Life — March 29, 1900 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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AN ENGLISH SPAKIOW. OSTON, it seems, is inclined to try Sapho, and sce if it is really as objectionable as New York believes it is. Boston opinion will be interesting and perhaps valuable. She may merely conclude that the moral of Sapho is too obscure to be detected by uncultivated cities. ype signs that the s.lver craze is permanently dead are very convincing, and it begins to look as though Mr, Bryan would do well to enter for the best thing in the way of consola- tion stakes that is offered. ke him your "FO grant the ordinary man equality is to superior. DINNER A LA CARTR, The Strenuous Life. (Verses read at the Harvard Club Dinner tn New York, Fed. £1, 1900.) I WENT down East to a football mateh; great game; I'll go again, Thero played a chap they called MeBride, who bad the strength of ten, And divers more, whoso names I miss, but they seemed to Le all good men. Thirty mon or thereabouts competed thero that day. irty thousand anxious souls observed their urgent play, All Harvard went prepared to yell; all Harvard stayed to pray. Our beings to their cores were stirred by those young men, nes doing stunts far too sublime for pei Down to Yale's yard line they fought; Yale fought them back “And all that work and no one’s game!" sighed Las wo turned y- “They jolly well got their exercise,” my seat-mato said, this day. “In the strenuous life 'tisn’t wins that count, so much as how hard you play, “Don't bother about what's ya proper man, “In the strenuous life, to do hard things in the har the plan, “And to keep tho biggest possible crowd as erazy ax ¢ ean.” , or whether you wallop the * Poor liver-saddened old croal their power; “Whose museles aro soft and his spunk collapsed, and bis spirit subdued and sour, “Grand fs strifo of the strenuous life, and the world’s best hope in this hour!” said T, whose thews buve lost “Granny!” said he, “those were fluo young lads, and vigorous through and through, put commendublo snap, 1 own, in the singular things they do. “StI, grantiy religiot “ The: a sport is a right good sort, need wo make it too? “Must we add to the cross w pole, J shove the bar along a bit, till it's what they ¢ y vou must drive between the posts as your soul? ve had so long another upright Ha goal, ou hope more to life than bustling, man, though hustling bas its plice, o's Virtua in contentment still; tranquillity’s a grace; * According to his legs and lungs, must cach man set his pace, T've thought about it often since, and doubtless shall again, The str us life's a tiptop thing, Tg Whose necks aro short, und whose heads are hard, and who have the strength of ten, x, for strenuous men But as for us, the meek and mild, our racket’s to adbere To docile virlue's modest path, nor let ambition queer Our sense, nor ever lure us off a strenuous course to steer, ‘To pose as strenuous half a day, and spend a weck in ved Would never do; we'd lose our Jobs; our babes would Ietter to save our meagre strength to earn our daily br About one strenuous man to every thousand folk» is right, Five hundred lean and vigilant to keep him aye in sight; Five handred fat to sit on him hard when he happens to want Martin,