Life — October 13, 1910 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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iil ih ia ag fuaicaid ES react ae HUSBAND-TEATNING BY EXPERTS: great crowds. A demonstration on the part of the woman sufi gettes headed by Mrs, Belmont, against the show, had no appre ciable effect. The husbands were in rows, each in a compartment by himself and all were so placed as to be readily seen and conversed with by the throng. In the front of each exhibit was a brief descripti of the specimen, for example as follows, taken at random: Mridegroom Class, No. 41s. This gentleman succeeded in hav ing a quiet home wedding agai entire opposition of bride and family, Arranged his own wedding tour and spent fifty dollars less than planned. “Now married one year, and has Just had his suburban eine decorated according to his own’ idea, Wife loves him madly Oniy case on record of suburban hasband having his own way about Rome decoration Raby Carers 1.. This gentleman has for five years taker complete charge of abies; feeds them at then and assumes absolute control, leaving his wife to play golf and ige and attend woman's club uninterruptedly. He has also car- ried On his business and lived within his income meanwhile. Only ANNOUNCING A PRIZE WINNER sc in the world, Ask him and he will tell you how he did it Photographs, ten cents. A glance’ along the line of exhibits reveals some interesting con wasts.. The deceptive type is very marked. There was one man who claimed to. have deceived his wife systematically for twenty years fd never been caught; another who teclared that his wife had cut is hair ever since they were married and his disposition had re- inained. unchanged. Afl along the line were old husbands and yuuing, broken-down and chipper, some attended by their wives an others alone: foxy husbands, with quiet, furtive faces, and open minded. genial specimens with apparently not a care in the world. Altogether it was a great show. We understand that it was gotten up by a concern named the Husbands’ Correspondence Bureau, They certainly deserve great credit. (See ad. in another column.) We are now leaving for a few weeks, to rest up in our Paris Branch. Business at headquarters, will, however, pro- ceed just as if we were there. The tall, handsome blonde will be found at her old place, and the chairman of our entertain- ment committee will be on hand to all who are looking for a good time. Our Seeing-the-Tenderloin auto still leaves every hour. No matter how desperate your case is, we can cure you, living, we shall be obliged to increase our rates after the first of the month. Call, write or wire Husnanps’ Coxxesroxpencr Owing to the cost of Bureau. Preaching Propagation ATHER VAUGHAN (of England), preaching in Canada against race suicide, pictured those responsible for it as shaking their fists in the face of the Mmighty and shrieking in defiance: You increase and multiply. Not only do we despise the law, but we deny in” Has the Father increased? Has he multiplied? Or is he one of those who shake fists in the face of the Almighty and defy the law? A celibate priesthood, laying so much stress on the religious obligation of other folks to have large families, must always look curious to contemplative minds. In the long run religious exhortation and even Rooseveltian encouragement is not going to have much effect on the birth rate. Conditions of living are more likely to settle that. It is to smile at the notion that the Power responsible for fixir up the earth as a place of human ~esidence needs, after all these years, the assistance of exhorters to keep it peopled. he best method of getting more valuable people born into the world is to make the world fitter to receive and retain them, That method has been jn use longer than history re- cords and is doing pretty well, all things considered. But what hurry is there about crowding the carth with folks? Do five or ten million mouths, more or less, make any known dif- ference in India or China? Despotisms like Russia or Mexico want surplus population for military purposes. A great or- ganization like the Roman Catholic Church has obvious rea- sons for wishing to see steady increase within its own fold. Ordinary healthy-minded people want as many children as they can take good care of, because nothing else pays so well or so greatly enriches life. Such people do not need exhortation to raise families. They do it partly because instinct urges them, but largely because, of all employments open to human en- ergy, there are so very few that scem to wise people so well worth the doing Bulls and Bears ILERE has been much confusion as to the real meaning of “bulls” and “ bears,’ as used in Wall Street. Each of course possesses a technical significance more or less i portant and certainly valuable to the financial writers, but. taken together, they are really nothing more than aliases which, by common consent, a lamb may adopt upon entering the sacred and mystical precincts. In Wall Street, as in most other affairs of life—for Wall Street, to say the least, is an affair of life—one of the chief objects is to make things not what they seem. It would be somewhat incongruous for u lamb to walk into Wall Street in persona propria. But, if he can say, “I am a bull,” or “I am a bear,”’ and feel that way for a few weeks or months, the game to him may be worth all it costs. A lamb of a pecu- y timid and shrinking mien may be able to look back on such an experience as his only real taste of life comicbooks.com