Life, 1906-03-29 · page 10 of 24
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**Main Illustration**: Shows a couple (man in overcoat, woman in hat) standing together amid urban chaos—military vehicles, crowds, and destruction visible in the background. Caption reads "IN THE MIST OF ALARMS." **Article "Fames Auri"** discusses Dr. Noob's salary contentment despite modest pay, arguing that distinguished foreigners and educated professionals accept lower wages than Americans expect. **"Hope" Section** addresses missionary work in China during 1904, noting Bible distribution efforts and expressing confidence that Christian values will eventually benefit the Chinese population. **"Mrs. Plymouth Rock"** appears to be a humorous domestic vignette about alarm clocks. The page reflects early 1900s concerns: foreign missionary ambitions, class attitudes toward professional compensation, and domestic satire. The couple illustration likely comments on wartime anxieties or social upheaval of that era.
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Fames Auri. T book, written for a ter- timony to the great and good in- fluence which Dr. had on the boys of Hamilton C lege during the third of a century Edward North he taught Greek there, howbe all the salary of a thousand dollars a year, brings to mind that extremely distinguished foreigner who told us, not long since, that we should never have first-class education so long as we paid our teachers only third-class salaries. Dr. North’s salary would rank in the fifth class or lower (the coll professor five thousand dollars is pretty small while he was content with a ze which doesn’t pay a head potatoes, as potatoes go), and yet he seems to have delivered the goods, In all seriousness, isn’t consecration, such as should be attested by contentment with asmall salary, about the main quality in a good teacher, after a little brains and horse-sense ? It is true the word sounds smug in ourmodern ears and smacks of cant in our modern mouths, but none the less, a consecrated man has, by that token, a power over men, and especially over young men, to wake up IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS, St. Paul was one of the greatest of teachers, so great that the wages of a life insurance magnate were none too much for the service he rendered the Church, but if he had been paid such wages, does any- he souls of them ‘one suppose he would have been more than the sounding brass and tinkling cymbal which he described to the Corinthians, and which, las! too many of our doctors are proved by their fruits to be? O** half the world doesn't give a hang how the other half lives. Hope. TATECRAFT seems pretty much unequal to devising a way whereby we may keep right on maltreating the Chinese and still enjoy their trade. at are we therefore without hope? By no means. During the vear of our Lord 1904, no fewer than 2,308,109 copies of the Bible were distributed in China. Not all of this seed, it stands to reason, fell on stony ground. If the copious shower con- tinues, as presumably it does and will, surely it is only a question of time until these people shall have learned that the good and true and beautiful way is to repay evil with benefits, to turn the other cheek to the smiting hand. And with that we shall have an end of brutal retaliation, our God shall be their God, and tuum shall be meum, world without end. Mrs, Plymouth Rock: GET UP AND CROW. PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW THE BREAKFAST TM Whar’ use? THEY" ALARM CLOCKS, ANYWAY.” E ALL GOT com icbooks.com