Life — April 20, 1893 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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‘> LIFE: THEZOLO-FASHIONED GIRL. THE WORK OF JEALOUS HERE'S an old-fashioned girl in an old-fashioned street, Dressed in old-fashioned clothes from her head to her feet. And she spends all her time in the old-fashioned way Of caring for poor people's children all day. She never has been to cotillon or ball, And she knows not the styles of the Spring or the Fall, ‘Two hundred a year will suffice for her needs, And an old-fashioned Bible is all that she reads. And she has an old-fashioned heart that is true To a fellow who died in an old coat of blue With its buttons all brass—who is waiting above For the woman who loved him with old-fashioned love. iad INC E LONG BEAU.” r, DRAWING THE LONG BEA’ Tom Hall. AS OTHERS SEE US. ET another Englishman has seen fit to tell the world what he thinks of us, and it is only fair to him to say that he lets us off easily. Lord Meath, under the title of “A Britisher's Impressions of America and Australia,” in the Winteenth Century says many things which are only too true. We quote from the summary of his article in the Review of Reviews. ‘* Lord Meath thinks there are few, if any, self-ruling lands in which the best class of citizen has so little voice in the government of his country as in America, and states that here the election of judges by the people occasionally tends to lower the character of the judicial bench and the respect entertained for it. He does not seem to think that the condition of religion prospers under the voluntary system ; it may work pretty fairly well in cities, but in country districts the position of the clergy is very trying ; * To show the poverty of some of the country clergy in America, a bishop told me that when visiting in his diocese he always wore patent leather boots; for he knew that if he did not the clergyman with whom he was staying would have to blacken them with his own hands.” The American newspaper does not please Lord Meath. He admires the American magazines and admits that some of the Sunday papers are very well written, but the ordinary daily paper in America gives him no pleasure. There is a want of dignity and refinement in the tone of the ordinary news- paper, especially in the West, where the writer seems often deliberately to seck out flippant or vulgar phraseology with which to clothe his ideas. In Europe one looks . forward with a sense of pleasure and of keen interest to the arrival of the morning news- paper, feeling that, as a rule, much matter for thought and interest will be presented to his mind ; but in the States it is different. He rises from the perusal of the paper feel- ing that he has been dragged along a low level of crime and vulgarity. Of course there are exceptions to every rule, and doubtless a native would in most States know where to turn in order to obtain pleasure and information from his newspaper reading; but a stranger is not possessed of this information and suffers accordingly. He says that in Australia and New Zealand the journals were much less vulgar than in the States, In the sleeping cars the men and women are steps above and below each other, behind the same curtain, behind which they are expected to dress and undress. The best sleeping cars he found on the line between Melbourne and Adelaide in Aus- tralia, Both the States and colonies are ahead of England in the matter of tele- phones, electric lights, and also in electric and cable cars. American trams are often scandalously overcrowded and no one complains. ‘The American child is prematurely brought forward and often spoilt, especially the girls; children from five to ten, with earrings, bracelets and high-heeled shoes, give themselves the airs of grown-up women ; they sit at HANDS. table with bored faces, give orders to the waiters, and partake of the same food as their parents. Colonists and Americans alike are proverbial for their HE WOMAN QUESTION —" How are you hospitality, but in the West especially their manners are free and easy.” having it made.” comicbooks.com