Life — April 7, 1910 — page 73: what you’re looking at

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LIVER UPSET? Try Hunyadi Janos NATURAL APERIENT WATER Avoid Unscrupulous Druggists Sparks from Old Anvils (Continued from page 656) he followed him, determined to share his disaster, and resolved that, as they had gone up together they should not be separated as they came down. Of the bucket we are told nothing; bot as it is probable that it fell with iis supporters, we have a scene of nisery unequaled in the whole com- pass of tragic description. Imagine t» ourselves Jack rapidly descending, perhaps rolling over and over down the mountain, the bucket, as the light- cr, moving along, and pouring forth Gif it had been filled) its liquid stream, Gill following in confusion, with a quick and circular and headlong motion; add to this the dust, which hey might have collected and dis- persed, with the blood which must have flowed from John’s head, and we will witness a catastrophe _ highly shocking, and feel an irresistible im- pulse to run for a doctor. The sound, too, charmingly “ echoes to the sense,” Jack fell down And broke his crown And Gill came tumbling after. The quick succession of movements is ated by an equally rapid motion of the short syllables; and in the last line Gill rolls with a greater sprightli- ness and vivacity than even the stone of Sisyphus. Having expatiated so largely on its particular merits, let us conclude by a brief review of its most prominent beauties, The subject is the fall of n—a subject high, _ interesting, worthy of a poet; the heroes, men vho do not commit a single fault and whose misfortunes are to be imputed, ot to indiscretion, but to destiny. To the illustration of the subject every sart of the poem conduces. Attention s neither wearied by multiplicity of Corsetiere 18 CULTIVATING FIGURES with hee FAMOUS CORSETS at 18 East 45th St., New York Custom Made individually, under MM. BINNER’S personal supervision. The Stores of The Tobey Furniture Company are not matched in the attractiveness they hold for persons who delight in good /urniture—that which is characterized not only by correctness and refinement of design, but by corresponding merit of materials and construction as well. As educational expositions of approved equipment for modern homes these places of interest are well worthy of note. You are heartily invited to visit them. THE TOBEY FURNITURE COMPANY 11 West Thirty-Second Street, NEW YORK (Near Fifth Avenue) Wabash Avenue and Washington Street, CHICAGO trivial incidents, nor distracted by frequency of digression. The poet prudently clipped the wings of imagi- nation and repressed the extravagance of metaphorical decoration. All is simple, plain, consistent. The moral, too—that part without which poetry is useless sound—has not escaped the view of the poet. When we behold two young men, who but a short mo- ment before stood up in all the pride (Continued on page 658) SIDE TRIP§ THROUGH PICTURESQUE HOLLAND THE WONDERLAND OF EUROPE VERY SMALL EXPEN: ROM LONDON | Sart Any time Lin | From Anywhere ce Steamers Engfand to oflan. via Fishing -argest and Fastest creasing the Chanel Wott for Beautiful Booklets and Itineraries showing every detait itful tours a © BAKKER, General American Agent GOING DOWN THE PIKE 356 BRST eet ee Ary Peshine Raya Mall Reyne 637 comicbooks.com