Life — February 24, 1910 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Re Whalebone. poner ra The Models of the Season = Redfern Models are si ior from point of view. They are frigeeellls base por the fashionable woman’s gowning. the futile protest arises to our lips: “ But we have never seen a pacing ek- phant trot like that.” Trivial objec- Fashion requires that the form shall be slightly curved at waist, bust and hips, rather than the straight lines that have obtained. Close corsetling is a necessity with these slightly curving lines, as the flesh must be well controlled — pre- eminently the slender figure. Redfern Models are boned with the purest Arctic Whalebone, the only boning acknowledged dress authorities as entirely satisfactory for shaping and modelling purposes. Substitutes are used, but they remain substitutes and not improvements. 4 Redfern Models have ‘‘Security’? Rubber Button Hose Supporters attached and range in price from $15.00 down to $3.50 per pair. Write for Booklet “L"’ on the correct fitting of your corsets The Warner Brothers Company, New York, Chicago, San Francisco The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 337) by Barye; exhibit B—an elephant in bronze by a Japanese. The French- man’s animal trotted— a hind and front foot on opposite sides moving together.” The Jap’s was a pacer— the real thing, moving “ both legs on the same side at a time.” Said the White Knight: “It’s my own inven- tion.” Quoth the President: “ It's my own discovery.” No one has disputed the claim, only —the Barye elephant which ornaments our Zoo is pacing. For two years— in the jungle of art exhibitions, in the catalogues of dealers, in exhibits of bronze and plaster—we have sought the spoor of that trotting elephant, and in vain. Only the other day we viewed the valuable accumulation of Barye bronzes gathered by the late Cyrus J. Lawrence; again that pacing pachyderm pronounced a trotter by the American Hunter-Naturalist and his humble pupil, “Oom John.” As Heine remarked of ideas: We do n possess that elephant, it possesses us; it forces us into the arena, where it has a manifest advantage. At times The Original and Genuine Chartreuse has always been and still is made by the Carthus- fan Monks (Peres Chartreux), who, since thelr expulsion from France, have been located at Tar- ragona, Spain; and, although the old labels and insiznia originated by the Monks have been ad- judged by the Federal Courtsof this country tobe still the exclusive property of the Monks, their world-renowned product {8 nowadays known as Liqueur Peres Chartreux —GREEN AND YELLOW— At first-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafés. Hater & Co., 45 Broadway, New York, N. Y., Bole Agents for United States.’ tion, already answered as Ruskin ax swered the lady who could not see his sunset: “Don’t you wish you could?* * * . * * se No matter. Somewhere there abides in Africa that rarest of all beasts pacing elephant that trots. Scoffers whose misconceptions of fauna would affront Mr. Dooley have suggested a round-up of the Boyg or the Bander log, rather than leopard or reluctant thino, The Smithsonian Institutioa knows better. So does the / Academy of Arts and Letter: sented by Mr. Roosevelt in So also does the Republican Committee, whose emblem is a pacing trotter rampant. We have said enough—too much, perhaps, in the opinion of the editor, in the value of a news * Subscribe for Scribner's Mag- ine. Do it now. For sooner of later a stranger brute than the Jabber- wock, more appalling than the beast of the Apocalypse, as fearfully ant wonderfully made as the animals drawn by Mr. Homer Davenport, ye harmless as the Democratic donkey, must fall before the vocabulary of @ four-eyed hunter armed to the tect, who would rather be right than Presi- dent for a third term. W. T. Larned. A Worthy Motive Harold, aged nine, came home the Gther day in such a state as to cause great perturbation in the household. “ Merey exclaimed his mother “How on earth, Harold, did you manage to get your clothes so frightfully torn?” Harold assumed a virtuous air. “ Tryis’ to keep a little boy from bein’ licked, he explained. “That was fine of you, Haroli!"” 63 the enthusiastic response of the parett “And who was the little boy?” “ Me."'—Harper’s Magazine easing aromatic for 3 verages. A Gelight{y re At wl chants) and dressy ator. vine mer re Important to see ths: itis comicbooks.com