Life — December 28, 1893 — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

LIFE AT LIFE’S NEW BUILDING; A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE BOSS AND THE BIRD. FTER climbing many ladders, Lire and The Bird finally stepped out onto the new cornice of 19 and 21 West Thirty-first Street. Taking in the view and being duly impressed by the solidity of the shelf that supported them, The Boy said to his companion : ** Does your American Eaglets realize that we are now standing on the most beautiful cornice in New York Cit " es,” said The Bird, “or in the world. It’s a daisy, a Jim Dandy, a corker, a “Enough slang!” said LIFE, sternly. ‘Have the sense to re- member that your words will reach the ears of about half a million of the most fastidious and critical Americans.” “That's all right,” retorted The Bird. “ But I'll give you a dollar apiece for all the Americans over the first thousand who don’t understand slang.” “ Very likely, but they don't care to pay ten cents a number for it.” “It's the boss cornice, all the same,” said The Bird. hat’s about the idea,” said LiFe, “ although vulgarly expressed. While ss‘ is far too commonplace a word to apply to an architectural feature of such artistic beauty, it certainly does express, with some accuracy, its — relation to other cornices.” EUROPEAN TRAVEL. “But it does not seem to OUNG LADY (to Mr, Hobson, returned from abroad): be finished yet,” said The You did the Continent, of course, Mr. Hobson ? Bird, as he peered over the Mr. Hopson (feelingly): Not very extensively, Miss edge. Schermerhorn, Fact of the matter is the Continent did me. “No; the final touches will not be put on till later. But even in its present condition it is more than enough to start a current of electric joy up the spine of every soulful citizen who passes through the street. As it is rather cold up here, however, and your American Eaglets has but few feathers on, let us return to the office.” SATOLLI IS RIGHT. ONE OF THE BRACKETS UNDER THE IRST CITIZEN: Satolli says that the parochial schools are the bulwarks of American liberty. SECOND CitI. : Of course they are. American liberty would soon fall without law, wouldn’t it ? “Certainly; but——" “Well, what would we do for officials to make and execute * WOT, AIN'T you GOT NO HOME NEITHER?” the laws if it were not for the Catholic parochial schools?” comicbooks.com