Life — March 31, 1910 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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The Walrus and the Socialist In Washington the moon was up And shining with all its might, Doing its very best to make The nation clean aud bright. other effort of the kind Was anywhere in sight. The sun was shining sulkily Because the moon, he thought, Threw no light on the problem, The which of course she ought “There's so much moonshine now,”” said he, “The nation’s sore distraught.”” The Walrus and the Socialist Were strolling softly aft. They wept like anything to see Such qantities of graft. “I greatly fear, oh, Walrus dear, There's little hope from Taft.”" “Tf seven suffragettes with votes Stormed it for quite a while, Do you suppose," the Walrus said, “They could reduce the pile?” Kell senaiaal Automobile Tires The cost of automobile tires is too large an item for you to ignore the twelve-year record of Kelly-Springheld goodness. “Absolutely no trouble with our Kelly- Springfields—not even a_puncture.” —Rapid Motor Vehicle Company, Pontiac, Mich. Consolidated Rubber Tire Company 20 Vesey Street, New York Branch Qfcen in New Yok. Chico, Phiadohin, St, Lous, Detroit, Concnnati, Bote Francisco. and Akrua, O. “T doubt it,"’ said the Socialist, And tried his best to smile. “Oh, Congressmen, bestir yourselves,”’ The Walrus did implore. “The cost of things is going up And more and more and more. The Only One of Its Kind : Humorous : Artistic : Satirical Dainty : Literary If You Are a Person of culture, refinement or intelligence, or all three, you cannot afford not to know LIFE. If you have a sense of humor, you should see it every week. Perhaps you know LIFE slightly. Perhaps you don’t know LIFE at all. To get acquainted will cost you ONLY ONE DOLLAR Send that amount with your name and address to Life Publishing Com- pany, 17 West 31st Street, New York, and LIFE will come to you every week for three months. The conditions of this SPECIAL OFFER are : It is open only to new subscribers. The subscription must come to us direct; not through an agent or dealer. No subscriptions will be renewed at this rate. Canadian $1.13 Foreign $1.26 Five Dollars a Year—For Sale Everywhere—Ten Cents a Copy—The Best Artists—The Best Writers The trusts have got us by the throat; It is a deuced bore.”’ The Congressmen all shook their heads And winked the other eye— A hint that they could make it right If they would only try. And then a movement to adjourn Was carried sine die. is O. Jones, in Success. Why Not Have a Parcel-Post > We know that more than $32,000,000 is being expended this year to provide for country deliveries. The Postmaster- General says their wagons now carry an average of but twenty-five pounds. Each of these could handle five hundred pounds, and with a second horse, at fifty cents a day, twelve hundred pounds The farmers along these country de- livery routes suffer the greatest incon- venience and loss because they cannot send into town their butter and eggs and cannot receive back the merchandise which they are constantly needing. comicbooks.com