Life — January 5, 1893 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: KIpLinG: A sort of combination of the best traits of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley— CRAWFORD: With a considerable addition of jewelry and clothes. It scems to me that you more than ever overdress the part of the ingénue. Miss FAN: Another of the mistakes of our novelists! Our beautiful ‘aised the art standards of the country. Our fathers have been forced to build houses and buy furniture, and fixtures, and broughams to accord with the lovely costumes of their charming daughters. A fine jewel must have an appropriate setting, and we've got HOWELL Very well, how would you have us picture the girl of the new decade, Miss Fan? Miss FAN: She must be, like my dear Diana, “ A man and woman for brains ;” her beauty will be the flower of health ; her wit, the polish of the world; her sympathy, the result of a —~____ true insight into our “moral predicament,” as Mr. James By delights to call it. She will be a patriot and an optimist alwe frocks have MEREDITH ; I like to hear you say that. | am getti _an old man, but I believe more and more in the promptings youth. How can any one live near to nature without being an optimist ! 1 don’t mean the trees and flowers only—but near to men and women who live and suffer, and hope. HOWELLS (réséng) ig to be of nature in Here's to the flower of the century—the Amencan Girl! May we love her in our homes, do her full justice in our books, and wear her image in our hearts! Miss Fa And here's to the eyes of the next century, through which | i H iq posterity will see us—the American Novelist! May he alwa‘ i DROGH. (lr. Robert Bridges.) , J S picture us as good as we are, and nev er better than we ought to be! Lire: And here's confusion to all Critics who refuse to appreciate the American Girl and the American Novelist ! Robert Bridges (Droch. THE BIRD (flapping tts Ameri CONGRATULATORY. AR LITTLE LI Do you know I am very fond of you? And I think D it's very cunning that you should have a birthday all to yourself, and I hope you will have ve: H a _ a a — _ AR LIFE: I'd rather have in- vented you than the telephone. y many of them. I never look so pretty, and my clothes never fit Yours, me so well as when I see myself reflected in your pages. 1 don't mean to confess ————-—— for one minute that you flatter me, but if you will only stop all those horrid things you say about my not being able to cook, I promise you faithfully that 1 will never, never ag: n marry a foreign nobleman. Somewhere, tucked away in a corner of this envelope, you'll tind a little kiss which is meant to be Lire’s birthda y present from his first love, THE AMERICAN GIRL. | ee a ee Sy a | New York City. D™. SIR: Your numerous cracks at me duly received. I'm not half such a bad fellow as my money makes me appear. In evidence joy on your birthday, and enclose my check for $10,000 for LIFE: FUND, which please acknowledge, and oblige, Yours very truly, THE AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE, . GETTING A SETBACK, —Lire, Esq., , . & of it I wish you FRESH AIR ES a48 See ree par ee ww comicbooks.com