Life — September 2, 1909 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: SMOKELESS is the most popular powder in the world. WHY? Because it always does the work— Breaks Old Records Makes New Ones It is the powder you should use for trap or field shooting. Every dealer in the United States carries shells loaded with DU PONT SMOKELESS Send 12 cents in stamps for a set of six Pictures ihastrating “A Day's Hunt.” Address Dept. S, E. 1, DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER CO. Wilmington, Del., U. S.A. He Did His Part Thoroughly In order to avoid an argument with a woman suffragist on the subject of her hobby, a happy bachelor gallantly acquiesced in the truth of her assertions. “But, sir," sternly remarked the spinster, “your admission is anything but creditable to you. What, for instance, have you ever done for the emancipation of woman? "” “Madam,” responded the gentleman with a polite smile and a bow, “I have at least re- mained a bachelor! ’—Judge. “Why worry about the children? ”” “1 can’t help it.” " Put, my dear, you are hurting your game of Yridge "'—Kansas City Journal. Professor Palmer and the Press Professor George Harbert Palmer is angry at the American press. He says that it has mis- represented him. He made a speech about the education of women, and inadvertently used the word “flirt.” This was enough: to start the ball rolling. I told (he says in the Outlook), of a strong student of Radcliffe who had lived much with- drawn during her course there, alarming her un- collegiate parents by her slender interest in social functions. At graduation they pressed her to devote a year to balls and dinners and to master- ing what they regarded as the occult art of man- ners. She came to me for counsel, and I ad- vised her to accede to their wishes. “ Flirt hard, M,,"" said I, “and show that a college girl is equal to whatever is required of her.'" This was the only allusion to the naughty topic which my speech, an hour in length, contained. That evening one of the “yellowest” of the Boston papers printed a report of my “ Address on Flittation,” and the next day a reporter came from the same paper requesting an inter- view. The interview I refused, saying that I had given no such address and I’ wished my name kept altogether out of print. The following Sun- day, however, the bubble was fully blown, the paper printing a column of pretended imerview, generously adorned with headlines and quotation marks, setting forth in gay colors my “ advocacy of flirtation.” And now the dirty bubble began to float. Not being a constant reader of this particular paper, I knew nothing of its mischief until a week had gone by. Then remonstrances began to be sent to me from all parts of the country, denouncing y hoary frivolity. From half the States of the Union they came, and in such numbers that few days of the past month have been free from a morning insult. My mail has been crowded with solemn or derisive editorials, with distressed let- ive postal cards, and occasionally the of some society for the prevention of vice, nificant passages marked. During all this hullabaloo I have been silent. The story was already widespread when my attention was first called to it. It struck me then as merely a ntic piece of summer silliness, arguing empti- ness of the editorial mind. I felt, too, how easily a man makes himself ridiculous in attempting to prove that he is not a fit subject for ridi- cule, and how in the long run character is its own best vindication. I should accordingly pre- fer to remain silent still. But the story, like all that touches on questions of sex, has shown a strange persistency. 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Agency, 316 Bray, New York City French papers, and in a recent number of Lir appear in a capital cartoon, my utterance be’ reckoned as one of the principal incidents of 1 month. Perhaps, then, it is as well to say th no such incident has occurred, and that no when all of us have had our laugh, the rach had better cease. But such persistent pursuit of an unoffendi person throws into strong relief four defects our newspapers, and especially in the attitude our people toward them, In the first place, plan of reporting practised here is a mistal one, and is adopted, so far as I know, nowhere else on earth. Our papers rarely try to give ordered outline of an address. They either r port verbatim, or more usually the reporter expected to gather a lot of taking phrases, © gardless of connection. While these may occ: sionally amuse, I believe that readers turn less and less to printed reports of addresses. porting of public speech is coming to an end. It would be well if it ended altogether, so impos sible is it already to learn from the newspapers what a man has been saying. Serious re- * bupon t ance: ignan comicbooks.com