Life — November 2, 1905 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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HE, backers of arctic explorers have a right to spend their money on him if they please, but they would benefit humanity more if they put their dollars into model tenement houses —Chicace Tribune, How far model tenement houses bene- fit humanity, when they are otherwise provided than by the enterprise of those who use them, is, after all, somewhat of a question. Not the least of the dangers incident to great wealth developed itself when rich men began to be touched with charity. The discovery of the pole will do no harm, at least. Kipling objects most strenuously to having his verse set to m Current Literature, Kipling has w! poetry to music were as great an impertinence a the lily or gild the gold refined. ie — itten some real poetry, and to set real to paint In England, when anybody is killed in a railroad accident, somebody is very likely to go to jail. In this country such a result is the exception. Boston Transcript. We are a spendthrift people. By the way we let the railroads waste human life, one would be led to think race suicide a myth. The essence of democracy is the right of each citizen to a free voice in public affairs. New York Tribune. And it takes only a little essence to flavor a great deal of dough. Humiliation is painful, but the honorable man does, and the honorable na- tion some day will, suffer it rather than sacrifice innocent lives to escape it,— St. Paul Pioncer Press, War is hell in no particular more distinctly than in the difficulty with which it gets itself abolished. At a recent convention of tailors it was stated that the best dressed and most graceful men in Chicago wear corsets.— Minneapolis Journal. Only the other day, the beef-barons went into court, and tried to procure stays. Bring on your tainted money !—Yave Vetl. Strong in its fine old traditions, Yale can afford, perhaps, to be so haughty. The average college, however, will be only too glad to send round its collector ond pay the cartage, Bubble World Poe is denied a tablet in the Hallof Fame. Well, Poe doesn’t need it,— Buffalo News ‘The Hall of Fame promises to become really conspicuous by Poe's absence, Perhaps the long-eared judges had this in mind when they left him out, Advertising is a great power, even when negatively applied. One doctrine which is common to all sat s of society is that the age they write in is the worst of all known ages, the lowest point of degeneration yet reached.—Vew Vork Times. But, unhappily, there are too few of them to offset the pernicious influence of the inflated egotist who looks upon himself, and, because they are his, his country and his generation as necessarily the best ever. For some inscrutable reason, Christian clergymen are aln without ex- ception indifferent to animal suflering.—Vogue. This is, doubtless, a field in which Providence can safely beleft to itself, there being but little money init. Weshould never permit a blind and unwholesome sympathy for ani- mals to stand in the way of our permanent well-being, as expressed in the increasing value of pew rents, The secretary of the lowa V. M.C. A, says that the presence of young ladies in church makes it impossible for men to get religion. — Chicago News. And yet in many instances religion is about the only con- solation left. The indications at present are that we shall have a green Christmas, Rochester Union and Advertiter, And, as usual, it will probably be a long green Christ- mas. The man who brought out the theory of the masculine sex of angels ought not to have sprung the idea just in the height of the various legislative inves- tigations now going on.—Ba/timore American, This discovery, however, is not so inappropriate as it seems. There are fallen angels. ‘Three years ago a large corset concern began the manufacture of corsets for mea, but the results were so unprofitable that the plan was abandoned. Most men will not voluntarily imprison themselves within walls of whale- bone and steel.— New York World. Possibly this explains the equatorial variations between Secretary Taft and the Hon. Fairbanks. It would be interesting to learn what the workingmen of Chicago do be. tween strikes. —CAiliicothe Bulletin, They probably take a much-needed rest. comicbooks.com