Life — February 25, 1909 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Her Happy Retorts “TL remember,’ says Mrs. Cornwallis West Jy Randolph Churchill), in ber recently pub- d memoirs, “having an amusing passage-at- arms with my host (Sir William Harcourt), Sir Charles Dilke and Mr. Chamberlain, My three radical friends, having been told of my artistic efforts, chaffingly implored me to hand them down to posterity by painting their portraits. * Why refuse to paint us? Where find more attractive or noble models? Come, here is a nortalize yourself and us.’ ‘ Impos =] fail; I could never paint you black enough This the reply sent to Lady Randolph by Mr. George Bernard Shaw, whom she had asked to lunch, It came in the form of a teleg “Certainly not. What have I done to such an attack on my well-known habit?’ To which Lady Randolph replie “Know nothing of your habits, are not as bad manners. “At Last Diogenes, lantern in hand, entered the village drug store. ay, have you anything that will cure a cold?" he asked. “No, sir, I have not," piler. “Give me your hand," exclaimed Diogenes, dropping his lantern. “I have at last found an —Christian Advocate. Howarn: He's crazy navigation. Hope they —The Wasp. answered the pill com- Insane Hattie: A balloonatic.—Catholic News, A CORN CRIB The Poet and the Oracle By Helicon he sat and fished— Or was it by Parnassus? However that may be, he fished And hoped to catch Pegasus. BS; A poet with less sense of shame . F Than rhyme calls Peg by any : on the subject of aerial ae sywme calle: Vem by any name And when he didn’t get a bite, He took his fishing tackle To Delphi, where he interviewed The wonderful Oracle. P.S. A poet, for his rhyme Perfect his consonance ¢, must or bust. He handed in a tale of woe About his rhyme and meter With other thorns along his path, And blamed it on Jupiter. PS. A poet should be pardoned if He hits orthoepy a biff. The Pythia told him good and hard To go to Helicon or To Parnassus,—which it was, Upon my sacred honor I do not know. I only know That somewhere in his tackle The Pythia found his bait and souse+ The whole goldarned Oracle. LENVot A poet's sometimes such a rus He sees no virtue in Bacchus. —W. J. Lampton in Lippincott’s, hursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada a ‘$5iha pearin advance. Additional postage to foreign countnes in the Postal 0 Canada, $2 cents. Single current copies, 10 cents. Back numbers, alter three ion, 3 cents j ned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. LATE he loss or non return ef unsolicited contributions. Great B: The International News Company, Breams Nocontriintion seill be ret dogs not hold itself responsihe Live is tor sale by all New ngland, AcEnts. Brentano's, 37 Ave, de I also at Saarbach’ s Exchanges, w Coveniry Street, Leicester Square, W.. ‘St. Georges. Paris: 1, Via Firenze, Mila Mayence, Germany. * The text and illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced permission obtained in advance. Prompt notification should be sent by subscribers of any change of address. Building, Chancery Lane, London, pera, Paris; (Pounded 1715) kk * AND FINE OLD LIQUEUR BRANDIES GENUINE OLD BRANDIES MADE FROM WINE Sole Agents G.S. NICHOLAS &CO. New York Of Historical Value HAVE sou ever looked through one of the early volumes of LIFE? If so, you know they are of historical value. In no other form can you find such a vivid and realistic de- piction of the period they cover. They epit- omize not only the humor of the times but the fashions, the litera- ture, the drama, the politics and the social movements. They con- tain the essence of American life, public and private. A com plete file of LIFE is a complete history of the time it covers. Its pictures are a compendium of the progress of black and white art in America. orlisiben'ond GAL? Baek Volume tovtain te hues Chad a yes ¥9) hy Jan.-June, Fol J avi G ol. VII. Jan.~June, 18%... Vol. VIII. July-Dec., 1886. Y snes 10 ‘each. ‘All subsequent volumes, each, $i, LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, " “S.ryox tac" lot once elec Whi cost and you to fi on in th by comicbooks.com