Life — February 12, 1914 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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Saint Valentine’s Day This is the day on which those charm- ing little missives, ycleped Valentines, cross and intercross cach other at every street and turning. The weary and all forspent twopenny postman sinks beneath a load of delicate embarrassments, not his own. It is scarcely credible to what an extent this ephemeral courtship is car- ried on in this loving town, to the great enrichment of porters, and detriment of knockers and bell-wires. In these little visual interpretations, no emblem is so common as the heart—that little three- cornered exponent of all our hopes and fears—the bestuck and bleeding heart; it is twisted and tortured into more alle- gories and affectations than an opera hat, What authority we have in history or mythology for placing the headquarters and metropolis gf God Cupid in this anatomical seat rather than in any other, is not very clear; but we have got it, and it will serve as well as any other. Else we might easily imagine, upon some other system which might have prevailed for anything which our pathology knows to the contrary, a lover addressing his mis- tress, in perfect simplicity of feeling, “Madam, my liver and fortune are entirely at your disposal"; or putting a delicate question, “ Amanda, have you a midriff to bestow?” But custom has settled these things, and awarded the seat of sen- timent to the aforesaid triangle, while its less fortunate neighbors wait at animal and anatomical distance. WAS LING NIN Charles Lamb. “Mapa, the feather in your hat is getting in my eye,” exclaimed a man in a crowd. The woman turned around, looked him over, and then inquired, “Why don't you wear glasses?” —New York Globe. “Do any of the good things you hope for come to pass?” “They all come to pass, but they come and pass so bloomin’ swift I can't grab ‘em."—The Saturday Journal. WANTED—N IDEA! to patent! Protect your Ideas, they bring you wealth. Write for “ Needed Inventions" and ow to Get Your Patent and Your Money ” NDOLPH & CO., Patent Attorseys, Dept. 128, Washlegton, D.C. Who can think of some simple thing } 1819-1913—Four Generations of Experi- | ence Make Old ' Ram THE BEST RUM. 4 The Plant Beh the Piano EVERY BIT OF WOOD 1S SAWED AND PLANED UNDER OUR DIRECTION Kranich €# Bach Carefulness Commences at the Lumber. Yards In seeking evidence of the real quality of « piano one must farther than gilded chowrvoms, ‘The appearance of an Encramest faroithes bo. pro that it will be satactry ten years of even coe year from the date of its purchase. Back, far back,throogh myriad proceacs uf mechauica, Kranich Grand, Upright and Player- Pianos are among the very few American-made instruments -that-are built complete, from start to finish, under one roof. Their quality is the quality shat building by the same familice—ir is the uniform excellinc® obtainable enly where pianet are constructed in every detail (not assembled) under one supervising bead. The name of Kranich & Bach on nd SNE NE, wae G =~ s* $a) = WE ARE SURE THAT OUR LUMBER 13 I PROPERLY SEASONED. SK rotation, the truth secker must joureey—back to places that are dark and hot and dusty, where whirling beluand humming szeel farnish the only music, and where piancs lose theie iden tity ia unrecognizable wooden shapes—vAcre is where the offert mot start that gives permancat satisfaction to the pians bayer, & Bach re is insured only by generations’ of reputation the Fall Board of an instrument is the buyers assurance that, its. beauty “and musical qualities are permanent and not. of. the fleeting, commercial kind. In addition to this assurance the seven floors of the Kranich @& Bach factory furnish tangible proofs of quality such as no other piano establishment can surpast. “Where Piane Quality Is Made” is the title of a beetlet thet skews why Kranich @ Bach instre- ments are unexcelled, twill be wat free on reqatit, KRANICH & BACH 247 East 23d Street New York City Shocking HE statement that there is no such thing in Argentina as the Argentine Tango is utterly shocking, not only to the ardent devotees of the dance, but to everybody else, States minister to the country in question. It casts suspicion on many things. mislabeller? What can we be sure of? Are French chefs come from France? burger beer bear any kin to Wurzburg? fandango? Was anybody ever known to da: All these propositions must, perforce, be doubtful. pure dance law? Are there any cigarettes in Turkey? It is authorjtative, too, for it is made by Mr. John W. Garrett, United Is nothing safe from the adulterator and the there any frankfurters in Frankfurt? Do Does Wurz- What is the nationality of the Spanish nce the Boston in the Hub of America? Will it yet be necessary to pass a ~~ comicbooks.com