Life — October 27, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: was persistent, inexorable, His wife, who had graced his prosperity, was quite unable to redeem his distress; rather she saddled him with the blame, and became at once a provocation and a hindrance. His daughters made undesirable mar- riages, and his sons, instead of helping him out of the ditch into which he had fallen, ungratefully relieved his pockets of the chief part of what little remained in them, When the writer met this man, major and minor misfortunes, he expe- rienced that kind of embarrassinent which one has in speaking to a person about a heavy bereavement. But cm- barrassment was unnecessary. The man’s laugh was as light, his face was as free from lines and his step as springy and eager as in the days of his ease. “I've got half-a-crown in my pocket,’? he said with a slap on his thigh, “and I'm off to see the pantomime.’’ And off he went like a boy.—London Spectator just after a particularly heavy shower of Make Coffee Quickly From Cold Water— ‘The most hurried breakfaster can now have good breakfast coffee—clear, rich, mel- low coffee, the kind that does the nerves 004 ‘and starts the day right, ‘Manning-Bowman Perfected Cofteo Perco- Yators make delicious coffee ina few minutes, farting. with cold weuler. Kitchen range. The glass cover with metal cap protec for will not break while in ‘use. ‘Man: wr man Chatng Dishes and ee Yrecessonien Atconot 2 Resende | Btoves and’ the “Ext 5 Sen The “Art” of Happiness Life requires an art, and some people say that happiness is the whole of it. But if happiness is an art it is in many ways an illicit one. Studiously to try to be happy is to assume that one has a right to be happy; and this is to disre- gard the warnings of numerous sages. But even if it were not impiety to claim happiness, it would still be a futility. Happiness is a matter of temperament; thousands of people who have every rea-- son to be happy (as we vainly judge) are unhappy, and thousands who ought, by all the rules, to be miserable float buoy- antly and jauntily on the troubled ocean of their affairs. One can waste a good deal of pity on men who deserve it but do not require it. The writer has one such case in mind. The man's business failed, nor could he rise again for all his efforts; the ill luck that pursued him A Woman Who Dared 7 RS. MAXON PROTESTS? is the first novel in some years by theauthor of “The Dolly Dialogues” and “The Prisoner of Zenda and marks a distinct departure from his earlier work in subject and point of view. Whereas Anthony Hope formerly dealt with the more frivolous and superficial phases of life, in his new novel he boldly attacks a social problem with a new seriousness, but with no loss of his old brilliancy and power to hold the reader’s interest. BEGIN IT IN THE NOVEMBER CLUB LINEN PLAYING CAR Design of ‘back Remstitched linen. pat'd. Cobirs, red. hve, iereen. Zc per pack. Gold elge. Me. lealere every: SET ae Road on teetiot ot price.” Rend for Catalog Dept. L.. RADCLIFFE: & CO., 144 Peart 81. New York comicbooks.com