Life — November 25, 1909 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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aj else RIARCLIFF Manor, N. Y. BRIARCLIFF LODGE A Resort Hotel of High Quality my May Ist to December Ist with superiot accommedations for three 2 “Apartments decorated and furnished under exclusive orders DAVID B. PLUMER, Manager = York A New Business Opening Last winter, at a smoker given by the Yale University Dramatic Association, ve of our prominent dramatic writers s the guest of honor. In the course his remarks to the assembled young en he said: I wonder how many of your fathers, iter your college education is finished nd you have taken an M.A. degree with © literary research thesis, and then erhaps gone on, and have been granted egree of Doctor of Philosophy—I how many of your fathers would recommend and use their influence t you a place as an usher in a atre at five dollars a week, and then, fier you had learned that side of the business, carefully guide you up through he assistant treasurership and treasurer- ship—picking up on the way a thorough knowledge of the press agent's work, and even that of billposter—land you safely as manager or director of a theatre? And yet I believe that the day will come when this seeming joke, that causes a ile to come over your faces, will be a y. Your fathers will give you you higher education, and, after graduating, allow you to enter a bank and run cr- rands for five dollars a weck—but not the theatre. Why? Is the function of the bank any cleaner than that of the theatre? Does the business of b: require higher intellectual devel or broader culture than the business of presenting the varied and kaleidoscop’ studies in human emotions that poets of all ages have put into the hands of the directors of playhouses? "—The Prompt Book “What's the matter, daughter?” “ Ferdy and I havg parted forever.”” “Um. In that case, I spose he won't be around for a couple of nights." Louisville Courier-Journal. Thanksgiving Beverage EVANS’ ALE There's a smile in every bottle, good health in every glass. LEADING DEALERS ©. H. EVANS & SONS, Madson, X.Y, The Comfort of the Telephone The Bell System has become the nerv- The Bell telephone has a special value ous system of the business and social — because it is everywhere—because at sight world. you feel a familiar acquaintance with a Bell instrument or a Bell sign. The comfort it affords the women in the "2 homes of America cannot be measured. There are over 4,000,000 Bell stations. | a. You cannot use them all, but from time to Do you measure it in considering the time you have areal vital need for one. value of your Bell telephone ? Which one you cannot foretell. The mother of children can find out There are six billion calls over the tele- where they are at any particular hour of phones of the Bell System every year. the day—and how they are—even though | their visits carry them to the country village Many of these are comforting calls from or the city hundreds of miles away. afar, calls whose actual money value can no more be reckoned than the value of the The husband on a trip talks from his happiness which one man has and another hotel room to his wife at home. man cannot buy. There is a world of comfort in the The very existence of the Bell telephone knowledge that you can talk together at service has its value to you, even at mo- a moment’s notice, wherever you may be. —_ ments when you are not using it. The Bell Long Distance service offers, ready recruited for your call, the largest body of active business nenintheworld. If you have atelephone, avail yourself of its long distance possibilities. The highest type of public service can be achieved only by one policy, one system, universal service. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company And Associated Companies Every Bell Telephone Is the Center of the System ==), Philosophic Thoughts on Sheep and = Remember. Goats Whether naturally perfect Sheep live higher, but more is expected I Fi of them. Goats have to do without some or not, your teeth require things, but they've less on their minds daily care, and will well repay It's a great distinction to be a sheep, th | f but it wouldn’t be, only for the goats. e regular use o! None except sheep get into society. 9 None except goats know what a parcel alvert iy of foolishness society is.” _ There are sheep who wonder if it’s . worth all it costs: Carbolic Tooth Powder. Goats would be fairly nee ; ld. Be tsirly Trice from rece Sample and Dookiet rom Park contented if it wasn’t for their wives all ‘Thiowd, oy Broadway, New York. ~ cthe ‘time, dying to be sheep.—Woman’s Gara eet Home Companion, 731 comicbooks.com