Life — May 23, 1912 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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A Thought Before Your Trip See that your luggage is pro- tected against the risks of loss incidental to travel. If you se- cure one of our Tourist Policies you will travel with a quiet mind. “It costs but a few cents a da: may save you hundreds of dol If you will advise us in advance of the date of your departure upon any trip, we will send you gratis our attractive and useful bon voyage book entitled “Things to Remember While Traveling.” Tosi ¢ Company of North America ‘alnut_and Third Streets Philadelphia WHEN TRAVELING Founded mune vouR RTS NeEY SicOMPANYOTS Ningaramncarent Policy Holders over 000 The Intruder boat coming up the Missis- sippi one day during the flood lost her way and bumped up against a frame house. She hadn't more than touched it before an old darkey rammed his head up through a hole in the roof, where the chimney once came out, and yelled at the captain on the roof, “ Whar’s yer gwine wid dat boat? Can't you sce nothin’? Fust thing yer knows yer gWine to turn dis house ober, spill de old woman an’ de chil’en out in de flood, an’ drown ‘em. What yer doin’ out here in de country wid yer boat, anyhow? Go on back yander froo de co’n fields an’ get back into de ribber whar yer Dilongs. Ain‘t got no business sev'n miles out in the country foolin’ roun’ people's houses nohow?” And she backed out. He Talked Too Much A certain knight of Spain, as high in birth as a king, as catholic as the Pope, and equal to Job in poverty, arriving one night at an inn in France, knocked a long time at the gate till he had alarmed the landlord. “ Who is there?” said the host, looking out of the window. “Don Juan Pedro,” replied the Spaniard; “Hernandez, Rodriguez de Villanova, Count of Malafra, Knight Santiago and Alcantara.” “I am very sorry,” replied the landlord, shutting the window, “ but I have not rooms enough in my house for all the gentlemen you have men- tioned.” Premature A certain company promoter once built a castle on a mountain peak. As he showed the gray, medieval-looking pile to a friend, he said: “1 don’t know what to call it. What name do you advise?” “Tt looks like those Scotch castles in the Highlands,” said the friend. “ Why not call it Dunrobin?” “Dunrobin? Dunrobin? Yes, that would be a good name,” said the million- aire; “only, you see, I have no inention of retiring yet.”—London Opinion. The Taste “Lingers D — The careful ageing of Old Overholt Rye ** Same for 100 years’* provides that supreme bcquet— that delicious smack so satisfying to particular palates Aged in charred oak barrels— bottled in bond—worth ordering A, Overholt & Co. Pittsburgh, Pa, In the current Ainslee’s: Mr. Frederick Townsend Martin has selected Ainslee’s Magazine for the publication of his Reminiscences of Society. G Much has been written of Society. @ Many in Society have written. q But very few in Society have written of Society. g Inthe June number of Asnsiee’s, now on sale, you will find the beginning of what may be said to constitute an informal history of American society from the simpler days of our fathers down through the Bradley Martin ball, by Mr. Frederick Townsend Martin q The same issue will contain the usual number of fiction contributions of the sort that has made Ainslee’s “the magazine that entertains”: a brilliant, sparkling novel, complete, by Marion Hill, and a dozen short stories of distinction by such writers as Margaretta Tuttle, Parker H. Fillmore, Anna Alice Chapin, Herman Whitaker, Thomas P. Byron, William Slavens McNutt, Virginia Kline, Nalbro Bartley and F. Berkeley Smith. AINSLEE’S FOR JUNE FOR SALE WHEREVER MAGAZINES ARE READ READ WHEREVER MAGAZINES ARE SOLD FIFTEEN CENTS THE COPY aA *AAAAAALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL a