Life — December 5, 1912 — page 97: what you’re looking at

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nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, of one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, or even that the raisins were so plentiful and pure, the slmonds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon so long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious. Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly decorated boxes, or that everything was good to eat, and in its Christmas dress; but the customers were all so hurried ard so cager in the hopeful promise of the day that they tumbled up against each other at the door in the best humor possible; while the grocer and his people were so frank and fresh that the polished hearts with which they fastened their aprons behind might have teen their own, worn outside for general inspection and for Christmas daws to peck at if they chose. Dut soon the steeples called good peo ple all to church and chapel, and away they came, flocking through the streets in their best clothes, and with their gay- est faces. At the same time there emerged from scores of by-strects, lanes and nameless turnings, innumerable peo- ple, carrying their dinners to the bakers’ shops. The sight of these poor travelers appeared to interest. the . 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Makers of Sanatogen—the Food Tonic much, for he stood with Scrooge beside him in a baker's doorway, and, taki off the covers as their bearcrs passed, sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch, And it was a very uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice when there were angry words between some dinner-carriers who had jostled each other, he shed a few drops of water on them for it, and their good humor was restored directly. For they said it was a shame to quarrel upon Christmas Day. And so it was! God love it, so it was! —From “ A Christmas Carot,” by Charles Dickens. 409 No Great Haste Ata lecture a well known authority on economics mentioned the fact that in some parts the number of men was con- siderably larger than that of women, and he added humorously : “Tcan therefore recommend the ladies to emigrate to that part of the world.” A young lady seated in one of the last rows got up and, full of indignation, was leaving the room rather noisily, where- upon the lecturer remarked: I did not mean that it need be done in sveh a hurry as that.” —London Bystander. comicbooks.com -