Life — February 9, 1899 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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the implacable environment of Tony aro drawn with this same firm touch of a realist who has a heart. The children who play in the strects and burt the feelings of the hunchback aro not cruel monsters; they are simply thoughtless waifs who act up to thoir lights, as most youngsters do, Tony's fathor, the drunken, flute-play- ing philosopher, is a perpetual delight, Ho has the humor and sentiment so often found ina good man gone wrong. Among his best sayings are: “Happiness 1 Just a litte butterfly, purple about the only one that has not been id stuck on a card.” « Jeers are the ushers of applanse.?* “Money {8 a good cement for broken bearts.”* “Every man {s labeled somewhere, if you can only find the labe “The wise man ts never tired, for he does bo work.’ ‘Tho precocious Tony had caught some- thing of the philosopher's trick, and summed up the perplexities of his life in the wise sentence: “ Being happy is a knack, like whistling through your fln- gers”—which many wiser people than Tony without humps might take seriously to heart. . . PATIENT reader of American fiction must become a great linguist, for nearly every writer has a pet hero of his own, who speaks a new and wonderful dia- lect. Frederic Remington bas launched a new variety with “Sundown Leflare "(Har- per). Sundown is a balf-breed French Indian who has tho vices of both races, and speaks tho languagy of neither. When you IT Wasy’r. have learned his lingo, which is not very complicated, you enjoy his stories, for Sun- down has the xift of lying delightfully. His cynicism is frank, and tho result of acquired experience in an adventurous life. He can take his place with Lin McLean among tho real plainsmen that it is pleasant to bo acquainted with. Somewhere in the happy bunting grounds of Arcady there is acamp- fire where all these good fellows meet and swap liesand smoke interminably. proch, 109 Rich and Poor at Yale. HE Supreme Court of Connecticut has taken to criticising the authori- ty.) thes at Yale “1 forcharging <2 more for some rooms in {ts dormitortes than for others. It was in the decision of a unced, and Je was discouraging the democratic spirit of college life by exacting ten dollars a week for the palatial apartments in Vanderbilt Hall, and only seventy-five cents a Week for the ratholes in the old brick row, The honorable court has pointed ont an evil that certaiuly 1s increasing, not only at Yale, but at all other colleges—the difference Letween the very poor student and the very rich student—but falls to snggest a remedy. What should Yale do? College life 1s supposed to be a preparation for life tn the world at large. The same differ- ences in rentals exist outside, and no court has yet suggested that they discourage the democratic spirit, College opinion 1s made neither by the very rich nor the very poor, and the Connecticut court may quite safely leave the matter of Yale's democracy to the great majority of students in between the ten- dollar men and the seventy-fve-cent mea, No better evidence could be given than the recent financta! rebuke from Yule students themseives to the annual extravagance of Yale's Junior Promenade. SSM, comicbooks.com