Life — March 5, 1908 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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jlers + hy . lerary)jZ00 >, Cast dear fellow, if you will fast for one day you can buy three of them.’ It is a book for a meal.” Thus it will be seen that high living and high thinking are by no means incompati- ble. It might be supposed that a man of full habit, accustomed to spending some four dollars a day for his food alone, would be the very last person to forego his meals jor the pleasures of reading. Plain think- ers might even go so far as to argue that such prosperity would imply the means to purchase as many books as could properly be digested with so much food. Still, who shall say? Sir Gilbert Parker is a Cana- dian, and, inferentially, a man of frugal habits. Perhaps he speaks from the experi- ence of one who gets his meals in London restaurants, and has included in his liberal estimate the “usual tip to the waiter.” The Cliff Dwellers’ President AMLIN GARLAND, who comes East twice a year for the fall and spring round-up, hopes eventually to ap- proximate the ideal of the Westerner who sighed: “If I could only live in New Mex- icoin the daytime and New York at night!” Meanwhile, he has compromised on Chi- cago as a dwelling-place during the salu- brious winter months, when the gentle breeze that blows across Lake Michigan imparts a certain vitality to the air that it does not lose all during the summer. He tas been elected president of the newly formed Cliff Dwellers’ Club, to which archi- tects and ai are admitted on an equal footing with novelists. The club occupies the roof of a skyscraper on the Lake Front, near the Auditorium annex. With ’ powerful telescope one can see the smoke pall that hangs over St. Louis, snugly Stuated to the south on the Chicago Drain- age Canal. This stream, which seems like asilver thread, but is really very much Larger, is destined some day to carry vessels bearing missionaries and novels made in Indiana by the direct route from Chicago to Siam; at present, however, a few snarls and snags between St. Louis and New Orleans make navigation dangerous, even for pilots. * ek R. GARLAND spent part of his time on this visit lecturing in Brooklyn, here he found the grass and water ex- cellent. In Manhattan he put in many of Esafternoons resting at The Players’ Club, Presumably on the theory that, as drama and letters have no longer anything in com- Mon, a club for actors and playwrights fords an escape from literary shop talk. author of Main Traveled Roads res Ports that the oil-wells on his Oklahoma Rach show symptoms of gushing, and that ifthe flow keeps on he may have a kind *ord to say for the Rockefeller monopoly. W. TLL. If you could have always with you in your home the greatest pianist of the age—if the services of this pianist were yours to command and every moment of his time at your disposal—if you could call on him at any hour, under any circumstance, and as often as you liked, to play for you any selec- tion in piano-music that your fancy wished for—W ould you not feel especially fortunate in such a wonderful possession > Yet—with the ANGELUs PIANO you possess something even greater than this! 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