Life — November 10, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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FAIR EXCHANGE 1S NO ROBBERY. Sullivan, S AYS the Boston pugilist, ** Ob, . I'll let ‘em feel my fist O, When I skip across the broin’, For to grab the British coin.” Irving. Quoth old London's first artist, "Ob, I'll let ‘em see Mephisto, When I trot across the water For to win the Vankee quarter.” HE Sun politely refers to Mr. Pulitzer as Judas. If we remember rightly, was one of the Boodlers, a would be more likely to run in with the Dana crowd than with Pulitzer in this election. MORNING, OW untortunate for Ellen Terry that she and Mrs. Potter are before New York audiences at the same time. rudent man now folds T I way his summer ments, buys his winter's coal and brushes the dust from his tobog- gan chute. . . . HE Pall Mall Gazette, in an article on Sunday news- papers in the United States, says that “the Boston Herald has probably the completest and best mechanical equipment of any newspaper in the country ;” and adds, “ but Boston is the most provincial, the least cosmopolitan, of American cities, and though the Hera/d's Sunday edition goes somewhat upon the same lines as the New York World, it is naturally modified by Boston and by the vicinage of Har- vard, Boston, and Tufts Universities, as is seen in its social and art gossip, in its treatment of the stage, bicycling and sports, alumni festivals, and its ‘ Entre Nous’ column, which has a racy, boyish, bluntly frank, egoistic, semi-classical undergraduate flavor, which may be a deliberate, clever coun- terfeit done to ‘ please the boys.’ Boston has the reputation of being a cold sort of a place, but we think an iceberg would be comfortably warm along- side the Athens of America when Mr, Stead, the Gazette's editor, visits its ‘ provincial" walls. Hamer (reading P—nch): Words, words, words; Burrs, Burrs, Burrs. ERMAN cattle are being imported into England. American calves who went over for the Jubilee are coming home. . . . A FASHION item asserts that this is to be a “High Neck Winter.” Good! Now, will the King of the Dudes tell us what kind of trousers the winter will wear? T is said that old maids and timid men in Philadelphia always look under their beds before retiring at night to make sure that Widener and Elkins and the Standard Oil Co. are not there. . . ° ISS ETHEL MORT- LOCK is to paint Mrs. Cleveland's portrait. We trust when the lady gets through with this she will turn her attention to Mr. Cleveland's portrait by Mr. Keppler. A coat of whitewash or plain green paint would do that portrait and Mr. ONCE AROUND THE CLOCK WITH A PROTEAN BEGGAR. Cleveland inestimable service. . . . HE Forum for November is to contain a number of very interesting articles. Mr. George Ticknor Curtis discusses “Shall Utah become a State?” forgetting that it is already the personification of the antique jest on the state of matrimony. James Lane Allen pays his compliments to “Catterpillar Critics,” alluding perhaps to critics that crawl, while in enum- erating the avoidable dangers of the ocean, Lieut. V. S. Cott- man displays an ignorance as vast and deep as the Atlantic itself when he omits to speak of the gambler, the midnight Welsh rare-bit, and the butter-fingered steward who gently but firmly inserts a plate of soup beneath one’s shirt collar. W. S, Lilly discusses “What is the Object of Life?” as if he knew something about it; but we warn his readers that his deductions are not ex cathedra, The object of LiFe is primarily to amuse, secondarily to circulate, and Mr. W. S. Lilly, or any other man who neglects to set this forth, is a delusion and a snare. But in other respects the Forum is doing quite well. comicbooks.com