Life — March 25, 1897 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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A FEMININE UTOPIA. HERE are you going, my pretty maid?” **To Colorado, kind sir,” she said; “Where the women vote at all the elec- tions, Forming themselves into clubs and sec- tions, To study cures for political ills, While the legislatresses pass their bills!" “c “Then I can’t marry you, my pretty maid.” “That's out of date, anyway, sir,” she said. ‘We haven't time for home or its beauties, And don’t desire such domestic duties; We want the earth,and a fence around it— And in Colorado, at last, we've found it!” Priscilla Leonard. HE man who is really doing a great work is seldom conscious of the size of the job. A A BENCH SHOW ON THE NILE. “STEP LIVELY.” T is with consternation we note the apathetic attitude in some mat- ters of those to whom we entrust the budding powers of our children for development. As, for example, we find the ‘step lively” absolutely un- taught. Why is this accomplishment, one called forth by our advancing civiliza- tion, not found in the schools’ curric- ulum? We respectfully submit this to the Board of Education. Nay, more. In view of its demand upon the entire community, and of the in- cessant shriek daily from rear plat- forms, might the subject not be deemed worthy a chair in the new Columbia-on-the-Heights? Above the ‘outward and visible sign” there- of might be suspended the significant motto, ‘To the swift belongs the race." The utter absurdity of the [ fe epee Y SGML « ‘Aprés vous” sentiment with its ridic- ulous salaams and long ‘ waits" should be demonstrated. Nor need we slavishly emulate the grace so insinu- atingly put forth by Hellenic art. This is superfluous. The wild glance, the head-long plunge, the final sprawl, the kangaroo leap to a given strap, the lofty oblivion to others’ rights, are means to an end, endorsed by the municipality, sanctioned by society, indulged in by the majority. . Finally, since the stepping-lively of one frequently entails the stepping- heavenward of the man in front, thus enabling the presiding genius of the rear platform to vie with the grip- man in hastening that electric process known as the ‘survival of the fittest,” what more seductive recommendation for its attainment to the public than this—the opening of the very Gates of Paradise!