Life — July 2, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“While there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XVII. JULY 2d, 1891. No. 444, 28 West Twenty-THIRD Street, New York. Published every Thursday." $5.00 a year inadvance, postage free. Single copies 10 cents, Back numbers can be had by applying to thisoffice. Vol. 1., bound, $30.00; Vol. II., bound cents per copy. Vols. III. to X $5.00 per volume Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by astamped and directed envelope. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. Back numbers, one year old, 20 .. inclusive, bound or in flat numbers, at OTWITHS' +N the efforts of our Anar- chistic and Socialistic friends, the recurring national holiday finds this country about American as usual. Some way or other Americanism and So- cialism do not seem to mix. Even Americans by adoption seem to imbibe enough Republi- can common sense to convince them that the fellow who wants to take by force what he can get by working for it, is a pretty fair specimen of an all-tired fool. The prevalence of this law-abiding spirit is one excuse at least for the American eagle's going on his annual spree. N OTICE being served by sur- 4 viving members of the . Garner family of their stern disap- proval of a recent match by which a late member of that family be- came Lady Gordon-Cumming, it is proper to acquit the notitiers of all suspicion of complicity in the said marri intending to condone it. Public action by families as such, has been rather a rare thing in this country, where the favored theory has been that the family existed for the sake of the individual. Parents may reasonably have a say about mar- riage, but in the absence of parents, for a group of such col- lateral relations to notify the world of their displeasure ac a young woman's marriage, is un-American, and indicates, in the recent instance of it, that the Garner family has lived too long abroad. ROF. WM. JAMES of Cambridge, Mass. (95 Irving street), who making a census of haliucjnations and apy ions, in the perfecting of which he asks the good offices of all people whose offices are good. If, you send Prof. James a postal card with your address and the words “ hallucination blanks " on the back he will send you a blank form whereon you can report the experience of twenty-five peopte whom you meet this Summer, as to hallucinations and apparitions. Next to hearing from people who have seen spooks, Prof. James wants to hear from those who have not seen any. He wants to know what proportion of the people who are interested in spooks have ever seen one, and what proportion of the spooks, that they saw were real spooks, whose appearance was inde- pendent of anything going on inside of the observer. Lirt is authorized to say in particular that when hallucinations can be traced to such disturbing causes as lobster, paté-de-foie gras, B, and S., Sam Ward cocktails, absinthe or Welsh rare- bits, it :s worth while to note that they are thus derivative, that they can be properly classified. HE British Aristoc- racy is not absolute- ly void of useful functions even tous Americans. Its dirty linen gets washed in London in these days with such eye-compelling conspicuousness, that our little family laundry jobs on this side of the water get themselves done in a corner, and without exciting ° NOTHER instance of concerted family action appeared in the remonstance of the Schuyler family against the proposition of the Women’s Memorial Association, to exhibit a statue of the late Mrs. George L. Schuyler at the Chicago fair as the typical philanthrop- ist. The Schuylers think that the late Mrs. Schuyler wasn’t a typical philanthropist, and protest against having her statue displayed. The protest is neither unnatural nor unreas- and will doubtless relieve the family's mind. It suggests, however, that the Schuyler family thinks that Mrs. Mary Hamilton Schuyler’s memory is a sort of heirloom in which the family has exclusive property rights. That is a curious mistake. The memory of the dead belongs to whoever remembers them, and it is well that it should be so, since if it were not so, history might as well take down for knitting needles. her sign and swap her stylus comicbooks.com