Life — May 14, 1908 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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carriage waits without. my Jord,” Sreuta “Without what, gentle sir?"* “Without the left-hand run Boser. Without a Six m Four pinions, and the limousine, The spark-plug and the coil Without the brake. the born, the clutch, Without the n gear One cylinder—it beats the Dutch How much there isn't here! The car has been repaired, in fact, And you should be right glad To find that this much is intact Of what your lo: ‘The garage sent it hack, my lord, In perfect shape throughout So you will understa Your carriage wai Harvard Lampoon Mas. Wirtred believe my arm is »s (alter the bargain-day rush): Oh, 1 FL0oRWALKER: Hospital on the thirty-second floor, madam, Step right into the elevator —Cassell"s Saturday Journal “ Furry miles an hour,” yelled the chaufleur; “are you brave?” Customer: Have you “Yes, I'm full of grit,” replied the girl, as she swallowed an. other pint of dust. —Exch oil. — Leslie's Weekly neously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and ‘Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Lire is published every Thursday, sim $5.00 a year in advance. “anada, $2 cents 25 cents. contribution seill be returned unless accompanied by, ft and addressed envelope. nt itish Possessions. jingle current copies, 10 cents. re. is for sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain. ‘The International News Company. Breams 5, AVE CNY LLv§ Bxgaee HIGH STAKES An exciting bridge game? Brita: Very; we played for each other's cooks—Herper's oil painting of John D. Rockefeller? Cure: No, ma'am; no one bas. Back numbers, after three St. THE NECESSARY “Oh, doctor,” exclaimed the nervous young wife, as the emi, nent surgeon entered the sickroom, ‘if an operation is we want you to operate immediately! Expense is ro objec all.” “We will operate at once,” replied the eminent without looking at the patient. —Hertaberger's Weekly, ON THE TRAIL 'm gunning for railroads,” announced the trust-bester “Then come with me,” whispered the near-bumorist, ©] can show you some of their tracks."—Southwestern’s Book, “Waar!” gasped the windmill agent. “One hu for that old horse? Why, be is a swayback say he is," chuckled the old farmer. “And you expect to grta hundred dollars for him ?"* “Sure. Iam advertising him asthe steed Secretary Taft rode."—Chicago New: THE MODERN WAY |vertisements on the scenery !"* exclaimed the star. carrying commercialism really too far.” “It isn’t commercialism,” exclaimed the manager. “We want the scene to look like a real meadow, don't we?!"—Ti Bit, New Currk: I notice some of these barrels of apples are marked X and some Z. Are they different kinds? Deaten: No; same kind, but differently packed. Some customers want a barrel opened at the bottom and some at the top."”"—The Independent. RECOMMENDATION “It seems to me that I have heard most of the ideas advanced in your speech before.” That,” said Senator Sorghum, “merely goes they are good ideas, which will stand wear and tear.” ton Star. show that He has never been done in Weashing London, E. C., England, Acents. Brentano's, . 1, New Coventry Street, Leicester Square, W., Lo ges, Paris; 1, Via Firenze, Milan; Mayence, Germany. The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced witho mission obtained in advance Prompt notification should be sent by subscribers of any change of address. 37 Ave. de 'Opera, Pa on; 9, Ree at special por Life’s Prints Copyright 1908 by Lore Pee. Co “QUOTH THE RAVE Alter Mark Fenderson Photogravure in Brown 50 cents Complete catalog showing 163 miniature illustrations of Life's Prints will be sent to any address upon receipt of 10 cents LIFE PUBLISHING CO., 17 West 31st Street, New York Probably neither the author nor the publishers of ‘Another Three Weeks" would claim that the burlesque was issued as a tract in the interest of literary mo ality, but it is not to be denied that the ridicule it has created has had a wholesome effect and has helped to clear the atmosphere of a very unpleasant aroma.— Peeria Herald-Transcript. NOW IN ITS SEVENTIETH THOUSAND Another Three Weeks NOT By El-n-r Gl-n 25 CENTS Of all booksellers, newsdealers and news- stands or post free on receipt of price by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 WEST THIRTY-FIRST STREET NEW YORK CITY Like the proverbial hot cakes, the travesty on Mrs. Elinor Glyn’s overrated and much-discused book ‘Three 'Weeks,"* yclept ‘Another Three Weeks" and issued by Life Publishing Company some time ago, has gone off, until so many thousands have found their way into the hands of the public that itself might well be ranked among those ‘best sellere'” which its author so pungently scores.— Tews Topics.