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“QMhile there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. VIII. SEPTEMBER 30, 1886. — No. 196. 1155 BRoADWAY, NEw York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., $1.50 per number ; Vol. II., 25 cents per number ; Vol. III., IV., V., VI. and VII. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. ITH the President back from his vacation, and estab- | lished again with Mrs. Cleveland in the White House, it may be fairly considered that the summer playtime is over, and that not even the representatives of our most select families need blush to be found in the cities, and at work. The summer vacation is a great institution, and is growing. The multitude of them that go down to the sea in bathing clothes, and that go to the mountains in Knicker- bockers and short coats, is yearly greater. Where they get the money to take them is a mystery, except to people who they are worked. The refreshment resulting from direct intercourse with nature at the mean rate of four dollars a day, in all the channels of human activity. The fall dudes should be peculiarly imposing in their attire, a lovelier hue should blush upon the damsel’s cheeks, the doctors ought to make quicker cures, the lawyers should concentrate their arguments, | and the editors should preach and teach and hold the mirror up to nature with freshened zeal and a keener perception of the true, the beautiful and the good. * * * MINENT among those persons who already show in- creased activity in their vocations stands up Professor _ Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet. Withthe autumnal ardor strong upon him, he seems to have determined to show himself a bold and resolute prognosticator. He announces tre- mendous terrestrial disturbances for the 29th of this month, so that before the present number of LIFE has reached all its read- ers they will know whether Mr. Wiggins is a reliable weather sharp or not. Earthquakes being in fashion at the South, he Gulf cities, the North being put off with mere gales and tidal waves. We would protest against such favoritism, were it not for the possibility thus held out that we may have a gale that will suit Lieutenant Henn, and enable the Ga/atea to demonstrate all her latent capacities. HE sympathies of the public, particularly the young and blushing public, are due to the first class of cadets at West Point, who, because of some ebullition of youthful | spirits, are sentenced to be. deprived of all privileges until next July. Unless the heart of the President softens towards them, and part of their punishment is remitted, June will have | no joys for them, and the maidens who, under happier cir- cumstances, would have received the confidences of their | young hearts, will have to console themselves with the but- tons of military grubs farther off from the butterfly state. The suspension of courtships that is threatened, may mollify | a sterner soul than that of the proud husband of Mrs. Cleve- land. Of course the President will do something for them. * * * ENMARK seems to be the Ohio of Europe. Certainly the royal family of the modest kingdom come in for power and place with an adaptability as remarkable as that | which used to be credited to the Buckeye statesmen. The most promising candidate for the throne left vacant by the abdication of Bulgarian Alexander, is Prince Waldemar, third son of the King of Denmark, husband of Amelie of Orleans, | and brother of the King of Greece, the Czarina and the | Princess of Wales. A remarkably adjustable young man is know the resources of the land, and the industry with which | Waldemar, and the careers of the members of his father's family go far to prove that even in the waning industries of monarchical government the exemplary children of poor but should be especially apparent during the next three months | honest parents may hope to succeed. * * * S for Ohio, the latest indication of the propensity of her children to take the highest seat out from under some- one else, is found in a.rumor that has been enticed across the seas by an unscrupulous news agent. It concerns a predicted alliance between Albert Victor, prospective Prince of Wales, and the fair Miss Chamberlain, of Cleveland. However delicious the report may be as exemplifying the Ohio idea, it rests upon a foundation that cannot hold it up. * * * OVERNOR HILL'S agricultural speeches do not do him justice. At a fair in the Western part of the State the other day, he expressed his sense of the inade- quate leisure that the working people enjoyed. One or the | other of two reforms he designated as due to them: Either their hours of labor should be limited to eight a day, or they promises new and very actiye ones for New Orleans and the | should have the whole of Saturday to devote to recreation. Governor Hill must know that working men are too poor to afford the luxury of so much leisure, and that both of the pro- posed changes are impracticable. Not even the consideration that the sons of toil are voters can justify him in talking any such nonsense. comicbooks.com