Life — March 19, 1914 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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ES, A Narrow Range of Choice Sylvia, supple and slender, and Aunt Belle, bulky and benign, had returned from a shopping tour. Each had been trying to buy a ready-made suit. When they returned home, asked what success cach had in her forts to be fitted. “ Well,” said Syly “T got along pretty well, but Aunt Belle is getting so fat that about all she can , ready-made, is an umbrella.” —Youth's Companion. A Trick of the Trade “Stop!” thundered the client at the barber, who was cutting his hair. Then, he continued, in somewhat milder tones “Why do you insist upon telling me these horrible, blood-curdling stories of ghosts and robbers while you are cutting my hair?” : “Tm very sorry, replied the barber, “but, you sce, when I tell stories like that to my clients, their hair stands on end, and it makes it ever so much easier to cu —New York Staats Zeitung. LAvR' putllined every Thorubay, simultaneously w the Leite Sete, Grest Britta, Canada and Beton Vosessions $500 9 yearin advance’ Ad postage to foreign covatries io the Postal Union. $1.04 a year: to Canada, © coms. Single carrent copies, 10 cents. Hack oumbers, after three months trom date of publicatica, 23 cents. "Issues prior t0 1910 out of prist No contribution wit! ve returned sintess accompanied by stampot and adtressea envelope. LAP dees mot unsciteated contributions Not a lady's paper, not business paper, but social stationery tor men © We have a sample packet we should like to mail you @ Ask us for it The Stationery of a Gentleman HAMPSHIRE PAPER COMPANY foutk Hadley Falls chusetts Obedient Willie Willie was struggling through the story in his reading lesson, the captain,” he read, “it was nota sloop. It wasa larger vessel. By the rig I judged her to be a-a-a-a-a——'” The word was new to him. “ Barque,” supplied the teacher. Still- Willie hesitated. “Barque!" repeated the teacher, this time sharply. Willie looked as though he had not beard aright. Then, with an apprehen- e glance around the class, he shouted : “ Bow-wow!"—Detroit Free Press. A Sign in the Snowstorm Walking from Hope to Hayfield by a pata over the moors, writes a correspond- ent of the Manchester Guardian, I found the hills covered with snow. A freezing east wind made things any- thing but pleasant. At one point I had to admit that I had Jost my way, and is was with relief that I found a sign- post. The inscription was blotted out with frozen snow, I climbed the post, and with great difficulty and personal discomfort thawed the snow off with my already half-frozen land, and succeeded in deciphering the A GOOD FELLOW IN THE MAKING inscription. It said: “Keep to the “HAVE ONE ON ME, OLD MAN” path.”—London ani TAPE I8 for sale by all pewnlealers in Grest Urhain 1 he oidsined trou Lookscllers in all the principal ama Ger of the world.” ‘The boreigu trade seppliel Irom Live's Lomien Ofer, Rolls House, Ureans Buildings, Lc doo, EG 2he text and STARS THE BIG DIPPER AND THE LITTLE DIPPER * comicbooks.com