Life — September 13, 1906 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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284 Our Fresh Air Fund PREVIOUSLY acknowledged $1,102 26 G.G.M pS Li so ted Money from the Flats" ? san) 25 FM. Becwses 2s <ne Fowler Brown, t MS ecxse . 18 M. E. < “In Memory of Fannie Mckinley” E.B.. W.S. B.S. Jr. 888s and E.R. SSEIELIISEIIESIB A.J. Devs mon « Chitdrca “of Camp “iellevue, “Maine Thomas McKean Downs, Justin Downs, Jr., Bessie Downs, $. Warren McKean Downs, Phebe Downs, S. Atlee Downs, RN. Downs, 3d. J. Re Wood Downs, Richard Mekaskey.... Toral Acknowledged with Thanks 1 package of clothing and shocs from Miss Canfick! + bx California oranges from National Orange Com: pany. Riverside, 3 bbls. Brownsville water crackers from Chatland and Lenhart, Brownsville, Pa “Under the Knife” HIE newspapers add unnecessary horror to life by the way they make announcement of surgical operations which befall conspicuous people. When a man eminent in public life suffers from some irregularity of his inner apparatus and has to have something cut out of him, it is warrantable to give notice of it in the press. And if the papers can learn what the operation is and who is to per- form it they might as well confide those facts to the public. But, in the name of civilization and propriety, why, oh, why, must surgical operations on women be heralded be- forehand in detail to the public; heralded with big headlines, pictures of the subject, the names of all the doctors, descriptions. of the nurses and of the room in which the doctors are to do their work and of the preliminaries and preparations? How do the yellow papers get so much news about matters so private? Last month a young woman, the wife of a rich young man, was taken from Saratoga to Newport for an operation to relieve an ailment. There was more about the case in .he newspaper than ought to be printed about the lying-in of a queen, Undoubtedly, surgical operations are in- teresting to hear about, but it is most -LIFE- extraordinary that the ministrations of surgeons to American ladies should be treated by newspapers as items of news to be shouted abroad with all the empha- sis that comes from inch-long lettering, pictorial embellishment and every po: sible amplification of detail, Surely, if that is one of the penalties of American hionable life, fashionable life comes pretty high, Where Are the Nudes of Yesterday? (Lines on the Raid of Anthooy Comtock on the Ant Students’ Leagve) WONDER in what cellars dim Apollo poses débonnaire, Where Venus and where Psyche prim In muslin, frocked from vulgar stare, Dream of their hidden beauty rare, Since Comstock dragged them all away? What trousers staid docs Cupid wear? Where are the nudes of yesterday ? And tell me in what cheesecloth grim Does Hermes mourn in mute despa’r? tyrs, Nymphs and Cherubim With lamentations fill the air? ere stately Juno tears her hair Since Tony barred décolleté? For what new styles do Sirens care? Where are the nudes of yesterday? Say where immortal line and limb Stand shrouded deep with dust, where The shapes that once were synonym For storied Greece, oblivion share; And bath-robed Goddesses declare That classic curves are not au fait And art undraped is tres vulgaire ? Where are the nudes of yesterday? For shame! He left the galleries bea-r-e When ruthlessly he bore aw The naked Gods and Naiads fai That once were nudes of 3 George erday. Marsh. Appropriate Hats OR a lawyer—Fee-dora. For a watchman—Wideawake. For a steeplejack—High hat. ‘or a cnappie—Soft hat. For a bookmaker—Derby. For a hayseed—Straw hat. ‘or a blind man—Felt hat. For a masher—Opera hat. For a henpecked man—Helmet. For an acrobat—Spring at. For a grave-digger—Skull cap. For a convict—Liberty cap. For a Brooklynite—Crush hat. For a tourist—Cook’s cap. For the President—Panama. HAT story: the last chapter? are we—a preface, essay oF to be continued, or is this Comicbooks.com