Life — January 9, 1908 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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*“LIFE* 49 Examples in Political Arithmetic NE State divided by two senators multiplied by ten exposures, minus a large surplus in the treasury, equals how many State capitols? If one platform equals another platform and the two together equal zero, what is the value of a political promise? If three administrations and one hundred engineers equal one shovelful of dirt at Panama, what date will the canal be finished ? If a government should be composed of one bear-hunter plus two globe-trotters plus one iceberg, what is the width of Toe j bent geanike eee a public question? “ee ST ATT AN. TOV. « wan | Seabee in three lage One thousand rords ph 200j000 words plus 3,000,000 aaah by the=glay. words plus one short word plus 4,000,000,000 words equa! Se elev: how many presidential messages? The distance from Wall Street to the public treasury is five times the distance from Washington to a given point near the Porphy wormy | Pteredacty = eNVCE Mig,” (hich eveated Che Such a Senée- aC Mississippi River. What is the case with which Wall Street can get public deposits without interest ? If a revision of the tariff should be talked of in 1896 and then postponed indefinitely and then alternately talked of and post- poned every year thereafter, what would be the age of the youngest infant industry? Ellis O. Jones. RIGGS: We've sent over about all the commodities we can in exchange for English gold. PREHISTORIC TIMES Music or Morals? Ov recent agitation in New York over the observance of Sunday blue laws awakens a painful sense of our incon- sistencies. The barring of symphony concerts, for in- stance, is supported on the ground that musicians should rest upon that day and, inci- dentally, not work for money. The debasing effect upon the morals of a Beethoven sym- phony is not, we believe, in- sisted upon. That our cooks and coachmen should work for hire upon the Sabbath has never troubled us. Nor have clergymen given signs of re- volt by the presence at church of the choir and sexton, all working for pay. But should the Boston Symphony Or- chestra, for example, suggest a Sunday concert, there might be opposition. That is, the most refined and elevating music rendered by this incomparable orchestra, perhaps the best in the world, must not be heard while armies of servants, public and private—to say nothing of the clergy- Griccs: Oh, we still have a few American girls left. men themselves—are all hard at work and earning money. Verily, the friend of Logic sitteth in a rear pew! PPORTUNITY Knox but once. Give every man his just Hughes. Culture and Cussing ie ITH the advance of culture,” declares Professor Lounsbury, “profanity declines.” Profanity, of course, in its larger signif- icance, implies a vehicle of expression inadequate to the demands of the feelings. Where the feelings are looking for a coach and find nothing but a hansom, there is naturally something doing. Now, does culture improve the livery, or does it merely enfeeble the feelings until they don’t much care what they ride in? Popular What kind of face powder jo you use? Mavp: Why do you ask? “Charlie Spooner says it’s the best he ever tasted.” ) THE pure-food expert all things are impure. “WHY DO THEY ME AN IBSEN comicbooks.com