Life — July 15, 1909 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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y Thervtay, Annual Salscriotion, je Copses, ‘Ten Cents od the British Possessions. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Bulletin. TOURS TO YELLOWSTONE PARK ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION AND THE CANADIAN ROCKIES In the heart of the Rocky Mountains lies one of nature's richest treasure-houses— the Yellowstone National Park. Park is to sce nature in a variety of The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, at $ finest shows of its kind, reflecting the wonderful progress of that territory which was, but a few years since, a wilderness. The C ian Rockies, glorious in scenery, disp as one penetrates the great canyons through which the railroad runs, combine the beauty It is America’s greatest show ground. ‘To visit this re and ma ic moods. ttle this summer, will be one of the ing new wonders in every mile of the Alps and the grandeur of the Himalayas. On August 14 and September 4 personally conducted tours through the Yellow- stone Park; to Portland and Seattle, for a visit to the Exposition, and returning through the Ca road. 1 Rockies, will leave the East by special trains over the Pennsylvania R. Five and one-half days will be spent in the Park, one day in Portland, two days mer from Seattle to V ay at Banff, and sight- in Seattle, one day on Puget Sound, going by st at V: at Lag; be made in St. Paul and Chicago. I The rate, which will cover all necessary expenses except luncheons in Seattle, will ncouver, part cing trips will ch tour will cover a period of twent of ada ncouver, one d an, one v-two days. be $246 from New York, and proportionate rates from other points. Persons desiring to utilize these exceptional opportunities to visit the Yellowstone k and the ska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, should apply for Pullman space early, as the parties will be limited. Address C. Studds, D. P. A., 263 Fifth Avenue, New York; Geo. W. Boyd, General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, Pa.; or consult nearest Ticket Agent. ‘ost Office at New York, N. Y., a3 Second ‘Class Mali Matter, Spend your vacation on Quaint Cape Cod Ideal for vacations—seashore, woods, country, fishing, boating, bathing. Send for free, beautifully illustrated book. A. B. Smith, G. P. A., Room 185, New Haven, Conn., New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. SPARKS FROM OLD ANVILS The Hats of Other Days cre is not so variable a thing in Nature as a Lady's Head-dress.. Within my have known it rise and fall abov About ten years Height, insomuch that the Fe Part of our Species were much taller than the Men. The Women were of such an cnormous Stature, that we appeared as Grass-hoppers before them. At present the whole Sex is in a Manner dwarfed and shrunk into a Race of Beauties that seems almost another Species. I remember several La dies, who were once very near seven Foot hi that at present want some Inches of five. How they came to be thus curtailed I cannot learn; whether the whole Sex be at present under any Pennance which we know nothing of, or whether they have cast their Head-dresses in order to surprise us with something in that Kind which shall be entirely new; or whether some of the tallest of the being too cunning for the rest, have contrived this Method to make themselves appear sizeable, is still a Secret; tho’ I find ost are of Opinion, they are at present like Trees new lopped and pruned, that will cer- tainly sprout up and flourish with greater Heads than before. . . . I admire the Sex much more in their present Humiliation, which has re- duced them to their natural Dimensions, than when they had extended their Person: lengthened themselves out into forn sigantick Figures One mi that Women in all Ages have taken more Pains than Men to adorn the Outside of their Heads; nd indeed I very much admire, that those Fe- ale Architects who raise such wonderful Struc- tures out of Ribbands, Lace and Wire, have not been recorded for their respective Inventions. — Joseph Addison, in “The Spectator,” Friday, June 22, 1711. A Knickerbocker Sabbath The old time Knickerbocker Sabbath was in very truth a day especially set apart for wor- ship. The laws of society so decreed, and public opinion was a stern master then. So woe be- tide the man, woman or child who dared to dis- obey or disregard its stringent rules. From dawn all sccular affairs were religiously absta from, the family meals were but cold collations of Saturady baked meats—it was decreed that man servant and maid servant should rest. No sound save the tolling of the church-bell broke the awful stillness. At stated hours, three times during the day, at ten o'clock, at three o'clock and at seven o'clock, stovepipe processions of staid men and women, accompanied by subdued silent children even of the most tender age, slowly wended their way to church soberly and (Continued on page 75) to a very great [ENGLISH TOURS _ By AUTOMOBILE PRIVATE CARS. CO WHERE YOU PLEASE. Mustrated booklet free by post, MOTOR TOURING COMPANY, 43 Pembroke Place, - Liverpool, England comicbooks.com