Life — May 7, 1908 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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snare to journalists, how is it about literary ambition? Literary aspirations are even commoner among journalists than political ones. Must they be nipped off, too, by the exercise of determined self-control, or may the rigors of the journalistic job be tru to accomplish that without any conscious renunciation on the part of the journalist? Tt is one of the tragic sides of news. papering that three or four good news. paper writers out of every five keep private graveyards filled with literary hopes, some still-born, more that died young, and a few Wes that grew and even bloomed, and when passi they died, died hard «ec “The Electric is the Simplest of All Automobiles: The Pope-Waverley is the Simplest of All Electrics.” POPE-WAVERLEY ELECTRIC—MODEL 67 VICTORIA PHAETON, WITH LEATHER TOP, $1,600.00 A friend of Lire sends us an answer to Mrs. Wiloo posi Woodrow’s question, * Did the ‘One Man in the Workd* Hous choose the roses of apple-blossoms left by two wom niture on the altar of Love" in a shaded bower? nati LONE, the one man in the world what stood in the lovely bower, before the of sid marble statue of blindfolded Love, and the ft his eyes fell upon the flowers laid upon the tatn pedestal, and left for him to choose. at The deep and glowing beauty of the red lier roses called from his heart an answering hich throb, for well he knew their message. tells u They offered him the warm, rich, loving “that friendship of a heart of gold; they offered dry fa unbounded sympathy and restful days. day. All foolish pride and sorrows were outlived, House and the Lady of the Red Roses would help cate him make his life so grand and true that poe all men would be glad that he had lived. os Impulsively, he stretched forth. his hand to grasp the flowers which held so much shat b for him, brushing aside, in his eagerness, which the apple-blossoms, and as he roughly tangl jostled them to reach the roses, a few sweet lowed.- petals dropped upon his outstretched hand. Instinctively, he glanced down at On these delicate pink and white blossoms UR They did not droop with the languorous flo grace of the red roses; there was something tion to gay, even saucy, about them, and the “One ministe Man in the World” smiled indulgently pulpit t upon them and whispered: ; aan “Oh, what a wasteful little prodigal you poe are, showering your petals all about youl You are delicious; but you are not a flower one could long cherish.” Again he turned to the red roses, but did not lift them, for something seemed to whisper in his ear: “After the flower—the seed—the fruit} but after the rose-bloom nothing is left but ashes—ashes of rose Andthe One Man stood silently thinking and looked longingly up at the statue of Love; but it gave him no help in bis v2 People are buying gas cars every day only to discover, too late, they should have bought an Electric; that their friends who own Electrics go around in comfort and luxury without soiling their hands, g!oves, clothing, and without fuss or noise. 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