Life — April 22, 1909 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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"meas | PHILIP MORRIS | ORIGINAL LONDON CIGARETTES Anywhere and erywhere, they’re always the proper thing to smoke. CAMBRIDGE AMBASSADOR after-dinner sise In Little Brown Boxes “Correspondence” (Continued from page 565) tax. She grected me with a palid smile, but finally accorded me permission to look through her letter-press. I soon found the following: “Hoxoero Mapaa: “For years I have subsisted on your books. . | have endeavored to trace the reality of your characters; sleeping, I have fled from their haunting shadows. At last I am convinced that only by creating characters of my own shall I ever escape the thrall in which yours hold me. “Perhaps you will be kind enough to tell me how the various personages, necessary 10 works of fiction, are produced. “Thanking you in advance, humbly yours, ARAGELLA ScRInoLer.”” There was no answer copied, but by curious coincidence, | happened upon a list marked “ine ventory,” and which I have appended One complete set of dictionaries (all languages). One set wax tablets (cut in sgetions, permitting cach word stylographed thercon to be shifted often as need be). One microscope, one scalpel, one crucible One thermometer «(for testing temperature of characters) One stethescope ) One photograph album cont of fashionable houses One visiting index (personal) with notes. One complete set of Henry James. One complete set Police Gazette (hound) I then took a taxicab to the socially districts of upper Fifth avenue. The tenth footman thought I was a manicure and let me upstairs before he discovered his mis- take. It turned out happily, as the “ Queen" (to register heartbeats of the ing detailed plates icicled Mustohs Arwus of Khartoum Locked hiemsell up in room, LIFE: |AROUND THE WORLD CRUISE By SS; ARABIC; 16,000 tons, Oct, 16, $650 up 30 TOURS TO EUROPE. $270 UP Frank C. CLARK, ‘Times Building, New York (all leaders of fashion now-a-days are called “Queens ") was up and dressed at ten o'clock. I told her my errand—I was not a messenger of boredom, but a messenger from Lire. “T wish to goodness you were,’ she exclaimed. “T thought you had come to sce me. I was so glad to see you. I would be glad to see any new fai I was going to Palm Beach, but changed my mind. There is nothing down there. “Don’t you think the fashions are too hideous? I have rolled on the floor to get my hips down until Iam black and blue. Have you seen Mary Garden in Salome? Do you suppose it is all off between the Duke of the A and Miss Eo" You want to see my m You are welcome to it. One-half are begging letters and the other half advertisements. No—here is one from Gwendolin at Sioux Falls. She writes: they are going to hand down my de- cree on Saturday. I really want your advice, as you know more about life than anyone I know. Do you think I would be happy married to Charlie?" The “ Queen"? laughed, and threw the letter into the fire. “She will be happier than he, at all events,” she said, cheerfully, but the next moment her face clouded over. “ Happiness! What on earth has happiness to do with life? Lire is amusing. Who ever suggested for a mo- ment that a woman ought to be happy? People i? A-Club Cocktail Is ABottled Delight mixed-to-measure blend of fine old liquors aged to a wonderful’ mellowness. Once drink CiusB Cock. 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Our papers are free from poisonous matters—they are truly and purely made. ASK YOUR DEALER for 0 Sead for iltstrated bok ALLEN HIGGINS WALL PAPER COMPANY x Si WORCESTER $e MASS, U.S.A. Pavers are poor, or rich; contented or discontented— that’s all, But we all we have not Gwendolin, out in Sioux Is, thinks that Charlic is going to be different than Jim, just because she has had all she wants of Jim and Charlie is something new. Woman’s suffrage is the same thing—we want it because we have not had it. I know, for one, that if we get it, it will bore most of us to death! ”” Suddenly her eyes lighted, her whole expression grew radiant, as she went down on her knees: “Tum to Muzzer, Fido, darlin’; does 00 want do day-days ete., etc. Our Trained Cousins BY LOUISE COLLIER WILCOX When asked if I believe in adult suffrage 1 feel quite secure in replying, “Undoabtedly, for English women.” Generations of English womes have been born and reared to responsibilities In English homes, girls submit from infancy to a stern and unrelaxing discipline: to hye living, plain diet, definite daily tasks and, abort all, to looking on at much freedom and enjoy: ment in which they do not expect or hope to join. They are teaght obedience not hy coax ing moral persuasion or affectionate pleading. but by unalterable laws. The result has beet that when economic conditions so changed thit all the women had not enough obligations ard responsibilities in the home they were prepared to meet them gravely outside. They had beet so trained to accept duty, so grounded in th habit of thinking of it, that when i duties came to them they be y spectors, school inspectors, sanitary inspector they sat on boards as guardians of the poor: they filled the offices of school commissioners alderman and mayor and brought to these dati the serious sense of responsibility they had 2 plied to houschold economics. An English girl is taught the care and the value of money from the time she is oli! enosth to be entrusted with a penny a week to the when she clothes herself and. + financial dues out of a given allowa an English girl is learning the use the American girl is learning only. t¢ she can out of “ Papa’ until she cha banker and coaxes it out of her husbs (Continued on page 567) IF GOING ABROAD KEEP THI ADORESS| The most EXCLUSIVE MODELS In London. ru MADES. RECEPTION and EVENING FROCKS. MILLINERY. 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