Life — July 3, 1919 — page 48: what you’re looking at

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ction of drawings showing ‘Siate your age | The Landon School £470 SCHOFIELD BLDG., ad, the Main One in the plant of the Universe Production Company, Un. j limited. : At the time of our story the Company had already completed a few planets, RUIT COMPOUND) many well-grouped constellations and not } a few comets. It was busily engaged in AVery> putting the final touches on its latest bl creation, the Earth Agreeable | | Now, the Earth was not iis largest ua 2 > dertaking. The Sun and the Moon had Aperient : d long since been sct spinning in nic calculated orbits, But the Earth was im portantly regarded because it was to con: tain a new feature. The Main One had an idea! “The Sun was splendid,” said the Main One to his Chief Assistant, “bot it does nothing’ to improve itself. It glows and splutters, and will last a long time. Two aeons and a half hence it will be nothing but—the Sun. The Mooa is a dead loss. It’s decorative and shiny, but woefully unenterprising. The Comets | are a brilliant fizzle. They've done tots fy of damage scooting irresponsibly through s space. I shall not rest easy until they r are all used up. x “For this Earth globe I've planned af) novelty. It’s called an Inhabitant. t “The Trees are wonderful, and very fs satisfactory in their limited way. The a Animals are fair, and some of them very (rely the Birds especially, ‘The Flowers are fine. Those Metals—we used them before, you know—are interesting but ; inert. The Oceans, Lakes and Rivers are FOR TRAVELERS j big and glorious and a good place in Eno’s overcomestravel sickness andthe ill effectsre- which to keep the Fish happy—but, after sulting from a sudden change of climate or dieting, all, they are only Oceans, Lakes and corrects digestive disorders naturally and its taste Rivers , and effects are most agreeable for child or adult. Foste Planned an Tobabitant: 1 93, going to make him in different colors— Eno’s comes in one size only, at a dollar a bottle, and every white, brown, black, red and yellow. traveler entering this or any great terminal should carry a We've used up all of our greens and : bottle of Eno's At all druggists. blues on the Trees and Oceans. I am Grand Central Soa Prepared by J. C. ENO, Ltd., London, S. E., ngland Terminal S Agents for the Continent of America: New York ” . Harold F, Ritchie & Co., Ine., New York and Toronto The Cup of Fury . By Rupert Hughe: Loose Punctuation y Rupert Magnes ANOTHER breathtaking hook by the man vt A READING of our newspapers and some of the magazines tends to confirm the 4 dares to paint America as it is, On ‘ rs : Tee Rupert s has struck the bell. Once m assertion of leading rhetoricians that the modern tendency in punctuation is he has written the great American novel that © . ae he read with wonder and excitement from Of toward the style commonly referred to as “loose.” It, therefore, in a way, seems, Atlantic to the Pacific. : : On mor he introduces to the publ bee as it were, advisable, more or less, to conform to, or, at least, not to oppose, the modern, tifal girk, Follow ber through: the ewirlicg. Goll iar: mfit-day. tendency, eases a scan. If’ we witl-dispense:wi in whose path fortune swept her, But read or present-day, tendency. In many cases, we, all of us, can, if we will, dispense with, teak yoerdee sete ne Bret Gert Aver quite easily, too, the point, or symbol, known as, or called, the comma. The same may ieee —of Power and truth and the spirit of tody . ‘ ‘ z i at you must read it to know i he said of the semicolon; it calls for an even longer pause; it delays the reader's prog- Miustrated, $1 ress; it wastes valuable time; in brief, neither the former nor the latter is twentieth- century. HARPER & BROTHERS Ex. If! comicbooks.¢omy