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*OQMNiLe there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXII. DECEMBER 28, 1893. No. 574. 28 West Twenty-THikp Street, New Vor. Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Bostal Union, §ireg a Year, catra.. Single copies, 10 cents Keyected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. \ CURIOUS example of the i tenacity of evil habits ap- pears in the report of the marriage of Mrs. Winametta Singer, of Paris, to Prince Edward M. de Polignac. he marriage took place December 15th. Mrs. Singer is a representa- tive of the noble American house which gave its name to the Singer sewing machine. It is not through inexperi- ence or inadvertence that she has mar- ried a prince, for it is not two years since she was divorced from Prince Montbeliard. She may have had previous experi- but it is certain that she has had at least one prince and got quit of him, and now has taken unto herself another. Was it Dr. Franklin, or some other wise man who “ Experience is a costly school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in th Mrs. Singer seems bent on having a full course of expensive instruction. \ HE investi- gation of t the Elmira Re- formatory and the reports of the > football games F have made so “Sp much lively read- ing this last quar- ter that the public has hardly had a chance to miss those bright stories that used to Le served up about the horrible cruelties. practised in’ secret by the Harvard College organization known as The Dicky The Dicky has not yet recovered from the last squelch- ing it got, and though itis said to. be still in existence, it is some my In its retireme it pee tit is interesting to notice the zealous endeavors of the y Boston - LIFE: old time Dicky flavor. somehow the Sophomore s Men may come and men may go, but ‘ms bent on going on like a fool forever. * . . HE common-law marriage has been followed by its natural consequence, the common-law engagement. Recent decisions of the courts warrant the conclusion that no formal statement by either party is necessary to establish an engagement of marriage. If the attentions of a man toa girl are so constant and particular as to warrant the general public in believing that he is engaged to her, engaged he is, it seems, by the common-law, and subject to such liabilities and inconveniences of the engaged condition as a suit for breach of promise of marriage: That the common-law engagement entitles him to any of the easements or privileges of the state of betrothal does not appear. Such felicities will probably go as heretofore by favor rather than rule. These new decisions seem, therefore, to be merely a new develop- ment of the general tendency of the times to give over the fettered and defenceless male into the unscrupulous hands of the designing female. In Lire’s opinion the tendency should be checked by legal enactment to the effect that no matrimonial engagement should be valid unless under seal and duly attested by witnesses. * . * O far as appears from the facts as known at this writing the Hawaiian hullabaloo in the Opposition newspapers is one of the most remarkable cases of much ado about nothing on record. The newspapers opposed to Mr. Cleveland first set up the deposed queen by force of American arms A\ and then bow! her over with } columns of rhetoric. Asa mat- ter of fact she has not been restored yet, and there is no present prospect that she ever will be. Neither is there sufti- cient ground for belief that her restoration has even been + seriously contemplated, ich cons except under ‘oon ditions and in such a manner as all fair-minded people would approve of T° th layman there will seem to be a needless amount of hardship in the decision of the New York State Commission in Lunacy that the inmates of the State Hospitals for the Insane shall have no more tobacco, TH decision, as the Commission expresses it, is that tobacco ts injurious to the insane, Perhaps it is, but an insane persor is spoilt anyhow, and to prohibit him doing himself such moderat nes from the small additional « yaeems merely away of making ah of comicbooks.com