Life — October 24, 1912 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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J Sh AVT It Didn't Matter “What are you doing, dear?” the little girl's mother, as she paused to look at some very strange marks the king on a piece of paper m writing a letter to Lillie Smith,” the answer. But, laughed the mother. “you don't know how to write.” “Ob, that doesn't matter, mother! doesn't know how to rea fies’ Home Journal. asked child was m dea: Comrtatwant: “Your worship, she struck me in the face with her clenched fist. That cut was caused by her ring Macistrate: Where did she get the ring? Comptarwant: T gave it to her, It was our engagement ring. Macistrate: The prisoner is dis- charged. That is clearly a case of con- tributory negligence. —Tit-Bits 15SeR y | Wonder Twinkle, twinkle, lovely star! How I wonder if you are When at home the tender age You appear when on the stage. —Lippincott's. A Southern Romance Rufe was telling Zeke ab escapade he had had the after he had crossed the dam at the river nd was making for his cabin about a half mile through the dark woods “And jest I hears a funny noise like a shoat snort- in’. Tlooks up an’ a blue light jumps out er de groun’ and shapes itself into a ghost about six foot tall, Red fire was a-flickerin’ out cr its nose. It stood still kinder, then lifted a long, bony finger an’ says: ‘I want you, Rufe Jackson.” it a terrible as I stepped inter de brush “1 walks up to it and shakes my own finger right in its face.» ‘You mind yore business and I'll mind mine,’ I says, and turns on my heel and goes right on. “Now, what'd you er done, Zeke, in a case like dat?” OUR ESTEEMED CONTEMPORARY—THE. SAN PRANCISCO CALL “T'd er done jest what you done, you durned lying nigger.” st. Louis Republic. Canada and British be Postal Union, $1.08 Prompt netiheatiom sale by all newsdealers io Great Rritain and may be obtained from booksellers tn a text and tilusrrations im LIVE are copprighted. Suthampon Ree, Lenaen, WC. be nent by subseribers of a 4 from Liv."s London Offce, change of andres be peiacip! Cannea House, Breams Bailtiens For Reprint Rights in Great Britain apply Lave, ttt Center of Winter out-of-door life in the Middle South Four excellent Hotels—52 cottages—The Carolina opens November 30, 1912. Holly Inn opens January 10; Berkshire and Harvard open January 15. Special Rates during December and January 18-hole golf courses and 6-hcle practice courte. tennis, livery and saddle horses, model dairy, shooting preserve, trap shooting. Good Roads in a radius of 50 miles or more Through Pullman Sercice from New York via Seaboard Air Line Only one night out from New York, Boston, Cleceland. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Send for iltustrated booklet giving full information. Pinehurst General Office, Pinehu Leonard Tufts, Owner, Boston, M. “EXTRA!” A free copy for Everybody who wants one of The Miniature Life Life is now sending out to his friends a min- jature copy, printed in colors, and full of the best things which have appeared in Life for many years. All you need to secure a copy of this issue (size 444x534) is to forward your name and address and a two-cent stamp to LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York. comicbooks.com