Life — January 27, 1910 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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ei ieee 59th ANNUAL STATEMENT OF The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 180) Words, Words Words Our friend, the veterinary surgeon at the Western army post, had laid a wager of $5 and lost it. A purist in specch, he had rashly criticised the "INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK post trader, who, when pressed too hard in a heated political argument, HENRY B. STOKES, President endeavored to cover his retreat with an evasive “I disremember.” There was no such word, said the veterinary. Total Payments to Policy Holders Since Organization Plus Amount Now Welll leave it to the dictionary, said Held For Their Benefit the man who forgot. And we grieve to say that the veterinary lost. Our $84,981,751.82 gmpathies were with him, but secretly paaneainanenaes we thought him rash. Any man. is ADMITTED ASSETS JANUARY 1st, 1910 rash who will stake his money on the Bonds and Stocks owned by the Company : : vaggunbies exclusion of an uncouth word from Bonds and Mortgiger arectien (Flee Ine ioe & : : Sagas the dictionary. For eternal vigilance Real Estate Owned by Company. . Beir eso.00 is the watchword of the lexicographer. Loans and Liens on Policies in fore + 3,103,926.62 ae ; Cash in Bank and on hand... +5 737,021.19 Let a cotton-picking negro display Net Deferred Premiums and Premiums in course of collection. + 1$3,920.67 an original taste in prefixes, let a Interest and Rents due and accrued, and all other assets..... stranded barnstormer in the Panhandle of Texas proclaim his plight in new LIABILITIES and curious speech—and if there should Policy Reserve (as computed by the New York Insurance Department) . - -818,636,963.00 be a literary. gent within earshot the All other liabilities..........0... sconce: ‘ sewsies's saws 22,005.45 dictionary, sooner or later, is likely to | AMOUNT TO PROVIDE FOR ANY POSSIBLE DEPRECI. iON THER LIABILITY.... 25,000.00 be enriched. | AMOUNT HELD, SUBJECT TO CONTINGENCIES, FOR SUR- ) "5 Py rs VIVORSHIP DIVIDEND POLICIES +$1,598,493-28 | 2,285,793.04 CONTINGENT RESERVE FUND 687,299.76 It is well, of course, that all words $21,269,761.49 employed by our foremost writers should find lodgment in the lexicon. | ; Increase in New Insurance Written Increase in Total Insurance In Force Henry James, we are reminded by an A “ . ” Increase In Assets Standard Policy Conditions esayist, is by turns as “precious” as Lowest Pavtlolbating. Ratea Csssicteat ait Bere, Walter Pater and as democratic as PiSmet @| an Dene Cl Chimmie Fadden. Thomas W. Law- viemiipcnadeniis pt Payme jaims _ son commands a vocabularly that we 9 donot find in Shakespeare. O. Henry's P — good language in the days of Swift cowboys speak a strange language that T ¥ - and Addison and Keats, and it an- we would willingly learn, Doubtless , swered their simple — requirements. it is well that in the decennial round- Think, then, of what it has become in up the compilers of the dictionary our own times—the spacious days of should he thorough, comprehensive and Hall Caine and Ralph Connor and Al- hospitable. 3 4 fred Austin. We have been making But may there not be such a thing = 7 : discoveries and inventions and all kinds as an over production of words? In = or* of progress, but chiefly, it would seem, 1828 Noah Webster's tally was a A ‘ J we have been making words. For in meagre 70,000. A notable advance pt ae : the ten years of this century we have was marked in 1864, when the “ Un- doubled our vocabulary : there are 400,- aidged” recorded 1t4o00—a1 great >| How many barmade cock- | - 000 words in Webster's New Interna- boon to mule drivers in the Civil War, tails have you had that were tional Dictionary, recently published. whose language, of course, was al- |_| really suited to your taste? | ~ It is intended, so we learn, as a ways delivered in “volleys.” In 1900 F Leave chance-made drinks for handbook for “the common man, the editors of the “ International,” ob- =| those who don’t appreciate woman and child as they read their serving perhaps that William J. Bryan £or8 eset eater A newspaper, book of travel or novel.” and others were wearing out a great ‘| CLUB COCKTAILS, They’re | The uncommon people should profit many of the old words, printed an =| infinitely better. ae by it, too. We like to think that Noah clition containing 200.000. And _ still 4 Don't jadge these mixed-" é ebster is not only a houschold word, the language grew. It was a pretty I to-measure joys by any but 400,000 of them. made-by-guesswork drink. (ein base) and Meohetten The Money Question key base) are the most popular. “ Wot do they mean, Jimmy, when they EUROPE Off the Beaten Path = CAR alt geod dealers say money talks?” Special “d G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. I dunno unless it’s the wonderful Pagmeguemese 0 Harford New York London Fekete ate ray ecrtiee For particulars JH. CORAM Ti TITS Main Sts Bridgeport, Conn. fase way it says goodby to yer.""—London Tatler, Sa aa