Life — December 26, 1912 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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od bl Wisdlsig Kelly-Springfield Automobile Tires You can depend upon the quality of Kelly-Springfield Tires. Cleve ‘The Hear Tire & Rubber Co.. Columbus, Ohio. Boss Rubber Co., Deaver, Colo. Southern Hawe. & Woodstock Co., Ltd.. New Orleans, La, Savell Davis Rubber Works, Augusta andSavannah, Ga, We have never sacrificed quality to meet a price. KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE COMPANY, and, Baltimore. Seattle, Atlanta, Akron, O. Sherine Trea Hubber Con Houston, - Texas, 2, D. Franke & Co. Charlesion. 8. 20 Vesey Street, New York | . Fladel phia. Boston, St: Louls, Detrolt, Cinclonatt, San Francisco, ;Jiensoavtle, Pa, “These ladies, upon their first resolu- tion decided to give the pictures of their deceased husbands to the club- ; but two of them bringing in their at full length, they covered all the Upon which they came to a sec- ond resolution, that every matron should give her own picture, and set it round with her husband’s in miniature. ey are often apt to commemorate their former partners with a tear. But ask them which of their husbands they condole they are not able to tell you, and discover plainly that they do not good an account of him that in three years’ time she very fairly laid him out, and measured his length upon the ground. This exploit has gained her so great a reputation in the club that they have added Sir Sampson's three victories to hers, and give her the merit of a fourth widowhood; and she takes her place accordingly. “VIIL The widow Wildfire, relict of Mr. John Wildfire, fox-hunter, who broke his neck over a six-bar gate. She took his death so much at heart that it was thought it would have put an end to her life had she not diverted her sor- rows by receiving the addresses of a gen- tleman in the neighborhood, who made love to her in the second month of her widowhood. This gentleman was dis- carded in a fortnight for the sake of a young templar, who had the possession of her for six weeks after, till he was beaten out by a brother officer, who like- wise gave up his place to a gentleman at court. The courtier was as short- lived a favorite as his predecessors, but had the pleasure to see himself suc- ceeded by a long series of lovers, who followed the widow Wildfire to the thirty-seventh year of her age, at which time there ensued a cessation of ten years, when John Felt, haberdasher, took it in his head to be in love with her, and it is thought will very suddenly carry her off “IX. The last is pretty Mrs. Runnet, who broke her first husband’s heart be- fore she was sixteen, at which time she was entered of the club, but soon after left it upon account of a second, whom she made so quick a despatch of that she returned to her seat in less than a twelvemonth, This young matron is looked upon as the most rising member of the society, and will probably be in the president's chair before she dies. DO NOT VISIT THE PANAMA CANAL Or the West Indies without sending for the booklet of the 21-day limited cruises, Jan. 11 and Feb. th 18 of the ‘New Touring Steamship STEPHANO of RED CROSS LINE, visiting Colon, Panama, Hamilton, Bermu tonio and Kingston, Jamaica; and Havana, Cuba. 21 DAYS $100.00 UP. Limited to 10 Dasrengers. Ample deck space owing to emall numbe No difficulties in obtaining car- Fiages oF conveyances at porta of call. Bead for bandsome illustrated booklet 106. BOWRING & CO., 17 Batt: Place, Se kiny wonviet Rewer ort An- New York The Custom of the Country Scribner’s ‘Magazine The interest begins at once. By Edith Wharton in the year. Like ** The House of Mirth,” American social life, and it promises to be even more widely dis- jcussed than that famous story. The varied social strata of a great city like New York, where money and the power it gives appear the only way to the goal of the socially ambitious, the false stand- ards that money establishes, the realization that what may be yjconsidered a fortune in a provincial city dwindles to a compara- |tive pittance in a city of multimillionaires, the moral standards of a certain element of the very rich—offer material for a varied jand absorbing drama to a writer of Mrs. Wharton's knowledge. The Great Novel of the Year 1913 Mrs. Wharton's new novel “The Custom of the Coun- ry” begins in the Janu- ary number of Scribner's Magazine. No writer of modern fiction holds a moredistinguished place than the author of **The House of Mirth,” “Ethan Frome,” “Madame de Treymes,” “The Fruit of the Tree.” These stories have shown her a won- derfully wide observer of life and a keen analyst of those in- fluences of environment and training that make up the human equation, that lead to happiness or disappointment. The new story will run through | it is a story of contemporary The heroine of the story is quite a different type from the much- | talked-of Lily Bart of “The House of Mirth,” and her career will be followed with even keener interest.