Life — May 5, 1910 — page 64: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: Makes Indigestion go— quickly, too. You don’t want a slow remedy. You want quick relief. Pape’s Diapepsin really does relieve your indigestion quickly. Dyspepsia, gas, heartburn, sourness and all stomach misery vanishes. Large case at druggists 50c. Cooking in Camp (Continued from page 85) ‘The smell of the bacon that’s cooking up there Is the sweetest of odors, no doubt And after the supper has been stowed away In the place where it does the most And the camp fires are burning, the pipes are lit up, And the stories come forth as they should. The night winds are sighing through pine tops above, The stream is a-babbling out there; The note of the whip-poor-will, plaintive with love, Is borne on the night's balmy air. You may sing of the incense of roses in June Or the perfume from orchards in May, The sweet-smelling odors that come from the loft That's filled with the new clover hay, But the one that comes to me upon the night breeze, Before with sleep I'm o’ertaken, Is the odor of needles from off the pine trees Blended with that of the bacon. —F. L. Berry, in “ Outing.” TING rugs isa s If we know your requirements now, your house will be in order earlier in the Fall, KENT-COSTIKYAN IS ABOTTLED DELIGHT Just strain through cracked ice and serve CLUB COCKTAILS to your guests and they'll dub you the finest mixer in the land. CLUB COCKTAILS are already mixed-to- measure—a doubly more perfect drink than any made-by-chance- work kind could ever be. Have a bottle always handy inthe house. Nine men out of ten prefer them absolutely. Martini (tia bose) and Manhattan (whishey base) are the most popelar. Atall good dealers. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. New York Hartford Some Old Friends Among the Jokes ADAPTED BY KATE 1, RODERTS.—PART 1 T is easier to make new friends than new jokes, and the proverbial love for old wine, old shoes, old books and oll friends may apply in some degree to old jokes over which we have laughed these twenty years as did Diggory when- ever Squire Hardcastle told his story of the grouse in the gun room. The follow- ing gossip about some friendly old jokes from the paves of Punch is given as told ty H. M. Spielmann: WO jokes, which from their uni- versality of treatment and the un- failing welcome accorded them at every reappearance might almost be considered classic and generic jests, were greatly assisted in their popularity by Seymour's pencil before Punch obtained for them still wider recognition. The first repre- sents a fat man, between whose legs the dog he is whistling to has taken his faithful stand. The old gentleman whistles and whistles again, anxiously exclaiming, “ Wherever can that dog be?"" After Seymour had done with it Alfred Crowquill took it up, and in 1854 Sir John Tenniel introduced it into Punch under the title of “Where and Oh, Where!" ft was not yet worn out, however, though it doubtless had seen its best days; and so the Fliegende Blatter revived it in 1894 as a typical cxample of recent German humor, For the other joke two men are required : the one an unmistakable ruffian, a grim and dirty robber, and the other a weak, nervous, timid youth of insignificant stature, the scene representing the en- trance to a dark land as night falls in. “This is a werry lonely spot, sir," says Seymour's footpad, “I wonder you ain't afeard of being robbed! "’ and the young man’s hair stands on end and lifts his hat above his head. Leech, in 1853, alters the dialogue for Punch by intro- ducing the pleasing possibility of a greater tragedy by the footpad asking the youth to buy a razor, and Captain Howard the following spring-makes the roffian inquire if he may accompany his victim “to hear the fightingale.”’ In Diogenes (December, 1854), the pristine simplicity is restored by the naive re- quest that he “may go a little way" with the young gentleman; and, finally, in 1857, Leech once more resurrects and renovates it with his astonishing talent and freshness for use in the Al- manac. (Continued on page 833) Here is the latest joke from the British metropolis: “The country visi- tor was doing London, and went to a well-known concert hall. He was par- ticular to inquire the price of seats, and the obliging attendant said, ‘ Front seats, two shillings; back, one shilling; pro- gramme, a penny.’ ‘Oh, well, then,’ blandly replied the countryman, ‘I'll sit on a programme ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE? If you are, or if you have done so recently, don’t forget to notify LIFE. of your changed address. The Post-Office will not forward a periodical as it will a letter. Therefore each week's delay means a copy of LIFE lost. Don’t wait until you have moved before you notify us. When ordering a change give the old as well as the new address. Notice must reach, us by Thursday to affect the following week's ise. Subscription Department Murray Hill Building 8 West 38th Street, New York LIFE, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York C comicbooks.com