Life — January 17, 1889 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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LINES, BY A BRUTE. H, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And always in the wrong ! When pain and sickness wring his brow, You go to sleep and don't care how The old man gets along. * * * HE journal that has out-fought everybody in the muss with the black republic, is the Maz? and Express— first in war, first in peace, and first, last,¢and all the time— “in the soup! ""—but especially since Christmas. * * ‘¢ 7 LSMERIA” is the name given by the correspondent of a Boston \.} Paper to a complaint which in these days is considerably ~~. prevalent. The ~ ‘name conveys an “, accurate notion of the difficulty, / and the corre- spondent who applies it adds some excellent advice to suffer- ers from its rav- ages. The general bent of his counsel to them is to “keep the lid on”—not to pose, not to lament, not to complain, not to look with scorn or pity on ‘ . the rest of the world, but to try and No 4 rca \.. go about their business as nearly as “ SR Ng possible as though nothing very serious _w ONE f had happened to them. ee In cases where such advice is needed at all—which, let us hope, are not many—it is apt to be needed very much. If any men should be intellectually modest for a good while on the stretch, they are the vic- tims of “Elsmeria.” They certainly should do whatever is indispensable to accommodate their plan of life to the new light they think they have got, and they are under no obliga- tion to use special measures for the concealment of the said light, but it behooves them to remember that the change in their opinions affects themselves vastly more than any one else, and that the scheme of religion that they have aban- doned will not necessarily collapse, now that they have got out from under it. Until they have thoroughly tried Elsmer- ism, and can point to its fruits in life and character, they must expect that the majority of persons who affect the old faith will be sceptical about its advantages. * * * fAreores of the ease and celerity with which the United States have been able to do their will with the Hay- tian Republic, the valued New York Sz points out the pro- priety of our having a naval force sufficient to warrant a similar course of proceedings under similar circumstances with England or France. It is yet to be proven whether or not the Haytian exploit is greatly to our credit. Hayti being a colored brother, undersized, and otherwise occupied, we have been able to go ahead, with the certainty that there would be abundant leisure after the fact to determine whether we were right or not. To hit a man between the eyes and go through his pockets is one way to ascertain whether he has any of our property in his possession. It is an effectual way, but is it dignified? How awkward for us if it turns out that he has not robbed us! Is there not something to be said for the slower and somewhat tedious process of getting out a warrant and proceeding by due forms of law? Certainly, if the law is with us, we should have power to enforce it; but if, with a weak navy, we are rid of the temptation to hector our neighbors and get into rows with them, that is something. * * * R. HARRISON has not yet divulged the details of his Cabinet, and Mrs. Harrison—though she has dis- claimed any personal intention of wearing low-neck dresses —still reserves her decision upon the rum question. Both these good people are getting a vast quantity of advice which they seem to take with philosophy and good-humor. Of course, those people who take advice most serenely are usually those who need it least. * * * \ \ JE congratulate the Harvard nine on the prospect of spring games with some of the professionals. The action of the faculty is a pleasing illustration of fastidious- ness, tempered by experience. * * * HICAGO is organizing a 400 of its own, composed mostly of successful wheat-speculators. They are, of course, all high-bread personages. * * * HEN the American girl marries an English noble- man, she gets the lord and he gets the d~v-|—from British mamas. comicbooks.com