Life — October 13, 1910 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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608 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Lire’s Fresh Air Farm. at Branchville, Conn., opened the season this year on June and closed un September 1. We enter- tained for two weeks each one thousand and twelve children. Mr. Mohr, our superintendent, says: “Thi 0 us is, that we have most remarkable thir Y had to use only three bottles (small size) of Pain Killer for stomach trouble, and that no bones were broken and not a single stitch taken on a wound. These are the things, that really cause us the greatest satisfaction.’ Receipts. Balance on hand at close of season, s Marion Storey Fu ibutions in 1o10. on Marion Storey Fund ely ....... Transportation Food and supplies. Miscellaneous expenses. Balance on hand. The Democzatic Danger OURNALISM has not only its faults but its daily discouragements. The ning Post spent its strength the ether day on an editorial headed “ Demo. cratic Danger,”’ urging the Democrats to nominate first-class men for office, and especially for President. A man from New Jersey responds that he has read the “admirable editorial,"” and that “Alton B, Parker, former Presidential personifies all its good points ad the Democratic host to candidate and can vietory.”” The Democratic danger is incapacity to learn. The Jersey man illustrates one phase of it Still at Work Ww see in a daily paper that Vaccination Kills School Girl Ifannisnurs, Ta., Saturday. — Audrey May Drabenstadt, six years old, died to- day of lockjaw, resulting from vaccination. In order that she might enter the public schools the girl was vaccinated on August : Her arm became very sore and tet- anus developed, Compulsory vaccination may be a 1it- tle severe on children and parents, but 1t is still popular with certain doctors. Some time-honored customs die hard Harder than their victims. Question in Literature F it should be suggested that the World and the Evening Post had formed a Blifil and Black George combination against Roosevelt, how many readers of ire would understand the allusion? «ly SPE * A Commonplace Affair (With due apologies to Haroun-al-Raschid) M's LIDY, as she put on her gloves, going down stairs, hummed a tune softly to herself. Her father had just presented her with a new. six-cylinder car, and she was going out in it for the first time. There was a slight air of ex- jtement about her as she stood on the steps and gave her gift a preliminary survey before she descended. ragged and barefooted, stood on the sidewalk with five bunches of pond lilies in his hand. He had got- ten up that morning at three o'clock, walked three miles out into the country, gathered the lilies in a pond, and had walked with them three m! back be- fore breakfast. He had been pretty well soaked when he got the lilies, having left his naphtha launch behind hie (so to speak), but the walk back home had dried him out. He expected—or hoped —to sell the lilies, at ten cents a bunch, for fifty cents, which, minus the cost of his breakfast, would net him forty-five cents—a glorious day's work. Miss Lidy stopped, looked at the boy as he extended the lilies, heard his, “ Ten cents please, ma’am,’’ and called back 1o her maid “T will take them all,’’ she said grace- mn fully. “Ellen, leave them in my room. Here, little boy—you may keep it all, A dollar for you."” . She had taken a new dollar bill from a small role in her reticule and handed it to the boy. Almost petrified with astonishment, he took the bill, unable to speak. Miss Lidy got in the car, the chauffeur slid the ignition plug in place and the car moved off. The boy stood there for a moment fingering the bill; suddenly he became conscious that there were two of them. As often happens with new dollar bills, they had stuck together. Jumping with excitement at the mis- take, the boy started off down the street pell-mell after the car, with the dollar bills waving from his hands, almost totally blind to anything else but his quest, and ran—into the arms of a big policeman who at this stant swung around the corner. “Oh, ho!’ said the big policeman, “so you're at it agin, ch?'’ as he saw the two dollar bills. “ Well, you come along o’ me.”* Somewhat later in the day, the boy, accompanied by the big policeman and another officer, appeared before the chil- WHEN THAT DAY COMES. THE CASE MAS JUST OPENED—FIND THE WINNING LAWYER comicbooks.com