Life — July 3, 1913 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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July 1—Beginning to-day, C. O. D. packages may be sent by parcel post. A distinct advantage to persons desiring to send Christmas presents to wealthy relatives. Exposition of sport at Vercelli, Italy, Several assassina- tions have been planned by the managers of the “ Sport of Kings" exhibit. July 2—Colonel Roosevelt will deliver a lecture at the Casino, Newport. Society poodles and Pomeranians are thinking seriously of absenting themselves from the meeting. They do not believe in encouraging a man with such decided views about babics. Third National Rally of the Boy Scouts of Great Britian. The Boy Scouts of America have been invited to attend Foreign diplomats are busy wi each other of the hidden menace in such a Dual Alliance. Two thousand school children will sing in a musical com- petition in Pittsburg. Even Pittsburg has not been immune ¢o the psychic influence of Mr. Oscar Hammerstein, e<-London, 1912. July 3—To be born in Portland, Ore., a new weekly paper, “The Hourglass.” Referred to Ambassador Page, of Garden City and London, Eng. La Boulie, Versailles, French Amateur Golf Championship. Dearly as he loves the game, Mr. Rockefeller will not be able to yacht over for the match. He is too busy telling shop girls how to become heiresses on $3 a week. Close of the Sons of the American Revolution pilgrimage over the route taken by George Washington when first he as- sumed command of the Continental Army. Col. T. Roosevelt, Washington ’o9, is wondering whether anyone will ever walk up San Juan Hill. July 4—Independence Day. The annual sacrifice of chil- dren will be largely reduced this year, American mothers hav- ing realized the insufficiency of tetanus as a means of ex- pressing one’s patriotism, Special Concert at the Casino, Newport. Mrs. Astorbilt has announced that she will wear her famous rope of pearls; M Vanderfeller will wear the Vanderfeller dia- monds. A successful musical evening is thus assured. Horse race, “The Realization,” Belmont Park, New York City. The realization, peradventure, that gambling and horsefiesh do not necessarily gallop together. The open season for frogs begins in Delaware. Many met- ropolitan chefs are hurrying to Delaware for the frog-shoot- ing. Sportsmen assert that this pastime is second only to mosquito hunting in New Jerscy. The Indiana Automobile Manufacturers’ Association begins its tour from Indianapolis to Los Angeles, Cal. This in spite of the impending Japanese invasion. JULY FOURTH “GO FORTH, MY TRUSTY SERVAN THE HARVEST” BACHELORS OvER JOYEARS OLD WIL DE KILLED ON JULY. wd Wet ee WHY SHOULD NOT MILITANT MAIDS DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS? The Woman's Suffrage Bill goes into effect in Ilinois with little of no accent on the noisc, to the great astonishment and pained surprise of the English militants, Woodmen of the World will hold an Independence Day festival at New Orleans, La, Resolutions will be passed pro- testing against the destruction of the world’s forest for the manufacture of colored Sunday Supplements. : “Ohio Day” in the centennial celebration of the Battle of Lake Erie. One of the incidental reasons why we do not en- joy reciprocity with Canada. July 5—Annual Convention of the National Education As- sociation, Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah. The tabernacle is said to have the best acoustic properties in the world. Only a Mormon husband would have the thoughtful- ness to provide his wives with acoustic properties. July 6—National Conference of Charities and Corrections, Seattle, Wash. A. J. McKelway, Southern Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, will deliver the annua) ad- dre: China Wedding Anniversary of King George and Queen Mary, of England. Motion picture concerns are preparing to make hurried films of Mrs. Pankhurst amid the royal crockery. Suffragettes predict the biggest smash in years. Replica of the Conestoga wagon that carried powder to Com- modore Perry 100 years ago will arrive at Erie, Pa., to take part in the Perry Centennial. The wagon is being sent by the Du Pont Powder Company. With the consent, it goes without saying, of the sinister Japanese gentleman who—(sce files of Hearst newspapers)—owns the land commanding the Du Pont works. Fifteenth Anniversary of the annexation of Jawai. Hawaii is a volcano just off the coast of Japan which was recently fortified with large guns for the preservation of world- wide peace. (Impression received from hasty skimming of the daily prints.) Jaly 8—Seventh Convention of the World’s Sunday Schools, Zurich, Switzerland. A fine, pleasant time is expected to be had by all. Annual picnic of the blind, Pittsburg, Pa. An unscientific, uneugenic, old-fashioned custom of causing happiness to the unfortunate. Not prescribed by the more advanced school of physicians. comicbooks.com