Life — June 18, 1896 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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3 ° 2 z 5 8 FE t 2 E 8 g % Z & 2 % g g 5 é x 3 5 F LJ 2 4 2 5 b = “Now, YOUNG MAN, I MAY LOOK SMALL TO YoU ; 501 HER AGE. HAT is her age? Beware, my boy! seek not to know What is her age ; For, knowing women, I presage If to her on that quest you go, You will discover, doing so, What is her rage. AN UNDESIRABLE METHOD. HE Methodist Church in the United States ought to hit upon some blander way of retiring its superannuated bishops. The present method is for the Confer- ence to declare an old bishop non- effective and elect a new man to succeed him in office. It is an ef- fectual way, but somewhat abrupt, and while it may be good business it is not good manners. If the Methodists think it inexpedient to let their bishops grow old in office, as the Catholics and Episcopalians do, they might profitably make a tule that all bishops should be re- tired at the age of seventy, or what ever age seems proper. A MATTER OF HEALTH. HEATRICAL MANAGER: You say you want a position in my company. Why, man, you don’t look well enough. Actor: That's just it. My doctor says if I will walk thirty miles a day I'll be cured. MUCH WORSE. GHEE: Do you know anything worse than a man taking a kiss without asking for it? He: I do. “What, for instance?” “Asking for it without taking it.” H CEFORTH Cornell will give its A.B. degree to men who know neither Latin nor Greek. Cornell is a great and liberal uni- versity, but how about the edu- cation her A.B. now stands for. Has that a sound claim to be called liberal also? Heretofore a liberal education has been one in which Greek and Latin were explicitly included.