Life — January 7, 1909 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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26 *LIPFE* @ 3 Society M®* AND MRS. OCTAVE SCHWINDL at home last T: breakfasted Mrs. Graiton-Kloze gave a dance last week for her daughter Flippic. Miss Flippie Kloze is one of the season's favorites he dresses superbly, is a great talker, can dance all night and look fresh the next day. She will make an excellent wife for some lucky man. Mr. and Mrs. Van Damm Expensse may take a walk, sep arately or together, almost any afternoon this week. She was one of the famous Philadelphia Dedds. Her father, the Hon, Worsen Dedd, was very handsome and a good judge of wine, AN INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPH EADDING-GADDING (centre) AND HER COUSIN: JIMMIE OVERLOAD AND MRS. OLWAIZ THAYER. Certain young men, prominent in society, are getting up a new club, It will be more select than any New York club now in existence. Among those interested in the movement are such men as Fullern A. Goat; Willie Ginnanseltz; Orvall Mannors; Galley-West; Dedleigh Lohr, J. Dodge Wurke, and Dyer Thyrst Mrs. Robert Goldengraft will soon give a series of bridge parties at her palatial residence facing the Central Park Her daugiter, as everybody knows, was married three years ago to Baron von Bunko. It was purely a love match. The bride stood him for a year before getting a divorce. Mr. and Mrs. Lawe-Dodger passed a pleasant summer at their lovely country place, Fat Inkum-by-the-Sea. The Lawe- Dodgers are nice people, not a member of the family on cither side of the house having served a term in prison. Mrs. Plato Punk and Mr. Bughouse Todd both think New York fashionable seciety is thoroughly enjoyable and leaves nothing to be desired. Mrs. Punk, as everybody knows—that is, everybody who is anybody—is a sister of Mrs. Parvenu Plump Mrs. J. Gadding-Gadding was seen on the Avenue Tuesday, walking with her cousin, Mrs. Olwaiz Thayer. Both ladies were beautifully attired, and, so far as one could judge, were not ashamed of themselve: We have it on good authority that Mr. and Mrs. Gatheran Spend will remain in the city until they leave it Mr. F. Sumwhat Pumpkyns, who is to marry Miss Tootsie Pyle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Goshwotta Pyle, in the Church of the Holy Dividends next month, will give a farewell bachelor dinner at Sharpy’s on Friday. Ode to a Fat Girl OW vivid to my retrospective eye Comes back the night that we first sat alone, And, as I heard your sweet responsive sigh, I seemed to feel you were my very own, And yet, and yet, I did not dare make haste: How could I put my arms about your waist? I must confess the matter troubled me Until, divining my most hopeless plight, Intuitively you saw I could not be Quite easy so short nded. You were right; And also thoughtful and extremely good In telling me to do the best I could. Indeed, it might have been embarrassing If you had not possessed such common sense, And, quivering like a jelly, felt the sting Of pride to think that you were so immense. Instead of this, you made no bones about The interesting fact that you were stout Thus, with courageous heart, when I made bold And asked you if you'd sit upon my lap, You did not try to do as you were told (Thus bringing on a terrible mishap). In lieu of this you shook your head and said, “Nay, dearest, you must sit on mine instead.” And so it happens, as your billowy form I fold within my arms (as best I can), You do not grow impatient, dear, and storm Or sit on me because I am a man, But with sweet resignation let me climb Right up and love you little at a time! Thomas L. Masson. IRST DUDE: I've been invited to go gunning next week. What ought I to give the fellow that beats up the birds? Secoxp Duve: Well, old chappie, it depends where you hit him, don’t you know. comicbooks.com