Life — April 5, 1900 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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THEN THR CARRION BUZZARD SHAUES 18 PROFITS WITH THE: MAN. T, WHO IS THE KING BUZZARD, From Experience. Parse They say a horse bas every disease that Do you believe it? I bought one from a friend a human being has, Jane: I know it. recently. STREET IN THE ATHENS OF AMERICA. SHOWING TRMPLE IN WIICIE BOSTONIANS MEET FOR SRLF-WORSIIP. AND THR KING BUZZARD, WHO 19 THR MANAGER, EXPLAINS THAT NE 18 TRYING IIS BEST TO PREVENT IT. The Meanest City in the United States. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. HICH is the meanest city in the United States? This isan important question, and one that Lire would like to have definitely settled, With that object in view, wo offer A Prize of Fifty Dollars in Gold for tho best statement of facts which prove that any particular city is the meanest ono in this country. Conditions. Competitors must mit thelr arguments to three hundred words each. Write on one side of the paper only. The contest will close May Ist, 1900, and the award will be made as soon thereafter as the respective merits of the arguments can be determined. ‘The winning argument will be printed, together with such others as may keem to Lire worthy of that distinguished hover, + Names and addresses of the writers xhontd accompany all mann- acriptx, In no case will these be printed without the permiadon of the sender. Those who desire thelr manuscripts returned atiould enclose a stamped and addressed return envelope. Fach manuscript may bear a pseudonym, which will be printed with Itors of Lave ure to be the sole Judges of the merits of the arguinents, BOSTON. To appreciate Just how mean Roston {4, 18 a hard matter. one Who has the good sense and discrimination has ever rematned long enough In Boston to find out; and the Inliatatants who ought to know are 80 filled with thelr own concelt that they don’t know the place Is mean, A mean man never knows his own mean- ness, Homer 18 still rampant tn Boston. ‘The old gentleman sleeps at night on the Common, eats his morning ple In the Parker House cate, and watches the trains, on the lookout for Henry James. When that great man comes to town and gives him a passing nod, * Homer ts not himself for a week. He drinks hard cider and has a high old tiue In honor of the e Toston was born In an east wind, nurtured on codfish balls and beans, and ts now living on @ diet of Ibsen and Ipecac. Toston can digest anything, Sewer Pipe Hearst, Dick Le Galllene and I, Zangwill once went to Boston, In & party, and they were assimilated In twenty-four hours. Boston Is the home of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- pany, those brave men who have fought for drinks In every lar room In the World, and whose restaurant exploits may never be told In fitting language enough, There tx no place tn the world—except Kosion—where & man has to kiss hls best girl by dictionary, and make love generally by the dim light of an encyclopedia, No congregation of old women in these whole United States of America could get together and organize a Iterary club any better