Life — July 6, 1905 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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~ eG show that famine is the hand- Yi \ & ) maid of Fame: the empty belly the Fame, Famine and Philosophy. HE. experience of man seems to i? | corollary of the full head. While the Sy - rule is not as general as some others, 7 the exceptions to it—they military ™ y-—would seem to confirm it. The Hers of ink endure famine befor c; the spill ace quiring f sof blood seiz fame as they seize cities and leave fam to nettle ne ir successors. The laurel and the the paths that lead to P: rew mas- sus; but on the fi bay, the bay and the band wagon are the chief scenic features, The intimate connection between fame and famine has induced the practical phi- losopher of this practice ¢ to look askance at Pam: nd to seck a good working substitute for it. ‘The ave man respects his stomach, at c. abhors a vacuum “in his midst.” As between a slab-covered hole in Westmi and a steak at the Star and Garter, nd a bird at Delmonico’s, the k and bird every time. L. ora bronze plain aS n, taking a bird's-eye Dive 1s human interest which is st arus reclinin view of the and thirst . does not excite red by the cont the realism of the well-fed Dives inviting the Pc chase 1 ice to zarus off his premises. Humanity, as a rale, pre- aden table of Dive to a reserved seat on Abraham's bosom ; at to th dicts of posterity, whether written on the pages of history or the faces of tombstones, Men 1 ned that the fers a chair at a well Lit is indiffe > vers praises of posterity do n and experience has taught them that would pawn ail the pedestals on Par nda plate of pig’ In this material age pacify the pangs of poverty perishing poet sus for fee Pilsener a dl storage vaults for the use of posterity; anc r, Notoriety, is found to be ame is being | yine its parven and commercialized brot more filling and satisfacte A practical age observes that for contemporary purposes is post-mortem and postponed, while Notoriety is post-prandial and prompt; and it believes it is better to be Johnny-on-the-Spot than Patience-on-a-Monume Morcover, Fame pay's no divi- n the pleasures of pot, palate and cats, drinks and is nervy, has his dends and looks cold! pantry; while Notoric photo in the press, and keeps an auto and a chef Fame casts its br ud upon the waters; Notoriety casts its bread on the terrapin and fizz; nis loath to en- dorse a dict of bread and water. Lives of great men all remind us that the subli nd the ridiculous, Fame and avoided by the judicious; and the shrewd are, Famine, a and should be, content with Notoriety and the full dinner pail. The world gave Nathan Hale a rope and a bronze statue, and awarded Funston a Generalship and ry Homer begg' is bread in seven cities, died and achieved NUCKLEBERRY CELEBRATION, HOLLOW HOLDS TTS ANNUAL FOURTHL OF JULY 1 Alfred Austin lives to dodge bricks in seven nd spend a pension. Poe I ; While Rockefeller has millions and has acquired. So runs the world away Better a cinch on a bill of fare, than a blazonin a bul- better beefsteak and on te tough and thorny cactus grows in the thirst and desolation of the desert, and once a year it puts forth a radiant bloom to glorify the silent wast at flower, the crowning it culls its posi ar upon its bosom the more gorgeous blossom of rotoriety—the Lawson Pink. wx ul poetry, poverty ms on an than a marble slab with a Latin s, unseen of man. fle with all of and sweetnes lory of a stru me. Its beauty nbow-chaser, who sing its { ‘al world eschews the des er and The practi in more pleasant places; and it pre- Joseph Smith, comicbooks.com