Life — November 19, 1903 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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SPORTS OF THE ANCIENTS. A COMING REVIVAL AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. “Very Sober Truth.” (COLONEL HENRY WATTERSON, of The Louisville / Courier-Journal, is a distinguished journalist who means what he says and is never bashful in saying what he means. Reprinting an editorial from Lire under the above heading, he prefaces it with the following expressions of opinion: Of all the professedly humorous publications of this country—and there have been many of them—Lire easily leads the procession. It is racy of the soil, even as Punch in London is racy of English soil; a reflection of the moods and tenses of the time, of the thoughts and fancies of the people, brilliantly illustrated and admirably written. But it is not alone a farceur, or even what in the old stage parle used to be called a High Comedian. It has a serious side; all the better because it is independent; equally unpurchasable and clean, and generally able to hit the bull’s-eye with a single shot out of a rifle. Notwithstanding these statements, LIFE sees no reason to change its previous good opinion of Colonel Watterson’s veracity and discernment. Our Fall and Winter Styles in Books. Cerfetions of a Cook: A young girl, who has served out for two weeks, has put down all her psycho- logical impressions on papers left by the butcher. The whole has been photographed and reproduced in exquisite colors, Some chapters are: ‘ Bringing Up Coal,’ “* What the Chore Boy Said,” ‘‘ Cerebral Longings of Alarm Clock, ‘‘ Thoughts on Cold Garbage,”’ etc. The Complicated Life: A series of essays showing what we need to be more successful than we are. Quick- ness reduced to a science, with a number of illustrations of devices to insure rapidity. This book will undoubtedly be endorsed by President Roosevelt and Dr. Park- hurst ; John Dowie and Anthony Comstock are expected to read it. Bringing Up a Child: By Billy Be Damm, author of Education Down to Date. This charming child study is intended to accompany the guide to parents, used in all homes. It is only eight hundred pages long and can be read in six months. It shows plainly that all present methods of education are wrong and has a new theory to advocate. The author has spent nearly a week in observing children and is fully qualified. The New Gospel: With manual of arms, by a retired clergyman, showing, not only how one hundred per cent. dividends can be declared by any church, but also how science and theology can be reconciled—something never thonght of before. Arbitration Treaty. Differences which are of no possible consequences, which nobody cares about one way or the other, and which cannot be made to serve any purpose whatever by remaining unaccommodated, shall be sub- mitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. ArticLe II. Either of the high contracting parties is perfectly free to violate any provision of this treaty at any time. A RTICLE I Comfort ! QUEEMINTENDENT (of Metropolitan Strect Railay): ‘Shall we put on the full complement of open cars I think so, It looks like snow. comicbooks.com