Life — December 2, 1909 — page 55: what you’re looking at

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A Gastronomical Coup d’Etat So Spencer Eddy has resigned from diplomatic service, eh? It will be interesting to see his wardrobe on his return home. He is considered, you know, the best-dressed American.” The speaker, a New York clubman, miled and resumed Eddy is as clever as he is elegant. Once, in London, he had to show a mil- honaire San Franciscan about the town. Before discovering how very crude this San Franciscan was, Eddy got him an invitation to a dinner at a Park Lane promoter’s. There's where you meet all the tiptoppers—at the Park Lane city Well, this dinner was a brilliant stag affair. There were dukes, marquises and baronets ad lib. Eddy and the San Franciscan sat side by side and Eddy saw with horror that his friend ate with his knife. “Quick as a flash Eddy bent forward and whispered before any of the aris- tocracy had time to notice the gaucherie: George, get on to all those chumps cating their peas with their forks!" “ George, whose peas hadn't been bal- ancing as well as usual on his knife blade, watched his fellow diners for a minute curiously, Then he said: “* By jingo, let's try it!’ He tried it, and it was success Eddy,’ he said, ‘it’s a good wrinkle, this fork feecin’. I'll introduce it in "Frisco when I git back.’ ""—IWashington Star. “What do you think, my dear? Such luck! We leave for Paris in an hour.” “ Really?" “Yes, we're going to Pasteur’s. My husband has just been bitten by a mad dog." —Bon Vivant. Everstick Invisible Rubber ia different from all other rubbers in construction — being an invisible rubber that protects the sole against wet — damp- ness, and cold — combiaing grace in design and outline with absohite protection, yet al- lowing the feet to beeathe freely — which the ordinary rubber does not do. Everybody needs Eversticks and can always fad them on sale where good shoes are sold. ‘The genuine always have the Ever- stick tademark stamped invide and on the bottom of every thoe. g Cut glass transforms the little utilities of household life into things of beauty and refinement. @ It gives graceful form and grateful lustre to the prosaic utensils of the dining room. @ It brightens and beautifies the boudoir, the library, the music room, the |den—and never is its utility sacrificed to a merely decora- tive mission. /@ It is, as we have often said, |the gift-universal; because it |has its particular uses and ap- |plications for all ages and all festival occasions. |G At Christmas time it is the infallible and the welcome so- lution to gif t-choosing vexation— SS Worl ps BEST @ When we say best’? we state a simple truth. Q In your city or town there is 9 doubtless one Libbey dealer— “It is twice bless’d—it blesseth him that gives and him that takes” —The Merchant of Venice | because it never fails of a delight: | ed welcome from the recipient. @ One can scarcely have too much cut glass—there is al- | ways some little vacancy left in | the collection to be filled. | G Libbey cut glass is the | world’s highest and finest expres- | sion of glass cut- ting. @ There is no bet- | ter. H “the world’s | the most distinguished store in every case. In any event you should rest content with no glass less lovely than Libbey. | The Libbey Glass Company, Toledo, Ohio The Hot Air Furnace There was a young publisher who made a sudden fortune by appealing to that largely {neglected class. which we call Society. Gaining riches, the young pub- lisher retired and was seen less.and less in his old haunts, “Where's Lawrence? '"), some one asked of “ Mr. Doole: Dooley answered, “Ob, he's uptown now, warming his hands “at the Social Register."’—Success. Quite Another Thing “Whom are you going to give those ms to?"* ‘© the janitor, so that he will give us more heat.” “Why, T thought I heard you abusing him terribly this morning.” “My dear woman, you don’t think I dare address the janitor like that? I was talking to the landlord."’—Lippin- cott’s. comicbooks.com