Life — May 26, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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Miss Von Ryder’s School on the Hudson for Girls ANNOUNCEMENT ELIEVING that the utmost frankness is the best advertising, Miss Von Ryder desires to inform her many patrons what may be expected at her establishment. Girls entering Miss Von Ryder's school will be taught snobbery in all of its branches. A constant competition as to who can spend the most money and dress the best will be one of the principal features. Miss Von Ryder believes in all of the outward forms of education. Girls will therefore be taught a smattering of elegant French, operatic music and church ritual. Everything will be done to make the graduates of Miss Von Ryder’s school ignorant of the actual condition of society as it exists to-day and familiar with all of the forms necessary to make what is termed a “lady.” The charges are moderate—twelve hundred a year—with everything but food and sleeping extra. Every entrant is urged to bring one maid, one motor car and four or five thousand in cash for incidental expenses. A florist is connected with the school. Address, etc. ‘When Reformers Meet Head On Y dreadful are the head-on collisions of teformers proceeding in opposite directions on the same track. The recent one, for example, that involved Mayor Gaynor and Mr. Hearst! It was splendid of Mr. Hearst to try so carnestly to teach the Mayor the error of his ways. It was magnificent of the Mayor to point out to Mr. Hearst the shortcomings of his news- papers, and to strive so valiantly for the encouragement of ac- curacy in the press But, sakes alive! there was a greater volume of reform traffic, bound in opposite di- rections, than could be safely handled on one line of rails. The path of social and political reform ought to be double-tracked, or at Ieast provided with more sid- ings, the block system, and a better understanding about the right of way. Perhaps it was instinctive appreciation of that need that led the diners at the American Newspaper Pub- lishers’ dinner to deny to Mr. Hearst’s representative the privilege of replying to the Mayor. It was as though the diners said to Mr. Williams: “The is in the block and the signal is up. We can’t have a wreck here; it would break too much glass. You'll have to wait till he gets out.’” We sympathize a good deal with the diners. They came to dine and to listen. Being suddenly confronted with a demand that they should hold the scales of jus- tice and give judgment off-hand and on full stomachs, they refused. RS. BELMONT describes the anti-suffragists as the self-confessed inferiors of men, and rates them lower than Hottentots. On the whole Mrs. Belmont is the most valuable ally the antis have got. They could well afford to sub- sidize her. She saves them work. Stand by for excitement when the Suffragists as a body conclude that Mrs. Belmont’s co-operation is not THE wortpt FipptesticKs! Profitable to their cause. SHE'S TRYING TO SET ME ON FIRE.”* comicbooks.conv