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pretty well determined that the game as played at present is too severe on the players. So much some of the most enthusiastic football experts admit. ‘The wise heads must be got together and the rules amended. IFE offers its sincere condolences to the Mackay family in find- ing it necessary to dispense with the personal adherence of the Prince Colonna. It will be remembered that Mrs. Mackay purchased Colonna some years since as a spouse for her daughter Eva, who has figured since that time, and will doubtless continue to figure, as the “> Princess Colonna. A princess. } she is and will ever be, else there is no virtue in American ; eagles, but she seems to have laborious animal who took no holi- concluded for the future to content days. How thoroughly we have herself with the. usufruct’of ‘the changed all that/all over the land, 5) prince’s title and name, and to dispense specially here in New York! Besides vith his personal attendance. Announcement is made that such extraordinary shows as the Naval 2 cuit to secure those ends will presently be heard in the 4 Wy Parade, the Columbian processions and courts of Pari “* our great military funerals, which happen gf course it is too much to say that the Colonna alliance along at frequent irregular intervals, there have grown up a pas not been fortunate or that the Mackays have not got whole set of regular annual spectacles and sports which their money's worth. It is rumored that the prince has been everyone who can makes a business of witnessing, and the ay unfaithful spouse, and it is possible that he has proved a contagion and overflow of which spread all over the city reater expense anda more miscellaneous rascal than Mr. and force themselves upon everybody's attention. We are \fackay expected. But that does not alter the fact that Mrs, apparently as fond of being amused as any people on earth. yfackay's grandchildren are Colonnas, or that the Colonnas Whatever the shows—a parade of any sort, afloat or ashore, 56 one of the oldest noble-houses in Europe. One does not a Fourth of July celebration, a yacht race, a horse show. @ — vet anything for nothing in this world, and one need not ex- football game—we go and gawk at it in huge crowds, taking pect to have Colonnas for one’s grandchildren without pay- y off, if necessary, and spending our time and our money ing for it, not only in cash, but in peace of mind and self- ions of busines: “While there's Life there's Hop. VOL. XX. DECEMBER 14, 1893. No. 572. 28 Wesr Twenty-Tuirp Street, New York. Vubiished every Thurwlay. $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents. Kejected contributions will be destroved unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. whenever it happens upon a good one, it is always ready to back the pro- posal to make it annual. It is not many years since it was complained rN N EW YORK dearly loves a show, and ( of the American that he was a ada with an exemplary indifference to considera respect. or economy. We are not the people we were. In these days. There is a family: named onynge who will probably learn we do like to enjoy ourselves, and when a big show comes ith glee that the Mackays have had to make public ad- and we do not sce it, we credit ourselves sorrowlully with mission that Colonna is too bad to be endured. LiFe takes the loss of an opportunity that can never return, no part in such ill-natured gayety. A divorce is a lamentable 4 thing, and Lier regrets that the Mackays have got to have hy, the expression of which is TO So 1 Church, who writes a football letter about itto one. It is full of sympa the Century, “some of the accidents suggest the necessity — checked, however, by its inability to determine whether it for avoiding the use of hard or frozen ground in playing the should feel more sorry for the Mackays, who have lost ‘gs could be avoided — part of their investment, or for Colonna, who is about to no more game.” To LiFe's mind, if the use of the hazards of the game would be more certainly diminished. be thrown away because he can do the M ‘Two members-elect of the Ohio | ture think legislative good. interference is called for, and have announced their intention But perhaps neither party really needs much sympathy. of introducing bills to regulate if not to suppress the game in _ since, if the Mackays have got all they could out of Colonna their State, The issue of their efforts will be looked for with — they will be well quit of him, and if the prince has got all he interest, and if they succeed, the contagion of their example could out of the Mackays, a divorce will leave him free may spread so that Princeton and Yale may have as much (enough) to come to the United States, where doubtless a difficulty as Sullivan and Corbett had in finding a State in new alliance can be negotiated between what is left of him which they can lawfully settle their annual dispute. 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