Life — June 2, 1904 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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sing. Wide Open. E?RE gamblers all for wealth unearned, Both those who win and fail. Jerome should raid the wide, wide world, And land usallin jail, oy. prep, | = latest person to deplore and denounce! he vanity and ostentation of women is sor . Herbert J. Davenport, of Chicago “The force that wheels the babies ut in ‘the unappreciated glory of gorgeous equipages,” says Mr. Davenport, “denies to euaren the right to go barefoot that the par- y not be ashamed. For a like reason it em in their Sunday clothes, when they pier and healthier in dirty; determines the marriage preparations and imposes the at- tendant donation party; determines the quality of our dress goods, the name of our tailor, the ext of our collars, the shape of our shoes, the length of our beard; prescribes for women— y wings on her shoulders, and again, for lecorative purposes, busties, humps, and ns, the straight front, the baggy waist, the tortured walk; empties our pocketbooks in order that our wardrobes may be filled with ex- hibition garments; makes half our garments unwearable when not yet outworn; compels us to be ashamed of our poverty, and yet allows 10 joy of our riches; and when all the sus in one final crash and blare of ostentatious effrontery. We waste our wealth. That which was once comfort has become privation by comparison. The cloth that once went with elegance is now the badge of poverty; the cheaper would answer our pur- pose equally well if only others had not the de Splendor, no matter how much it has cost, is not splendor when it has become gen- eral; so material progress, in the way in which we use it, mostly cancels itself in a strife for precedence, and leaves behind it weariness, dis- illusionment, and envy; our energies are wasted ‘neral, and therefore fruitless ministry to All may as well stand still as run in an equal race; when things are measured by comparatives and averages, scramble and scrab- ble count for nothing but exhaustion. No beatiful or graceful fashion, if once attained, is safe to stay. If grace and simplicity come as fashions, they go as fashions. The greed of novelty leaves the beautiful behind as anti. quated, to be succeeded by the ugliness of hoops and humps and wings. Furniture changes in varieties of material and into new grotesquenesses of pattern; houses from all styles in succession to a nightmare in mis- joinder of styles. From champagne to plume: of slaughtered birds, from skunk-skins to je elry, there is nothing permanent but novelty, no custom but change.” Wanted for Cash Reliable, up-to-date list of literary le who are interested in short-story writing. ferences re- quired and given. Address RESPONSIBLE, Rooms 9 and 10, Fort Hill Buildiog, Buston, Mass. THE UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES OF ENTERTAINMENT WITH THE ANGELUS Plainly each person has a different musical taste, and your guest who asks for “The Star Spangled Banner '’ or *¢ Dixie’? doesn’t wish to hear Chopin's Funeral March. Probably he loves the stirring swing of these grand old airs when they are well played. Another time, when you are delighting different listeners with Beethoven, Brahms, or Mozart, you want simple but perfect control of the key board of your piano. You want an instrument which literally responds to every thought—which permits you to give an artistic interpretation of any composer's music—to shade it, to phrase it, to color it, to reproduce it with undiminished richness. Wouldn't you like to besuch a royally good ** Entertainment Committee of One?” You can be, but you must have the perfect assistant, ‘THE ANGELUS—not a coun- terfeit, What gives THE ANGELUS its last and conclusive proof of superiority is The Phrasing Lever Our agents are in every big town or city. 1 gladly mail, free, the address of the nearest one and a handsome bovklet describing LUS and tts wonderful Phrasing Lever. THE WILCOX & WHITE CO. Established 1876 MERIDEN, CONN., U. S. A. Auto Launches, Ste: for Set BEAUTIFUL, RELIABLE, ECONOMICAL, SIMPLE, SAFE catalog gives the truth in detail about the best and pesmeetieata atte Agrncies in all priocipad cities. Write to RACINE. ‘BOAT MFG, CO., Box 102, Muskegon, Mich comicbooks.com