Life — December 30, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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940 Ego. as we please, and that this is the best thing we can do, in spite of the doctors F one who laughed the loudest in the throng, , Think of it! And the best of it is many of us know that he is right Doctor, we take pleasure in eating and drinking your health in all the in: He blushed, and silent stood. Then, for a breath, g . digestible things we can think of. - ranma ; i Here's to you, and the awful truths Looked level in mine eyes. h, me he sighed, you are advocating. May you keep Yet piteously searched in every face, I asked: “\Whom scekest thou? A friend “One dearer far to me! Myself."" f mp on in your good work! “Thine eyes turn inward, then, O friend."" I spake Certain Prisoners He shook his head. “I fear! I fear!’ he cried. ty Reorts reach us of the cruelly “T looked and saw another there!" inadequate quarters of the ani- Herman Da Costa Vj mals at the small 200 in Central Park ¥ AK! (Sixty-fourth Street). It is suggested T EMPTATIONS are easier evaded than f that this branch be made an resisted. annex of the big Bronx Park z00 and its animals sent down P l Bi hd X to Central Park for short pe- opular Dirthdays ; / riods only as exhibits. As it now stands the Central Park NI LOUNSBUR' f THOMAS HAVNESEOND ISBURY zoo is under the rule of the Born January 1, 1838 Park Commissioners, who are 11 is very terrible and awful (in the right described ag’knowing aad. car- sense of that abused word) to write anything < “and cat at all about a distinguished grammarian. ing very little for animals. The We are no grammarian ourselves, and smaller ones, foxes, hyneas, never know quite how to act in the pres etc., are so diseased from too ence of one. We have no doubt that tors eonfdenient ahat ake even now we are committing some A eat tha breach of philological or constructive : ronx z00 would probably re- etiquette which may make Profes fuse to accept them, even were sor Lounsbury shudder We, eae they offered to it. The larger only say that we do it in all re- ace ore i spect and deference to him. We animals are more healthy, but lay these few halting words at too closely quartered his feet, like the clown in the It has been suggested, wisely French story, who, joining a monastary and not being able to chant in Latin, did his humble ‘ y contortions daily before the altar, Government for its preserve as the one tribute he was able to $ Abolish the little outlying pay. We can only hope that Gatiens Professor Lounsbury will be as ation’ charitable to us as the Being to 2 8 4 f far as possible, reduce whom the clown addressed him 4 2: number of als, and self. ‘i give those maining ge We shell even go so far as to ¢ those remaining larger say that we believe any effort which helps to make our Ia h f guage any better ought to be cn- Trusts couraged. \ We Serstove want forencour- HERE are two sides to the age you, Professor, to keep on n ion—the inside and in your distinguished path. We trust question—the inside and are afraid of you, but we con- the outside. Nobody on the inside gratulate you. We hope that . of a trust was ever known to object to you will continue to inspire us ot it seems Have the bison given to the quarters. th awe for many years t Ya it and nobody on the outside was ever with awe yearstocome. yz boty =. oul Hb ilbert known to do anything else DR. WOODS HUTCHINSON 7 ———-4——~ The American trust has no counter- Born January 3, 1862 7 part in history. Starting as the dream In every profession, when its Quoth this beautiful, bold butterfly, of a few men, it had a difficult time in traditions, fads or prejudices be- Though my hosiery always comes high, getting a foothold, until, in the latter come too’ evident, there always Yet my waists are so low, part of the nineteenth century, Congress rises from it some man who acts Abd 1 dave on ikem $6, passed the anti-trust law. From that as a corrective. We are not That I've put quite a modest sum by. moment trusts began to multiply, wax aware that the medical profes- : fae wht a sion bas’as yet risen eh ‘waste and grow fat, while the people began to in a paan of joy over what Dr. Hutchinson has been doing in grow The trusts have had smooth sailing ever since. this direction. But we have an idea that many of its members They soon covered the face of the land, while the officials secretly agree with bim i I their track Ellis O. J It is interesting to note that the combined experience of thereof covered their tracks HiNS Ge Bones kind, together with a strain of common sense which scems to persisi in us in spite of all influence to the cor always has a champion at the right moment. Here is Dr. Hutch inson advocating the extraordinary theory that we can do Tur. path of joy riding leads but to the grave comicbooks.com