Life — October 18, 1917 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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PRINTER Hun Fun “In Gerbevillier, standing beside their graves, I studied the photograph of the bodies of fifteen old men whom the Ger- mans had lined up and shot because there were no young soldiers to kill; heard the detailed story of a woman whose boy of fourteen, being nearest the age of a soldier, was first hanged to a pear tree in the garden, and when the officer and soldier had eft him and were busy setting fire to the next house, she cut the rope, revived the strangled boy, only to find the soldiers had returned, and while the officer held her hands behind her back, his assistant poured petrol on the boy's head and clothes, set fire to him, and while he staggered about, a flaming torch, they shrieked with laughter."— The Rev. Dr. Newell Divight Hillis, pas- tor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. ADAME DE MONTESPAN was doing up her hair for the night. She asked her maid for some curl papers. The unfortunate girl started to tear up a copy of Li to which her mistress was a regular sub- scriber, and from whose perusal she gained her reputation for wit and esprit. Angered by this desecration, the royal favorite had the maid incar- cerated in the Bastile forever. ONE OF THE EXACT SCIENCES comicbooksgeona SOR |