Life — February 23, 1899 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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sy: A RESPITE. to the public's satisfaction, that the workingman may enjoy all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life, including his dinner in three courses, his cup of black coffee, and, let us hope, his cigarette and cordial, to speed digestion and repose. It is an interesting experiment, especially to the rich, who like to talk abcut the prosperity of the poor, The array of figures quoted would dazzle anyone who did not know well the inber- ent falsity of statistics, The bills of fare are excellent; the prices paid for provisions are amazingly low. A popular fea- ture of the entertainment is the giving out of the family wash, it being the expert's opinion that soapsuds and damp clothes are responsible for colds and croup. Everybody says to every- body else, ‘Isn't it wonderful?” And everybody else says to everybody, ‘Isn't it a blessing?” And the workingmar’s wife looks up from her tub and her stove to catch the echoes of applause, She is not accustomed to write for the press, or she, too, might have a useful word to say, ‘Agnes Repplier. JNO. one suspected that our noble and universally oblig- ing President could be gulity of such cruelty as he has shown in the sentence imposed on General Fagan, Think of it! For the slight offense of conduct unbe- coming an officer and a gentle: man, General Fagan ts compelled to retain his rank as Commtssary- General, to draw a salary of $5,500 a year for the next six years for doing nothing, and then to be retired with pay of $4,12 year for the rest of bis Ife. Sec- retary Alger has evidently forgot- ten fo remind the President of the Constitutional prohibition against MADE IN GERMANY. cruel and unusual punishments, ‘HE folks who aro responsible for the improved methods of T harrying returning travelers which are now in operation in New York aro the members of the Mercbants and Manufacturers Board of Trade, whereof the president is C. C. Shayne, the furrier, Among the other officers of the association aro three tailors, a dealer in dressmakers’ supplies, a haberdasber and an auctioneer. These persons want to discourage Americans from making pur- chases in Europe, to the end that their own sales may be larger. ‘There is much to be said for a just enforcement of the tariff laws, but when the Treasury Department lends itself to the execution of schemes devised by greedy New York tradesmen in their own interest for the annoyance of travelers, it lays itself open to more and juster criticism than it can afford to meet. “TERR DELICATESSEN SEEMS VERY TATPY THIS MORNING.” “YES; IIS SAUSAGE TOOK A BLUE RIBBON AT THE DOG snow.” comicbooks.com