Life — August 5, 1897 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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eT DURING RECESS THE SOUTHERN factory here and snap their fingers at the pauper, king-made titles of decrepit monarchies. Syndicate titles would be racy of our soil, and would undoubt- edly be acknowledged by the society papers; and certainly the Duke of An- thracite or the Earl of Petroleum would be quite as impressive as Comte de Ordinaire and Viscount Beerbung. The austere nobility of Lenox should at- tend to this. Boston has an incorpo- rated title company now, and some of our most secret societies issue commissions as colonels and generals, with uniforms to members, that are taken as seriously as those issued by the President. There is much in Lenox to interest the American tourist and patriot, but the most picturesque things in the land- scape are the nobility and gentry, and their domestic fixtures. Lenox lacks good hotels where board at one dollar a day can be secured; and it needs guides who can differentiate the nobility from THE LYNCHING GAMZ OF THE FUTURE. SCHOOLROYS OF THE NEXT GENERATION MAY INDULGE IN TIS SORT OF the grooms, and secure admission for visitors at back doors, As it is, the excursionist is not treated with warmth, the aristocracy haughtily refusing the right hand of fellowship to inquiring American tourists clad in yellow dusters. Joseph Smith. Too Much Work for One. INGO: I want to exchange this tandem for two wheels. AGENT: What's the matter? “1 find that Iam not strong enough to ride it.” Keep Off! HE Critic vociferates against putting any more public build- ings in any of the New York parks. It would be glad if the Metropolitan Museum were out of Central Park; it believes the new library will be out FUN, of place in Bryant Park; it protests against giving up Bronx Park to the Botanical and Zoological Gardens. It is late with its protests, and Lirr is not sure that its contentions are all well-founded, but the general spirit of them is right. The reservoir site is a fine place fora library, but it is also a first-rate place for an ex- tension of Bryant Park. Heaven send that we may not some time come to look upon the library building that is to come with the sort of regret with which we contemplate the la- mentable usurpation of the south end of the City Hall Park by the Post Office! As for the Botanical Garden in Bronx Park, considering the quality of the men who are interested in it, it is surprising that they should seem so indifferent to the advice of experts as to the location of their buildings.