Life — November 5, 1908 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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All aflame with the fire of cdu cation, I drifted into an eastern universi own the other day. I'm a smoking ruin now. It was this way. I came in two or three days be- fore regular opening and consequently ha Three t One thousand That's to see around with some leisure. sand “ studes "’ are without hats, e wearing any old thing for a hat. alright. Hats are more or less bacterial I. sup. pose. I believe, on three day's observation, ninety per cent. of the men smoke—mostly cigar- ettes, less frequently pipes. That isn’t awful, of course, but it kills time. Everybody laughs, n heartily but in a meaningless way. It se distinctly out of fashion to take anything seri ously. And come to think of it, it would look queer to see a man with near balloon trousers, | rolled within a few inches of his knees, scarlet hose, coat almost to his knees, and a cone hat } rounded at the apex, taking anything serious| Wouldn't it be embarrassing to receive an an nouncement of your mother’s death in a get-up like that? Practically everybody drinks two or three whiskies a day. In the little colleges out West, people wear natural clothing, seldom or never get drunk, hardly ever smoke, and usually leave school before graduation because they get a good job. However, a graduate of an Eastern university, who taught English out there for a year or two, told us we were just evolving what he called the “ more abundant college life.’" Of course there are complexities in citizen making that are probably unknown to a western mind, but it seems at first glance that life in the eastern universities is an excellent preparation for stock brokerage and proprietorship of smoke shops and billiard halls CONCERNING " A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH" Worcester, October 13, 1908. My Dear Lire: It is never very wise to plume oneself on mere originality. If you still fondly suppose that Mr. E. S. Martin originated the title of his verses, permit me to refer you to a book entitled “ Happy Thought Hall,” by F. C. Bernand, an editor of Punch, your elder English contemporary. On page forty-seven of that mildly humorous monograph, you will find the following passage: “T would call this order The Little Brothers of the rich, * * * I submit this scheme to the civilized world, hoping to meet a man of the roth century. Mr. Bernand’s hopes were destined to be twice crowned with success. His book was published in 1872. It was tolerably well known in our younger days to a great many people hereabouts, but it does not seem to have penetrated the con- sciousness of New York at the end of the eighties. Far be it from me to accuse Mr. Martin cither of “amusing innocence"? or of “plagiaristic in- tent.’ He may have been at one time a covert | admirer of English humor and have recognized | the aptness of Mr. Bernand’s phrase; or he ma¥ have come to his conclusions independently. Bat you on your side ought to be equally tolerant of Mr. Patterson. Perhaps he was as sure of bis (Continued om page 481.) ish called placar pair § The days Gener