[Illustration: “_I suppose you enjoy Emerson, gentlemen?_” “_Why, yes, I suppose so. What paper’s he on now?_”] [Illustration: “_And do you not love Holmes, the dear old Autocrat of the Breakfast Table?_” “_You bet! There’s nobody like Sherlock for a good, rattling detective story._”] A BOY IN WINTER-TIME [Illustration: “_Look, Ma! See how much wood we carried in, and you didn’t haf to ask us to, either. And we watered the plants, too._”] A BOY IN WINTER-TIME [Illustration: A LETTER TO SANTY] A BOY IN WINTER-TIME [Illustration: “_Well, how lovely for you to come over to visit your Aunt Mary! And you’re just in time for dinner, too. Isn’t that nice? Did you tell your mother that you were going visiting?_”] A BOY IN WINTER-TIME [Illustration: “_Come on! Hurry up, fellers! The hounds have found the trail!_”] A BOY IN WINTER-TIME [Illustration: THE FAIRY STORY--“_Once upon a time there was a very beautiful little fairy princess--_”] A BOY IN WINTER-TIME [Illustration: “_I bet yer glad to be out again, haint you, Johnny?_”] MR. MORGAN VISITS KING EDWARD [Illustration] KING EDWARD MEETS MR. MORGAN [Illustration: “_Good-evening, Your Majesty._” “_Good-evening, Mr. Morgan._”] [Illustration: “_You look well in your knickers, Morgan._” “_I came on my bike, King Edward._”] [Illustration: “_Your crown becomes you very much, King._” “_I’m afraid it needs pressing, Pierpont._”] [Illustration: “_Have a fresh cigar, Pierp._” “_Thanks, Edward. It looks like a good one._”] [Illustration: “_Let me reciprocate, Ed. Have a bunch of stocks on me._” “_Thanks. Don’t care if I do._”] [Illustration: _And then Pierpont settled down to business._] MR. MORGAN MEETS THE KAISER [Illustration: “_I hope you like my original painting, Mr. Morgan?_” “_Very clever, Your Majesty._”] [Illustration: “_I hope you enjoy my original musical composition, Mr. Morgan?_” “_It’s very clever._”] [Illustration: “_My original poetry interests you, I trust?_”] [Illustration: “_What’s that about ‘trust’? Ah, now you interest me, Your Majesty._”] PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DELIVERS AN ADDRESS TO THE TRUST MAGNATES [Illustration: PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT--“_We must regulate the bad trusts, and--_] [Illustration: “_Perhaps revise the tariff on articles that are sold cheaper abroad than at home._”] THE SPEAKER THAT SPOKE AT THE WRONG TIME [Illustration: “_Sh! Do not speak, or else you’ll wake the tariff._”] [Illustration: _And just then Speaker Henderson came along._] SOCIAL HAPPENINGS AT BIRD CENTER, ILLINOIS A RECEPTION IN THE K. OF P. HALL IN HONOR OF THE HON. EPHRAIM PUMPHREY, CONGRESSMAN-ELECT