Life — October 6, 1892 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: “OMhile there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XX. OCTOBER 6, 1892. No. 510. 28 West Twenty-Tuirp Street, New York. lished oo a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Union, $y a yearsextta, Single coples, ro cents. Back aumbers can be had by applying at this office, Single copies of Vols 1. and II. out of print. Vol. T., bound, $30.00; Vol. 1T., bounds $15.00 Hack numbers, one year old. 25 cents per copy. oN OS HL to XV, Inelu- ive, bound or in flat numbers, at $10.00 per volume. NSecribers wishing address changed will greatiy facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. z “Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope, ‘Thursday. vs [* spite of his arraignment by Mr. Godkin as a “Tammany Doe,” Dr. Jen- kins promises to live on, both individually and offi- cially. The public verdict seems to be thathe has done the very best he knew how, and the proportion of the population that has been subjected to the discomforts of long detention in quarantine is not large enough to exhaust public patience with his mistakes or shortcomings. But it is a pity that the efforts of so good a kicker as Mr. Godkin should be altogether wasted, and while the public will view with some composure his failure to bring down vengeance on Jenkins’s devoted head, it regards with respectful interest his attacks on the quarantine system which Dr. Jenkins represents. If the system is antiquated and bad we all want to know it, and so far as the Evening Post can demonstrate that its methods should be radically changed, it will perform a service of great value to the country, and of especial value now in view of the huge increase of travel hitherwards that is expected next year. To keep cholera out of the country in 1893, and at the same time minimize the discomfort of all well passengers, is an enterprise worthy of the combined efforts of Mr. Godkin, Dr. Jenkins, and all other Americans of exceptional knowledge or experience in the business. . . . HE two big Columbus celebrations impending this month in different parts of the country, will help to make it continuously difficult for a political excitement to stir itself up, and any uneasiness that does contrive to exist will be more or less crowded by the prevalence of the foot- ball epidemic. If the late Mr. Macaulay's celebrated New Zealander should take it into his head to inspect contem- porary civilization from the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge, he would probably find a curious inconsistency between our struggles to keep cholera out of the country, while we suffer football to rage in it unrestrained. It would have to be explained to him that it was largely a matter of taste, and that some nations could stomach football better than cholera, and vice versa, the cost, as Dr. Evarts said in the familiar anecdote, being about the same. . . . ISHOP POTTER has been doing the Fair an excellent turn in his recent discussion in a con- ) the question of keeping it open on Sunday. He favors a Sunday view of the Fair atrest. He would stop the machinery and all trading, but would open the grounds and buildings to the multitude, at least during the latter part of the day. To a great number of intelligently religious people this would be an ideal solution of the problem, and to many others who would prefer to see the whole concern going full blast seven days in the week, it would be gratefully accepted on the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread. That a multitude of Sabbatarians would not like it at all, makes the Bishop's opinion all the more valuable as coming from a high eccle- siastical source. We hope Senator Matthew Quay will find time to read the Bishop's article before Congress meets again. . . HE esteemed illustrated monthly magazines would confer a favor on many readers if they could contrive to work in the pictures that go with their stories at the points in the i stories where the depicted oc- currences happen, Bunching all the pictures at the beginning of the tale gives the story away in ad- vance, while bunching them at the end deprives half of them of their due effect. Bunching them at all produces an effect like what happens when the man at the crank in the panorama gets ahead of the lecturer, and reels off the destruction of Jerusalem while the crowd is hearing how Absolom was hung up by his hair. It would seem almost better to print a whole magazine on coated paper than to swap the pictures around so. . . . pre utility of “ platforms ” and “letters of acceptance ” is becoming doubtful, at least in their present form. LIFE would advise parties and candidates both to let a com- petent editor have a few minutes with such documents. The result would save the public's time and would preserve every one concerned from the suspicion of writing “ bunco.” comicbooks.com