Life — April 19, 1894 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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

Sportsman: DO PEOPLE HUNT ON THESE PREMISES? “WAL, THEY DOES SOMETIMES, RUT I GUESS I KIN HIDE YOU SOMEWHAR ‘ROUND HERE WHERE YOU WILL BE SAFE TILL NIGHT.” UR frequently esteemed contempora:,, the New York 7ribune, sometimes forgets politics and says a good thing. And why is it, by the way, that a paper with such large opportunities should prefer to remain an old-fashioned partisan organ of the narrowest type, a fact regretted by both Republicans and Democrats? But as Sorosis is not a political organization, our contemporary can regard it without foaming at the mouth and becoming red in the face. There appears to be a difference of opinion in Sorosis as to whether or not the literature devoted to children should contain fairy stories, fables and things that are not true. In the course of a discussion on the subject one lady read a fairy tale, which shi said was more terrifying to a child than ‘*the wildest nightmare caused by mince pie. Others insisted that the fairy storics were useful in cultivating the imagination and exer- cising the inventive powers. No decision has yet been reached, but if it is decided to abolish Santa Claus, Jack the Giant Killer, Red Riding Hood and the rest, it will be in order to accompany the edict with an order that hereafter no child shall be born under the age of sixteen, “cc WANT a divorce,” she said, as she sank into a chair in the lawyer's office. “From your husband ?” queried the careful attorney. ‘0, from my grandfather!" she snapped, as she bolted through the door and slammed it behind her. “A LITTLE ONE FOR A SCENT.”