATE “Its purity has made it famous. ABBOTT'S ‘Makes the best cocktail. A delightfat renault eea tse spite and ood Deverages. A tablespoon of sherr LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York or sweetened water after Meals affords relief and aids digestion. The Twentieth Century Limited saves a day each way BETWEEN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO—A LUXURIOUS THROUGH TRAIN VIA THE NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 136 a 7 HE * cem of relief t and final Presidenc cause the to supply matter, a free to dis in literat Roosevelt able purs aminor c job so lor inter We . The congenial ight _no former co generalshi of the N admiral. cever real and when people wh bead for | US ¢ than dearly. po Ime occu renuoUs cemed to of Mr. esay—the Critics of upon the repetition- previous u assert ove doctrines and to pt certain fe familiarity ance of ph Cedeat. Vi Saint-Pier truths on | tosay the and Volt by the pr France. | form of the bewrote w ten. The tame but t carown tir for recasti comicbooks.com