Life — July 26, 1900 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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ENGLISH SPOKEN MAN SPRICHT DEUTSCH THE ORIGINAL SKYSCRAPER. as, To Church or Not to Church. HE question of playing golfon Sunday Odes GR Will probably never be he raised again, it having been settled to the delecta- tion of the great arm those in the small mi % satisfied to take their fun on weel days. So with tennis in its time, wheeling, and other disaffecting influences. But now, such is the number of Sunday heretics, that we are beginning to ask ourselves, with serious unction, whether we shall go to church on Sunday or not, and this question seems to be taking the place of the other difficulties. It was not so long ago that a prominent— or perhaps notorious is the better word nowadays —clergyman declared that the reason for the falling off in church attend- 73 ance was due to the fact that people no longer be- lieved in a hell. From this standpoint, therefore, those who have made a practice of going to church, and now go no more, were clearly driven to it, and the consequent relief upon a curtailment of the hercafter tothe lopping off of the lower half has been in the nature of a popular outburst. Perhaps the advanced per- ception that there is no hell bye and bye has helped to the belief that, after all there is more fun on earth than has teen dreamed of. At any rate, a great many folks who formerly went to church are giving up one’ day in the week to their own pleasure. HERE seems to bo a way not to be nomi- nated for Vice-President if the chosen victim’s reluctance is sufficiently violent. Every friend of Senator Hill must rejoice that he found it at Kansas City, and declined to go down into the pit that his enemies had dug for him. He would have strength- ened the ticket, of course, but it would have been at the cost of his own self-respect and of his reputation among Demo- crats of his way of thinking. He is not a man who has always had the confidence of the best men of his party, but he is able and sane, and has a record, and now in his own State is arrayed against the worst ele- ments in his party. It was impudence to propose such a man as the tail to Bryan’s kite. No Hope. COBBLE: I wish I could stop play- ing poker. Stone: Why don’t you swear off? “Ido, But every single time I swear off I begin to win.””