Life — November 3, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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«LIP ROKER'S notion of a bership ‘to determine their professional Tammany Bar Associ- standing. ation is a good idea. It would bea convenience The Tutor. TUTOR who tooted the flute, - to have the lawyers of Tried to teach two young tooters to toot; New York more care- Suid the two to the tutor, fully classified. Members of a Tam. Te harder ko teak or many Bar Association would need no To tutor two tooters to toot ?” other tag than the emblem of their mem- Carolyn Wells, Saas 5 Bird: ARE YOU THE GENTLEMAN Wilo OWNS Tas Place? “yes.” “po You CALL TuIe mosprratity ?"* HEREAS, the fashion - mon- gers, whoever go about de- vising new forms of devilment for the confusion of their victims, have given orders that strect dresses are now to be , worn with long skirts, and whereas, there is ample evidence in the streets that the orders are being respected, itis proper that. a protest should be filed against this unscrupulous perversion of power. The world of average dames seems entirely helpless before it, and only exceptional women of strong individual sense seem disposed to defy the Parisian ogre and have their skirts adapted to the uses that await them. Bad fashions ought to be beaten, This one, that condemns all dames who have regard for the mode to hold their skirts up whenever they walk abroad, is a detestable invention, contrary to good ethics and common sense, and a menace to health. Women who wear trail- ing skirts in the street, or about their ordi- nary daytime avocations, are geese. It is not quite polite to say 80, but the case is important, and the truth about it should be spoken. SERIES of concerts, whose pro- grammes will consist almost en- tirely of madrigals sung by a triple quartette, are announced by Messrs, Chickering and Sons, The madrigal is a beautiful musical form only too little appreciated in this country, and these CLEVER SCHEME OP A GENTLEMAN OP LARGE ACQUAINTANCE WHO ALREADY HAS A VIOLENT concerts will furnish excellent oppor- IN THE HEAD. tunities to study it. ii comicbooks.com