Life — August 14, 1913 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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simply had: to come; but I must con- fess I hate them.” “T suppose Mrs. Highler’s idea is to make a name for herself,” I went on, “by inviting all these highbrow freaks to come here and act. Look at that long-haired villain out there. See that frightful thing with the rats in her hair, Ske must have at least eight or ten pounds of them.” My companion shuddered—visibly. “At the same time,” I said, “there is always compensation. I don’t know why I came here. And yet if I had not come I should not have met you. And somehow I have a feeling that we must know cach other better, It was fate, wasn't it?” “No,” she said, “not necessarily fate. You just happened to come.” “But to think,” I said, “that you should have been here among all these terrible things; and at this time.” “T couldn't help being here,” she replied. “I had to be.” “You had to be?” I looked at her feverishly. An awful thought came over me. There was agitation outside. I saw people hurry- ing toward her. They had found her out. I leaned over, determined to know the worst. “Who are you?” I muttered. And she smiled back with her limpid violet eyes looking demurely into mine. “Why, I am Mrs. Highler, the hostess. Aren't you sorry for me?” |The Man who put the | EEs in FEET | Look for This ‘Trade-Mark Picture on the Label when buying ‘ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE ptic Powder to be shaken into the Tender, Aching, Swollen Feet. The standard remedy for the feet for a Quarter: Century. 30,000 testimonials. Sold everywhere, (Se. Sample FREE. Address, 4 ALLEN S. OLMSTED, Le Roy, N. Y. Trade-SMark Che utmost in subtle fra rance EGYPTIAN DEITIES “Ce Utmost in Ggarettes® Cork Tips or Plain. Humor I would rather attempt not to find a formula or a definition for humor, but to discover what it is, like argon, by climinating other characteristics until the evasive quality alone remains. It lics deep in nature. The peevish mouth and the fallen eye of the plaice, the helpless rotundity of the sunfish, the mournful gape and rolling glance of the goldfish, the furious and ineffective mien of the barn-door fowl, the wild grotesque- ness of the babyroussa and the wart-hog, the crafty solemn cye of the parrot—if such things as these do not testify to a sense of humor in the Creative Spirit, it is hard to account for the fact that in man a perception is implanted which should find such sights pleasurably en- tertaining from infancy upwards. I sup- pose the root of the matter is that, in- sensibly comparing these facial attributes with the expression of humanity, one credits the animals above described with the emotions which they do not neces- Hunter Whiskey APPEALS TO ALL WHO CAN APPRECIATE ITS UNRIVALED PURITY AND EXCELLENCE, ITS UNEQUALED QUALITY AND FLAVOR Sold at all first-class cafes and by jobbers. ‘WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. a ~ |ROUND tHe WORLD Six months leisurely travel de Luxe, Limited private tours leave Eastbound Oct. 18, Nov. 8, 29; Southbound (the tipodes) Oct. 28. SPECIAL SHORT TOURS W bound Oct. 4; Eastbound Jan. 10, 1914, Send for illustr program No SOUTH AMERICA Complete Tours of South America, including Panama Canal, leave New York Nov. 29, Jan. 24." Program 26. THOS. COOK & SON 24S BROADWAY, NEW YORK, er Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, ‘Montreal, Terente, San Francisco, Los Angeles: Underground Garbage Receiver Nn ERS NO FLIES. NO LITTER. NO ODORS the toot, closes tel. Clean aad sanitary direst ca Cinelar ee, IN, Mfr., 46 Farrar St., Lynn, Masa, yet, even so, it is hard to analyze, because grotesque exaggerations of human features which are perfectly normal and natural scem calculated to ove the amusement of humanity quite instinctively. At Laxce—By A. C. Benson, G. P. Putnam's Sons. “HIS ONLY BOOKS WERE WOMAN'S comicbooks.com