Life — January 31, 1889 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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te- ngs are ht, nds to sis m- sti- me are LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. R RANDOLPH HENRY SPEN- CER CHURCHILL, weil known in this country as the son-in-law of Lord Leonard Jerome, of Jerome Park, will celebrate his fortieth birthday on the 13th of next month, if Providence and the Whitechapel murderer spare him until that day. Mr. Churchill is also known in England, in several parts of which he resides, and his public career, is illustrative of how much a man of energy may accomplish in living down a bad name. Not that Mr. Churchill's immediate ancestors were unusually dis- reputable for members of the British nobility, but that the first family title was secured some two hundred years ago by the sale of a daughter of the house, without the usual transfer of a marriage certificate. Mr, Churchill has also been compelled to struggle against the disastrous influence of his elder brother, who is also known here as the present husband of the former consort of the late Lord Hammersly, one of the hereditary Dukes of Fifth Avenue, and also as the Earl of Marlborough, said brother being a person who cares little for public or private decency. As a child, Randolph was tractable. He never cried for his brother's title; he never evinced a taste for playing in the alley with rude boys; he never put bent pins in his teacher's chair; he never made a nuisance of himself on Guy Fawkes’s Day or the 4th of July. When he was at Merton College, Oxford, he was a student of Tom Brown, rather than of Tom Jones, and endeavored to emulate the careers of the good boys in Mr. Hughes's book, rather than the bad ones in Mr. Fielding’s, before he left vollege At the early age of twenty-five years Mr. Churchill entered the House of Commons as the representative of Woodstock ; but he did not evince the pugnacity and noisiness that made his fame as a poli- AT THE LAST MOMENT. Stage Manager (to Amateur Villain): REMEMUER, MR. SHANKS, YOU CONCEAL YOURSELF IN THIS TRUNK. LIFE’S GALLERY OF BEAUTIES. a N 8 A No. 3. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, tician for several years, since which time he has made ample amends for his previous quietude. He made so much noise, indeed, as a member of the ‘* Fourth Party" that when Salisbury’s Government came in Mr. Churchill was made Secretary of State for India to keep him quiet. Atone time it was feared that the mantle of Beaconsfield would fall upon Mr. Churchill; but he managed to get out from under it, though he has been Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. Mr. Churchill would probably be a greater man to-day if he had not tried to be a greater man too soon; but he is an example to all young men who desire to dress well, his tailors making him a model man in this respect, He also smokes the best cigarettes, and has been an authority upon the construction of the American cocktail ever since the visit to England of his wife's uncle, the late Lawrence Jerome, Duke of Delmonico's, four years ago. At present Mr. Churchill is in a desperate quandary\as to which side of the political fence to get down upon, and upon his success in solving this problem his future career depends. NINE DAYS’ WON- DER—Why the prov- erb-fiend didn't. make it ten, O* HIS LAST LEGS— The Kangaroo, wet co A Ghost oF A show —The Living Skele- CONCEALED, ton. J comicbooks.com