Life — January 3, 1901 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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A New Year’s Gift, (To Tar GIRL We ALL Kxow.) D** if I might, I'd give no gems, Nor fabries fair, Nor roses on long royal stems, Nor pictures rare; Not even books, to make you wise, Were there such need— But I would give a grander prize, Greater, indeed, Than the most high accomplish- ment Your wish could crave— The grace, sweetheart, to be content With what you have! Madeline Bridges. AJOR POND is a man of experience and ought not to have got into such a scrape as he did in putting un- authorized names on his recep- tion committee for Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill. But there was no harm done. The pro- Boer gentlemen who didn’t feel like serving said so, and Mark Twain, who introduced Mr. LIFE Churchill, made it unmistaka- bly clear that one might have brotherly feelings for the Brit- ish without endorsing all their government policies. They have sinned, said our Brother Mark, in interfering with the Boers, just as we have sinned in interfering with the Fili- pinos. What a blessed thing it is for a man who has a mind to speak it, and how excellent an art it is to speak one’s mind frankly and effectively, and yet without offense ! A Dreadful State of Affairs. E E: Well, we can’t believe - more than half we hear. Sue: Oh, worse than that; Ican’t believe more than half I say. TF the Pan-American pans out to match its Niagara poster, it will be u good show. The poster is an ornament to the country. HIS is the season when we look our selves over, and make up our minds to do better than we have done in the past ; when we cast up our personal accounts and hope to arrange matters so that this year we shall beable to strike even a better balance than we have last year. Let us, then, make some appropriate and timely resolutions, that shall be in accord with the times, and do us credit. Let us resolve never to tell a lie, unless the occasion really demands it. No doubt most of us can look back on a host of super- fluous and unnecessary untruths, which we fell into unwittingly, without proper pre- meditation. But hereafter we will use our stock of available lies only where they will do the most good. Like all good things, they require temperance in their induizence. Let us resolve not to steal from anyone who cannot afford it. Heretofore, there have been moments when we have not been discriminating enough in this respect. #) Sundry widows and orphans have come within our spheres, and, maybe by mere force of habit, we have been too free with their possessions. During the coming year, however, we will curb this tendency, and rob only those who will not miss what we succeed in relieving them of, Let us resolve to abstain just enough from all those flesh-pots, that the immoderate use of invites disaster, and use them only to the extent of our physical capabilities. Thus we shall reap a full harvest of enjoyment without’ remorse, and doubly strengthen ourselves by an ever-increasing resistance gathered by judicious exercise. Let us resolve to love our fellow-men, not so much for what we can get out of them, as for the capacity, which, by giying to them, is created within us to be happier than we have been. And finally, let us resolve not to resolve to do anything which is not easier to do after we have resolved it than before. Tom Masson. WHAT SHALL IT BE How He Got In. TTORPEY: I assure you f was per- fectly amazed to meet Loosevish there. How did he manage to get into Society ? Deputrit: Oh, he got a bad name, and everybody wanted to have him. ']’HEY tell us there isa scheme afoot to induce Congress to enlarge the White House, according to plans con- trived by the wives of several of the Presidents, with more or less semi- expert assistance from engineer officers of the army. On the face of it that sounds bad, and the American Insti- tute of Architects, recently in conven- tion in Washington, have declared officially that these plans ought not to be executed. If the White House is to be enlarged it should be done in the best manner possible, and we certainly don’t want to save architects’ fees in the work. But Congress built the Congressional Library with the help of army engineers and did it well, and perhaps the White House is in less danger of being botched than the architects think. comicbooks.com