Life — December 8, 1910 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Cairo Office: Opposite Savoy Hotel. Exited to ten persons. Sailing Jan. 7, 21, Feb. 18. Private rages provided for wy Snead facilities of families for ing The Magnificence of Just Missing It Every young man should try to re- spect Nature’s glorious intention in making him. Nature may not have fulfilled that glorious intention of hers. But she planned sublimely. This is the substance of what a college pro- fessor once remarked to his classes. Nature, from this point of view, en- counters occasionally the difficulty of the comedian who, in the jargon of the stage, fails to “put it over.” The joke may be brilliant. Its fundamen- tal idea is, possibly, worthy of Aris- tophanes at his best. But if it does not cross the footlights, if the audi- ence fails to seize the point, nothing is “put over,” and there ensues the sort of blank Job felt when he rent his mantle. Similarly, when a young man reflects upon Nature's glorious intention in creating him, he must often feel that she failed “to put it over.” That is not the young man’s fault, but he has to bear the conse- quences. He may try hard to respect Nature’s glorious intention, but it is excessively difficult to forgive her for Sout man savoir ef mon in- tlligence ont été appliqués & & pg aration du Lm Prep: Pp Djer- Kis, inlerprétation par- faite de fa fantaisie féminine. TRANSLATION: “Ail my bnowledge itt bare been appli ing Djer-Kiss perfume the pertect_tnterpretation of feminine fancy. Bradt Suchet, Face and Tafeum Ponder dai BE doiers Send 6c, for Sample of Extract. 'ed H. Smith Co., 72 Chambers St., New Yor Don’t let this Christmas go by without getting a Victor- Victrola. It will bring more joy and entertainment than aaything you can give. ~ Hear the Victor-Victrola today at the nearest Victor dealer's. He will gladly play any Victor music you want to hear. The famous Victor dog is on the lid of every Victor-Victrola, on the horn and cabinet of every Victor, and on every Victor Record. To get the best re New Victor Recor. Victor-Victrola XVI Quartered oak, $200 Victors $10 to $100 Easy terms can be arranged with your dealer if de+ sired. Need'es on Victor Records ers on the 28th of each month just missing it. she made an unusual effort ever he thinks of his last book. ture’s intention regarding him was so glorious! She meant him to be Amer- She couldn't ica’s greatest novelist. put him over. One consolation is, that Nature's intention with respect to some of us was extremely glorious indeed. She failed to put us over, but The Disadvantages of Death to an Author Loud have been laments of late that That the profession of letters entails com- thought should prove inexpressibly consoling to Hamlin Garland when- petition not only with the living but with the dead. In medicine this han- Na- dicap cannot exist. Hunter was a 4reat surgeon, but any living interne from cae of our sham hospitals would be more useful to a man with a broken (Concluded on page 1051)