Life — March 28, 1901 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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The Disease Called Cities. ‘PvBLIC automobiles don’t pay in Chi- cago, because the pavements are so bad that it takes an excessive amount of power to drive the machines over them. We have better pavements i New York, but even New York is not perfect. Devery is Chief of Police here; deputy-chief to be sure, but that’s the same thing. Philadelphia is not an immaculate city, either. It has better pavements now than Chi- cago, but it is known as ono of the best robbed cities in the world, Oh! but all these are American citi now Lon- don-but here's the London Duily Mail pro- claiming: \ The transit system of London ts obsolete ; her streets va) are year by year more and more invaded by gres \ \, list compantes ; most of her roads outside the main artertes of -" tramMc, and many of the main arteries themselves, are badly laid, ™~ badly cleansed and imperfectly lNghted; her water system 1s ‘unequal to the requirements of the population, and her slum areas are a scandal and a disgrace. Being a big city seems to be a kind of disease, the symptoms of which are dirt and all manner of roguery. May be it's incurable. It looks so, though sometimes it improves under treatment. We would probably do well to take a philosophical view of it, recognizing that miti- A WESTERN GROWTH. ‘LIFE + MAY, MARIE, THAT INFERNAL STORK HAS MADE A MISTAKE, 1 THINK" gation is all that is possible, and striving steadily for as large a measure of that as can be got. When our personal health is not so gravely impaired as to prevent our doing business, we don't complain much, and when the town we live in is not too diseased to work in, we suffer and go on. Noncommittal. OHEN : Then you didn’t set the fire yourself? IsaacsTeIn: Vell, the chury disagreed. Keeping Up the Good Work. “ HANKS to my efforts,"’ said the missionary on Chinese soil, “this has indeed been a good year. I have converted over one hundred natives, and gathered in twelve thousand dollars for the cause."’ He smiled gratefully. “Of course, there is always danger in this fickle climate of those converts becoming backsliders, but at least the cash is safe."’ FIFE was misled by a newspaper dispatch in saying, on March 7, that Stat tor Chilton, of Minnesota, wanted to prohil women from marrying after the age of forty-five. The Senator's bill had to do with the regulation of marriages of women under forty-five, and of men of any age. Its purpose was to promote celibacy among imbeciles, insane persons, and persons afilicted epilepsy. One does not have to be much of a Calvi that there is a place somewhere that is kept hot for the use of persons who get lying dispatches into reputable newspapers.