Life — September 21, 1911 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Three little children within fourteen months, including twins, came to the humble home of the great Bard, and he began to go out and climb upon the haymow to do his writing Sometimes he would stay from home for two or three wecks at a time, fearing that when he entered the house some one would tell him that he was again a parent, Yet William Shakespeare knew all the time that he was a great man and tha some day he would write pieces to speak. He left Stratford at the age of twenty- one and went to London, where he at- tracted very little attention, for he be- longed to the Yeomanry, being a kind away It is equally important that you have “Feltoids” on your present furniture. If your dealer cannot supply you or attempts substitu. tion, write us. Send a card any- way for a copy of the “Feltoid” booklet. ‘The BURNS & BASSICK COMPANY Dept..F... Bridgeport, Conn. of dramatic Horace Grecley, both in the viatter of clothes and penmanship. Thus it would scem that while Sir Francis Bacon was attendir and getting himself familiar with the whole-arm movement so as to be able to write a free, cryptogamous hand, poor W. Shakespeare was slowly thinking the hair off his head, while ever and anon he would bring out his writing materials and his bright ready tongue, and write sonnet on an cmpty stomach.—Bill X. a business college Don’t Get the Habit It’s been explained at last, and the thing ought to be easy to avoid in the future. There's been preaching cnough against forming bad habits, but the death habit, surcly the worst of all, has not, until now, been isolated, to berrow a professional term, But you can learn all about it in a book recently issued in England, “Death: Its Causes and Phe- nomena.” The two young authors, with a laudable desire to find out all they could about their obscure subject, sent out a circular letter containing the ques- tion, “ What do you consider to be the real nature of death?” There were plenty of replies, but they proved unsat- isfactory, so one of the authors settled the thing himself It's just a habit, that’s all; a habit “to which man has hecome addicted through countless cen- turies of anticipatory suggestion.” Which goes to prove that there’s noth- ing so easily acquired as a bad habit. It spreads like wildfire! But now that it is recognized, it ought to be simple to conquer it. Dodge the habit and keep alive. Never mind about swatting the fly; that duty sinks to insignificance and can be attended to later on in some com- ing century. The thing now is to get away from that pesky death habit—un- less there’s some sort of catch in that “anticipatory suggestion" phrase. H.W. Shakespeare I do not undertake to stand up for the personal character of Shakespeare, but T say that he wrote good pieces, and I don’t care who knows it. It is doubt- less true that at the age of eighteen he married a woman eight years his senior and that children began to cluster about Writeor Bootle, ‘Ot Automobile HAVOLINE Indian Rig. Co. FOR AUTOMOBILES Clean! “hooklet Efi Gommct sense ff Handsome Mr. Alfred Austin has brought out his biography, in which he alludes to the date on which poctry was thrust upon him, January 1, 1896, in the follow- s well-chosen words: “It would be most unbecoming of me to ea comment on this occurrence.” Nothin, could be handsomer than that. 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