Life — December 22, 1892 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: “OWMhile there's Life there's Hope. XX. 28 West DECEMBER 22, 1892. ‘Twenty-Tiikp Street, New York. No. 521. Published every Thursday. $s.00a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra, Single copies, 10 cents. ack numbers can be had by applying at tis office,» Stage copics of Vols 1. and II. out of print. Vol. T., bound, $30.00; Vol. I1., bound, $15.00. liack numbers, one year old, 25 cents per copy. Vols. III. to XVI.vinclu- sive, bound of in flat numbers, at $10.09 per volume. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. Cos OLIVER SUMNER TEALL'S proposed benefaction of 20,000 poor children at his Christmas show in the Madison Square Garden, ast sea~ finds crities this year as it did Col. 1 By position, and cares scarcely more for erities son eall, however, is inured to op- ¥ Parkhurst himself. We “pf are confident, therefore, that it will not him that Christmas, as a miscellaneous gift- than does Dr ec his ardor one jot if LIFE suggests to "enterprise, was already a little overdone before his movement began, and that his enterprise hardly seers adapted to help it. Nevertheless, the Garden show may turn out better than it promises. At any rate it will be watehed by a public which admires to see children made happy, and if it does make children happy, it will be approved. It will not do though for Col. Teall to de- fend the show on the ground that it makes Az happy, for that can be done in other ways at less expense. F there is any sentiment of compassion in the breast of Mrs, Maybrick, she will pull herself together and re- solve at least to survive Gail Hamilton, MNISCIENCE doubtless knows whether or not Dr. guilty, but how much Omniscience cares about it all is another question. The popular feeling is that Omniscience covers enough different persuasions of Presbyterianism to make it a matter of considerable indifference as to which particular corner of which particular pew any particular Presbyterian prefers to occupy. Moreover, the trial makes dull reading in the news- papers, which is lamentable to the verge of sinfulness, the moreso with a new silver bill on the verge of discussion in Congress, and a tariff measure threatening. HE land resounds with a more than usually agoniz- ing wail over the decadence of the hired-girl. Newspaper- correspondents, magazine- writers and visiting Britishers unite in attesting that she is scarce, high, and incompetent What has momentarily become of her is only surmised, but there are some grounds for be- lieving that she has gone to Chicago, where she expects to carn $10.a week from May to It seems not to have occurred to her that if all the well-to-do American families have to stay at home and cook and do chamber-work, the attendance at the Fair will be so small that the hotels will fail and she will be thrown out of employment. November. Those of her who have not yet termi- nated their Eastern engagements are respectfully solicited to regard this complication, and also to take notice that Chicago is so full of dangerous characters just now that it is said to be inadvisable for unprotected females to walk in the street * ° « TS a scuttled ship the Democrats will have to man next March. In her bottom will be found two great hol left there by the former crew, The larger one—through which escapes the monstrous and appalling sum annually to be paid for pensions—the Democrats will find it hard work to stop. Matters have reached a point though, where the people of the es will back up Mr, Cleveland and his government in even the most radical action they may take to deal with this serious situation. nited In fact it will be an im- mediate and urgent duty incumbent on Mr. Cleveland's ad- ministration to review the whole question of pensions and devise a way of stopping an extravagance which makes it look as though Uncle Sam might be forced to pawn his watch . * “TCHE silver question is capable of easier solution if it be dealt with promptly, If the coinage be stopped at once this country is large enough and strong enough to main- tain the present token value of the silver dollar, but the action must be immediate. There are signs already that the Gresham law is beginning its inevitable work, The constant out- How of yold is explained first by one temporary condition and then by another, but the fact remains that gold is continu- ally going away from us and not coming back. It is only matter of aijittle time before the other nations of the earth will leave us the only one to use the kind of wampum which our silver-miners are foreing on us. comicbooks.com