Life — January 14, 1909 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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(Continued from page 84) Bon-Mots Taken From the German NE of the greatest discoveries which human reason has made in modern ! . _____ times is, in my opinion, the art of judg- “Our Kitchen, Always ing books without having read them. nar it is no art to say a thing in few words Open to Visitors, when you have something to say, like Tacitus. But when you have nothing to say, and write is Our Best a big book, that’s what I call merit. 3 He combined the qualities of the greatest Advertisement.” men in history; he carried his head on one Between the lines you read: side like Alexander the Great, he was always f 1 “ q scratching his head like Cxsar, he could drink i What can be seen can be believed. coffee like Leibnitz, and when he was com- E A visit to our kitchen will convince fortable in his easy-chair he would forget to 4 you that in the making of soups we eat and drink like Newton, and like him it H N stand first and foremost, whether the was often necessary to wake him. 3 r) 2 f all commodities in the market there is pointof view be cleanliness, thorough- none more remarkable than books. Printed 5 ness, quality, purity or flavor. by persons who do not understand them; sold \ We would like you to pay us a by people who do not understand them; \ visit. If unable to do so, write for bound, reviewed, and read by people who do : ee not understand them; and, best of all, written our illustrated, descriptive book, sent by people who do not understand them. free on request. I have found throughout life that when all A 21 kinds sold by Grocers everywhere other means fail there is nothing that will eg in Quart, Pint and Holl-Pist Tien: give you a surer clue to a man’s character r than a joke which he takes amiss. i THE FRANCO-AMERICAN FOOD Co. The story was told how St. Dionysius, after j JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, N. 2. he had been beheaded, walke d two miles with his head in his hand! “Two miles?” asked Tena wait one of the company. “ two miles; there is not the least doubt of it,” was the reply, “LT will gladly believe you,” said a lady, wit- tier than the others: a only the first step which is difficult.” In other countries when a citizen becomes > No dissatisfied with his government he emigrates, , in France he requests the government to emi- empty grate. Copyright, 1908, by Life Pub, Co, a which Charles Lamb on Valentines rld is r HIS is the day on which those charming lit- ay the , tle missives, ycleped Valentines, cross and inter-cross each other at every street and nature as Pay attention to the turning. ‘The weary and all forespent two-penny @ nol Re postman sinks beneath a load of delicate embar- ‘on to size_of every number of rassments not his own. It is scarcely credible ot . : to what an extent this ephemeral courtship is car- sed by LIFE during the present ried on in this loving town, to the great enrich- ; 5 ment of porters and detriment of knockers and bey at year. Don't worry about bell-wires. In these little visual interpretations, . id : *. al. no emblem is so common as the heart—that lit- happy j the quality, for that is al tle three-cornered exponent of all our hopes and . - bg fears—the bestuck and bleeding heart; it is sie ways improving, but notice twisted and tortured into more allegories and be ABSENT FRIENDS . affectations than an opera-hat. What authority within pier &.D:Gibon how much we are going to we have in history or mythology for placing the : togravure, 18x20 in. bd x - 3, headquarters and metropolis of God Cupid in sae give you in quantity. Pros this anatomical seat rather than in any other = . he is not very clear; but we have got it and it will twice perity is with us and LIFE knows no serve well as any other. Else we might easily t . 5 . imagine, upon some other system which might a lost better way of showing it than by sharing have prevailed for anything which our pathology yea : . rae knows to the contrary, a lover addressing his -_ his good luck with his friends and patrons. mistress, in perfect" simplicity of feeling, “Madam, my liver and fortune are entirely at at Therefore, take careful note of the plump- your disposal; "or putting a deliate question, wand Mf eg : d “ Amanda, have you a midriff to bestow? "’ But 5 x seat of sentiment to the aforesaid triangle, while Noney; coming year. its less fortunate neighbors wait at animal and to get 8 anatomical distance. Charles Lamb—I'alentine’s Day. To each subscriber at Five Dollars is sent a handsome copy of the picture,“ Absent Friends " ready for framing. ‘THE PUISSANT GOVERNOR Thea wp spate V hes. comicbooks.com