Life — November 15, 1906 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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/ S Wes, ~ = performances of a refined and sprightly character all day long. fi is hard to see what more could be added, save, perhaps, free baths, extension lectures and music lessons. These will come in time, and the women of the future will spend their happy days in an unbroken round of profitable pleasures, pro- vided by the far-seeing philanthropy of shopkeepers. Agnes Repplier. He Knew Them “DEAR friends,” began the political spellbinder. “TI call you ‘dear friends’; I won’t call you ladies and gentle- men, because, you see, I know you all so well.” , Street Ghosts EGAZED upon her with an inward sigh— She looked so like a girl of days gone by; And she, too, fixed on him a tender glance, Meant for the hero of an old romance. Political W ARE considerably shocked to read that the Cubans, even when their republic was laboring hardest on the rocks of revolution and intervention, evinced more interest in baseball than in politics. But in the papers of that very day somebody was complaining that the farmers of York State wouldn’t turn out and vote unless they were especially fetched to the polls; that several persons had to be employed in every precinct to do the fetching, at a salary of from $5 to $15 a day, apiece; that inasmuch as money was not forthcoming, in this year of grace, the country was going to the bow-wows. What about politics, anyway? What if there were none? Those patriots who want office would be quite wretched, no doubt, and their friends, who wish them well, more or less un- easy. But as for the rest of us, the less politics we have the happier we find ourselves, to say nothing of our being better neighbors, and all that. And government, if you speak of that, is all a matter of com- mercial relations, anyway. Our bankers, who control the springs of credit, are our kings, and princes, potentates and powers only their puppets. We call ourselves democracies, or monarchies or what not, but it is impossible to keep people from finding out, sooner or later, that we are really and inev- itably, and not altogether unhappily, plutocracies. Baseball, at worst, is not a hollow pretense, and men may be seriously interested in it without confessing themselves donkeys. Another Triumph R. ALEXIS CARRELL, of Chicago University, is evi- dently one of the shining lights of vivisection. These vivisectors certainly ‘do have lots of fun with the animals. Following is from Walter R. Hadwen, M.D., in the Aboli- tionist, London: What had happened was this: The kidneys of one set of cats and dogs had been cut out and transplanted in other cats and dogs; and one dog, apparently by way of diversion, had, according to the report, been supplied with kidneys which had been located in its neck instead of in the loins, the ducts of which were made to open into the gullet instead of into their proper receptacle. ‘The condition of the hapless creatures from which the kidneys. had been taken docs not appear to have been described, but the experimenter informed his audience that one of the dogs with the transplanted kidneys had already survived a week, and that he ping dogs alive for seventeen days after the operation, when, it is to be presumed, they succumbed; whilst one of the cats had possessed its new set of kidneys for two months. The fact is.noted that the animals were able to display all the natural prope of their kind—the cats to spit and the dogs to growl. This is not surprising. And the doctors who do this sort of thing are not only out of jail, but are boasting of their prowess. What would a civilized parent do to his boy if he caught him in such practices? comicbooks a -com