Life — November 26, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: “While there's Life there's Hope.” XVIII. NOVEMBER 26th, 1891. No. 465. 28 West Twenty-Tuirp Street, New York. VOL, Published every Thursday. $s.coa yearin advance, postage free. Single copies to cents, Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. L., bound, $30.60; Vol. IT., bound, $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, 20 cents per copy. Vols. III. to XVIT., 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. HE horse show is over, and the members of Mr. McAllister’s interesting aggregation are at home again and ready to re-appear before the s. There have been rumors that this was Manager McAllister’s farewell sea- son, but the farewell season idea has been so over-done by Patti and other-artists that one hardly knows what to believe. It is safe and just as convenient not to say good- bye to Mr. McAllister until his successor is in evidence. . * . ] T is impossible for LiFe, at this writing, to speak adequately of the Yale-Harvard game last Saturd The thought that H r may not have survived that contest is the bitter drop in our prospective Thanksgiving appetizer. . . ’ UR causes for thankfulness this year are abundant and conspicuous. It is true that the tiger swallowed the canary, but the canary’s friends should not fail on that account to add their voices to the general chorus of praise. When did the earth ever before yield us her fruits so abundantly or more opportunely ? It would be indecent in us to be thank- ful for the pinching necessities of our transatlantic brethren, but there is no harm in our rejoicing that as long as id to come, we should have such ities for relieving it. their shortage h exceptional fac T" ZRE is such a list of things to be thankful for this » besides wheat. Oats are not as high as they were; it is not so hard to do without pearl buttons as one would have supposed ; how good the we have not come to actual blows yet with Chili; we don’t live in Rus- peaches were! the Broadway pavement is laid sia, and we no longer have any czar at home; the cran- berry crop is good; the supply of turkey is abundant; pie is still as various and as ubiquitous upon this continent as ever. Surely we have all the means and materials and provo- catives for keeping an old-time Thanksgiving. . . * UT the old-time Thanksgiving doesn't grow in much profusion in these parts any more. There is still some church-going in the morning, and some rather heavy feasting at night, but the enthusiasm of the day is spent neither in feasting nor in songs of praise. The genius that haunts the day this year, whose long-legged wraith hangs around like a nightmare, and whose sulphurous name wails on the breeze through the leafless November boughs—is Heffelfinger of Yale. Thanksgiving in New York is shot through with football, and somehow football is permeated with Heffelfinger. Some forty thousand of us hope to make Mr. H 's. acquaintance on Thursday afternoon. Here's hoping that he may live to meet us, and that we may be happy together. . . NOTICEABLE dispo- sition transpires on the part of divers metro- politan critics, tomake caustic “ copy” about the Kendals. Whether the trouble is that the Kendals are bad on the stage, or good off it, is in dispute. 7 But somehow, with all duc . allowance for malicious writ- ings, one gets the impression that to be a typical British Female and an actress at the ame time is almost too much for even a very clever woman to undertake. It isn't so much that the two characters are and doesn’t leave time or strength for the other. ° . * HE fact that the behavior of deacons’ sons is proverbially un- certain should not cause any. one to be sure that, conversely, an agnost! be trusted. efforts of Mr. Vice-President Morton to recover sundry thousands that Courtlandt Palmer's heir does not wish to pa any is to plant chrysanthemum seeds, and see what comes of it. There is as much uncer- tainty about it as there is about horse-races, and at least as good a possibility of financial advantage. comicbooks.com