Life — January 2, 1913 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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SS AUT SCISSORS Undressing the Chickens A little slum child was enjoying his first glimpse of pastoral life. The setting sun was gilding the grass and roses of the old-fashioned garden, and on a little stool he sat beside the farmer's wife, who was plucking a chicken. He watched the operation gravely for some time. Then he spoke: Do yer take off their clothes every ght, lady?"—Youth's Companion Absent A very prominent man recently died and shortly after a friend of the family called to condole with the widow. The caller had been a very warm friend of the deceased, and as he was about to depart he asked: Did Will leave you much?” “Oh, yes, indeed,” responded the widow, “nearly every night.” —Harper’s Bazar A Poser for the Court A colored woman was on trial before a magistrate.charged with inhuman treat- ment of her child Evidence was clear that the woman had severely beaten the youngster, aged some nine years, who was in court to exh battered condition. Before imposing sentence his honor asked the woman whether she had any- thing to say. “Kin I ask yo’ honah a question?” inquired the prisoner. “Go ahead,” said the judge, and the court room listened. “Well, then, yo’ honah, I'd like to ask yo’ whether yo’ was ever the parient of a puffectly wuthless culled chile?” —Burlington N “LT waxt a nice book for an invalid omething religious, madam?” —no—he's convalescent.” —Boston Transcript. Travenine Lrcreer for Society (io the remaining listener): 1 should like to thank you, sir, for so attentively hearing me to the end of a rather too long speech. Local Member of Society: Not at all GETTING READY FOR THE NEW TENANT - Pui Lire: is pubtighed every Thorsday, simultaneously in et, Great fetain, Canada and Reith Lave Is for sate by all newsdesiers in ay be obtained from bookseller in alt the priacipa! Pouerions. $5.00 year tn advance. Additional ts in the Portal Union, $1.04 —citien of the world, The foreign trade sepplied from Live's London Otfce, Cannon Mouse, Hreams Buildings, & year; to Canada. $2 cent Single current copies, 10 cents, Back mumbers, after three months trom Loncon, EC. date of publication Prior 4 1910 ost of print. The text and Uiustrasions in Lae ave copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Beitsin apris o Lave, 11 Ne contribution will be rd wile ddveued envelepe. Lave dees mot held ite Seuthampten Rare, Londen, W’, C. be sent by subscribers af any change f adden, respensible for the low or e ' . Prompt motifs = Registered . Established Trade Mark = Half a Century Annual Sale At “The Linen Store” Our Annual Sale means to experienced shoppers the op- portunity to buy many of the choice treasures of our col- lection at exceptionally attractive prices. Some idea of the variety of the goods may be gathered from the fact that in Table Linens alone there are 194 designs in this Sale. There is not an old or undesirable pattern in this lot. The goods are offered at very substantial and bona fide reductions from our customary retail prices. The Sale includes Table Clothes, Napkins, Towels, Blankets, Bed-spreads, Sheets, Pillow-cases, French and Domestic Lingerie, Corsets, Suits, Coats, Dresses, Waists, Ladies’ Neckwear and Hosiery. The Sale will commence Thursday, January 2nd, and will continue throughout the entire month. 32-page Booklet describing these goods in detail, mailed free on request. James McCutcheon & Co., 5th Ave. & 34th St., New York TO NEW AND OLD SUBSCRIBERS LIFE'S Special Offer Cont. Lite Pub. Co. “Bygones” (By Angus MacDonall) This Picture Free with Each Yearly Subscription A regroduction of this picture, 9} by 15 inches in size, on paper 15 by 20, will be sent on each yearly subscription entered this season. A subscription to LIFE is the best possible gift—a copy of LIFE every week. fifty-two presents a year, and this picture for Five Dollars, the regular subscription price.* LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 31st Street, New York *Subscription, $5.00 Canadian, $5.52 Foreign, $6.04 comicbooks.com