Life — January 14, 1909 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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“The great are only great because we carry them on our shoul dlers; when we throw them off they sprawl upon the ground.”— Montindr, Medern y dear girl’ said Blue- with a crafty smile on his face, “1 am going away on a little fishing trip, and I want you to be good. Here are the keys to the garage and the house, and you are at liberty to roam everywhere and satisfy your curiosity, but for heaven's sake don’t open the door of the room that this key fits. Any one but that! Just remember. Expect me in a week or so.” *LIFE: Shots at Truth swers he gets.” 73 “Ie who abuses others must not be particular about the an+ “Have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.” Mrs. was So overco Bluebeard, however, naturally ¢ with impatience that she could scarcely wait for him to get out of the house before she was open- the fatal door. “Ah, hat’? she exclaimed, noted the contents, “it will take me a week to find out all about this.”” Later, when her husband returned, he found her trying on a new directoire gown, while the dressing room was strewn with merry widow hats. “ So,’ he exclaimed, “you have been as she Did you— tly, I went over and gone and done it “Yes, dear.” she replied sw looked in the fatal room. the bills that you had allowed all your former wives to run up; and I found that you were keeping me down to one- half of the average. But it’s all right now. I am evening up. 1— And Bluebeard, quietly and removing her head, remarked : “Dear, dear, the way of the too glad dresser is certainly hard. Will they never learn, I wonder?” neatly comicbooks.com