Life — January 4, 1894 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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

Them Ins? bare. A BIG SNAP. “Look, ESeRBELLER! WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TER GIT IN DAT SLOON AN’ EAT FRUM TWELVE TER SIX FER ONEY A QUATER ? WAIT TILL I GIT TEN HORSE SHOES AN’ I'LL TREAT." 13 Managers are not in the theatrical business for fun, They want to attract the people. Therefore they give the people what they want, and what the people want is gorgeous spectacle, fun of the farce-comedy order and drama of the depraved or of the sloppy-weather school. Is it strange that there is little prospect of anything wholesome or scholarly. for the next year? Metcalfe. Fakes HARDFIST: What under the sun is the reason that boys are such no-account critters nowa- days? Here is our son, Jasper, pretty nigh crazy to leave the old farm and try to git a job in town, Mrs. HaRDFist (meekly): Perhaps he thinks the work won't be quite so hard. , FARMER HARDFIS Work? Why, shucks, Polly; he don’t skurcely know what work is! He hain’t done a thing since supper but milk the cows, feed the horses, slop the hogs, split and carry in the wood and kindlin’s, shell a little corn, ketch the colt, and turn the grindstone for me about half an hour. He's had all the rest of the time to himself, except the few minutes it took him to mend the bridle I broke this mornin’, What in the name o’ Tunkett makes all boys so crazy to leave the old farm ? THE FIRST OF JANUARY IN NEW AMSTERDAM. comicbooks.com