Life — August 24, 1911 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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quip- [eter their con- ques- per- vait- y in and Father Explains About It S, Tom was hurt in the explosion : a good deal hurt, but we think he will come out in the end almost as good as before. “How? Oh, it was this way: Tom had had some spare time at home in July nd had begun a flirtation with a sum- mer girl. I stood it as long as I could, but it got on my nerves so badly that I went to Tom and said to him: * Now this summer girl amusement is too danger- ous. I tell you what, if you must have a risky job, get a shed built down there at the foot of the lawn and get some suit- able chemicals, and see if you can’t learn to make nitroglycerine. As long as you don't, it won't hurt you, and if you do and it blows up, why, you will have sue- ceeded, and will either get well or that will be the end of it, and either way you will be learning something. But this summer girl amusement is too risky. In that you are fooling with something much stronger than dynamite, abler to throw you farther and hurt you worse and much more permanently If you fail in it you and if you succeed you ¢ wasted time ther die nor recove “Strange to say, Tom was impressed. He bought a portable house, put it up as far off as possible, got chemicals, went to work, and produced a nice explosion about four o'clock Iast Tuesday. He may lose an eye, and how his hand will finally come out I don’t know yet, but as the Scripture says: Better muddle along with one eye or one hand than go miscel- lancously to hell. I feel these hurts are nothing to what he was likely to get in that other game.” Upset DOWN the stream of life, they said, Together peacefully they'd float; ft, just as soon as they were wed, They both began to rock the boat. n is that ugly docs. The Three Pigs HERE were three pigs in a poke The overcrowd: was scandalous Fach accounted fort ent manner. The first pig is terrible; it evil ina differ- vercrowding c we are in a second pig said: “This over: crowding is disastrous; it is because we are pigs.” The third pig spoke as follows overcrowding is undoubtedly apy but you are both mistaken as to the con: ditions that have caused it, It is not duc to our being in a poke; neither is it duc to our being pigs. The evil is the direct and inevitable outcome of certain spas- modic variations in the Law of Eco- nomic Utility.” The other two pigs were much im- pressed, and without more ado clected the third pig leader among them. Still, the overcrowding remained as bad as ever. ing, Some Popular Songs and Their Authors “THOSE Dear Delightful Wor by Nat Goodwin. “All Alone,” by W. J. Br; “O You Candy Kid,” by Reginald Van derbilt. “Let Me Down Easy,” by the Wright Brothers. “Why Adam Sinned," | by Anthony Comstock. ry Little Movement Has a Mean ing of Its Own,” by Jack Johnson. Mrs, Lease Has Sound Views ARY ELLEN LEASE, of Kansas, says the entire suffragette move- ment “is an abortive effort on the part of the self-deluded and self-centred to Project the shadow for the substance.” But Mrs. Lease is for woman suffrage when the 1 are we all e for it really comes. So NM we ask is that it shall oO not be prematurely brought on while we are still on the earth. THE OTHER FELLOW'S LETTER “om, JACK, JUST LISTEN To THIS!” comicbooks.com