Life — August 26, 1909 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Published every Thursday, Annual, Subscrition, Vive Dollars. Singie Copies, Ten Cents Copyright in England and the British Ponsesnons, Lhe Entered at the Post Ofice at New York. N.Y. Class Mail Master. In Touch With The railroad president to-day spends the greater portion of the summer at his country home renewing his energy. He keeps in touch with his railroad system over the telephone. He may be one hundred miles or more away from headquarters, yet his office and the principal business centers of the coun- try are within talking distance. He is notified immediately when any- thing important occurs; his advice and direction are asked and given over thé telephone; the machinery of the road goes on. Each day, at the noon hour or in the early morning or late afternoon, he con- ducts his business over the long distance line. He is in touch with his world. Through the day he has been renewing | his energy —sailing, driving, or playing golf—making himself more fit for the busier season and able at all times to handle a | . | larger system and a larger volume of busi- ness than the railroad president of two decades ago. This is simply an illustration which ap- plies to every busy man, whether he be railroad president, merchant, manufacturer or professional man. It shows the importance of universal service, which is the constant aim of the Associated Bell Companies—of onesystem, extending to every nook and corner of the United States, keeping all localities within speaking distance of one another. Long Distance Bell Service is universal in two ways— in its extension to all localities and in its application to all human activities. Whatever your interests, it will advance them economically, certainly, constantly. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company And Associated Companies One Policy, One System, Universal Service| An Aquatic Lion There was a circus in a Mississippi town, nd a drummer, who was in a four miles farther down the river wanted to get to it, The steamboat had left and there was no rig to be had. The drummer went to the river and found a negro sitting in a skiff your boat?’ he asked the negro River town “How much for the afternoon? I want to go up to the circus.”” “Bout foah bits, boss."* IN rig! “Well, can do that, Yasir.” The drummer took the oars, and after he had rowed about two miles against the current was tuckered out He threw down the oars and said: “TI can't pull this boat another I don't care if I never get to that circus, You're a fine boatman not to be able to row.’? The negro looked at the drummer with quick- ening intelligence. “ Docs you mean you wanted me to pull dem oar: ze “ Sure, Ido. I asked you if you could row and you said you couldn't.” “ "Deed, boss,”’ said the negro, “I thought ast_me could I_roah—roah laik a lion. dodgast you, stern there! et in. the can't you?” hoss ce Magazines in the + Hallo the manuscripts of liter How silly people are, to be sure! In th e—as Mr. Howells himself, from ¢ Easy Chair, poi rary aspirant nd has scarcely the ghost of as dare not trust to memory to recall al sons Mr. gave to make it ¢ such was the state of things; but they as altogether sufficient were, indeed, destracti intentions and hopes. Eve write, one of these dead hopes—duly Sed—arises fro: 1 vision externated by the appearance of an cidolon, percha e Contributor's Anxious Seat (a litle b stuffed lion in the ived decent editori Howells suming the That the warn) forever deter us editor's friendly from S rests obvic ry ck of it, But this path we need ne ving, indeed, digressed beyond th ted plot in eidolon of attempts to on our Loundary of our appo' with jow of an excuse—th It was our tongue air’s informing dis didnot in its entirety 1 and forgotten the nm all—namely, th abide with us, yet could not have re bracin tor of 3 reason of th cr zine is planned, months ahe tain certain articles and stories, on in conformity with a general or : lar scheme or pol I further transp in matters of pure literature: i pmand of literary for illumining a theme, is We venture, deferentially and with di to di from these inner disclosures of exper} that outspoken pops opines, that volunteer ma Yet, being unskilled in feats of balanci very English becomes nervous in this o1 ous performance of we do, that, after all, a fall on whichever none the The mental load w are endeavoring to deliver with due ea our reconciliation of the Easy Chair's a or inference, if you will—with the re editorial disclaimers of its truth as a proposition. If we may be permitted for ment to descend fre on the fence, we think we can ‘restore cont to the spectators. On the whole we pre Anxious Seat, from whose uncushioned ir ity we would argue that while we have in evidence (from cert ENGLISH TOURS By AUTOMOB! PRIVATE CARS. GO WHERE YOU PLEASE. Mustrated booklet free by post. MOTOR TOURING COMPANY, fence-walking—fee comicbooks.com