Life — January 11, 1912 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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ning yrado, silver rope "So umbug ed the 3 and aut. EASE. John, : Tell ugh. My d—her ipt. ER ext bottles PANDORA’S BOX It isa literary delight and holds the reader spellbound throughout its many pages. Brooklyn Citi A book really original and excep- tionally diverting. N.Y. World. By; JOHN AMES MITCHELL Author of “Amos Judd,” “The Pines of Lory,” ete, Editor of Life. Four illustrations by the author, $1.30 nets prepaid $1.42 The Legend of Mimir It is a beautiful legend of the Norse land. Amilias was the village black- smith, and under the spreading chestnut treekjn, his village smithophjken stood. He the hot iron gehammered and sjhod horses for fifty cents all round please. He made tin hjelmets for the gjodds and stove pjipe trousers for the hjerocs. Mimir was a rival blacksmith. He didn’t go in very much for defensive armor, but he was lightning on two- edged Bjswords and cut-and-slash svjeutlasses. He made chyjeese knives for the gjodds, and he made the great Bjsvsstnsen, an Arkansaw toothpick that would make a free incision clear into the transverse semicolon of a cast iron Ichthyosaurus, and never turn its edge. That was the kind of a Bhjairpin Mimir said he was. One day Amilias made an impenetra- ble suit of armor for a second-class gjodd, and put it on himself to test it, and boastfully inserted a card in the Svensska Norderdjraviskjkanaheldesplyt- denskgorodovusaken, saying that he was wearing a suit of home-made, best chilled Norway merino underwear that would nick the unnumbered saw teeth in the pot metal cutlery of the iron- mongery over the way. That, Amilias remarked to his friend, Bjohnn Bjro- binssson, was the kind of a Bdjucckk he was. When Mimir spelled out the card next morning he said, “ Bjjj!” and went to work with a charcoal furnace, a cold anvil and the new isomorphic process, and in a little while he came down street with a sjword that glittered like a dollar-store diamond, and met Amilias down by the new opera house. Amilias FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY New York Publishers Priestcraft Outwitted An Italian noble being at church one day and finding a priest who begged for the souls in purgatory, gave him a piece of gold. “Ab, my lord,” said the good father, “ you have now delivered a soul.” The count threw upon the plate an- other piece. “Here is another soul delivered,” said the priest. “Are you positive of it?” replied the count y lord,” replied the priest; in they are now in heaven.” said the count, “I'll take back my money, for it signifies nothing : now, seeing the souls have al- ‘ot to heaven.” Formerly ‘‘Jelco. ) Running all through our products you will note the Azed purpose to excel that means more than all etse in the production of better goods and lasting reputation. Examination reveals unequalled qual- tty of rubber, and the strongest and | Dest fabrics that money can buy. ‘Theresultis increased mileage—and | Satsfaction every mile of the way. | Neda notatways foliow the beaten progress—but we prove "w departure by actentife and | 8, IRES [differ materially from the conventions! ‘Anti-shids” In patterp—aiso ia the ct LEE PUNCTURE- PROOF TIRES arsine that Increase lldelphia Detroit, (as LEE RBEe your half-b Bom Jhon Lisle, 25 cents ‘Bold by all dealers, George Frost Co., Makers, Boston buttoned on his new Bjarmor and said: “If you have no hereafter use for your chyjecse kjnife, strike!” Mimir spat on his hands, whirled his skjword above his head and fetched Amilias a swipe that seemed to miss everything except the empty air, through which it softly whistled. Amilias smiled and said “go on,” adding that it “seemed to him he felt a general sense of cold iron somewhere in the neighbor- hood, but he hadn't been hit.” “Shake yourself,” said Mimir. Amilias shook himself and immediate- ly fell into halves, the most neatly d vided man that ever went beside him- self. “That's where the boilermaker was away off in his diagnosis,” said Mim as he went back to his shop to put up the price of cutlery 65 per cent. in all lines, with an unlimited advance on spe- cial orders. Thus do we learn that a good action is never thrown away, and that kind words and patient love will overcome the harshest natures. —Robert J. Burdette in Mark Twain's Librory of Humor.