Life — May 21, 1896 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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

413 NONPAREIL. LAS ! I cannot read her face To tell if she'll be mine, Because her type of beauty is So very, very fine. A NEEDLESS NUISANCE. ID Colonel Waring ever happen to be out-of-doors in this city between nine and eleven o'clock in the morning? If so, he may have noticed at that hour that the ash carts are thickest in the fashionable quar- ters, and that it requires an agile citizen to dodge the clouds of dust. And if he has noticed this, did he ever get so far as to inquire, “Why, of all hours in the day, should this time be selected for such a work?” It may be that Colonel Waring always wears a gray suit and doesn't mind a shower of ashes. Perhaps h: likes it. There is certainly a mystery somewhere, as we refuse to believe this gentleman so unintelligent that he has failed to realize the stu- pidity of this custom. No other | civilized city in the world would put up with such an easily abated | nuisance, and if this gentleman's intellect has already grappled with the subject and met with defeat, we earnestly entreat him to make another attack. ERTAIN “scientists” tell us that as vivisection is a technical affair the general public should not interfere. This is ingenious, but it would hardly have satisfied Protest- ants during the Inquisition if they had been informed that the details of the torture cham- ber were of a technical nature and should be left to the judg- ment of professional experts. And the great humane ma- jority of the nineteenth century are not being fooled by similar phrases, —____—_ USBAND: Do you know, my dear, I never get tired of looking at that photo- graph of you. WIFE: Why don’t you have it framed and hung up in the club? 3 Fa 5 8 ry = 2 S z 6 « § z 8 g Fs z = comicbooks.com