Life — January 9, 1908 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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52 Slumming on Fifth Avenue Report of the Work Being Done by the Mil- lionaires’ Aid Society AST week several rich families were visited and a number of cases of dis- tress temporarily relieved. A Newport branch has also been established. ‘Those who, on ac- count of their position and great wealth, cannot go out of their own set, will be visited hereafter regularly by in- telligent people, who will talk to them on simple subjects. A nature-study class has also been organized ; the great beauty and hitherto unsuspected charms of our common wild flowers (such as the daisy, goldenrod and dandelion) will be taught, in contrast to the orchid, hothouse violet, etc. It is hoped in this manner to open up new fields of interest. Bread and milk courses will also be a feature of the work. Instead of the or- dinary dinners accompanied by a monkey anda Hungarian orchestra, during which in the open season the mortality has been so great, nothing but bread and milk will be allowed. It is expected also that the game of craps will be provocative of a betterstand- ard of morality. Instead of Wall Street, stock rigging, railroad merging, rebating, and, indeed, all the forms of the higher grafting, it will be shown that craps can be played with real interest and profit. “KIND LADY, I'VE WALKED TWENTY MILES TER-DAY AN’’? —— “DEAR ME! HOW INTERESTING! GO AHEAD AND KEEP IT UP; YOU SIGHT BREAK THE RECoRD!” ~ EEES “ Several forms of religion are also being introduced with some success. “Now I lay me” is being taught in the best circles. ‘The main difficulty in this grand work is the fact that these people are almost universally ignorant of the conditions which surround them. Not coming in contact with a better class, they have no means of knowing how badly off they are. Once they are made to see this, however, a new awakening comes. It is a mistake, of course, to give them too much help. The main plan of this work is to get them to help the selves. The impossibility of reaching them by ordinary methods becomes daily more apparent. The children are especially pathetic. It is, indeed, dificult toimagine them as they grow up, developing into anything but high-class criminals. While there is life, however, there is always hope. Another Dog Fancier E COMMEND to the consi‘eration of the central authorities of the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruclty to Animals certain members of its local branch in New Brunswick, N.J. ‘The igo rant, bigoted attack upon Dr. Janeway, a physician well known and respected in this community, throws discredit upon the society. —New York Times. Well, well! This is interesting. Since when does it throw discredit upon a society to prevent cruelty? In s same paper we also read, under “Special to the New York Times,” that The society has received many complaints of opera- tions performed on animals by Dr. Janeway, in his sanitarium, on Livingston Avenue. Residents of the acighborhood have heard the cries of the dumb ani- mals under torture. But as Dr. Janeway is high standing and above reproach, the dogs could not have suffered so much as they thought they did. They were mis- led, perhaps, by a really benevolent application of knives and pincers to ignorant, canine nerves. Try some of these “painless” experiments upon your- selves, gentlemen, and the S. P.C. A. wil! not trouble you. € IGHT I suggest, sir, as long as I am going to court your daughter regularly, that you place a new com- fortable armchair in your parlor? I have to work hard at the office all day and I can’t afford to have my framework worn out at night.” “DD APA, what is the bald-headed row?” “A kind of Indoor Close to Nature School, my son.” STRANGE FOOTPRINTS comicbooks.com