Life — August 29, 1889 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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122 -LIFE: R, ROBERT BONNER doubtless gives the true reason forthe © THE ABSENT-MINDED TAILOR AND THE lack of interest in trotting races in and about New York. He - SOLITARY PAIR OF TROUSERS. attributes it to the monotony and tiresomeness of races trotted in heats. Hereabouts the tedious and long J SCHMIDT. TAILOR. CLOTHING REPAIRED, ME, OYER BPR drawn out trotting contest can not hold its own in popular favor against quickly decided running races at dif- ferentlengths. Mr. Bonner prophesies a revolution in the arrangement of trotting meetings, in which heat races will give place to dashes and long distance races. New York is about to have a surfeit of running races, and the near future seems a good time to secure a course and make an experi- ment in improved trotting. There is a large and wealthy constituency of trotting-horse men in this neighbor- hood, but it is impossible for them to accomplish anything in the way of a successful meeting unless the interest of the general and the bet- J Sonat TOR) ting public is secured. This can only CLOTHING REPAIRED, be done by completely changing methods. If a few men of Mr. Bon- feet Yoon | ner’s standing should enlist in the movement, the change would not be ~HE following requires no comment or explanation. It is simply a letter recently received by us, and it gives us pleasure to publish it. Lire is ever ready to buckle on his Sunday armor and strike a blow for the fair sex; and, failing that, nothing gives him a keener joy than to see them strike it for themselves. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6, 1889, Editor Lire: Dear Sir.—Mr. Gibson's wicked cartoons about ‘* Miss Autumn,” are respon- sible for my state of mind, I resolved to give up light muslins and fluffed hair, and to wear only black merino, and sit upstairs in the back room with the family mending. I did, indeed, But people send for me to go to picnics aud fétes and assembly balls, and, though I moan, I go. But I don't go asa wall-flower; 1 go as a picturesque ruin, over which the dear young green things festoon themselves, and declare I'm a model chaperone, In all seriousness, | don't know what is to become of us oki maids, especially those of us who see the funny side of life, and are abominably healthy and lively, and have no ** vocation" or ** mission.” I [sSCHMDT TAILOR have my own profession, but there are in my village near this city some thirty CLOTHING REPAIRED, old maids, and most of them have no profession, 1 have many boy friends who CLEANED, OVE GPR 7 sf waul You WAT have called me * Auntie” from the time they were in knickerbockers until now, when they are in college and business, and, judging all boys by them, I have an idea that you could raise your lance in defence of the poor old maids, just for variety and as a journalistic stir-up, But I forgive young Gibson. He never had an Auntie who went bird-nesting and coon-hunting with him, I'm sure; oF who got him out of quarrels with his best girl. Very truly yours, “AUNTIE.” F census-taker Porter wants to ascertain the exact number of cranks in this country he can secure the necessary statistics from Mayor Grant. The Mayor, as the head organizer of the World's Fair, has either received a visit in person or a lengthy epistle from every crank in the United States, with the exception of a small per- centage confined in asylums. comicbooks.com