Life — June 23, 1910 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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

To a Thesaurus PRECIOUS codex, volume, tome, Book, writing, compilation, work, Attend the while I pen a pome, A jest, a jape, a quip, a quirk. For I would pen, engross, indite, Transcribe, set forth, compose, address, Record, submit—yea, even write An ode, an elegy to bless— To bless, set store by, celebrate, Approve, esteem, endow with so: Commend, acclaim, appreciate, Immortalize, laud, praise, extol Thy merit, goodness, value, worth, Expedience, utility— O manna, honey, salt of earth, I sing, I chant, I worship thee! How could I manage, live, exist, Obtain, produce, be real, prevail, Be present in the flesh, subsist, Have place, become, breathe or inhale Without thy help, recruit, support, Opitulation, furtherance, Assistance, rescue, aid, resort, Favor, sustention and advance? Alas! Alack! and well-a-day! My case would then be dour and sad, Likewise distressing, dismal, gray, Pathetic, mournful, dreary, bad. Though I could keep this up all day, This lyric, elegiac, song, Meseems hath come the time to say Farewell! Adieu! Good-by! Soong! Franklin P. Adams oe) By len cag Why Worry About That Fight > HY are the reverend clergy, with- out regard to sect or geography, so worried about that San Francisco fight? In so far as the clergy in San Francisco object to it as a local nuisance their attitude may be understood, but why do the clergy in general protest and resolute about it as though it was so awful? Prize-fights are no help to civilization, they are brutal and they draw rather hard crowds. They are almost out of date and can never become common again. They are fairer than football and no more dangerous. They are not par- ticularly vicious. They are so far in these days from being a menace to mor- als or public deportment that to have one seems, as has been said elsewhere. to be almost like getting back to the sim- ple life. To have the Eastern clergy so exer- cised about a mere prize-fight in San Francisco makes one think of the mote and the beam. Is local business so dull with our clergy—are there so few over- worked children in the New Jersey fac- tories, for example—that they can afford to clamor so hard about a prize-fight three thousand miles away? ‘The fight scems to us more likely to do San Francisco good than harm. If it is fair it will make comparatively whole- some talk there for a while. If it is not fair it will make a scandal and that will be wholesome. It is a great deal more likely to strengthen reform in San Fran cisco than to increase corruption there RIGORS OF THE WAR GAME, WITH MODERN TACTICS One Gallant Trooper: 1 say, ovo FAST A LOT OF PEOPLE MAY BE WAR, BUT IT 15: CHAP, THIS CRAWLING ON ALL FOURS T MAGNIFICENT. HONOR OF PROPOSED STATUE IN vivisecrioy or stimulate vice. And finally, brethren, it seems to be a toss up whether the fight ever comes off. There is so much money mixed up in it that whatever there was of sport threatens to be crowded out. Darkened at the Start NGLISHMAN: Did pleasant voyage from New York? American: No our custom house declaration the second day out you have a London to The purser gave us slips on Baker: Did he spank his son for breaking one of the Command- ments? Barker: No, for breaking one of his best cigars. comicbooks.com