Life — November 29, 1888 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: REFLECTIONS. [i= is interesting—it may even be considered amus- ing—to notice that foremost among the causes land’s administration, Boyle O'Reilly, of Boston, names Anglomania. It is idle to expect that Mr. O'Reilly shall be- * come really addicted to his British brother until >\such a time as he shall have become so thor- ughly saturated with Christianity that he shall seriously set about the attempt to love his enemies. England is no friend of his, and he has no reason to be attached to her, but in his peculiar feelings toward her, he is hardly a —. representative American. In the opinion of the aver- age voter, it is Anglophobia, rather than Anglomania, that has possessed both political parties of late, and if there is a mania of any sort in the air, it is Celtomania. One of the interesting events that it is permitted to antici- pate, is the appointment by General Harrison of a new Minister to the Court of St. James, and the comments of Mr. O'Reilly and his mates upon the same. If Mr. O'Reilly knows of any Republican whom he considers a fit man for the place, we would like to hear him named. Would Ben Butler do? Ben was a Harrison man! . . . “TAKING the recent marriage of an American girl to a rich Eng- lishman for his text, Mr. Henry La- bouchere preaches a little sermon to English girls and their parents. ND he finds that when it comes A to pleasing the tyrant, Man, the American young woman gets ahead of bér British sis- ter. This phenomenon he at- tributes to the ability of the American girl to “run down her own game” unaided and unhampered by her mamma, to her superior taste in dress, and to the circumstance that rich American fathers make their sons and daughters share alike in the division of es- tates. He thinks that if the British girl hopes to compete successfully with the Daisy Millers, she and her parents must learn to do as the Americans do in these particulars. Mr. Labouchere will get the thanks of the community on this side of the water for his efforts in behalf of his fair countrywomen. Every one of our maidens who marries a Britisher, is practically lost to us. America is against inter- national marriages on general principles, and wants to sec the practice minimized. If, in addition to teaching the Eng- lish girl how to hold her own, Mr. Labouchere can confer a like boon on the American young man, he will confer a double favor. . . . Wats the matter with our young man, any way, that the Chamberlains cut him out? Is he too busy, or IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES. Mrs, M. (making a call in Brooklyn): WMAT MAKES THE CHAN- DELIER SHAKE So? Mrs, B.: OU, 17'S THE DARY UPSTAIRS, CRIR, AND SEEMS A LITTLE RESTLESS, He's ASLEEP IN Mts too lazy, or too poor, or is he indifferent? He should look up the records of the international marriages, and see how they have turned out. Perhaps it might pay him to make a pamphlet on the subject. * . . N the case of Harvard and Yale this fall, the terrors of football have been materially softened. All the wear and tear has come on the types of newspapers, and printer's ,,ink has flowed instead of blood. These endless Yale-Harvard squabbles about the details of athletic events are played out. Gentlemen who want to kick football or to row races, should be able to do it without such eternal bickering. In such matters, what is done or where, is of less moment than how it is done. UR esteemed contemporary the Sun, showed a disposi- tion to have some fun at the recent Demo- cratic funeral, and it has excited no surprise and little blame. The Sun was in the position of a homeopathic doctor at the obse- quies of an allo- pathic patient. De- cent resignation at comicbooks.com