Life, 1910-06-30 · page 12 of 41
Life — June 30, 1910 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct sections: **Top letters**: Correspondence about circus expenses, Methodist camp meetings, and a comment on President Taft being "changed at birth." **Main illustration**: Titled "The Beginning of European History," this is a classical/mythological scene attributed to Titian showing cherubs and figures in an allegorical composition—likely satirizing grandiose historical narratives or artistic pretension. **Lower cartoon & article**: Shows a figure (unclear who) with the caption about eggs and absent treatment. The accompanying article "Tints in Education" discusses a Supreme Court case regarding Isabel Wall, a seven-year-old of mixed race in Washington, D.C., who was barred from white schools. The commentary critiques the ruling and advocates for integrated or separate-but-equal education rather than exclusion based on racial classifications.
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at 1180 the food and wines, that it was deemed hest to cancel the invitation. Some of the members have suggested that you could secure a number of engagements if you would prepare and deliver a lec: ture on “ Faults, Mistakes and Faux Pas of Those Whose Hospitality I Have Ac- cepted.” Yours respectfully, Ian Vax Wintitror, Chairman Dinner Committ Jinctinc Broruers’ Four-Rinc Circus Ow THe Roa, June 29 Dear Siz:—Please wire, care New York Clipper, our expense, lowest terms, balance season, to deliver five-minute specch in ring at each performance and double with the steam calliope in the parade Yours tru Jin G Bros. Assury Metuopist Came Meetinc, Frest Laxe, [ut Dear Brotuer:—We are doing much to spread Christian principles and fur ther the doctrine of good will among men. Could you not do us the great favor of coming here early in July and address our gathering on the subject of “How I Knocked Out the Pope"? It might mean the saving of many souls. Peace be you. Yours faithfully, Jeremian Fowxer, D.D, Bishop of Kankakee HERE is a suspicion that President Taft was designed to be a reticent man, but was changed at birth and somehow missed his natural destiny “ stRaNGE! OVER A MONTH AND NOT ONE OF THEM HAS MATCHED YET." ABSENT TREATMENT FOR —From the painting by Titian in th THE BEGINNING CF EUROPEAN HISTORY THE LANDING OF EUROPA Sala Olla-Podrida. Tints in Education SABEL WALL, of Washington, seven-years-old, with be- tween one-eighth and one-sixteenth of negro blood in her. has been adjudged by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to be a negro, and may not go to any of the schools for white children in Washington. That's absurd, isn’t it! Not but that the court may be right at law (the case is to be appealed), but a child that is seven-cighths white is not a negro. The rule in most cities with large negro populations that the white and black children shall go to separate schools is a wise provision, but its application to children of mixed blood seems still primitive and very imperfect. Even a mulatto is not a negro; much less are quadroons, octoroons and other fractions, Why shouldn't Washington have separate, object- lesson schools for quadroons and octoroons, and, if necessary, make Congress pay the bill? comicbooks.com ———= +