Life — November 28, 1912 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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SOMETIMES THE FLOWERS SEEM TO BE ALI. ON ONE, Life’s Confidential Guide to Prominent People ABBAS, ABDUL BATA.—A gentleman who belongs to the cult Bahai, and has re. cently come over to this country in order to teach us what's what in religion. He will be successful Proportion to. the amount ef moncy he is able to take awa with him. MURRAY. Regius versity schools thinks PROFESSOR G. GILBERT.— Professor of Greek at Ox ally crit ; nstitutions. Professor Mui ¢ should all speak Greek eve all learned how to speak FLINDERS.—An. yptian arch.co and expert spader. Is popularly supposed to have begun life as a well digger, and, believing in the con: servation of energy, he transferred his la bors to Egypt, where some of his results have heen remarkable, His latest discovery is a perfect ephinx: and it is understood that he, will offer her as the head of the wom an’s suffrage movement in America. ARCHBOLD, RORERT W.—A __ Pennsyl- vania member of the Commerce Court, who became submerged in the cost of living and sebd bis birthright for a mess of pot- SIDE OF THE FENCE, AND tage. Appears to be less honest than he really is. ROALD.—An ex: plorer who’ recently sauntered up to the South Pole, and, taking it off the hook, hrought it back to the New York Times Office, where he received n cash and the rest in advertising. Captain Amund sen has the unique distinction of havi per other people to accompany him to outh Pole and share the glory This is the only wn-American thing that he did, FERRERO, GUGLIEMO. — An gentleman who showing that the Roman arnated in the United States of Amer ica, Asa historian he is more interesting 2 Conan Doyle. As ranks with he is as bad HARMON, JUDSON.—A citizen of Ohio, who at one time was thought of for the Presidency; he was found to be too good the job, which requires, above all things else, a picturesque personality. This gentleman has studied law for several years and has such a deep respect for ¢x isting institutions that no high public office would be possible for him. Ie is upright. able and) uninteresti ugh to con: demn him. SUN YAT SEN.—A commercial traveler for a Chinese department store, who at one Italian ALL THE WEEDS ON THE OTHER time controlled all the advertising. tof the new Chi: liminated | the Manchu- rians, and then evacuated the head of the government because he. had the habit of traveling. He is a president whose where- abouts are known for more than two days in succession. WELLS, I. G.—A. prominent. English so. cialistic writer; the head of a complete novel factory with an output of two novels every three weeks. Believes in the future of everybody, while still living in the present. NICIIOLAS, CZAR OF RUSSIA.—A young: man-afraid-of-his-life, who spends most. of his time in hurrying from bomb-proof apart: it to bomb-proof apartme and when nest collection of Is always loo ally finding it. (See iberia.) He stands both at the head and at the foot of the Russian Em- pire. Whether he will ever succeed is a question. AUSTIN, ALFRED.—Poet Laureate of Eng: land and contemporary of EMa Whecler Wilcox and J. Gordon Coogler. Occupies the same position toward poetry in Eng- land that W. IL. Taft docs toward politics in the United States. Is the only man England who has not been ridiculed by Vernard Shaw—beeause it wasn't neces: sary. Duma, comicbooks.com