Life — April 24, 1902 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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Kickers’ Column. IFE PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK. Gentlemen ; 1 suppose you like frankness. Having Just read the Easter number of Live, I give you my optoton of it. From all standpotots this issue 1s @ grievous disappointment. The pictures are netther artistic nor attractive, the wit and humor are feeble, and the longer articles are foolish and tnaue. Think of still ringing changes on that most delicate and humorous subject —seasickness | Many of your pictures not only are useless, but are actually offensive ; ¢.g., the microbe thing, the automobile accidents, and the obscurely depicted flood of Europe. From what It was some time ago Livehas sadly deteriorated. A pablic liking and supporting ‘such & paper has lost its taste for the bright, clean wit, the funny sayings and tbe clever pictures that are shown on other sheets and that ouce graced the pages of your paper. Like some other things, Lig ts now evidently living on {ts past reputation, Doubtless tt ts making money because Its material coxts litle, much of it probably almost nothing. But such stad ts not worth the paper on which It ta printed. I know you like frankness and honesty when combined with good judgment. Here you have them. Yours truly, Cicaco, March 29, 1902, HD. Brown. 7 LIE § To Tue Epiror op Lire, Dear Sir; \ veg to protest, as a subscriber, against the silly and unmaniy ridicule of Miss Stone in Live for April 3, J am not acquainted with this lady, nor bave leven ‘Any personal interest in the matter, neither am 1 con- nected with her particular denomination of Cristian belief. I happen to know, however, something abont the herotsm and soldierly qualt- tes of misstonarles. The age of true chivalry ts not dead so long as the world produces such people as Miss Stone. They are by no means of the ‘long-haired men” nor short-haired women " type and not all given to * gush." Netther are they tnclined to meddle with other people's business any more than #® physictan, who tries to alleviate physical disease, If It bad not been for forelgn missionartes nineteen hundred years ago, both Earope and Amertca would be to-day little better than dark contt- nents. The lampooner tn this connection doesn't know what he {s talking about If he tnsinuates that missionartes be- long to a class of religious mendicants 1n search of “soft snaps," If he will take the trouble to investigate he will find that all honest expertence xbows that there is such @ thing as Christian knighthood, and it ts very far from any- thing Qutxotte, Nelther St. Paul, Dr. Judson, Dr, Livingstone, nor thousands of other misstonartes bad abont them anything sanctimonious. If your con- tributor will mingle for awhtle with Dr, Monk : BUT BOW ABOUT MY LITTLE DILL? Elephant : OU, VLL BR PASSING YOUR OFFICE SOME TIMP ; BUT IP 1 OVERLOOK IT, JUST DROP ME A COCOANUT. the best type of misstonary the scales will prota bly fail from bis eyes, He will find no type of man or woman supertor to them in herotam, tatel ligence or any of those other quailties that man ‘most admires in his fellow man or woman, 1am, dear sir, very truly yours, Henry J. Rowland. P, S.-It ts true that tacompetent and un- worthy persons have sometimes drifted {nto the misslonary ranks, ‘This 1s true of all professions, Its not the rule, however, but the exception. PHiLapeiruta, Pa., April 2, 1902, Dear Lire : You are great at Jumping on the English for thelr work tn South Africa, bat you ‘aro rather chary of your criticism of our people for devilment a thousand times more criminal— in we. For we are Republicans (1) and should have no part in sins that the Engitsh have been committing all thelr national iife. Why can’t you be more tmpartial with your Judgments? There ts nothing that can palilate our crimes 10 the Philtppines. You seem lost in contemplation of British perfidy. Don't forget yourself and ws. Yours truly, An Olt Soctalist. Historic Sayings. “To err is human; stupid 1" to get caught— ** Reform does not begin at home.” “0 Poetry! tion!” Thy name is often Indiges- “He laughs at scratches who never felt the vaccine virus.” “A King is only a two-spot to his valet!” comicbooks.com