Life — January 21, 1892 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: quake, our friends, the working-peoole, will have a great chance to cultivate their artistic taste. pleasure to felicitate Uncle John Sherman on his recapture of the Senatorial dignity. Uncle Jobn is a desirable man to have in the Senate, as Senators go, and has many qualities and much knowledge and experience, which m should make him useful there. But if the Ohio electors had “While there's Life there's Hope. returned only Uncle Sherman's last winter's “arctic” to occupy his seat for the next six years, it would have been a useful job, in that it kept Gen. Foraker at home. Tis VOL. NIX. JANUARY 21st, 1892. No. 4 28 West Twenty-Titkp Street, New Yors a o Published every Thursday. $3.00 a year in advance, including postage to. the United States and Canada. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal CORRESPONDENT of the valued Union, $1.04 a year, extra, Single copies ro cents, Back numbers can be Se ye : had by applying to this of Vol. 1, bound, $30.00; Vol. II. bound, New York Suz has discovered one Sisco ‘Hack numbers, one year old, “zo cents per copy. Vols: Il. to XVIL, 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 of LiFE’s recent jokes in a venerable vol- B® ume of reminiscences of Scottish charac- ter. If there is any reason to believe that a Scotch gentleman originated the joke, let the honor and glory be his. Lire may not have plagia- rized, but honestly duplicated it; but remembering the anec- dote that the Prophet Nathan narrated to King David, it would rather leave the deceased Scot in sole possession of his jeu d° esprit. \vis a fact, though, that the statute of limita- 8 a tions works against perpetual property in witticisms. uart’s spiritual essence as | appears from the last will of the late Mrs. R. L. Stuart, that that good lady left her soul to her Maker, her body to the tomb, and her pictures and various collections nox Library. If we are very good, to the Li we may meet Mrs. again in some future state, but unless we are “*ORRESPOND of news- — papers are still concerned with resurrectionists, or persons of exceptional perseverance, it is probable that we have viewed her mortal remnants and her collec- _ the sinfulness of Harvard's tions for the last time. @® D.K.E., which has spread its follies on its outer wall One reason, it seems, why Mrs. Stuart left and invited the general pub- lic to take exception to them. Owing to the benevolence of the more recent mem- bers of the society in shar- ing their amusements, both her pictures and things as she did was tha she wanted them kept together —which was dd to her natural feeling, and applicable alike to her bones, brac. Another motive which may have had books and bric-a its influence was suggested by President John Kennedy of the Lenox institution, when he said: “ Mrs. Stuart knew, that during my lifetime at least, and my connection with the institution, its deors would not be opened on Sunday. and Middles chusetts, it would seem that there was, nothing hidden about the society which has not been fully revealed, and pub- lished with appropriate illustrations. Dr. Eliot's astute ation of the society to the court of public opinion seems successful, and in deference to IFE isn’t going to quarrel with ~ Mrs. Stuart and Mr. Kennedy for being Scotch Presbyterians, but itis fair to retort that if closed doors had ys been a recommendation to testators, Bro. Kennedy's Fifth Avenue Mausoleum xo have burst out its sides in the rele; to have been phenomenal prevailing sentiment it is respectfully suggested that the society shall allow its objectionable practices to fall into desuetude, and agree to accept from neophytes in future a certificate of attendance at a full course of Lowell Institute n adequate qualification for its membership. would long struggle to hold its accumulations. It may be a little more libe Ily_ managed now, but rs it was more success ful in keeping interesting plunder intact and out of the sight of the general public than any other untaxed institution in New York. OOR De Maupassant has gone mad, and Tolstoi is ill at All the same, from collector's point of ease in his intellectuals. If authors hope to live peace- view, the Lenox Library is a bully place for — ful lives and die pleasantly they cannot be too careful about lectures . * . collections, and some day when we have a Japanese carth- the morals of their literature. comicbooks.com