Life — November 30, 1893 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: HERE'S no doubt that foot-ball as played to- day is a most scientific game, How to arrange a ton of youth- ful flesh, bone and mu! so that it shall drive an inflated ball to a given point, notwith- standing the opposition of another ton of youthful hu- manity, is a most interesting problem. The captains and professors of the game study for hours over this question and evolve some very interest- ing tactics for the use of material at their command. To the public, and especially to the friends and relatives of the youthful components of these masses, there is coming a belief that not enough atten- tion is paid to the safety of the eleven the tired the reading public has become of seeing these same old friends so everlastingly in print. For days and weeks and years have these familiar names confronted the patient reader when he opens his daily paper. It reflects no special glory upon the names to have the public told that their owners were here or there. For the ‘public, even if it cared where they spent the evening, would take it for granted the o on was rep- utable. It is a form of advertising too easily acquired to command respect. Lire hazards the opinion that intel- ligent members of the community are not impressed by it. HE: How did the fad of giving ngagement cups originate ? HE: It is probably the cynical world’s delicate way of intimating that there’s many a slip. units. Each of the eleven may bea son or a brother whose future usefulness may be impaired TONY PASTORS. by considering him too much as a unit of force and too little as a human being. Public sentiment is against the coddling of boys, but it is also against making a shortened leg or dislocated verte- bra probable adjuncts of a liberal education. ROSECUTING ATTORNEY: Miss Sere? MIss SERE (appealing to Judge): to testify against herself ? What is your age, Does a witness have All Lire would say to its foot-ball friends is they care for the permanent popularity of th game they must make it as little brutal as possible. One thing is certain, the referee should have auto- cratic power, and should use it, to rule out of foot- ball playing permanently and for all time any player who shows even a tendency to slugging tactics. that if WITH LIFE’S APOLOGIES TO CERTAIN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. HE following persons were recently mentioned in a daily paper as having been present at something : Mrs, Fred Neilson, Mrs. Burke-Roche, Mrs, Charles F, Havemeyer, Mrs. Paran Stevens, Mrs. George L. Rives, Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, Mrs. Henry Sloane, Miss Randolph, Mrs, William D. Sloane, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Albert’ Stevens, Mrs. Duncan Elliot, Mrs. 1, Townsend Burden, Mr. and Mrs. James Lorillard Kernochan, Mr. and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Mrs. i Gerry, Mrs, Fernando Yznaga, Mrs. W. Seward Webb, Mrs. S. V. R. Cruger, Mrs. Ogden Goelet William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs, Henry Clews, y, Mrs. Arthur Randolph, Mrs. Fred: ‘lt, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Jr., Mr. ford, Mrs, George B. De Forest. A PRIZE OFFERING. Delaholly: Here, Wippy Dacax, IT's A FOINE Goose I HAVE FOR YEZ. I Gor IT AT A RAFFLE Widow; AX’ DID YEZ THROW FOR IT, I DUNNO? Del,: Turow FOR IT, 18 IT? BEGORRA THIN I THREW THE WHOLE ROOM FULL IV'RY WAN IV THEM, AN' TL HUR—R—T MacGoWAN BAD AFORE HE'D GIVE IT UP! It is of no importance where they were. The really important item is that their names were mentioned as having been somewhere, Many of these persons are,to Lire’s knowledge, of the highest respecta- bility, and it is only fair that they should know how comicbooks.com