Life — December 31, 1908 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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The Magnate TE is a man who is expert at getting hold of things and never letting go. It is he that discovered the perpetual franchise When conditions are prosperous and industries are running full tilt, he takes all the credit and all the prosperity, but not all the industry. When affairs might be better, he gives us to understand that, were it not for him, they might be worse. When affairs are in bad shape, he tells us whose fault it is, making it very clear that it is not his own. When they get better again, he emerges from the scrim- age on top of the pile, and explains that the resuscitation is due entirely to his infinite ability and resourcefulness MAGN. A Poet's Defense HE cows plod slowly o'er the lea, The bees in busy phalanx hum, All Nature seems at rest, and free To while the hours with Chooem’s Gum. What words can spell the beauteous charm Of feminine mold? Appealing eyes Beseech us daily on the farm To buy the pills they advertise The infant's eyes so sparkling bright Full subtly bid us health recoup By scorning wrong and doing right And eating Some One's Watered Soup. ‘The soldier's serried ranks arise! To quell the tyrant's haughty host? Those martial pictures advertise That muscle-making Hay on Toast. THE MESSAGE With Art’s and Nature’s efforts bent Toward selling Cure-Consumption Dope, May not the poet pay his rent With verses celebrating Soap? L. P. Heacock. A Shrinking Publisher Since its publication more copies of “The Lure of the Mask have been sold than have ever been sold of any other novel by Harold MacGrath in the same length of time. The publishers decline to give any figures, no doubt realizing that the actual numbers would inevitably be thought an exaggeration of the fact.—From on advertisement. This is true modesty, and evidence of that admirable spirit of self restraint which we have noticed among American publishers Something Wrong I’ New Bedford they have been trying the self-government plan in the public school, with the result that one little girl, who was placed as police in- spector over her companions, and_re- fused to tell on them, was expelled from the school for insubordination. Her father is suing the school. We hope he will recover the full amount of dam- ages. When a system of education puts a premium on giving away your friends, an ordinary suit of damages seems a ight method of retaliation. “ WRAPPED UP IN HIS WORK ‘Women and Women EN get along better with men than women do with women. At least we think they do. And the reason is that men are more used to liberty than women are and readier to concede i Women also seem better constituted to live with men than with women, which is just as it should be. One grown woman is a fairly comfortable provision for any house—not counting servants (who have their own troubles about get- ting along with one another). Frequently women who have had fif- teen or twenty years’ experience as the sole grown-up woman of the house, have daughters grow up on them. We would like to sce statistics of the proportion of families in which that makes trouble. It is a natural trouble. The boss-woman who has been sole despot of her branch of the domestic kingdom has gradually to yield independence and a vote to an- other grown woman living under the same roof. The boss-woman has to learn to live with another grown-up female after being twenty years out of practice. Hookey! That's not easily done. No wonder mothers and daughters have their conflicts.