Life — April 2, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

WILL HE 00 IT? Ballade of the Elect. E may claim the Right of the Tabouret In the pompous Court of the Golden Haze: With the King may chat in the ways that fret The plebelans who from afar must gaze; inst the rabble-rout we may drawbridge aise, And deride the mob from our parapet; But despite the hauteur our pride displays, We're Philistines all to some other set. We can sean our record without regret, And, indeed, we only can speak in praise Of the care and skill we have used to get To our present place through the worldly maze; We may pride ourselves on our cultured “T “Tt has gone far, has it?” “Tt hasn’t touched bottom yet.” ways, On our proper form and retinement, yet In our heart of hearts is a voice that says We're Philistines all to some other set. The muezzin calls from ihe minaret, And the devotee most devoutly prays For continued grace to pay Culture’s debt— And cach wonders just what his neighbor pays: But the while we whisper in prayerful phras We can feel the glare of the raised lorgnette And the eyes that stare with a look that st We're Philistines all to some other set LENVOI, Princess, you look with a downward gaze On a petty world; but pray don't forget, » the moment's victor who wears the Both you and we are Philistines yet. Wood Levette Wilson, A Long Way. wonderful how far money can I put tive thousand dollars into a mine three years since.”