Life — October 15, 1908 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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Ae Faunmam 700 The Lion of the Future It is comforting to look fo: ward to the time when the liow of the moment beitfiant novelist : achievement the populac celebrate with banquets and hor fires.—John O'Hara Cosgrave in the New Enyland Magazine. F course, the pyrotech- nic possibilities of such a situation in letters must not be lightly cast aside. Nevertheless, we shiver at the thought. On the other hand, the novelist of the future might not be able to write more than one book a year. This would give us time, in the interim, to re- cuperate, in a measure, from the fatigue naturally attendant on a celebration ade- quate to such great service rendered * Education ” OL. CHARLES W. LARN of the Military Academy YWwen Point, has had occasion to ex ‘8 amine over three hundred pupils, 90 per cent. of whom were drawn from our public schools all over the country, and reports that 84 per cent of them are failures, both physical and mentally, Colonel Larned say shows this percentage in its outpu amounts to a good deal—in New lone. The real trouble with ional system is, however, th it contains a smattering of everything. and a gool deal of nothing. Pupils are taught isolated facts and not pr They are taught by quantity and quality. When the child, for example, reaches the advanced age of nine, and comes to the sixth grade, he has to learn arithmetic, geography, language. physiology, drawing, manual training. physical culture, reading, spelling, his- tory and as many other things as the millions “LIBRE * fancy can suggest. If children were kept out of school until they were seven years old, and then taught three things well, they would eventually learn some- thing. Another defect is that they are, in reality, taught by people who have been taught beforehand in the same from text-books which are turned out by the book trust and sold by means of political shrewdness and chicanery. way— Bank Depcsits In the matter of guarartecit bank ¢ great many people would prefer a guara: thac they will have deposits. —V. ¥. World. HIS is what the insures 10 some people, but, of course, not all, In other words, the Republican ad- ministration guarantees to all that hath a good deal more even than they hath. Mr. Bryan makes an excellent point when he calls attention to the fact that the Government, when it makes a de- posit in a bank, requires a guarantee. and that any individual who has so much money that he doesn't know what to do with it can always have his bank deposits secured for him. But when it comes to the poor man, he has to take his chances. But the idea of giving “plain? people the same privileges as the moneyed classes is naturally ridicu- lous, and ought to be condemned on general principles Bryan's Resurrected Panic % M* BRYAN is having more fun with the late and: unlamented panic than would seem possible to any one unacquainted with that disorder! person, He has taken it up out of its freshly made grave, rigged it up in new set of rags, and is going about the country like a professional ventriloquist, with the horrible thing sitting on his left knee. He knows how to manipulate it, too And the audiences testify their apprecia tion. “If Roosevelt and Taft had as much trouble in begetting you,’ says the canny Bryan, “how can I be expected. all by myself, to raise up another one just like you? Eh, darlint? Of course, the panic shakes his head, smiles from ear to ear, and replies: “Begorrah, ye'll niver raise another wan loike me—ye couldn't if ye tried!" And yet the Republican managers sol- tariff emnly assure us that Mr. Bryan has no sense of humor. Let Him Say ALT! This country has reached a stage in its incomparable develop- ment when we cannot afford to be too hasty in bestowing our suffrages, to say nothing of our suffragettes. We must look ahead, peer inquiringly into the future, before we jump into the ballot box. A case in point: Roosevelt nomi- nated Taft. That is not disputed. So far, so good. We are willing to take Roosevelt's word for it. But there is still another question. Taft will not be President forever, and so, some day, he will be called upon to nominate his suc- cessor. The modern business spirit loudly cries: “Do it now!? We ought to know at once who that successor will be. Make him come up to the trough and tell us. It is no more than right. It is our due. The American Woman HUGH LEROUX, in 2 his book, “Love in the United States,’ declares that the American woman is an aristocrat without a court, a goddess without an Olympus, ‘a energy without a function, jewel without a setting, a_pic- ture without a frame, a saffinee without a milieu. CHS It is somewhat difficult to judge from this whether M. Leroux’s object is to become an American magazine writer, or merely that he contemplates a visit to Newport, and wishes to make him- self popular with the powers that be, viz.: women. When he declares, however, that our woman is an “energy without a func- tion,"* he totally misconceives the nature of his subject. The American woman is an energy with a function, and that function is to spend as much money and wear as many clothes in a given time as she possibly can. And as for her being a "jewel without a setting.” what is the matter with limousine hodies? They are almost universally used here, and make admirable settings for many of our most conspicuous examples of American women Incredible M* BRYAN told in Wilmington of the time when he went as a looker-on to a Democratic Presidential convention, and of how ardently he hoped that Bayard might win It seems incredible that Bryan at a Democratic convention ever honed that anybody would be nominated but Bryan.