Life — July 28, 1910 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Friend: { SAY, ONE OF YOUR CLOCKS 1S SLOW AND THY OTHER'S FAST. Young Lawyer: ves. 1 START WORK RY THE Stow ONE AND Stor ny THE oTitER. “Will you get The detective went over lifted up the stone. He started back. “Why, it’s gone!" he hasn't been out of my sight exclaimed. “Impossible! He The place has been locked up.” The young man they had accused leaned back heavily, his hand on the desk. He had noticed while they were talking that the drawer of that desk was pulled out. He knew some one must have been there in his absence, but he knew no more than they until— “Papa! A young girl stood once more in the door “Oh, papa!" she cried, "1 ran all the way to catch you You must have come straight from the train. This morning I saw it in the papers—and you have been accusing him!" Her father stopped her “This young man,’’ he said dryly, “the man we trusted, took ten thousand dollars the other day, and we—" “At my request.” “AL your request?" “Yes, papa.”” “Explain yourself.” She smiled “Tt is quite easy, I assure you. T asked him to lend me ten thousand dollars. I told him that he must do it, I wanted to buy a diamond necklace with it that I was afraid you would not let me have, and I told him if he would lend me the money I would marry him. I didn’t realize what I was doing, papa. It was my fault. I tempted him. Do you not believe me?"? She put her hand in her breast and drew forth an envelope. “Here, papa, is the money.” In the Suburb HAT beautiful public building is that “That isn’t a public building. It's old man Savitt's summer cottage.’ “And whose neat little cottage is that over there with the tower on it?) That little one-story frame affair “That isn’t a cottage. It's the First Episcopal Church."’ * called a voice. Seen By the Sea So browned and tanned Upon the sand She sits, far from the water ER bathing dress Is made of less Than two and forty inches, With hearts ablaze Her suitors gaze Neptune's fair daughter: To make a hit The snuggest fit She wears, altho’ it pinches on youns Ww ZN who want a vote are generally those who cannot get a voter. How Fast Mankind Is Getting Acquainted ! @ T in the moving pictures among the most notable of modern innovations. We have seen them begin, and we have scen them spread everywhere, but their decline and fall-off is not in sight yet, and docs not even invite prediction They have about them a news-imparting quality which may make them a permanent part of the apparatus of modern civilization. All the great shows are now reproduced in mov ing pictures. For ten cents a lick, or more or less, we have seen King Edward's funeral and Colonel Roosevelt's recep tion, We can study a prize-fight in comfort and at cost, and watch adventurous Yankees rope wild and rag hons in South Africa. To folks who can’t afford to travel the forcign pictures are extremely edifying Most of the great recent inventions work 10 overcome space and make the people of the earth better acquainted. To that end work the Lb cle, the telephone, the trolley car, the automobile, the talking machines, the moving pictures, the wireless telegraph and the acroplanes and dirigibles. The cleetric light might as well be included, because it helps us to sce what is going on, All these things are working, cach in its particular way, to make this wired-up planet a neigh borhood, and they scem to be accomplishing it mighty fast Twere is no domestic circle without its sharp corners Little Girl: you Neepn’t prac. HOUSE, Too. & GOT A BABY AT OK “YES, BUT YOUKS IS A LAST YEAR'S MARY, OURS IS THE VERY LATEST STYLE." comicbooks.com