Life — April 14, 1910 — page 37: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Fevateg and Maaulacturer of Venetian Blinds” Kolin ‘ rs, Burg and Fireproot Steel Curtains, Wood Block Floot Bpeclal Outside Venetians’ or porches and plazas: exclude the sun; admit the breeze : equal to En outdoor room. Mention £4/¢ for tree pamphlet. Grters sald ba: plaeet ‘sve, for wary samen, JAMES G. WILSON MF 3S and’s West 20th Street. New Yorks Yhe ey The Language of Politics Our interest in the libel suit brought by Representative Hamilton Fish against Editor Hinkley, of the Pough- keepsie News-Press, and now happily withdrawn, was purely academic. A word among millions uttered and heard above the “sterile din of politics” is commonly of passing concern to us. Hink! haled to court because an im- pulsive pen had written “welcher” against the honored name of Fish would not at first sight seem to be a spectacle to detain us. Bets, whether off or on again, may concern the po- litical Finnigans who frank their freight, but possess for us at the most only a mild sociological interest. Nev- ertheless, in the curious case of Fish Deities The Utmost in Cigarettes” Weydont ‘count the cost When .weimake! them iyatetrnokesh svhen x smnohey th Partitions. Rolliag Minnehaha Fells, Minneapolis-St. Paul Yellowstone Park Over the Scenic Highway through the Land of Fortune e vs. Hinkley there was a literary issue at stake, and we should like to have seen it threshed out by the infallible flail of the law. o 8 8 From a casual inspection of the newspapers we had been led to think that “privileged,” by common con- sent, applied to the unparliamentary language one gentleman not infre- quently addresses to another in the heat of a political campaign. To the innocent bystander, looking on at the on eleieererecleerwrrerircy) The New North Coast e@ e Limited Carries only first-class through standard sleeping car passengers from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Superior to Billings, Butte, Helena, Missoula, Spo- kane and Pacific Coast Points: Puget Sound and Portland. Equipment consists exclusively of sleeping cars, containing drawing rooms, compartments and open sections, with brand new dining cars and obser- vation-library cars, Electric lights throughout, including lights in upper and lower berths; patent ventilators and clectric fans. Barber, bath and clothes-pressing service; library of travel and fiction; magazines and newspapers ---all the little comforts as well as the big ones. Four Other Daily Transcontinental Trains au sere -lighted, including the th NORTHERN PACIFIC EXPRESS from Un Union Station, Chicago, and the through PUGET SOUND EXPRESS from Union Station, St. Louis, both via Burlington - Northern Pacific ‘lines, carrying drawing room and tourist sleeping cars, coaches and dining cars. The Northern Pacific is the Pioneer Line of the Northwest and was the first transcontinental railroad to light its trains with electricity. All main line passenger trains are thus lighted today. This is the line of the Great Big Baked Potatoes; Eggs from our own Poultry Farm; Bread, Cakes, Pastry and Ice Cream made at our own Bakeries} Yakima Creamery Butter; Whipped Cream for Coffee; the Choicest Meats and Fish the markets afford --- prepared by expert chefs and served by experienced waiters. Meals to make you smack your lips. Scenery to hold you at the window. rice that sets the pace. For literature descriptive of the Land of Fortune, of Northern Pacific train service over the Scenic Highway and articulars about the Special Summer ‘ourist fares, address A.M. CLELAND General Passenger Agent ST. PAUL give-and-take of forensic fisticuffs, the capacity and willingness o pants to take punishment hands upon it has been exp on the theory that words heal or hurt according to intention, and with lit- tle reference to epted meanings. “When you call me that, smile,” marked Owen Wister’s Virginian to the truculent Trampas. In the V be it observed, the of words is not unknown, enforced (Continued on page 698) Pickwickian sens: comicbooks.com