Life — July 16, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“Mile there's Life there's Hope.” a JULY 16th, 1891. Tt, New York. No. 446. 28 West Twenty-Tiirp Stre: Published every Thursday | $s.co.a year inadvance,postage ree. Single copies ro cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to thisoffice. Vol. 1, bound, $30.00; Vol. bound, $15.00, Back numbers, one year old, 20 cents per copy. Vols, IIf.to XVIL., inclusive, bound or in flat numbers, at $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. T scems that the Schuyler family, or so much of it as Mr. Philip Schuyler stands for, is going to make a fight, if necessary, to prevent the Woman's Memorial Fund Association from exhibiting that statue of the late Mrs. Mary Hamilton Schuyler at the Chicago Fair. A lawyer has been hired, who, in the indignant language of the New York Commerctal Advertiser, “has given them (the Memorial women) fair warning that if they persist in their purpose he will see whether the peace of the grave may be violated with impunity by associations for the wanton infliction of undesired noto- riety." Most of the esteemed contemporaries, including the valued colored contemporary, Puck, have been simmering with indignation on the Schuyler-family side of this contro- ; but with due apologies to families every-where, LIFE cannot help thinking that Mr. Philip Schuyler’s course will result in inflicting a more undesirable brand of notoriety upon his worthy aunt than could possibly acrue from the statue. LIFE may know better and believe differently after this case has been into court, but at present we cannot see wherein the legal rights or privileges of any living Schuyler have been threatened by the Memorial Association, nor do we imagine that any American judge can give Mr. Philip Schuyler any comfort. There is high religious authority for letting one’s light so shine that others may be the better for it. Doubtless, however, Mr. Schuyler thinks that letting one’s aunt's light shine is a different matter. Would it be uncivil to recom- mend Mr. Schuyler to get himself swapped out of the Schuy- ler family and into some other one, where the women-folks are not so beautiful, so good, and so miscellaneously liable to excite the admiration of persons not Schuylers ? It is too bad about those Schuylers, so venerable and re- spectable a family, and well-to-do, and all that,—and yet to be worried so because their women are inadequately obscure ! Modesty is an admirable virtue in man or woman, but there have been instances where it was carried too far. cannot be denied that in these umes the reputation of Mr. John Wanamaker, of Philadel- phia, is in a state of unstable equi- librium. As LIFE goes to pi Mr. W. is still a member of President Harrison's cabinet, and the honored patron of the press of Philadelphia. The reader will know as these words meet his eye whether anything serious has happened to Mr. Wanamaker since LIFE went to press or not. We are prepared for the worst, but the sus- pense is arduous. Would that it was over, and it was safe to say whether John really belongs among the sheep or the goats. Who are his true pals: Bradley, Lucas, Marsh and Quay, or his beloved pastor and the dear children of the Bethany Sunday-school? Which of his gangs does John really belong in! . * ROF. HARRINGTON, the new weather-boss, lived for some years in China, and is under- HES SSS. stood to have imbibed a measure of the antipathy to sudden change which is characteristic of that Empire. More settled weather is consequently predicted for the United States. It will be a relief to get rid of Gen. Greeley, whose experience of extreme temperatures had left him a poor judge of the meteorological conditions which made ordinary men comfortable. A man who knows by experience how cold a man may get and still recover is constitutionally unfit to be weather-boss. . USTICE seems to have tried to emphasize her con- tinued existence in Pennsylva- » nia by imposing a thumping sentence on John Bardsley. Fifteen years in solitary con- Jfinement is tert It is a vast pity that the sentence cannot be cut up in reasonable lengths and par- celed out in equitable portions among all the rascals “ who stood in” with Bardsley, and were bene- fited through his misconduct. it, by the way, that solitary confinement, which hi gone out of use in most Christian countries, survives in Penn- sylvania? Pennsylvania in these days is a very, very curious state. If the world goes when Totten says it will, the fire is as likely to break out in Philadelphia as anywhere. * . . I" seems that a young divinity student who was taking a post-graduate theological course at Yale, has gone mad over the mathematical arrangements made by Lieut. A. L. Totten to close out the world in 1898. Why not bounce Lieut. Totten! In the army, where he belongs, his associates would be more mature, and there would be less chance than at Yale for him to prevert unsettled intellects. comicbooks.com