Life — November 5, 1885 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: Nancy (who has never heard of shaving): OW, MAMMA, COME AND SEE PAPA WASHING HIS FACE WITH A PAINT BRUSH AND WIPING IT WITH A KNIFE. following words, written by Jean Paul Richter: ‘“ When- ever I have wanted to study fools,” he wrote, “ I have always looked round regularly for a great beauty ; they gather round such a one like wasps around a fruit woman.” What the students wish to discover is by what signs the prophetic soul of Jean Paul tended itself onwards to Mary Anderson and Mrs. Langtry ? . . AYS the Herald, speaking of Kyrle Bellew in “ In His Power :” “ The way he kicked the door of the bedroom open in the second act was the triumph of realism.” If the enterprising critic who wrote this will visit a few of the London police courts—say Bow street, Marylebone, West- minster, or Clerkenwell, for example—he will be initiated into the full beauty of the English kick. In those districts the Londoners are celebrated for the dainty cAéc¢ with which they kick their wives. That is the first step. The critic can then work his way gradually up to the theatres, and if his appreciation of a door kicker be not doubled by that time, he is not the intelligent man I thought him to be. . . . HIS is beyond doubt a season of revivals. The obscure Bard of Avon has had a good run in this particular line, but this is no reason why other more modern dramatists should be excluded from the field, and we there- fore rejoice at the sumptuous revival of that old-time favor- ite, “ Evangeline,” at the Fourteenth Street Theatre. The costumes are elegant, the stage setting brilliant, and the capers of the Notary, the Lone Fisherman, and other wan- derers through the “ Diamond Fields” are given with a snap and vigor that does credit to Mr. Rice's talented company. Alan Dale, BITS OF NEWS. USICAL students in Paris develop a fondness for French horns. SITTING BULL wants to lecture in Boston. Mr. BoyD WINCHESTER, our Minister to Switzerland, has mastered the “ Swiss warble,” with Blue Grass varia- tions. SaM JONES is itching for a chance to convert Mgr. Capel. THE Home Rulers will adopt the broomstick as their emblem. THE war feeling is so strong in Greece that the King has borrowed from Dr. Schliemann a rusty mountain howitzer, a flint-lock musket, some canteens, a coffee-pot and a brass drum, that were used in the Trojan war and recently dug up. Russian will henceforth be the official language through- out all the Czar's dominions. Many weak-jawed people will emigrate. SEVERAL of the crowned heads of Europe are musicians ; and their musical talents ought to be of great value in helping the often-mentioned “ European concert.” PREPARING FOR A BUSINESS CAREER. ] R. ISAACSTEIN (giving his little boy Jacob a lesson in percentage): Now, Jacob, ven you puys some- dings for vun tallar und sells him for two tallar, how much per cent. vas dat ? Jacob: Dot vas vun per cent. Mr. Isaacstein (earnestly): Ya, dat is right; but remem- ber, Jacob, dere is no money in dot vun per cent. pizness, AN EMBARRASSING PROPOSITION. OUNG FEATHERLY and Miss Clara were just start- ing for a moonlight stroll when Bobby hailed. them from the head of the stairs. “Say, Clara,” he shoitted, “ Ma says I ‘ve got to go to the drug store an’ get a bottle of paregoric for the baby. Can't you and Mr. Featherly step in an’ get it?” (La Caricature.) WHEN THE PASSER-BY SERVES AS A POINT OF CONNECTION BE- TWEEN THE FOOTBALL AND A BOY'S TOE HE BEGINS TO APPRECIATE THE SURTLETIES OF THE GAME. comicbooks.com