Life — November 29, 1894 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- AOhile there io Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXIV. NOVEMBER 29, 1894. No, 622+ 1g West Tiirty-First Street, New York, Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance, Postage to foreign countries in the Pestal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents. Rejected contributions wiil he destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope HE talk about a testimonial for Dr. Parkhurst is backed by a sufficiently <x general concurrence of opinion that he BS. hes carned one. The Evening Post points out, however, that it should be a personal tribute which the Doctor can take home and put in his library or his safe, rather than a public monu- ment, which would emphasize New York's folly in letting Tammany get ;’ controlof her. If Mr. Richard Croker 4 would let his hair grow somewhat ~ longer, a very impressive and suitable testi- ~~~ monial for Dr. Parkhurst would be a lock of said Croker's said hair, with possibly a convenient portion of the scalp attached Such a testimonial hanging unob- trusively in the Doctor's study, while not attracting too much popular notice, would be a constant and vivid reminder to him of the remarkable success of his labors for this city. - WO admir- able old men went to their long rest last week. Mr. Robert C. Winthrop was one of the links that bound the present generation to the past. There was practically only one generation between him and the fathers of the republic. . After attaining to very high political distinction in early manhood he lived in comparative retirement for nearly half a century, yet throughout that long period maintained his hold on the affectionate consideration of the community around him, and died still remembered and still honored and beloved. . Dr. McCosh came to this country after middle life, yet in less than thirty years he gained a durable place in the memories of Americans and ranks as one of the best of Americans himself. Doubtless one of the first pleasant duties that will engage his attention on the other side will be to patch up his little difficulty with that other theologian of honored memory, the late Dr. Holmes, . . * CURIOUSLY unlucky gentleman is Secretary Carlisle. A statesman of high integrity and greatly honored, for substantial reasons he has managed since he has held his present post to get himself into a pretty constant succession of small scrapes. Besides the queer fact that it is a bad week for news when he is not reported to be at loggerheads with the President, he has had to bear most of the blame of an unfortunate difficulty with the architects over the construction of the newv public buildings, of the rejection of Mr. St. Gaudens’ designs for the World’s Fair medal, for the arrest of Mr. Morton's British groom, for an attempted compromise on the silver bill, and of divers other exceptionally unpopular mischances and peccadilloes. Either Mr. Carlisle is the right man in the wrong place, or else the luck is very much against him. It is a relief to hear that he is to have a vacation and will be removed for six months at least from newspaper chidings and the possibility of ‘mis- representation. * . . HE members of the famous Woman's Club of Chicago are reported to be at logger- heads over the case a candi- date for membership who is said to be a woman of talentand of a high degree of work but anoctoroon. This lady's mis- sion is to break down the color line, and some powerful mem- bers of the Woman's Club believe it is the club’s duty to give her such countenance and aid as its membership implies. There is no reason why they shouldn't if the other members are willing, but if, as is reported, there is a disagreement which threatens to break up the club, they should not force the issue, It is not worth while to break up a useful organization in the effort to promote an impossibility. The question of color in this country is settling itself. White people and black should live together on terms of amity and mutual regard, but they will never live together here on terms of social equality. The effort to bring about such an equality is hopeless. . * a THs year’s Horse Show was quite as popular as any of its predecessors. The interest of the people of New York in their rich fellow citizens seems inexhaustible, but it has been whispered that the quality of wealth and fashion on exhibition this year was perhaps a trifle less exalted than in former shows. Horses alone will not draw the crowds that have made the Horse Show what it is. The promoters of the spectacle must see to it that their exhibition of opu- lent and decorative humanity is maintained in quality as well as in numbers. comicbooks.com