Life — November 29, 1917 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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| xun | comicbooks.com pale 861 Eieey Rein oe “Hey, Tom— | Tom Sawyer!” ment permits ballet girls to enter the learned professions. \OWN the centuries will ring that one small boy’s cry. To the ughter and tears of —Petrograd despatch. | ots VASHTOLISKA Used to be the rage: Clad in tights, she danced o’ nights On a Moscow stage. men and women—of small boys and girls—it Now ean s ieknt has rung around the world. sak ucremnaucht "t Olga taught You who have laughed so often at Huckle- (So it seems'to me). berry Finn and Tom Sawyer—have you ever stopped to think how much of serious thought Mark Twain has put into these books? How much of himself—of his own boyhood—he has put into ragged, mixed-up, lovable Huck Finn— into irresistible Tom Sawyer. For Mark Twain was just such a boy himself. A poor boy on the Mississippi—full of mischief, hope and fear. And—Mar nia Fedorkin, Toast of Petrograd, Nightly rose on sprightly toes, aking thousands glad. She is now a doctor, Made so by decree; I'd be ill with right good will If she'd doctor me! Twain walked with the kings of the earth—kings crowned and uncrowned— kings of empires—of letters—of art. That poor, small, Mississippi River boy “walked such a broad and brilliant highway, with flags flying, and crowds following after.” And still the crowds follow—still he is loved no, worshipped in the far ends of the earth; and in our own littlest village and farm— sophisticated Fifth Avenue and simple country school-boy meet on common ground in Monasterie: How curious it was that this extraor- dinary thing should have happened on Last Chance for the Low Price the immediate morrow of an unprece- dented rise in the price of drinks! Tatiana Riskoff, Fair of form and face, Leading fay of Russ ballet, Queen of airy grace, Holds a lawyer's shingle! And although she be | Far from wise, she has blue eyes— j She can counsel me! Kenneth L. Roberts. Alleviations OMAN suffrage! In the State of New York!! What are the likeliest forms of alle- viation? Doctox: Your throat is in a very bad Send: Coupon at oncel state. Have you ever tried gargling with ry salt water? We have been very glad and proud One day last Christmas, three thousand Skirere: Yes, I've been torpedoed for these many years to be able to orders for Mark Twain lay on one desk six times.—Punch, offer you Mark Twain’s Works, well waiting to be filled. When orders come in bound, well-printed, and altogether at the rate of three thousand a day, the one well made, at a low price. And it is who waits until the last moment gets with deep regret that we find we must __ nothing. discontinue that offer. We have shipped sets to China and The price of paper, of cloth, of everything Japan—to Australia and Turkey—to Nor- that goes into the making of books, has way and Spain—to the Gold Coast = climbed to unheard-of heights. We should in South Africa and to the Ar- SANPEX have raised the price of these books long ago, gentine—for Mark Twain has Frama $4.01. | but for Mark Twain’s sake we kept the low been translated into more Send me, all price as long as possible. The last paper languages than any other 7 paige Mark | that we could get at a reasonable price is American. 735 vol eon about to be used up. Send the coupon now giigisse Boxad te If there are any more sets made they will and get your set at the 7 seninped [sw have to be made at a higher price. Don’t low price before it is gitsfactory, 1 will retura wait. Get your set now. too late. T giiticenie 1 will send you Y? sess Occupa: athe ch upoa to $2.80 1 batt te om chu '$'days and $1.09 4 month lor 20 months. THANK GOODNESS, BABY'S BEEN QUIET FOR THREE MINUTES”