Life — December 13, 1894 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: principles nicely formulated with which on certain occasions the man is expected to square his actions and justify his inconsistencies, You see always in Mr. Curtis that it was the account which he kept with himself—the daily and hourly reckoning of a man with his des¢ impulses and dest knowledge. The literature of the day and hour, the specialization of knowledge, the over-rating of physical qualities and heritages, have joined to obscure to the present generation the clear, white light of a simple truth that shone brightest in more austere and simpler days—that is the responsibility of a man to choose the best and act persistently on that choice. In literature, art, politics, and most of all in his friend- ships, you are conscious of the undeviating habit with which Mr. Curtis exercised this choice. It made of his life a steady development, an increase of force, a widening of sympathies, and something that he himself was g/ad to live. This simple rule did not set him apart from the world, but made him busy in its most acute activities. He was a humane man, a sympathetic man, a just man—and young men for generations will be glad that he was for them an example of the union of idealism with utility, of refinement with force. Droch, NEW BOOKS. OVE IN IDLENESS. By F. Marion Crawford. New York: Mac- millan and Compan, The Vagabond: By Margaret L, Woods. New York and London: Macmillan and Company. The Sketch Book. By Washington Irving. Van Tassel Edition, Two Volumes, New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. The Playground of Europe, By Leslie Steven, London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Company. Pelldas and Melisande, By Maurice Maeterlinck, Translated by Erving Winslow. New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company. SILVERY GREEN. HE news is brought to us by a leading daily that “Mrs. S. Van Rensse- laer Cruger looked ex- tremely handsome in a gown of silvery green satin with some pearl and diamond orna- ments,” Was this published as something of gen- eral interest to Ameri- cans? Or was it an invitation to share Mrs. S. Van Rensse- laer Cruger’s joy in the ownership of this raiment? We say ownership, as it is improbable that the lady borrowed it for the occasion and had to return it the next morning. LIFE participates gleefully and with a full heart in this her NECKS TO NOTHING. joy. We hope she will |§ ————— = derive great pleasure from the new dress, and also from the pearls and the diamonds, and it must have been extremely gratifying to Mrs. Cruger to have them all mentioned Gracious!" in the paper, for after a lady has been to such trouble and expense it is encouraging to feel that a frivolous public can take some interest in serious matters. It is our sincere wish that she may wear this gown a great many times and be very happy in it. But it might be well to be careful about getting spots on it, as silvery gray satin would show grease and tomato to a fatal extent. But of course the lady knows all that. ** © PEAKING of miraculous escapes,” said Smith, young Brown was shot full in the chest the other day, and yet was unharmed.” “Mother's Bible in his pocket?" said Robinson. “ Pack of cards, more likely,” remarked Jones. “You are not up-to-date,” said Smith. * The bullet struck him in the chrysanthemum JJ AUD: I saw Miss De Lancey this morning. M ETHEL: PERDITA: FLORENCE: ¢ What'd she have on ?