Life — September 17, 1908 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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SE TSESES: Picture Puzzles’ FORTUNE lies in wait for the inventor who will turn his attention to de- vising playthings for grown-up people. Too much ingenuity has been expended for years in multiplying toys for children, who, after all, have no great need of them, being in posses- sion of imaginations which burn brightest when least encumbere:l by accessories. But middle- aged ladies who cannot well pretend they are wild Indians, and go whooping about the porches with chicken feathers in their hair, need the gentle stimulus of games and toys to help them with their play. These games and toys should be sedentary in their character. Diavolo, bei apted only to the young and agile, was quickly thrown a: because the young and agile find pastime every- where; but picture puzzles have con- ferred a benefit upon declining years On evegy hotel porch, in every board- ing-house parlor, throughout the sun mer, little groups of ladies—starred oc- casionally by a tame man—may have been scen, diverting themselves with this innocent recreation. The making of picture puzzles provided a new industry as well as a new amusement Ingenious artificers are busy cutting the pictures up; ingenious players are busy fitting the pieces together. It is renewal of childhood’s joys, a happy il- lustration of “ Backward, turn backward, O, Time, in thy flight!" for which poets and sentimentalists are always affecting to yearn. The passion for picture puzzles may Sherry: Say, TAPPY, THE NEXT BATTER IS BILL BRYAN, AND THEY DO SAY BILL'S COT IIS also be said to have inspired a fresh in- — gatzine EYE BACK AGAIN, terest in art. Infatuated players regard Taffy: pvox’r worry, sitrrey! My “TEDDY TWIST’? 1S WORKING FINE! AND DON’T FOR- all pictures as possible material for cer—ie steuck ouT 1H LAST TWO TIME! puzzles, and judge of them by the diffi- culties they would present if chopped into little bits. Their comment upon the ambitious illustrations of our maga- Mr. Bryan As the Claimant Please Do, Mr. Croker zines is that the background would cut up well, or that the figures are a trifle R. BRYAN insists that he is the INCE Mr. Carnegie has had his por- too distinct for intricacy. They would true heir of Roosevelt, and that trait painted in his canonicals as look upon a Titian or a Murillo from Taft is spurious and ought not to in- Lord Rector of Edinburgh Universit the same simple point of view—as herit. He denies Mr. Roosevelt's testa- many friends of Mr. Richard Croker adapted or unadapted 10 their game. mentary capacity as well as his ability are urging him to have his likeness done This is the splendid and single-minded to recognize his own offspring. The — in the habiliments of a Burgess of Dub- enthusiasm of advancing years which fact that Mr. Taft seems indisposed to lin, the which he was lately constituted. sets a proper value on diversion. In contradict him gives one a favorable what a barren and playthingless period opinion of Mr. Taft's discretion. A ‘THE baby has something the matter must Pope have lived, where beads and claimant who claims from a testator with his stomach.’* prayer books were the only toys he who is still alive is under a considerable “How do you know? '* : could provide for age! disadvantage, and so Mr. Bryan will “ Because we had it taken out and ex- Agnes Repplier. doubtless discover. amined." comicbooks.com