Life — November 20, 1890 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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“While there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XVI. NOVEMBER 20, 1890. 28 West Twenty-Tuikp Street, New York, No. 412. $5.00. year inadvance, postage free. Single bers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. Lound, Sisco; Wole fle IV. VeVi VIL, 1, XIV. and XV., bound of in tlat numbers, at Published every Thurs: copies, 10 cents. Back ni 1, ad, 00; Vol. 1 8e85 Mi ejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending oki address a3 well as new, R, DANA is bilious again, This is to be regretted, because Mr. Dana's biliousness is a defect in an otherwise well edited and well conducted newspaper. Mr. Dana is well advanced in years, and his biliousness is doubt- less the cause of his increasing irascibility. Physical ills often have this effect with elderly gentlemen, and, as their years increase, the irascibility quite frequently grows stronger instead of disappearing. . HE victim of Mr. Dana’s present irascibility is a gentle man who was recently president of the United States. In that capacity he was courageous enough to bring before the American people the only great question since the civil war. He stood by his convictions, and because the people of the United States were not yet ready for the question, failed of re-election. ‘Iwo years of popular education have passed since then, and, as though ashamed of their former ignorance, the people of the United States have reversed their former action, and restored to the Democratic party the control of the representative branch of our government. HIS endorsement of the ex-president has clogged up Mr. Dana's biliary ducts and brought on an attack of irascibility most alarming to behold. He lashes the ex- president for not abandoning his retirement for the purpose of lowering his dignity to the uses of pot-house politicians, He holds up for comparison the nobler example of that office- pursuing politician, the governor of the state of New York, who does not appreciate the dignity of his great office, even while he holds it. With a delicacy all his own, Mr. Dana alludes to the ex-president of the United States as the “Stuffed Prophet.” (We may be stupid, but we confess we are unable to see either the humor or satire in this title.) Mr. Dana even intimates in chivalric insinuation that the ex- president dared to use his right as a citizen to vote against corruption in the purely local government of New York City. ly, but covertly, as though deserted by the courage of his biliousness. Mr. Dana does not say this dire: . * . IFE would recommend to Mr. Dana the course lately ~ pursued by his friend, Mr. Pulitzer, of the World. When Mr. Pulitzer found that he was physically unequal to the cares of editing a newspaper, he gracefully withdrew in favor of his former colleagues. If Mr, Dana should quit the journalistic profession, thus permitting his younger and per- haps abler associates to perform the editorial functions, he would be able to devote more time to that medical treatment which might make him a more agreeable member of the community, The frequent visits of some able physician, a careful regard to diet and other hygienic matters, and an effort to forget the names of Beecher, Grant and Cleveland, would doubtless do much to relieve him from his irascibility. In place of it might come the benevolence and kindliness of heart which do so much to make old age attractive, > * . NDIANAPOLIS manners are excellent in their way. It might be quite possible for an Indianapolis gentleman to receive company in his shirt-sleeves and stocking-feet without reproach, but Lire doesn’t believe it. Nor does Lire believe that if an Indianapolis lady were receiving an official visit from the elders of the Second Presbyterian Church, she would permit even the best of plumbers and gas-fitters in Indianapolis to pursue his trade in the same room where she received her gues! But in the White House, about a fortnight ago, the President of the United States gave audience to some Englishmen, who were here attending the meeting of the association which includes the leading men of the coal and iron mining interest the world over. These gentlemen had looked upon the position held by President Harrison as of sufficient dignity to deserve their respectful courtesy. Therefore, they called at the White House as a formal testimony to this fact. They were shown into the East Room, They found the gas-fixtures covered with sheeting, and a mechanic at work on the ceiling from the loftiest altitude of a step-ladder. Instead of being shown into another apartment to see the head of our government, the head of our government came into the room which was being cleaned, or decorated, or re-fitted, or some- thing, and permitted the Englishmen to “feel his five,” as he might have expressed it, in harmony with the informal surroundings. LiFe isn’tin any way a stickler for pomp and pageantry, but it believes in the dignity of the presiden- tial office, and wishes that foreigners might not be obliged to behold it in the informality of shirt-sleeves and stocking-feet. comicbooks.com >