Life — November 16, 1899 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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An Anglo-American Relief ‘Ship. HE project of the American women fo England to equip and send out a hospital ship to South Africa must commend itself to Americans, to which- ever side in the Transvaal war their ~LIFE< take care of two hundred sick people for three months, Fifty thousand persons, men, women and children, are refugees from the scene of war and are gathered at Cape Town, Durbun and Delagoa Bay. The senders of this ship bave needs of these refugees in mind as well as the care of the wounded, Lire has been requested by the London committee to receive Amcrican subscriptions to defray the expenses of this ship. and willacknowledge and forward all sums that may be sent to it. sympathies inclice, Most of us are rather anxious neutrals io our attitude to that war. We look on with the liveliest interest, but with conflicting emotions. We could not fight on either side, but there is nothing in our sympathy for the Boers that would hinder us from bindiog up the wounds of the British if we got a chance, nor vice veraa. ‘There are plenty of Americans who would be glad to help send a hospital ship to the Boers, if the Boers had a port, and such a thing was possible. It is not, for they have no port; but we can help these ladies in London with their ship, and let's do it, Lady Randolph Churchill is the chairman of their committee, which includes Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, Mrs. Paget, Mrs, Van Duzer and other womenof American birth. They are raising one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to send a ship with stores, equipments and room sufficient to A Welcome Change. RS. HENPECK: I don’t sce how you could marry again if { should dic, for be- fore we were married you used to say there ‘was not another woman in the world like me. Henreck: That is just what might induce me to take another ANOTHER “MAN WITH THE WHoOs.” The Coming Season. 4 Bates are days when Major J. B, Pond’s lecture lyceum knows no rest, War may show its horrid front and kings totter on their throne, but the foreign celebrity and the domestic home-brewed lecturer are pruning themselves before the looking-glass just the same, preparing for the season's harvest. Let us glance at a list of coming attractions, that we may know what js in store for us. We note that our old friend Hall Caine will visit us once more, Discarding the coarse locomotion of the ocean steamer, he will spread his whiskers after the holidays and fly over, When our Christmas gifts have been distributed, our Christmas dinner digested. and we are scttling down once more to humdrum life, Hall Caine will come to cheer our hearts, adorn our morals and lighten our pocketbooks, He will, as usual, read from his own works, His latest conspiracy against us is entitled ‘Home, Sweet Home. An unpublished, spoken novel.” He will read it in installments, from eight to twelve every night, and every victim will be given a souvenir alarm clock. Max O'Rell is also coming. We note that bis lectures are on England and America, but, alas! he will tell us nothing about his own country. Why doesn’t the Major Firgtt, to Dante: AND HERE WR HAVE THE RAG-TIME COMPOSER, RVERLASTINOLY CONDEMNED TO LISTEN TO HIS OWN MUSIC ON THE PHONOGRAPI.