Life — December 23, 1909 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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“1S IT HEAVEN, MOTHER? at the same time we call aiiention to the fact that four years ago it was estimated that on Christmas morning over thirty thousand husbands in this country were sitting before their fires absolutely obliged to smoke the cigars their wives had presented them, and not only this, but declaring at the same time that they didn’t see, for the life of them, how their respective wives ever knew how to select such a fine brand. We are glad to say that during this period, thanks to our conscientious efforts, this pathetic spectacle has been reduced, the number this year being estimated roughly at only four thousand We have received the following Having been recommended to your bureau, I write to ask if you can prevent my wife from presenting me with a Christmas present of aired flannel bathrobe. Tam led to believe that thie is what is coming to me fn hinting that during the cold of the early nothing is so healthful and warm as red h pirg robe is a constant friend, I know he way she the result i going t ‘Of course T cannot throw cold water t coming as it docs from a Teving partner, but hetween you have no desire to present cvery morning during the coming winter the appearance of a Roman Cardinal in Rome's palmiest days as I werd my royal way to the bathroom in. full aitress di ing the hall. What will you ch for this service? ours K w— We beg to call the attention of this correspondent, and all others, to the fact that he will be obliged to take the full course We do not tre: isolated cases. It has been our experience that a difficulty of this kind, while seemingly localized, is in reality indicative of a widespread inco patibility which is bound to crop out later. We will venture to observe that two or three years from now, unless our friend places himself at once under our complete charge, he will have something worse to bother him than a red flannel bath- robe. Delays are dangerous. Detter insure yourself against the future and join the bureau Every husband needs us sooner or later Open your heart freely. All confidences respected. Call, write or wire Huseanps’ Corresroxpence Bureat A Principle Involved Mé CARLO DE FORNARO, who was recently convicted in n New York of the crime of having libelled certain people in Mexico, and who was sent to prison for one year as expiation thereof, has had the bad taste to object to his sentence. Mr. de Fornaro must be laboring under the delusion that we are still in that chrystalitic condition of embryological decreptitude where we can afford to offer refuge to fugitives from world powers which have reduced tyranny to a system No, sir, you are behind the times. The United States is now a world power in its own right, and we world powers must st er. An injury to the least world power is the concern of all, and the officials at Washington have been together too lax in their pursuit of the defamers of Czar s of Russia, King Leopold of Belgium, Alfonso of Spain, President Diaz of Mexico, and Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island. is O. Jones, comicbooks.com