Life — June 3, 1909 — page 43: what you’re looking at

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Sparks from Old Anvils (Continued from page 790) other, and the confusion of their common ene- mies. As it is designed this neutral body should act with regard to nothing but truth and equity, and divest themselves of the little heats and pre- possessions that cleave to parties of all kinds, I have prepared for them the following form of an association, which may express their intentions in the most plain and simple manner: We whose names are hereunto subscribed do solemnly declare that we do in our consciences believe two and two make four; and we shall ad- judge any man whatsoever to be our enemy who endeavors to persuade us to the contrary. We are likewise ready to maintain with the hazard of all that is near and dear to us that six is less than seven in all times and all places; and that ten will not be more than three years hence than it is at present. We do also firmly declare that it is our resolution as long as we live to call black black and white white. And we shall upon all occasions oppose such persons that upon any day of the year shall call black white, or white black, with the utmost peril of our lives and fortunes.’’—Addison, in the “ Spec- tator Papers.’” Frequent and loud laughter is the character- istic of folly and ill manners; it is the manner in which the mob expresses their silly joy at silly things; and they call it being merry. In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill- bred, as audible laughter. True wit or sense never yet made anybody laugh; they are above it; they please the mind, and give cheerfulness to the countenance. But it is low buffoonery, or silly accidents, that always excite laughter; and that is what people of sense and breeding should show themselves above. A man’s going to sit down, in the supposition that he has a chair be- hind him, and falling down for want of one, sets a whole company laughing, when all the wit in the world would not do it; a plain proof, in my mind, how low and unbecoming a thing laughter is; not to mention the disagreeable noise it makes, and the shocking distortion of the face that it occasions.—Lord Chesterfeld’s Letters. Other people's draughts are draughts; our own are ventilation all the world over, you may have noticed. Never trust short-sighted eyes not to see, nor deaf cars not to hear. Blind eyes and deaf ears are freakish things, and will play you false if you put your trust in them. As to repetition, the old “Oxford Spectator,’’ whose wit I only made acquaintance with lately, Don’t Let Tire Troubles Delay You When you have a blow-out or puncture, don’t wait to take off the tire and repair it. Don’t get your hands and clothes dirt cov- ered. Don’t ruin your tire by running on the rim. Carry a Stepney Spare Wheel and laugh at tire troubles. The Stepney can be adjusted in a minute or two by anyone. There is no need to remove the injured tire, no need to waste time making repairs on the road. The Stepney can be fitted to the rim of either front or rear wheels, and it makes no difference in the run- ning of the car. You can run along at your accustomed speed over all kinds of roads. Use the Stepney just once, and you'll feel that it has paid for itself. Order a Stepney, use it thirty days, then if it isn’t what you expected, return it and get your money back. Your auto- mobile equipment is incomplete without a Stepney Spare Wheel. Sold by dealers everywhere. for Catalog and prices. Write Spare Motor Wheel of America, Ltd. George S. Morrow, Sales Mgr., 236 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. pe Re al Have You a Friend Sailing for Europe? Send us his or her name, the ship and may say that significant fact the repeated assertion of an in- Twlrinw :SSSSSTESESSTSETSIIIIT [a Strong's ARNICA JELLY jel Keepstheskia soft and smooth; nothing better for chaps, pi fa end paid for 25 Contes act, date of sailing, enclosing your card or a note and seventy-five cents. We will see that the message is sent aboard the ship, to- gether with a copy of James Montgomery Flage’s irresistibly funny “ All in the Same Boat.” ‘This is a collection of pictures and verse which will make your friend popular on shipboard, because it deals with types familiar in every ship-load and will keep every one laughing. Send your remittance and enclosures to LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York City. mm s to weaken, and finally to destroy, the mind,’? but I don’t know. Nature has vast recuperative power, and the repeated assertion of an insignificant and significant fact is going on all round, and has doubtless gone on since time began. Eve, probably never to the day of her death, fell into low spirits, but that she asked Adam if the affair of the apple had not been very unfortunate, and Adam assuredly answered a thousand times, “Yes, Eve, it was very unfortunate.” The hospitality of our friends is delightful, so long as their hospitality is not our convenience, but to be fitting in visits, eking one out there, and squeezing another here, I think it is detest able, almost depraving. And then there is a sort of atmosphere, unseverable from formal ‘Continued on page 793) comicbooks.com