Life — January 1, 1903 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE* 15 to the times,” he said smilingly, encircling her with his arm. ‘Ihave even changed my coat of arms to one more appropriate.” “Tho beaver and the windmill?” she questioned. “The beaver and the windmill no longer,” he an- swered. ‘‘The arms of New York is now a Jew, a cocktail, and a peroxide blonde against a field of gold.’ Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, Classes. THE middle class are an ex- tremely important and useful class. They are often spoken of, not unjustly, as the great middle class. It is from the middle class that the indispensable upper class are recruited. For the middle class not only amass the money, but they beget the fools to part with the same, also. Art would doubtless fare but meagrely without the middle class. Tho lower class are too poor to patronize art much, and the upper class really have some judgment in those mat- ters. The middle class neglect their civic duties, and this makes business brisk for the reformers, many of the wor- thiest of whom would otherwise have to go to work. The women of the middle class are ashamed of their men-folks. Thus they contribute in no small measure to the creation of a correct popular taste. RIGGS: Well, the next thing J. Pierpont Morgan will own the solar system. Grices: Why, he already con- trols 7'he Sun. “om, Tes! JCS? ABOUT THE TIME WHEN I WAS ORTTING THAT RING.” OM, FLUTTERING URART, 817 STILL comicbooks.com