Life — December 5, 1912 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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Mr. Pepys Passes a Fairly Pleasant. Christmas (This is taken from the Diary of Saniuel Pepys, December 25, 1662.) asth (Christmas Day). Up pretty early, leaving my wife not well in bed, and with my boy walked, it a most breve, cold and dry frosty morning, and had a pleasant walk to White Hall, where I intended to have received the Communion with the family, but I came a little too late. So I walked up into the house and spent my ti looking over pictures, particularly the ships in King Henry the VIIIth's Voyage to Bullen; marking the great difference be- tween their build then and now, By and hy down to the chappell again, where Bishop Morley preached upon the song “Glory to God on high, c, and good will towards Methought he made but a poor sermon, but long, and reprehending the taken jollity of the Court for the rue joy that shall and ought to be on these days, he particularized concerning their excess in plays and gaming, saying that he whose office it is to keep the gamesters in order and within bounds, serves but for a sccond rather in a ducll, ing the groom-porter. Upon which it was worth observing how far they are come from taking the reprehensions of a bishop seriously, that they all laughed in the chappell when he reflected on their ill actions and courses. He did much press us to join these publique days of joy and hospitality. But one that stood by whispered in my ear that the Bishop himself do not spend one groat 10 the poor himself. The sermon done. a good anthem followed, and then the King came down to reccive the Sacrament. But I staid not, but calling my boy from the Lord’s lodgings, and giving Sarah some good advice, by my Lord's order, to be sober and look after the house, I walked home again with great pleasure, and there dined by my wife's bed-side with great content, hav- ing a mess of brave plum-porridge and a roasted pullet for dinner, and I sent for a mince-pie abroad, my wife not being well to make any herself yet. After dinner sat talking a good while with her, her pain being become less, and then to sce Sir W, Pen a little, and So to my office, practising arithmetique alone and making an end of last night's book with great content till cleven at night, and so home to supper and to bed. Bit of Friendly Caution New Mexcuaxt: How big an “ad” would you advise? Abvvextistng Man: That depends on how many tons of customers your store floor will sustain. You wouldn't want em to break through into the cellar, of Course !—Electric Traction. j i AUS RELERTANGESANN- Pennsylvania Station Grand in conception, beautiful and impressive in design ard ornamentation, the Pennsylva: Station at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-second Street, New York, is not only a conveniently appointed and admirably located railread station in the heart of Manhattan, it is A Work of Art All the through steel trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad and its western and southern connections this station in New York City. It is the New York station for the Broadway Limited 24-Hour St. Louis The Pennsylvania Limited Chicago Limited and a number of other famous trains. It is within one block of Broadway at Thirty-second Street, and within a few blocks of all the le ing New York Hotels. Yay PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD comicbooks.com