Life — March 30, 1899 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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them. This is a matter entirely in the bands of our police and fire authorities, and they should be held to strict responsibility for their criminal negligence in permitting greedy managers to crowd their theatres so that in caso of disaster the dead would be numbered, not by scores, hat by hundreds. . . . MERICANS AT HOME” at the Lyceum is certainly harmless, and in that particular goes as far in one direction as “ The Tree of Knowledge” did in the other. But in trying to frame an attraction that would not harm the youngest and tenderest matinéo girl the authors quite forgot that a play to amuse even the most immature mind must have something in it besides handsome gowns and costumes, and clover people to wear them. Evon the most unobjection- ablo society talk on tho stage—contrary to tho usago in real society—must clothe ideas. “Americans at Home” won't do, even for the matinée girl. Metcalfe. April I. BY M. E. w. PON tho first of April Jack Frost went dancing forth, He dared delay no longer His journey to the North; For homeward in the distance Ho saw the swallows veer, To bring tho swoet spring weather When skies grow warm and clear, One last, light-fingered Allip Ho gave the fluttering vane, And wroto his farewoll message i On many a window-pane; Then down into tho woodland Or. mischief bent ho stopped, | Where, droamlog through the winter, Tho buds and blossoms slept. “I talked so loud of starting, A wook or two ago, That all tho silly greon things Of course began to grow. Aha! I'll stop and give them A parting nip," quoth ho; “They'll find it is not easy To got abead of me.” But suddonly his laughter Died on tho forest air. Why, not a leat had opened, Tho boughs wero brown and bare; And sick at heart ho listened— From thicket, hollow, pool, There stole a mocking whisper: “Jack Frost's an April Fool!” Prsident McKinley's Cabinet. It is understood that in eR, case of another war the Secrctary will not award the “~~ contract for canned maggots to the same firm that supplied them during the War for Humanity. 285 IFE has exclusive information from Washington that Mr. R. A. Alger is still Secretary of War in comicbooks.com