Life — February 22, 1912 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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The Cowboy So much amusing talk is being made recently anent the blood-bedraggled cowboy of.the Wild West that I rise, as one man, to say a few things, not in a dictatorial style, but regarding this so- called or so-esteemed dry land pirate who, mounted on a little cow pony and under the black flag, sails out across the green surge of the plains to scatter the rocky shores of Time with the bones of his fellowman, A great many people wonder where the cowboy, with his abnormal thirst for blood, originated. Where did this youny Jesse James, with his gory record and his dauntless eye, come from? Was he born in a buffalo wallow at the foot of some rock-ribbed mountain, or did he first breathe the thin air along the brink of an alkali pond, where the horned toad and the centipede sang him to sleep and the tarantula tickled him under the chin with its hairy legs? Careful research and cold, hard sta- tistics show that the cowboy, as a gen- cral thing, was born in an unostentatious manner on the farm. I hate to sit down on a beautiful romance and squash the breath out of a romantic dream, but the cowboy who gets too much moist dam- nation in his system and rides on a gallop up and down Main street, shoot- ing out the lights of the billiard palaces, would be just as unhappy if a mouse ran up his pantaloon legs as you would, gen- Your Midnight Lunch If you are going to have guests “in the evening prepare your coffce, tea or cocoa in advance and serve it piping hot from a sideboard or serving table. Most convenient for keeping {ce water or other drinkables in the day time or for the sleeping room atnight. Keepsliquidsice cold 86 hours and boiling h 3t 30 to 45 hours, Over 100 leading hotels and clubs have installed. 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