Life — August 1, 1889 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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OUR FRESH AIR FUND Before After NE month ago Lire’s village was empty. The katydid and the grasshopper sat undisturbed upon its seventeen piazzas. The pretentious bumblebee swaggered noisily through its clover-scented fields, and was, in his own mind, the undisputed possessor. To day the katydid and the grasshopper have retired from the piazzas, Each of the seven- teen cottages contains its little beds, and the fields are dotted with children, We are not in the habit of publishing the private corres- pondence of other people, but we have decided to make some exceptions in favor of the fol- lowing postal cards sent by some of the little guests at Lire’s village to their parents in the city. DEAR PAPA sent me a postal card because I want to right to grandma and I go swimming I went swim- ming Monday ‘Kathinka sent me a letter and sent the address on the postal card from # * * and I will come home Tuesday. SEND HER TO THE COUNTRY FOR A FORTNIGHT, Dear Para The place wher we are is very nice we have plenty of fun, We went black berrying and down to the water and a good time with our shoes and stockings off walking through the water I hope you mama and all the folks are well. I am well and so is Henry we all went to church Sunday. Write to me yours with love “ewe Dear MoTuer I hope you are all well and getting along nicely. was here he would soon be well. that Ida is walki place. I remain If Allan Thope papa is working and I hope Thave nothing more to say, This is a lovely your loving daughter oe ee Previously Acknowledged . $2.33 45 Arthur H. Hearn Emilie . Friend, Seabright, N. J. From Koger . . . . * Dorothy,” Savannah, Ga. . + 100.60 25.00 Bessie and Molly Hearts” H, Blazes, Baby Louise . In His Name © 2. From S. and H., Proceeds of Play Pole at Long Beach . Subscriber of Lire i E.R. M. Co. ae, From Three Little Boys, Mor: ristown, Ny J. From a Little delphians : May Wray Benson . Nina Louse Benson Alexander Reason Edwin N; Benson, Richard Lawrence Benson Mildred Benson . Easton Geo. B. Ive Winthrop Parker S.BOM. Joba and Mary Anis... ty of Phila- From Marjorie 2) Cash, San Francisco, Cal.” Cash, San Francisco, Cal. . Contributions Received at a lawn Pay Given, by “Ten” of the King's Daughters at Morristown, Nudie * Eric ‘ae From Three Well Wishers . From Margaret Priscella Jessie [3. Ford, Pittsburgh, Pa, La. E. E. Greylock” Institute Sunday- school, South Williams town, Mass. Heywood C Brown Chas. W. Ogden aod Dorothy Foster... loterested Friends . P From the Unitarian Sunday: school of Manistee, Mich, Collected for Liva’s Fresh Air Fund by Miss Ethel Cohen Fred D. Chamberlin R.A. D. “Hears” Total THE RELIGION OF SELF-RESPECT. Between the spiritual abasement of the pious and the feverish money-hunger of the worldly, the grand old religion of self-respect gets caught and crushed, like some stately Spanish galleon hemmed in between two icebergs.—Mrs. Lynn Linton in The New Review, NE seldom finds a woman's insight of a moral question so acute as this—though such critical discernment is to be expected of Mrs. Lynn Linton. In a sentence she has summed up the defect of a Democratic age, which, instead of giving the freest scope to individuality, has made all men painfully alike, and lacking in personal independence. The one class unites in “spiritual abasement" to the dogmas which have been formulated by other men, not more wise than they; the other class is equally dominated by the strug- ~ gle for wealth, the rules of which have been prescribed by intense selfishness and heartlessness. In these two broad streams of false humility and arrogance, the bulk of men are drifting on a profitless journey to an uninteresting shore. For both classes the standard of judgment is external and transitory —leading to an artificial -mode of living, which crushes out or exaggerates the natural impulses of heart and mind, . . . HE stupefying effect of such modes of living is seen in English and American fiction, which has become a painfully minute study of these two types—the one produc- ing the novel of introspection, the other the realistic novel. More and.more the tendency is to unite both classes in a single tale which produces a startling picture of the worth- lessness of life, from both points of view, and drives the sensitive man to despair—if the sensitive man ever ventures to read a modern novel, . . . “Te antidote for all these things is what Mrs. Linton has so aptly called “The Religion of Self-respect "— an impenetrable shield over the heart-of a man of feeling, a mighty weapon in the hand of a man of strength. Through this gateway all men enter into that garden of life, where existence is a profitable pleasure, even though one must keep to the dusty highway, drawing a load, perchance, under the blazing sun, . . . S this is Mrs. Linton’s sermon’ we shall let her define this preéminent virtue, (somewhat abridging the quotation) : Self-respect is eminently a masculine quality. It is conspicuous in virile natures and manly epochs, and is wanting to the feminine natures and Sybaritic times. It is the quality which, above all others, makes men truthful, loyal, magnanimous— which demands sincerity as necessary to’ its existence; for insincerity and self-respect cannot live together. It does not aim at Heaven by well-doing, nor does the fear of hell keep it straight between the shafts. It is essentially self- supported and is—because it is. A man or woman who has true self- comicbooks.com