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- LIFE: VOL, XVII. JUNE 25th, 1891. No. 443. 28 West Twenty-THIRD Street, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies to cents, Back numbers can be had by applying to thisoffice. Vol. L, bound, $30.00; Vol. II., bound, $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, 20 cents per copy. Vols. IIT. to XVi., inclusive, bound or in flat numbers, at $5.00 per volume Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. T’S a blessed thing about women that they rarely stop to count the cost of their actions where their hearts are concerned. That is to say, it’s a blessed thing for bad men that women have this quality. In particular it's a blessed thing for Gordon- Cumming. He has married for money, and it looks very much as though Miss Garner had married for tion is beyond criticism, First, she isa woman, xercised a woman's inalienable right to marry Next, she has sacrificed herself for when love-songs were first sung misery. Her and has only for misery if she pleases. love, and ever since the da: and love-stories first told, this has been considered the particu- larly admirable thing for a woman to do. Therefore to blame Miss Garner for her lack of common sense is to meet the dis- approval of all chivalric young people, and sentimental old ones who do not happen to have daughters of their own. It would be interesting to know just what total of return has ever been realized on the total of sacrifices made by tender-hearted women for bad and ungrateful men. It’s a beautiful trait in woman that she doesn’t stop to gather stat tics in cases like these, and so none are available to our use, but we think it safe to claim that the dividend has been a very small one. Judging by precedent, then, Miss Garner is a very and the more to be pit ade her foolish sacrifice for a man who foolish girl indeed, d because she seems to have 1 showed no hesitation in accepting it. . . HE regular time has come for Mr. Blaine to loom up, and he is looming with much energy. Mr. Harrison loomed considerably during and immediately after his western trip, but Mr. Blaine’s looming is to-day a great deal more pronounced ; so pronounced in fact that Rus- sell Harrison hasn’t had a chance to make a fool of himself, in public at least, for more than two weeks. The administra- tion’s banking scandal in Philadelphia may have something to do with the obscuring of the Harrison looming up, but it is more likely due to the fact that this’is Mr. Blaine’s reg- ular time, and when that statesman’s regular time for looming up comes around, the other possible candidates usually dis- appear from sight. OSTON is‘still revelling in its latest fad. This time it is ar- senic. Every accident, death, ache, disappointment in love or business is at once traced to this unhappy substance, and it is invariably found to be the caus In other cities cases would occur in which there might be a doubt as to arsenic’s guilt; but notin Boston. In Boston you are cither in good health or you are poisoned by arsenic. It may be in your umbrella, your wife's bonnet, or your grandmother's snuff-box--but the local doctor knows the cause of your illness before he reaches the house, and he at once proceeds to analyse something. As he is sure to find arsenic, if he only looks long enough, he generally comes away happy. The evidence seems to indicate that a reasonable amount of arsenic is very much less of a nuisance than a Boston physician when he once gets an idea. RINCETON feels very cocky just now. She introduced“ heeler” practices into Presbyterian politics with considerable Present success, and her ball- nine has just overcome the Con- gregationalist. nine from New Haven. The Yale Christians expect, however, to gain balm by overcoming the Harvard Unitarians at New London, and as the recent raids have shown that Harvard is entirely be- yond redemption, everybody is happy. has SN’T it funny to see the Em- peror Wilhelm held up as an example of royal virtue to his Albert? But after all, !es’s baccarat scrapes anything like as bad for his people as the military craze of the Emperor Wilhelm ? comicbooks.com