Life — July 21, 1898 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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THEY DID. just this chance to see you,” he went on. “ Apworth has been a monopolist long enough. I—I don’t believe in monopolists, do you?” “No,” she laughed; ‘‘ not in some kinds.” She tried to withdraw her hand. He held it fast. “It is a temptation to be, sometimes, I grant, A very great temptation,” he added, as she looked up at him quickly. Then he bent and kissed her. ‘Did it seem a long time?” Miss Chilton asked, teasingly. “ Infernally !” He struck a match sharply. It went out. «And I say,” striking another, ‘don’t ever leave me alone with that girl again, please. She's a bore!” flinging the match onto the wet sand. ‘An unmitigated bore!” Whereupon the maiden by_his side smiled a satisfied little smile. Harriet Caryl Coz. Tact. F the Committee appointed by the Amherst Board of Trustees to select a successor to President Gates follows the suggestion of the Boston Transcript, it will choose from among the candidates “perhaps not the ‘one who has the most scholarship, but the one endowed with the most tact.” That {s one of those statements which seem so true that we accept them at their face value. Yet who ts to-day the most successful college President of them all? Would not most people say that he is President Eliot of Harvard ? ever accuse President Eliot of tact? Has he not a genius for “ making breaks”? Ishe not given to saying the wrong thing to the wrong person, to saying the right thing in the wrong way, or to saying the wrong thing which might have been the right thing if said a little differently? But it does not follow that the kind of man who thinks he is an Eliot and can afford to do as he pleases, regardless of tact, is justified in his self-esti- mate. It isa case of the bow of U Only men of the strongest, whose ability is recognized by everyone, and whose insistence on having their own way is crowned by success, can dare to be tactless. Such men can accomplish more in the world than those who have to feel their way along, fearing lest they offend this or that man; but there are only afew such men. If the Amherst Committee cannot find an Eliot, it would better fall back on commonplace tact. For the Boston Tran- Soript’s advice is sound in a general way, though not as & generalization. Yet did anyone | To Subscribers. UBSCRIBERS to Lire should be careful to notify us promptly of a change in their addresses, as under a recent Act of Congress papers will only be delivered to their destination, and will not be forwarded to any new address unless the postage is prepaid. ‘ATALISM is the philoso- phy of failure. Our Latest Acquisition. So at last we have taken in the Hawaiian Islands. They form, on many accounts, an objectionable tail, but, after all, it is not likely that they will wag the dog. Considering the proportion between the size of the volcano at Hawaii and the acreage of the islands, the in- ference seems warranted that it was the Crea- tor’s original intention to blow the islands off the earth. If that design had been carried out it would have saved us much embarrass- ment; but the islands being still there, we must conclude that they were left for a wise purpose. It remains to try to discover, and fall in with, the intention that spared them, ) ee is won by the very quali- ties that lose us friends. E who can do without what he lacks is richer than a millionaire. ‘67 SHOULD think that you would hesitate about getting such an expensive pres- ent for your wife.” “Not atall. If I hesitated I wouldn’t get e “EXCUSE ME, SIR, BUT ME FRIEND AND ME WUS HAVIN’ A DISCUSSION DAT PERHAPS YOU COULD SETTLE.” “WHA-A-T IS IT?” “WE WUS ARGUING ’BOUT WICH ONE OF US SEEN YER FUST.”” comicbooks.com