Life — January 27, 1898 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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NOWDhile there is Life there's Hops.” VOL. XXXL JAN, 27, 1898, No, 789, 19 West Tumry-Finst St., New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00 yearin advance, Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year extra. Single copies, 10 centa, Rejected contributions will be destroyed un- Jess accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers. H, Oh! Ohio! Oh, cynosure of political immo- rality and corrup- tion! Welcome to the firmament! Be yours the place at the dog’s tail-end; by you let pirates steer; to you the e of place wanderers turn, For two months New York adored that tail and pointed, all by herself, that constellation. She is glad to yield to Ohio, that conspicuous position. It is yours. Everybody says so. Eve body who is entitled to an opinion is agreed that you are the most corrupt, double-faced, hypocritical, low-minded political entity in the Union. The whole big State of you—including Johnny Me- Lean, the Western Reserve, farm lands, cities, lake shore, river bank, and aban- doned palaces of Standard Oil million- air bad. Oh, mother of modern Presidents, go to the head! You are wickedest, and everyone knows it For various reasons, your recent clec- tion of a Senator has ndalized us all. Not that Mr. Hanna is so reprehensible a person, but that you made it necessary for him to wade throu heap to his seat. Such dic! tradin, oflegislators! Dear, dear, Ohio! Ex us blighted reformers of New York, if we hold our nose. Go cleanse yourselves, Buckey Have some political convictions, and vote for men who represent them. Don't scramble a senators! as light-minded youths scramble cents for street urchins in the mud. Be virtuous, and maybe you will be happy. Anyhow, you will be different. Meanwhile Gotham cheerfully yields to you her job as an awful example. you, —is -LIFE: IIERE is something new in surgery. Two or three weeksago the medi- cal papers described an operation done by Dr. Carl Schlatter, of the University of Zurich, who took out a woman's stom- ach and joined together the approaches to it, so that the patient was able to get about and have fair enjoyment of life without any stomach at all, ‘The stom- ach removed was not a good one, and had become so impaired as to be of no use to its owner, who was glad to be sepa- rated from it. The operation seems to have excited profound interest in the surgical profession. It was not fully recognized before that this impor- tant organ could be spared, but now that it seems to have been demonstrated that the human attachment to it is largely sentimental, there is a prospect. that the attentive ear being put to the ground will shortly be rewarded by the faint patter of stomachs falling to earth in all quarters of the land. A man’s stomach was detached in St. Louis on January 15th, and on the same day a Chicago physician did the same opera- tion in Milwaukee. Both cases were successful as cases, though both patients died, They might have survived if they had been in good health when the opera- tion was done, but illness of the patient is one of the commonest drawbacks that surgeons have to contend with, It requires no prophet to foretell that this new operation will be a temptation to American surgeons, Lire trusts, however, that the enthusiasm which it naturally excites will be judiciously controlled, and that for ordinary pains and itises, produced by wind, green fruit, and other familiar causes, the old- fashioned remedies will continue to be used, 2B J. R. ANTHONY HOPE declined to divulge his impressions of Yankeeland before leaving New York. He has gone home, and all that he would say on the eve of his departure was that he had had a good time, and that his visit here had been successful. Mr. Hope's reticence is both considerate and judicious. He traveled about the country a good deal, and was hospi- tably received. If his opinion of folks and institutions in the land of Uncle Sam is still somewhat nebulous, he must not worry, nor think small potatoes on that account of his own intelligence. A good deal of uncertainty and many dif- ferences of opinion obtain among the members of Uncle Samuel's own family regarding the precise degree of civiliza- tion that they have respectively ob- tained. If Mr. Hope at some future time should publish his impressions, he may comfort himself with the assurance that nothing he is likely to say will give offense to all the Americans at once. ooo Re HE career of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who died in England on January 14th, illustrates how much more rare and valuable a gift it is to be wisely foolish than to be merely learned without the saving admixture of folly. Mr. Dodgson’s vocation was mathematics, his avocation writing nonsense, and his profession the Church. He was a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford for twenty-five years, a cir- cumstance it would not be necessary to mention here if it were not that during that period he produced ‘Alice in Wonderland,” ‘Through the Looking Glass," and ‘The Hunting of the Snark.” If there is anything about the study and practice of mathematics that develops or improves the capacity for writing books like those, Lire would be glad to know it, and would willingly arrange to devote a share of its surplus. income to the promotion of that science. OTWITHSTANDING that the New York Post Office yields to the Post Office Department a profit of five million dollars every year, it is proposed to discharge a large number of mail-carriers employed by the New York office, and reduce the number of deliveries in the upper part of the town by nearly one-half. ‘That seems a very cheese-paring sort of economy, and highly inconsiderate both of the needs of the metropolis and of its deserts.