Life — July 5, 1888 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“PURE WATER FOR ME.” F a body meet a body Coming through the Croton, Let the body buy a filter To confine the mote in. HE report of the committee of the faculty of Harvard College as to the question of athletic sports is a gratifying vindication of our age and its works. Being asked to determine whether Harvard was run- ning too much to muscle, the committee reported in favor of a bigger gymnasium and twenty acres more of playground. Inasmuch, however, as the committee did not recommend increased hospital facili- ties, the game of football can hardly be said to have been encouraged, but the enemies of intercollegiate baseball and rowing have not prevailed, and defeated competitors in those industries may hope to win another year. . . A STILL HUNT—Leigh, N ANTHROPOLOGICAL CURIOSITY —A double-scull race. . . . MONG the thousands of summer hotels now appealing for patronage, a diligent search fails to find a single one which has not just been refitted and refurnished, and supplied with all the modern improvements. How tourists must have suffered last summer ! MERICANS cannot be too thankful that it will not be necessary to drag the financial record of Mr. Blaine out again this fall into the glare of publicity. That is a great boon! Good-bye, Fort Smith; good-bye, Little Rock; good-bye, Mrs. Fisher. Good-bye and good riddance! . . . T looks at present as if this were to be a Presidential cam- paign without any Benjamin F. Butler in it, a mistake which should be rectified at once. The Prohibition ticket is one that Butler has not yet adorned. Why not let him lead that one to defeat this time ? FFORTS are being made to curtail more seriously the privileges of drivers in our streets, an outrage which public opinion should never permit to be consummated. What if a few old people and children are killed every day by drivers who are in a hurry? They are well out of a world of pain and sorrow, as some people would tell them. The facts of the matter are that the pavements were made for horses and wagons, and the sidewalks for pedestrians. People who desire to cross the streets may just as well wait until the traffic of the day is over, when Broadway is quiet and may be easily crossed. But don’t delay our beer-wagons, trucks and cabs! Somebody might miss a train, or a load of merchandise or a keg of beer be detained a few moments if a driver should slow up his team merely to avoid knocking over an old man whose days of usefulness are passed, or a child whose days of usefulness have not begun. Pedestrians keep on the sidewalk and revenge yourselves by running over any horse that ventures from his proper place, the pavement. 3) OUR f FRESH AIR FUND . . Before After HUS far our readers have been the means of sending more than two hundred and eighty-two poor children to the country for a fortnight. This is good ; but think of the thousands who are waiting and may never go! Three dollars will do it, You cannot put that amount of money where it will do more good or give more pleasure. The pleasure is often permanent, as these little children sometimes find homes and protectors in the country who take an interest in their welfare. Previously acknowledged . GMM 2... Harold and Beatrice Bogert . M. H. McArthur Jobn A, Burnham . L.M.H. H.W. L. $612.30 10,00 3.00 20,00 24.00 6.00 9.00 3.00 6.00 3-00 Parker and Family 12,00 Curtis Parker's Little Friend 3.00 Children’s Friend 100.00 W.W.G. . 6.00 N. S. Jarvis F 6.00 Daniel and Henry 6.00 B. ALN, 5.00 “In His Name" 6.00 A Friend 3.00 Total, + $848.30 comicbooks.com