Life — October 13, 1910 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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‘LIP E* LIFE’S INFALLIBLE FORTUNE TELLER An Interesting Case If you were born on HE \isitors had been introduced to October the lady who thought she was 4 poached egg and who kept up an endless quest for a slice of toast when they saw doit ‘Ge foals ot Your future husbond #87 a radiantly beautiful woman with an odd dancing, and many will be a Member bulging shape sitting at her embroidery hours you should of Con on the piazza. devote to sleep will J mort of the men ; “She looks all right, doesn't she?’ be spent at d pee ee ee eee : asked the keeper. “It's a very interest- parties waitin amily will continuc = ; ; Bailes ware otrceaedinicea ing case. Would you like to speak to ready to go hom her? Don't be surprised if she tells you your gown is opén in the back. We can't quite make her out. She puts on Your future husband #3 all her clothes wrong side front. Other- will inst on cut- wise she is a perfect little lady. Humor nurse who will be Oe ee che her, please.”” ve : “There is absolutely nothing the mat fevalnable” to you fact you will con- A gai igtpourtmniveand eiaaricanars ter with me,’? said the happy looking “except that declining years. him. woman with the odd lines, I got tired dressing myself behind my back as it were. I couldn't afford a ei Yearmee eas maid, and every day—sometimes two or will be of an carly- three times in one day—I was confronted retiring disposition ‘Your fetere husband #3 with the task of lacing up a corset a and you will be- may become Presi- yard and a half long with sixty-eight Gime (One Ute dent of the United 7 ‘ n Scie. Andithen holes and three separate places for stop beat -poker-playera Sia Be may knots. Directly in the back there were ih iowa: again, he may not. attachments for hosiery that only a hu man snake could adjust. Your future husband “All the skirts and plackets fast- sill beccha enetanc will possess a fine ened in the back and always came open choly turn, and you power of invective. in the street. Strange persons. were will intensify it by Uniem you are continually stopping me and in Yy PPINg reatiy fond of pro. ’Pp. 5 Pardon me, lady but your dress is fanity, you will be s - Suen aboek ‘the open in the back.’ I had to get police- way! hisméslasare men, car conductors, cab drivers and prepared and served waiters to hook me up in public places oul tallsk. Sa Ga where I had come undone. All my new fagctaepralk (ts waists had double rows of fasteners— you when your men Nee ies end i new patent kind that broke open di- fat bee ke Loe rectly after they were snapped in place Yond cf onimalaand Each collar required three or four pins have a heart of placed at even intervals in the back gold. re Belts had to be pinned down securely in the back “Veil his point she be- 7 ‘Your future husband #7 -xcited till a ° port ne GB Your future wife eal he an Teallan came excited till the keeper quieted her by giving her a buttonhook. “ Veils had to be drawn in tightly and pinned at the back of the neck, then taken up to the back of the hat brim and pinned there. Eighteen or nincteen hair pins were needed to pin in the back of the veil Nothing by any chance closed in front. I decided to reverse the mode. My lines ~ bi "GB Your future wife Your future husbasd #9™ may not be those of the Bok Book, but, wil be 8. widow will be an amateur &) if 1 do way it myself, I am perfectly “GB Your future wie “GB Your future wile will be a. trained GS Your future wife taking. her to mu- sical comedies to cheer her up. “GB Your future wife friends are around. Unfortunately, un- der the laws of many States, this is not a ground for divorce. will be interested in slum-work, of title but small means, whose know= your home w ledge of American asylum for an in- affairs will be lim. teresting and un- ited to the number pleasant collection of Italian lire there of social derelicts. eve tavan A mortcan dollar. with a glass eye and flute player, and happy dod can dread without going through the motions of a contortionist.” “ Poor thing, isn’t it a pity? ’? said the visitors, as they passed on to the New an erratic disposi 19 you will be com- tion, but possessing pelled to live in one charming feat- places far from the ure—a fat bank ac accustomed haunts count of man, Thought wards. Kate Masterson. comicbooks.com