Life — November 4, 1909 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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“on! WHAT'S THAT STRANGE NOISE? ”* “jy MUST BE THE CONSTABLE’S RUt. LETS AGE GAINING ON US,”’ Sparks From Old Anvils (Continued from page 641) that you are going to coughy- pot. Hold up, as the shooter says. over the heaviest ground. Despond ency in a nice case is the overweight that may make you kick the beam and the bucket both at once, In short, as with other cases, never meet trouble half but let him have the whole walk for his pains; though it should be a Scotch mile and a bittock. I have even known him to give up his visit in sight of the house. Besides, the best fence against care is a ! hal!— wherefore take care to have one all round you wherever you can. Let your “Jungs crow like Chanticleer” and as like a game cock as possible I: expands the chest, enlarges the cart, quickens the circulation, and ke a trumpet makes the spirit fico then for the Chesterfieldian canon, that laughter is an ungenteel emotion, Smiles are tolerated by the ks of politeness; and a laugh the full-blown flower of which the brd. It is a sort of —a glee in which every ody can take a part—and “he who hat} not laughter in his soul, let no ) man be trusted.”"—Thomas Hood, id's Own. Preface to his Almanac, @ A Lasting Success Our new book about Miss Cue, containing six bevatiful illustrations of Miss Cue at bilhards and pool, will be nent free, postpaid, to anyone inccrested in Billiards. Miss Cue is shown making shots which have ever before been attempted byany billiard player, and the series of pictures is interesting and unique. Just ash for Booklet. William A. Spinks & Company 362 West Erte Street CHICAGO ‘Manetoctarers of Splats’ Billiard Chait and “The only manstacturers of ove tips In America.” Highest Type of Hat and Man The above is an exact reproduction of President Roosevelt’s hand with his Knox Hat in it as he waved Godspeed from the deck of the yacht Al- gonquin on Dec. 16, 1907, to the American Battle- ship fleet as it started on its wonderful trip around the world under the command of Admiral Evans, in the presence of fifty thousand cheering Americans. This remarkable photograph of Mr. Roosevelt now hangs over the desk of Colonel E. M. Knox in the Knox Building, Fifth Avenue and goth Street, New York. An exact reproduction would appear but for the wish expressed by the ex-President that his picture be kept out of advertisements. Col. Roosevelt always had the best of everything. From a Chinese Biographical Dictionary A glittering example of the humor- ous romantic detachment and careless- ness of public opinion that I mean is Chang Chih-ho, of the cighth century A. pd, who spent his time in angling, but used no bait, his object not being to catch fish. When Lu Yii asked him why he roamed about, Chang’s answer was instant: “ With the Empyrean as my home, the, bright moon my con- stant companion, and the four seas my inseparable friends—what mean you by roaming?” And when a friend of- fered him a comfortable home instead of his poor boat, he replied: “T prefer to follow the gulls into cloudland rather than bury my ethereal self be- neath the dust of the world.” Isn't that fine? There should certainly be a Chang Chih-ho Society. The spread of such roseate impracticableness would do no harm at all. Indeed, the crying need (Continued on page 644) comicbooks.com