Life — October 7, 1915 — page 44: what you’re looking at

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Our President T happened by some odd concatenation of circumstance that the recently ar- rived Englishman, the Highbrow Repub- lican, and the Ordinary Citizen were thrown together in an idle hour in a corner of the club-room. And they fell to discussing President Wilson. The Englishman was an Oxford man, familiar with Bryce’s “American Commonwealth” and De Toqueville. He Made since 1861 from7 kindsof ae eee a. Brooklyn, chicago, ane ih et o tobaccos, from 7 different parts of had stopped three days at the Palace é ee. a Tethieee Fencnce. ! : ) the world—the best of each kind. “I feel rawther timid about expressing at d oh 1/4 pound, new air- an opinion of your President,” he began, f : \ tight Export Package “lest I might not be decent about it; but if you don’t mind, I'd like to say 3 “ this: In the first place, he strikes me SW) ~M as being rawther a fine sort; of course, f ois Cc his scholarship is immensely interesting to us, being such a rare thing among i H ——— 33 Smaller sizes, 15¢ and 25¢ your statesmen, but I really believe he is iii H 8 and 16 oz. tins, $1.00 and $2.00 in earnest; yet would you mind my say- 3 s , ing, you know, there is something more f ae eee You'll never know how good ata in ee vi tobacco can be made until you crude about him, even more so than your t rougher men? He impresses me, with smoke Arcadia. all his austerity, as being deliciously A Write to us enclosing three two-cent stamps simple. What is that you Americans say? > for tial One may ‘put it over’ on him. It is N extraordinary that he should have done such—well, shall I say raw things ?—with package Pardon me,” said the Ordinary Citi- but what things?” The Highbrow Republican by this time Risponen, Conn iil Lnhvs. iss Lees was almost bursting with his emotions. articles ca Cartooning.” Iustratl “ ” gan i vely, y ia a Cartecnlog. etrstine, Lethe I can tell you,” he began impulsively, ene yee nent, See A dpeeeuine. beige and then, his manners coming to the wie cuaa a ooutment a nee factory. 10e a copy, $1.00 per year, Seed surface—not having far to go, perhaps— Full Information trom Lacteoed tubs Gers Depte60, Kalamason, eb, he gestured toward the Englishman HEN. LINE, 24 State St.,N.Y. apologetically. “Proceed,” he said. “It's DO YOU NEED A CONSULTING EDITOR extremely interesting to get your view.” to crtclse, revise or place your Mss? My “Why,” continued the Englishman, editorial experience at your service, Cirendars, y = If You Carry ina : half shrugging his shoulders, “could one LOUISE E. DEW, Literary Representative, Acclian Hall, New York seing p ad te imagine anything more ridiculously —ér : DANDA LEATHER | KEY CASE R=) With Your Name Stamped in Gold Leaf FREE TRIAL puerile—infantile is better—than Presi- BBe fait | 400 Nitti dent Wilson’s Mexican policy? I notice Postpaid for Pen Knife you Americans lay a lot of it to Bryan. Still, one must believe that President x Westesor 64 pagecatatig math || jew Law Vactory Prices redhat pricer, Postpautfiee. Piedmont Red Cedar Cheat Co., Dent. 54, Statesville, N.C. Wilson has intelligence enough to con- trol his own policy—not to recognize Huerta! And on the plea that some sort of vague crime has been committed— really, all that sort of thing is extraor- dinary, and hard for a student of history to grasp. I was interested in looking over some of your President's books They are extremely well written, but the man has no—no- ye “World insight,” suggested the men tally surging Highbrow Republican. “Precisely,” continued the English man. “There is no orientation to hi His note to Germany, for example, where he says to Berlin that he should be loath to believe that Germany, as her history (Continued on page 678) comicbooks.com