Life — July 15, 1909 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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cllsl eden ae Good Intentions Make Portland Place and Regent St. W G d P ° BI k rMittatonie cute tom COGS HAVING AOCKsS + Reducea inctaseve Terms arin Anse! and Select Action pays dividends. A modest investment in a real ar 2 vacation in Colorado will do more for you than a wagon “Literature” for the Young F load of government bonds. It will put lung cells to work Acwriter, Inthe Academy,, says the Eventi >. which have been loafing for years. It will put more Post, recently had the good luck to stumble upon . < ; f an old. packet ‘containing “Literature for the energy into your run-down system and bring more real Young." Its contents make hima bull on the joys into your life than you ever dreamed were possible. mporary story-book market Of the tales parents now give their children to read he says: Use the de luxe service of the it is hardly likely that posterity will feel inclined to scoff at the literature which we now provide in such immense quantities for the chil- Gren. Taken en masse, it is fairly innocuous, and {ar more calculated to inspire nobleness of char- acier than the insipid and stilted brochures of former years, with their caricatures of good and sys to teanene Cite — Lad children, their didactic fathers and mothers, from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City or Memphis who might have been wooden models for all the SOF, e and your vacation starts when the train starts. nse of naturalness they conveyed. When, in S duc course, our own time and century shall have become “ old-fashioned,” and the children romp- ing in the nurserics to-day shall turn to a tattered | [if Send tonicht for our Colorads book or our. folder " Thro! Scenic le of high adventures and daring deeds in bind- | \ ’ ‘ Serie nd ent | hey wall iaphy the detaus vow weed. s that once were brilliant, it is more than Py bable that they will be able to pass them down | f . JOHN SEBASTIAN, Passenger Trafflc Manager to the next generation with feelings of pleasure 6 La Sallo Street Station, Chicago, Tl. And however instructive and harmless Mrs It's the best way to the best placo—the way of greatest comfort and greatest saving. BORATED hatefulness of gluttony, the pleasure of giving Lady—Then you think yourself a sinner? TALCUM others, and living together in love and pes Henry—A very great one. Now permit us to introduce little Henry, who -Where do sinners go when they die?. lives in India He has been taught by the serv- ants “many things which a little boy should not know "7 but fortunately a clergyman’s daughter Table of Values came down upon him, when he was five, and in- “Now, children,’’ commanded the austere terested him in “the dreadful hell, prepared for instructor in advanced ari you will re- those who die in their sins."" He becomes a cite in unison the table of valucs’* saint in knickerbockers at once, as we learn from Thereupon the pupils rep. his conversations en mills make a trust. Lady—Can you find me one person who de- “Ten trusts make a combine. serves to be called good? combines make a merger. 7 ofc, Gat Menoan's (te orca). Samet Henry—Oh! I know that I am not good. I ‘Ten mergers make a magnate. have done many, many naughty things, which a magnate makes the money.’’—Chicago nobody knows of mmer and her contemporaries were we can- venture to do that with their books—we nould be greeted with howls of derision from the nursery floor, and sent about our business, which would be to bring in something that should pass the young censors as up to standard in ex- RES I R AT Grement and heroism. ‘The old writers were far EST, RELIEF, RECRE ION too fervently anxious about their young friends’ ctitude, forgetting that children are never in- cause thousands to retreat to purer, life-giving air in sound herently base; forgetting, too, that while a horse of the breakers or the rustling leaves of mountain groves. ay enjoy a feed of hay and be grateful for it, These are the scenes of health and hospitality, where might resent having a truss of it dropped upon head! But let a few extracts speak for themselves. Here is George, who has been hit by a cricket hall; Walter and his sister, Agnes, visit him in farmyard “You never told us of your accident before,’” = said Agnes. “Were you much hurt?’ It was very painful atthe time,"” said George, BALTIMORE but soon got well. It was not worth while to make dear mamma uneasy for such a triffe."” “1 hope,” said Walter, “I shall never be greedy like these pigs. How they are pushing one another to try to get the best and most. I wish Master Harding could see them; I think it would cure him of glattony.”’ “Hush, Walter.’’ said Agnes, “we must not ill of the absent. Let us rather learn the CLARK’S CRUISES + AROUND THE WORLD sp a SON, Baltimore, Md. An Absolutely Pure Whiskey, brings cheer and comfort to those who wisely provide it. 518, trom "Frisco, 8650 and up. 12th Annual Orient Cruise, Feb. $, "10, $400 up. by Liovd S. S. csser Kurluerst"" 73 days, including 24 daysin Faypt and Palestine, FRANK C. CLARK, Times Building, New York. comicbooks.com