Life — July 29, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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136 Life's Fresh Air Fund Previously acknowledged..........$4220.57 Mra, L. Ii. Treadway. one Emily £. Britton... “Wobbly Willets “Witt * Joan aon A.C. Boswell Nathalie Le de’ Castro ALB Wm. 6. disrse $4. ACKNOWLEDGED Witt THANKS A box of books from Mrs. Ridebach Sixty tennis balls from Mr. G. A treat of ice cream to all the children of the farm, by Mrs. William Arnold All of which are very heartily A liberal ¢ made by M ment on soi ion «i graphs he has made at Lirx’s Farm. A Helpful Plan ‘ HY do you always say that you ap- preciate classical music when you know you don’t care a rap for it?” we ask of our friend “ Because,” he answers, “when they ask me if I appreciate it and I sey I do, that ends the discussion. Otherwise they bore me to death with efforts to educate me up to an appreciation of the stuf Recent Discoveries NSATIONAL, stupendous, marvel- ous, three-ringed discoveries in phys- iology are coming thick and fast. Dr Hutchinson has recently made it clear that, when we have the headache, there is probably nothing the ma heads at all. Dr. Tracy quickly followed with the announcement that, when we had the che, the probabil were that there something the mat- ter with our brain centres. The possibilities of this new method H. Hem 1 photo: r with our stomach ie: THE CHEF Bobby, boasting, said he knew How to make an Irish stew; Bobby's father, half in fun, Answered, “Go ahead, my son.” Mother's peevish, ‘cause it took A week to find another cook. PEs * of absent pain are manifold and startling to con- We may soon learn that toothache is joint disease template. caused by tight shoes and that hi; from a bald head comes entirel: may transpire that, instead of trying to cure appendicitis, all these years, by removing the . we should have been clipping small piece off the lobe of the left ear. It will be observed that the new method is closely allied to Christian Science, for, while it does not deny pain, it denies that it ought to be. Thus do we rational with the onward a little con for without a sprains it is where become more march of science. It is fusing at first, however, chart, if a his ankle, he doesn’t know whether to go to a throat manicure. There has also been a revival of the old that we should with our heads toward a particular point of the compass. This is tremendously significant because it will necessitate an operation on the curricula of our medical colleges for the purpose of inserting ade quate courses in geography Ellis O. Jones. The Excursion Boat Hesperus I was the New York Excursion boat Hesperus that sailed the wintry sea. It was really in summer, but, in accord- ance with the gyrations of our wonderful climate, the thermometer had dropped about thirty degrees in six hours, so it is quite correct to say that the sea was wintry The skipper had taken along his lit- tle daughter to bear him compan: superfluous proceeding, considering the fact that his boat was loaded to man specialist or a theory sleep the guards with passengers, or one thousand more than she ought to have carried “Say, father,’ said the skipper’s daughter, “ what is that strange craft over there “That,” replied the skipper, “is a government inspection boat. Have no fear. They won't trouble us. We are, $0 to speak, immune.” “But ather,"’ she continued, as the wind shrieked among the beer kegs. But her father answered never a word. Some one had inadvertently hit him over the head with an alleged life preserver. The next morning the Hesperus was discovered in the usual manner, on the customary reef, the jury bringing in say, Indeed it The Mosquito: sv, A NASTY TION THAT FELLER HAS. a verdict of not guilty for every one con- cerned except the captain, and it being too late to do anything about him, the whole affair was hushed up and for- gotten in the customary nine days. A Social Settlement CERTAIN Wise man set his baby on a hot stove. But he was also a kind man; so he sat on the stove him- self—with an asbestos pad—to study the needs of the poor baby. He reported that some immediate re- lief might be obtained for the baby by a new Tenement House Law regulating the heat of stoves. He said also that much might be done by throwing water on the stove; but the great obstacle to permanent relief was that babies will not get off into the country. He thought that was due to “ Malad- justment of our Industrial Conditions” and to the Ignorance of the Poor. wuat comicbooks.com pisrost-