Life — March 23, 1905 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Suffering Passenger : “WELL, YC Boston’s Work-Horse Parade. HEY have an institution in Boston called the Work-Horse Parade Asso- tion, which lives and moves in the inte est of work-horses. It holds in that inter- est every year a parad all work horses (except hack- and cab-horses) that are not sick, lame, dock-tailed, out of con- », or otherwise unfit for work, may be entered for prizes, The horses are classified according to the business in which they are OU! CAPTAIN, UM AFRAID IT'S ALL UP WITH ME! REEN AT IT LONG ENovGH I” employed, the prizes being awarded for con- dition and manners, and for comfortable har- =. Age counts in favor of the horse, and of two horses equally deserving, the older The underlyin, id humane treatment of rses, and that the means serve the nessi gets the prize, motive is to foster intelligent a work intended end is certified by the projectors, who announce that the third annual parade will be held next month, This is the only enterprise of the horse- show species that we know of that is con- ducted primarily in the interest of the horse and his health and comfort, Most shows of the sort are devised to minister to the pride of horse owners, though the horses, too, may be the better for them, A New Spoke in the Hub. H, Shades of Boston Culture, ‘That are thronging down the aisles Of the Temple of thu In all literary styles, Famous Will you pause in contemplation Of the way you did it then, As Thomas W, Lawson Flings his frenzied finance pen ? Do you mind how Hawthorne did it, With a magic in his way That was clear as morning sunshine And as clean as new-mown hay ? Do you think that Nat could equal, If he had the chance again, This Thomas W, Lawson As he flings his frenzied pen ? And there was great Longfellow Who could make a stanza sing Ina dozen different measures, With a runic, rhythmic ring ; Oh Shades, pray tell, could Henry, If he had the chance again, Pall the Muse’s leg as Lawson Pulls his frenzied finance pen ? What of Emerson, the preacher, Who has builded on his thought Some specimens of language Only Genius could have wrought ? Could Waldo work his wonders, If he had the chance again, As Lawson works his readers With his frenzied finance pen ? And lordly Russell Lowell, Who, in prose as well as rhyme, Found a literary glory That shall crown him for all time; Oh Shades, would Jim be able, If he had the chance again, To hit the pace with Lawson When he flings his frenzied pen ? And Holmes, the genial Doctor, The distinguished Autocrat, Philosopher and Poet, And some other things like that; Do you think that Doc, would tackle, If he had the chance again, The stunts of Mister Lawson h his frenzied finance pen ? ‘There are others—for your Boston Is a wonder from In her brain-pans and her bean-pots And her literary art; But, Shades of Culture, listen: In Fame's eternal hunch, Will Lawson’s name be leading Boston's literary bunch ? William J. Lampton. comicbooks.com