Life — December 31, 1914 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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1216 CONTEMPORARIES |Maan IT MPORARITS : EGYPTIAN “So you come from New York,” said ‘a ‘ an English lady to a traveling American ver YO et Plain End or Cork Ti “T supposed, of course, you came from Boston.” “Why did you think that?” inquired the New York lady. “T supposed all cultivated, intelligent Americans came from Boston.” “But what in the world made you think that?” was the natural question. “Oh, I don't know, exactly. I think it was a Boston lady who told me.” —Christion Register (Boston). A Sherbet is made tasty and delightful by using Abbott's Bitters. Sample of bitters by mail, 25 cts. in stamps, C. W. Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md. For the benefit of English, French and German passengers who travel between j the coast and London on the South- f The Utmost Eastern Railway the following notice is a j TTR prominently displayed in the carriages: in Cigarettes “Do Not Lean Out of the Window. Ne Pas se Pencher au Dehors. — Nicht Hinauslehnen.” “Where Do You Belong At New Cross station, where two boys The term “highbrow " and “lowbrow” got into a compartment, one of them are often heard, but their meaning has produced a strip of stamp paper and been somewhat obscured. A Chicago wee hase yeu lone (tana ” aaved paper has come to describe the classes to which the terms are applicable. It an elderly passenger. has added high-low and low-high to the “ Because,” said the boy, “if any Ger- classification as follows: man wants to lean out of the window Highbrow: Browning, anthropology, and get his ‘mapper’ knocked off—why, cconomics, Bacon, the uplift, Gibson, let bina] PTs Bite, Euripides, “eyether", paté de foie gras. Low-highbrow: Municipal _govern- ment, Kipling, Socialism, Shakespeare, politics, Thackeray, taxation, golf, grand opera, “eether”, stocks and bonds, gin ; ‘ ihe addr rickey. @ i Ethie High-lowbrow: Musical comedy, Rich- Th ard Harding Davis, cuchre, baseball, va P\ way Anthony Hope, moving pictures, whiskey, , and 1 Robert W. Chambers, purple socks. / is col lowbrow: Ham sandwich, haven't ‘ came, pitch, melodrama, hair oil, the Duchess, beer, George M. Cohan, chew- g ing gum in public—Ohio State Journal. Bs | peat == ‘ port Tue horse had run away, and was THE IMPORTANCE OF LITTLE THINGS for 1 tangled up in the wire fence at the side Henel of the muddy road. Its half-witted — — peats : } ] owner had kicked and sworn and tried IR oad day, and tanner 221870 | to lift the animal till he was out of SE x OLOG Y from town. {was mighty glad to sorts and covered with mud. 7 . Se nee oe ee A well-groomed man came along, took by William H. Walling, A.M., M.D. with my favorite in the situation, and suggested: “ Spring OLD OVERHOLT RYE the fence back, then he can get his feet “Same for 100 years free. For over a century this de- Jf will} owner of the horse did as he was lightful pure ‘ told. Now give him a cut with the has pet pale iaeiehigr eae P whip and he'll get up himself What more strengthening than ‘ This the owner also did. Then he good Old Overholt? Aged in looked at the horse, up and ready for the wood, bottled in bond. travel, looked at himself covered with | PURITAN PUB’ CO" m0 PERRY Bune” Pua A. Overholt & Co, Pittsburgh,Pa, mud, and looked at the immaculate gen — ~ =~ + - . —— tleman in the road. Wrath filled his soul. ARE BOOKS AND FIRST EDITIONS PUR. J *°"ld “Well,” he grumbled, “thank you just CHASED for people who are too busy tog = ain as much as if you'd helped me.” form libraries. Address Dept. 3, E. V., BOSTON —Everybedy's. | TRANSCRIPT, Boston, Mass.