Life — January 5, 1905 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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SOCIETY. NE gest coming out receptions of the winter will be given by Mrs. Fat- tish-Rekkod at her splendid resider to introduce her daughter, Miss Boodie Rekkod. The débutante tremely pretty girl and was a great belle at Newport last summer. is splendidly educated and can make considerable noise theatre party. The John Bullions have at last closed their country place at Waterstock-on-the- Sli, and are now in town Mrs. Bullion has a straight nose and eats with her f the lar- exe mouth, Mrs. Innittor Dedd_ en- joyed the opera last Monday, although she much prefers conversation to music. Her mother was a South Carolina Chinnor. Nice people Mr. and Mrs. Merger Hogg will dine next Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Munnie Dussyt The company will be select. Mrs. Hogg is now one of the acknowledged leaders of fash- jonable society. There are sure no better judges of character than society re- porters, and they all pro- nounce her a marvellous creature One of the most beautiful f the coming s ¢ Miss Tootsie Galore, daughter of Mr. Boodle Ga- lore ($30,000,000), whose marriage to Mr. Charles Lottsmore-Style is to take place in the Church of the Holy Divi- dends next month, Mr. F. Somewhat Pumkyns almost ok a ribbon at the horse show last gvember. All the Pumkyns are more or less talented. F. Somewhat is a nephew of Miss Constant Chinnor. New Year’s. IRST RESOLUTION : How are you feeling ? Seconp Resotution : Broke. -LIFE- Football in the Magazines. HE football stories which have come to blossom annually in the fall magazines all belong in the de- partment of literature which is known as “juvenil are, as a rule, only about twent years old, and have not as yet been n © of wives. Consequently their love affairs are transient and illusory, and do not deserve the serious atten- tion of magazine readers, But who can blame ine editors? When thirty thousand people, mostly grown- up, go to a football game, and who knows how many million people read the football news first in the Sunday papers, how can the magazines be ex- pected to reject the football fiction? ‘The really interesting figure in the football picture is the parent who is trying to raise a boy who will be worth ing, and who is torn by the emo- tions which his lad’s prowess in foot- 23 ball induces. The conflict between his. pride and his fears, his hops nd his compunctions, his admiration for what the boy does and his convictions as to what he ought to be doing—that is a complication fit for grown-up writers to tackle and adult readers to enjoy. The real problem about football as it is played is—What does it do to the boy? Cannot the editors direct their contrib- utors more to the answer of that ques- tion? Wives and Incomes. A. Western editor insists that the marriage which isa failure is the fault mostly of the man who espouses a seal- skin wife on a coonskin income, and Western editors certainly know a great deal about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However, the last word has not been It is impossible to ignore the case of the man who, having a coonskin income, duly marries him a coonskin wife (miscegenation not hinted at) but lives to find his income, owing to his frugality, his business acumen and his body's 3 ine, become distinctly sealskin, The case is not very une common, and with prosperity in the hands of its friends, it will be less rather than more uncommon as the years roll by. ‘A jewel of gold in a swine’s snout isn't a circumstance to a coonskin woman who has a sealskin income to get away with, unless, of course, she can be brought to go to Was! to reside, and plunge unreservedly into the society of the gay capital, ington IRANDY: Paw, that chap from the city has been sittin’ on the fence all the morning saying nauthin’ except that he was gettin’ some local color. Por: Well, I guess he's got it. That fence has just been painted, At the Museum. ITTLE BOY: Who is that strange creature, papa? Is he a wild man? Para: No, my son, He is a Demo- crat, Society Item. HERE will be a reunion of Andrew Carnegie’s sweethearts in the town hall this evening. All are invited to attend, comicbooks.com