Life — March 5, 1903 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“* While there is Life there’s Hope.” Vou. XLL MARCH 5, 1908. No. 1062. 19 West Tninty-First St. Naw YORK. 8400 a year In a ries in tho Postal @ year extra. singh © co Back numbers, after three months date of publication. 2 cents. No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced, Prompt notification should be sent by sub- cribers of any change of address. trons ‘HE Germans and British who lately blockaded Vene- zuela have been in- duced to go home. General Castro has promised to pay of Venezu- outstanding bills. She owes citizens of nearly every country in Enrope, and seems to have no available revenue except what is collected at her custom houses. Of this, a large part is now pledged to defray these foreign obligations. How the Republic is go- ing to maintain its own government and conduct the necessary semi-annual revolutions without this custom-house money, remains to be seen. Nothing that is known of General Castro, who is the present government, warrants the belief that he cares at all whether Venezuela's debts are paid or not, and nothing that is known of General Matos, who may defeat and supersede General Castro at any minute, suggests that he takes fiscal tions any more to heart t General Castro does. Vene: toms of being an irresponsible It may be necessary before long to have a receiver appointed to manage her property and see that a reasonable sharo of her income goes to satisfy the reasonable demands of her creditors. ‘The question is, Who has power to appoint him? The Monroe Doctrine says that Europe can’t do it. How long before it will have to be done by the United States? If President some aL ARE Diaz is not too old for such service, why not appoint him? (Saf jie is reported that Mr. John W- Gates is going to retire from active business, and try tu get some real satis- faction out of life. He has lately been travelling in the West, and denied on February 19th, in Chicago, that he had won a million dollars at cards on his trip. He said the stories were three- quarters. 1i $1,000,000—$750,000= $250,000, which is a fair haul. But, after all, there isn’t much real comfort in playing cards except for a change. Bishop Spalding lectured the other day on ‘* How to Make the Most of Life.’’ He said that seventy-one per cent. of business failures were for moral causes. But that does not apply to Mr. Gates, who has done very well in business. He said: ‘‘One must be earnest to attain anything.” Mr. Gates has been earnest. He said: “It is the quality of the things a man yearns for that determines success in making the most of life There is more pros- pect of help for Mr, Gates in that idea. If he is really going to settle down now and take comfort, it may pay him to obtain from Bishop Spalding a list of yearnings suitable to his case, and see if he can realize them. The pros- pect that he will be able to make the most of life by his own undirected efforts seems dubious. jt is suggested that the President’s salary be doubled. It is some years since it was raised, and mean- while the country has grown in wealth and population, so that it is not only harder to govern it, and provide it with office-holders, but there is an ap- preciable increase in the demand for meals—inelnding stimulants, music and tobacco—at the White House, The capacity of the White House for hos- pitalities has lately been very much increased by providing another build- ing for the President's business offices. The cost of living in it has in- creased proportionately. The cellars hold more rum than heretofore, the bedrooms more beds, the beds more guests. A President who lives up to the present opportunities of the plant mast unquestionably be at more ex- pense than his predecessors. Think how inconvenient it would be to have a President go out on strike ! To be sure,that is not threatened. But if we ought to make the salary a hundred thousand dollars a year, we can afford todoit. The best reason for doing it is that our Presidents are usually poor men, and that they ought to be able, easily and without cheese-paring, to save enough ont of their salaries dur- ing a single term of office to keep them in decent comfort the rest of their days a t UR friends in New York, Pitts- burg, Chicago, Philadelphia and other centres of interest in Art will bo glad to learn that the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the Fenway, In- corporated, in Boston, is now open to the public on the first and third Mon- days of each month, and the following Tuesdays, from eleven A. M, to three P.M. Only two hundred tickets will be sold for any one day, and none will be sold at the door, The price of ad- mission will be one dollar. On this basis the Museum will not make any money unless the gate receipts are heavily reinforced by gains from slot ma- chines, exit fees and the sale of refreshments. But widespread inter- est will be felt in the opening of Mrs. Gardner’sshow. Aremarkable woman has gathered a remarkable collection of pictures and junk in one of the most remarkable edifices ever put together. She has done it in her own wi that not been in the least like the way of anyone else. But she has done it wonderfully well; sosays every one whose opinion about pictures and palaces is worth attention. Let us make our acknowledgments toa lady who has placed an object of unique interest upon American soil, and opened the door, on a crack, to the public. comicbooks.com