Life — December 13, 1888 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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A QUERY. HEN the statues wept tears in the temples at Rome And inspired the watchers with dread— As, at Cwsar’s demise, Virgil says that they did— Were they tears, idol tears, that they shed? . . . ILLIAM HENRY HURLBERT'S “Ireland Under Coercion” (Houghton) is the “diary of an Ameri- can,” but certainly not in accord with prevailing American sentiment on the Irish question. He reaches the conclu- sion that the processes employed during the past decade, and now employed to bring about an Irish Parliament, “are in their nature essentially revolutionary, subversive of all sound and healthy relations between man and man, incon- sistent with social stability, and, therefore, with social pro- gression with social peace.” As for “ Coercion,” Mr. Hurl- bert saw nothing of it. Perhaps he did not look for it very diligently. . . . OW that Stanley is pronounced safe in the upper Niger, we desire to know the name of the White Pasha who has been gadding about Central Africa—not necessarily as a guarantee of good faith, but for publication. . . . DAILY newspaper asserts that Mary Anderson has 300 wigs among her stage effects; and a burning question is, of course, does she know which is switch? . . . “ LIFE "-INSURANCE—Sending in your subscriptions. . . . T was an eloquent plea. The peroration was espec- ially fine. “What,” said the lawyer for the plaintiff, “will my client get at the bar of justice?" But its effect was somewhat spoiled when the defense suggested in a sarcastic voice that if the Colonel were to choose for himself he would probably select a whiskey cocktail. . . . ATURALLY enough, the English find the marriage of Joseph Chamberlain to an American woman more significant of the drift of popular taste than the previous matches with our countrywomen of several noble personages, because Mr. Chamberlain did not marry for money, while the others did, the commoner being rich and the noblemen poor. And Mr. Chamberlain's alliance with Miss Endicott is significant, and the precedent it establishes is causing the British mothers genuine alarm. Heretofore, the preference of the Briton for the American woman had been explained on financial grounds. Now there is every opportunity for the unendowed American beauty to win the flower of English manhood. ND when the London Times comes to this conclusion : “To be self-reliant and worldly wise, and yet to be truly womanly and a fitting shrine for the chivalry of men; to be inde- pendent without being ‘loud;’ to be maidenly and dainty without being helpless or affected; to lean upon man's strength without flopping; to sustain and help him without the assumption of any portion of masculine attire—this is a golden mean of womanhood which is perhaps more frequently attained at present in America than in England, where Mrs. Grundy, mistaking her duties, has striven long and too successfully to set a gulf between sense and sensibility. This severance is becoming a thing of the past, but the complete union of two qualities, each essential to perfection, is more frequently found in the New World than the Old"— it is quite time for the British matron to become thoughtful. Perhaps if the English girls were sent over here to be taught American manners, they might be more successful at home, T appears that both the Senate and the House agreed in limiting the cost of the proposed Congressional Library Building to four millions of dollars. It is also conceded that the amount to be expended will not allow the erection of a building large enough to accommodate the library for more than fifteen or twenty years. As the United States is a very diminutive and impover- ished country this decision is doubtless a brilliant one. Why is it that only those who are exceptionally unfit to Pass upon such matters should be just the ones the Ameri- can people invariably select for the purpose. WE notice that a waterspout burst in Kentucky the other day. A waterspout that.would go into busi- ness in Kentucky might expect to burst, with no assets. A MATTER OF LOCALITY. OME, Fosdyck, I haven't received that hat yet.” “What hat?” “Why, the hat I won, of course, on a bet.” “On abet? Well, for gall, you take the palm !"" “Didn't we bet hats on the elec- tion?” “Oh, yes, of course, the Presidential election, Well, who got it?” “Who got it? Good heavens, man! where have you been the last three weeks?” * Philadelphia.” comicbooks.com