Life — March 24, 1898 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE. First uptodate M,D.: SHALL WE TARE OUT HIS STOMACH OR HIS Ari Second up-to-date M.D.: DoTH, AND MARE A CLEAN ONES: Nowadays a fellow be J the bottom and works up, “Brows: It's different in politics. One begins at the bottom and works ns at down, N’ ot} IONS. they would live at peace if could only despise cach ee I° Rorick very sic “Oh, no. It is only a trifle. Just about cnough to have secured a pension for him if it had occurred during the war.” Life’s ‘‘ Pegasus ”’ Contest. the Editor of Life : IR—Permit me, in the most friendly spirit, to contend that the picture which bas teen before us in “Pegasus Contest Number Three" utterly and entirely failed to illus trate the sentence, 0, would I were a soldier. hot a scholar.” The ‘only thing that it did illustrate is the one word, “soldier.” I ven- ture to claim, further, that in order to illus- trate the sentence itself, and not merely a single word in it, the principal figure should have appeared as a scholar, and his wish that he were not that but a soldier might have been expressed by reaching his arms toward armor of a passing soldier, or in some way. Your statement was that the picture illus trated a sentence of Longfellow’s. I hold that it illustrated a single word. and not the sen- tence. You expressed the opinion that Long- fellow would have deemed the illustration sat- isfactory. 1 venture to think he would have agreed father with my critictsm 1 hope and beg—again T say in the most friendly spirit, aod not at all a dissatisfied one =that you will print this, so that, as a matter of interest, the opinion of other readers may be elicited’ I need hardly add that Ido not at all question (under the con:litions stated) the fitness of the award : my criticism applies only to the illustration, although [do think that but for the failure of the picture to correspond with the selected sentence, the result might have been different. Lam, dear sir, faithfully Cuas. \ Brookiyx, Mareh 10, 1808, ars. Tenser. Had we adopted the composition sug- gested by our correspondent, it would be necessary to erase the word ‘cont There would have been Every reader would bave guessed it. Instead of one victor receiving two hundred dollars, twenty thousand win- ners would have received a cent apiece, and that is not the purpose of the com- petition, no contest. Jos or it. Sad Effect of a Scotch Dialect Story. HE 10% up the book with a hard face, As though to his task resolved ; He opened where he bad marked the place, And he read these words involved : “He slippit aff mair, the laddie I luve, Sae booed an’ disjackit, to hame His tongue moved painfully in its groove, But he persevered just the same. “Juist poppie, an’ gowden afflickit in case, Expeckin’ a’ fouk some wy "— Ills nose then slid to one side of his face, And his mouth went all awry. “Jalouse tae his sib, sic a dawten akin, Fecht stravagin’ cockerin’ mowt "— lis ears creaked downward below chin, And the hair of his beard fell out. Tis a sinfu’ bairn—toots, mon, I keu— A’ kentle thae birkies wince! But he fell in a fit on the floor just then, And he haso't recovered since, David H, Dedge