Life — January 5, 1911 — page 78: what you’re looking at

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in California. There are roses bloom- ing, birds singing, mel- low sunshine and air that thrills with warmth and life. The all year "round, de luxe Golden State Limited via Rock Island Lines —exclusively for first class travel—awaits each day to whirl you away out of the snow and sleet and rain into the cheery summer again. And the joy begins with the journey. The superb Pullmans, new this season, are cosy and well lighted. There are full sized berths, roomy and white. A chef who can cook, and a bar- ber and valet to render all services. Each mile of the well kept road teems with brilliant panoramas. There isa library to improve the mind and Victrola Re- citals to entertain. Less than three days of pleasure upon a perfect train. Daily from Chicago and St. Louis to El Paso, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Del Monte—the Golfer's Paradise—and San Francisco via the’ route of the lowest altitudes. The new “Californian” and other good trains every R 0 c K day from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joveph, Omaha, and Memphis, with choice of routes. | S | a n d Let me send you our beautifully illustrated book on California. L. M. ALLEN, Passenger Traffic Manager, Room 241 LaSalle Station, Chicago “They say" and “ Perhaps” are the two ushers that precede a lie. All Explained at Last. To be Read With Great Care Heap or Comaission: What is the It is remorse that makes a man atro- object of your raising your rates? cious. A man who never repents is a Rattroap Prestoent: In order to pay system or organization that thrills and the interest on our bonds. impresses us. Heap or Commission: Do the bonds —From Balzac’s Note Book. represent the actual cost of the road? Raitroap Presipent: Oh, dear, no; they represent the amount of money we have been able to raise from the sale of bonds, based on the interest we can pay on them.—Town and Country. _Perfumes and Houbigant Paris scsriizt In Every Store Quality Only, cy Rhymed Reviews The Siege of the Seven Suitors (By Meredith Nicholson, Houghton Mifflin Company) I recommend to all the rout Of bored and travel-worn com- muters This flagrant lunacy about The fair Cecilia’s seven suitors, Cecilia owned a lively aunt, A lady full of pleasing fancies, Whose maiden breast had learned to pant, For daring deeds and wild romances. Enriched beyond a miser’s dream (Her source of wealth a baby-car- riage), This aunt devised a secret scheme For governing her niece’s marriage. Cecilia, at her aunt’s demand, Agreed, howe’er the sequel tasked her, To give her much-desired hand, Unto the seventh man who asked her. And suitors thronged, with jealous eyes But rarely closed in peaceful slum- ber, Nor guessed the way to win the prize, Nor dreamed of Seven—mystic number ! While poor Cecilia had to plan And rule her conduct most demurely To keep the really favored man, Like wine, from popping pre- maturely. Until, to make a rapid end, The hero proved a knot-untwister; He saved Cecilia for his friend And carried off her little sister. This hero, Chimney-Doctor Ames, Takes every chance and never misses. I doubt if even Henry James Could write a story such as this is. Arthur Guiterman, freee angele comicbooks.com