Life — June 4, 1908 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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| When Fields Were Fresh and Pastures New F ALL the men I never met Not one so gladly would I know As Adam, Villa Paradise, “The first estate in Apple Row. For how delightful it would be Some private mental grounds to find All dewy fresh as springing grass— Untrampled premises of mind. Where only Eve and Nature caused The sweet reactions of a soul Unvexed by all the sages’ lore ‘That bulges as the «ons roll. Most truthfully might Adam say, “I think"” and never once excite ‘The wonder if the thought were his Or shimmer pale of borrowed light. “Ob, tell me, Adam," I would say (If such a téte-&-téte might be), “Just what you think of women now, ‘And what of yon forbidden tree?”* And never once would Adam quote What Macterlinck or Milton said: But serve me fresh his own ideas Home raised in Fancy's fragrant bed, But now, alas, where may I find A mind with grassy lanes and nooks Untrampled by another's thoughts, Unmustified by pedant books? ‘The mental rills of babybood May scarce a single decade run Ere tributaries they receive From every land beneath the sun. I yearn to hear the ocean roll Without a single hint from Byron, Nor use some other poet's ear To catch the sea notes of a siren, 1 want to love and quite forget ‘Ten thousand things that men have said About its rainbow makeup fair, ‘That hangs illusion o'er our bead. So fade away, old sages all, And leave me to myself awhile; I'm fain to learn of Nature's self The Esperanto of her smile, —Evening Sun, We Progress HISTLING girls and crowing hens were out- casts a generation ago.” “Well?” “But now they both can make money in vaude- ville.” —Kansas City Journal. The Dear Old Days UCHED by his sad story, a Harrisburg woman recently furnished a meal to a melancholy look- ing hobo who had applied therefor at the back door. “Why do you stick out the middle finger of your leit hand so straight while you are cating?” asked the compassionate woman. “Was it ever broken ?”” “No, mum,” answered the hobo, with a snufle. “But during my halcyon days I wore a diamond ring on that finger, and old habits are hard to break, mum.”—Harper’s Weekly. “T'S BEEN a sinnah!” vouchsafed a recently con- verted brother, during an experience meeting in Ebenczer Chapel. “A heen-yus, low-down, con- taminated sinnah for lo dese many yeahs, and never Knowed it!” “Don? let dat molest yo’, Brudder Newcome,” spoke up a sympathetically inclined deacon. “De rest_of us knowed it all de time.”— Tribune. John Adams Signer of the Declaration of Independence ‘and Second President of the United States. ERE we have a Puritan of the Puritans—a man of stern | A@_| and unbending rectitude — E75 of generous and truly heroic temperament. Descended from a pious God-fear- ing New England family of Pilgrims and Pioneers (who were for genera- tions brewers, maltsters, barley and hop growers) he became the mouth- piece of the Revolution—the terror of tyrants—a giant in debate — and diplomatically more than a match for Pitt and Talleyrand. I would rather die than be dic- tated to—this sentence accurately describes the stubborn spirit of this valiant old patriot whom all England could not govern. John Adams, even as his fathers before him, nourished mind and body on health-giving barley beer, and died at 91 (twenty-one years beyond the scriptural span) enjoy- - ing all his mental powers to the very last.* *Pamiliar Letters—Riverside Press, N. Y., 1776, pages 22, 43. 46, 47, 79, 172, 220, 277. Life and works by his son, John Quincy Adams, Vol. 1, pages 6, 8, 9. 10, 11, ete, A letter to his wife, Abigail, May 22, 1777, says: “I would give $5.00 for a gallon of your beer." The MOST TALKED OF FIRM In London. enr6Se- ,,. REGENT STREET Original and Exclusive Designs in TAILOR-MADE SUITS AFTERNOON FROCKS RECEPTION AND EVENING GOWNS MILLINERY, ETC. Specialité : TRAVELING COATS ———x x ——————— oar Budweiser HE most popular beer in the world. There CJ is less profit to the dealer who sells it, because it costs more money at the brewery than any other beer A royal brew of malt and hops whose absolute made. sovereignity has never been challenged. Unquestionably— THE KING OF ALL BOTTLED BEERS Budweiser is Sold in all First-Class Clubs, Hotels and Cafes Bottled Only at the ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWERY St. Louis, Mo. ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE? If you are, or if you have doce so receatly, don’t forget to notify LIFE of your changed sisies, "The Poste will will not forward @ periodical as it wil Therefore Sree dis caucoura Ue Don't wait until you have moved belore you notly us. Whea a change giro the old as well as the new address Notice must reach us by Thursday to affect the following week's issue, Subscription Department LiFE, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York comicbooks.com.