Life — June 8, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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ile there's Life there's Hope.” JUNE 8, 1893. 23 West Twent No. 545. tirD Srreet, New York, Published every Thursday, $5.00. year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. N* the least edifying of the side-shows tributary to the Chicago Fair, is the even- ing exhibition given by representatives of polite life in the Eastern cities, in the dining “ rooms of the more exuberant Chicago hotels. The brand new restaurant of the ex- pansive caravan- sary known as the Auditorium Hotel in particu- lar, presents just now, between seven and ten in the evening, a show of best people in {their best clothes, which is more interesting to the social philosopher than even the hutted Soudanese or the half clad Dahomeyans. The opportunity there offered to contrast the delegates of New York's four hundred with representatives of Boston culture or Philadel- phia propriety is not one that happens every day and is well worth the price of admission. * * * HE New York swells especially are about the best ad. vertised lot of people in the United States, and the chance to observe how they look and what they wear and what they eat and drink is one that the normal American will do well to improve. ‘This exhibition will probably con- tinue for another month at least, and forms another inducement to go early to the Fair before the inevitable heat and the anticipated rush have changed the character of the attendance, O great work of the Fair will be to get a considerable part of the American population into something more nearly approaching a condition of athletic wraining than it has ever reached before. ‘No self-respecting person hires a roller chair until exhaustion is imminent, and six or seven days of diligent sight-seeing develops unlooked for abilities to walk twenty miles a day, not, indeed, without fatigue, but without an actual collapse. The doctors may have a differ- ent story to tell, but if there is as much virtue in exercise as it is the fashion to believe, the Fair will leave the American people in better condition to thrash all creation than they have been since the war. A’ this writing the Sunday opening question seems to be settled in the affirmative. I{ any good people are sorry, they should make it a point before they settle down to a final verdict in the matter, to spend two Sundays in Chicago. Certainly a Chicago Sunday with the Fair closed is enough to convince any reasonable being that it ought to be open, and probably a Sunday with the Fair open will be equally conducive to the conviction that of all the places of resort that Chicago offers to its idle multitude on that day, by far the least objectionable is Jackson Park. . . . Prone who, having been to Chicago and seen what the situation really is, can still wish the Fair to be closed on Sunday, may fairly be expected to find fault because the sun shines on Sunday. . . ALE undergraduates are anxious that Captain Murphy, of last year’s ball nine, shall return to the bat and help win games. One of the reasons given in the newspapers for Captain Murphy's retirement is that he was left out of the senior societies on account of his nationality. If it is distinctly a part of the Yale athletic system that the captain of the ball nine shall be taken into one of the senior societies, Captain Murphy seems reasonably entitled to go on a strike, but the notion that his nationality is the reason of his exclusion is one fit to make a Yale man smile. . . ARNHAM POST, late of the G. A. R., being debarred from flocking any longer with the other Grand Army Posts, will flock by itself hereafter as the Farnham Independent Veterans, No.1. The Farnham Veterans can much better afford to be thrown out of the Grand Army than the Grand Army to let them go. Their sentiments on the pension question are the sentiments of honest people generally, who believe in an honest pension system, albeit a very liberal one. Lire believes in the integrity of the great mass of the Grand Army veterans ; but its confidence will be greatly strengthened when the G, A. R, invites the Farnham Veterans to come back into the fold. But even if it shouldn't, LirE wouldn't be sorry fur them. . . . ~~ O early to the Fair. It isa good show; the weather is still cool, and there are no microbes in anything yet. But go early, chiefly that you may enjoy all the summer long the luxury of relief that comes from the consciousness of high purpose achieved and duty done. It is edifying and even pleasant at Chicago, but the trip would be worth tak- ing if only for the joy of getting back to earth. comicbooks.com