Life — December 28, 1905 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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While there ts Life there's Hope VOL. XLVI DEC. 2, 1905, N ty-Fixst Street, New Vor, 'O all of its friends and readers Li best wishes for the Ax New Year! ae &S And spe 1 \ compliments t i ‘e cial reasons ‘ } To the President, — because of Cay tions and his syn for being so brilli Ss aspi authies, and. nt and in- ng an example of what powers cnergies can be developed inside man, and of what use can be of them Mr. Longworth, because hi rry the Pre: fent's da ter. But what will he care for Lire’s compliments, since he has avs land one so much more satisfyin: ov himself ! ~ a Te the Football Rules Committe the devil out of football. It will take lo it, and woe ting and prayer to ¢ betide the swi To Mr, Hughes, the insurance inter- 1 » the admiraticn of it enters into. a difficult locutor, for he important werk beholders, T° Mr, Ryan, bee « the suspic grows that his reasons for bi ing Mr. Hyde's Equi ¢ stock were excusable, To all the insurance officers who ave been investigated, including enator Depew, because the New York Times declares that “the con- nsus of mankind is that a person who simply lives up to the ethical > LF Es standards of his own community not to be held individually responsible ior doing so.” To all persons now in active busi ness whose business career was de- layed until they had first learned the Golden Rule and the rudiments of upright living. Ii they make less m cy because of these preliminary acquirements, Lire compliments them all the more Ke g Ge Seed Te all the steel men who know how to behave. To Il brokers who have even a glimmering apprehension of what life is really about, and of the conduct of To Secretary Hiteheock, because of ninded pursuit of the méanest and rascalliest the earnestness of his single tof thieves in the country ‘© Midshipman Merriwether, be- case so large a proportion of his countrymen take a just view of his misfortune ospect that he will get the rs crown. Perhaps he sold it tort fo William Hearst. because it looks little 1 like a ha artyr’s crown for him. t To An really does have fun in spite of all that Irew Carn cause he overwhelming mass of moncy. O John D. Rockefeller, be the number and respectability of his companions in reprobation. It is restful, sometimes, to be lost in a crowd To Joseph B. Bishop, Historian of t anama Ca more than worth his sa gress may find it out. ‘© Arthur Brisbane, because he is still young, and may yet do as ause he is y and Con- c bei much to allay class jealousies as he has yet done to incite them. use there was never such a dinner as he gave Mark Twain. To George Harvey, be To Mark Twain, because he has lived to demonstrate that solvency is not necessarily inconsistent with good writing or virtue, OF. P. Dunne, because he found the barroom a power in poli- tics and has made it a power in cthies, To George W. Perkins, because of his large aceretions of instructive perience To Mrs. Whartor Hughes can never ask her questions because Mr. about the people in her House of Mirth © Colonel Mann, because he has t yet had to tell all he knows. seph Folk, be use he set the municipal reform ball rolling To Mr. Jerome, because he dared to be the Curtius of a and, great opening, unlike Curtius, was not swal lowed by it T° Sarah . is weleome to a country which rihardt, because she maintains a protective tariff against Canadia To President Eliot, because he is perpetual demonstration of the value n educated man Tait, the favorite (by Ohio ont ), for reasons left to be enu- by the Harvard Graduates’ Elin Root, next favorite, be- sh register stand between him and the public cause he never lets a ¢ service To M. Witte, because he has lent his shoulders to the huge task of bearing up the fabric of Russian civ- ilization until there is time to shove under it a new underpinning of order based on liberty. Heaven strengthen his knees