Life — April 7, 1910 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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CLIMBING WINDO) CARICTLY FORBIDDEN Employees will enforee this rule. By order of Supt. CONGO RAPID TRANSIT CO. THE MARCH OF CIVILIZATION CHANGING CARS AT UJIJE JUNCTION Are We Feckless ? N RICHARDS, of Massachusetts, t the spending habit is as bad as the drink habit; that thrift has gone out of fashion; that everybody is in a rush to and hardly anybody thinks of that we pay five times as save tim saving money; much for our Sunday dinners as folks did and that the telephone and r: fifty years d_ transporta tion have done more to increase the cost of living than all the trusts. The whole world has changed in the last few years, Mrs. Richards says, and with it has changed the sense value. is easy 10 guess what is the matter with Mrs, Ellen Richards. She speaks like a lady who has just treated herself to a new automobile. But Major Henry Higginson, of ton, and Mr. James J. Hill b ind so do y others, that waste and extravagance speak about as she does. They both sa nd not the trusts are the cause of the er prices. If we only stop buying things and save our money prices fall, and then we could live cheaper and save still more if wages didn’t fall 10 match! this is too solemn a subject to treat in this paper ess the mass of our people never did save with very much enthusiasm. They spend more now than they did fif years ago because there is vastly more to spend; they waste more Lecause there is more to waste; they save more (we presume) because there is-more to spare. We try to save now because time is worth much more in dollars than it used to be, and sometimes seems to be worth more than the money it costs to save it. All the same, great is thrift! The practice of it makes character. The results of it make for freedom and power The Indian are moving toward the crection of that proposed al to the American Indian, and if bills now be ress are passed the next step will be to pick out a sculptor and set him at it. Mr. Remington would have been the man for the job. Meantime it is already being questioned whether the In- dian should be memorialized by a grovp or a single figure Fortunately the danger of producing an idealized cigar-store Unfortunately there are a number of groups showing the Indian as a friend Indian is too obvious to escape recognition. and helper of the colonist or explorer which cannot be utilized without laying uncomfortable stress on what we did to the Indian afterward I's a serious and interesting problem, this erecting a me: off of what Perhaps, after all, it would be wise not to attempt it—or to leave the solution to the Amal gamated Race that bids fair to wipe out the modern American RW. B. morial to a race that we have ourselves wipe was once its own continent comicbooks.com