Life — December 15, 1910 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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1100 Contemporary American De- portment ag 8 the matter of deportment, an appreciable proportion of the population of this country seems still to be in need of primary instruction. The newspaper story of the fall of Johnstone, the fly- ing man, at Denver, Colo., has this de- big splinter from one of the braces had gone through Johnstone's body. A man in the crowd drew it out and, before police or surgeons could get to the scene, he was running away with his “souvenir.” Other men and women, too, dragged the canvas lanes away from the body and fought over Johnstone's gloves. Perhaps souvenir hunters are not quite human and ought not to be held to the same degree of accountability for their actions as other people. The papers told last month of a man in Central Park who called a squirrel to him, offering a nut, and killed it with a kick. He was caught and had to settle in court for cruelty to animals, but his real offense was breach of faith and gen- LIP + eral barbarism. He ought to cluded from Central Park for five years. The same day, or the next, the New York papers reported two instances of lads very severely stabbed with pocket- knives by little boys in minor. street rows. *The great remedy for occurrences such as these is not so much police ac- tivity as educational training and the raising of the general standard of public manners. Our New York civilization is very uneven, When we go to Boston we notice a better level of public deport- ment there than here. People are more polite, less hurried, and more respectful of the rights of others. Men don’t bring lighted cigars into closed strect cars, as they do here. All that is because Pos. ton represents a higher grade of civiliza- tion than can be reached at present by this driving frontier city of New York, which has a hundred thousand new peo- ple—many of them fairly barbarous— poured into it every year. Civilization in New York has reached a great many individuals, but it does not show up quite so strong as it should in the mass of the be ex- “AFTEX ALL, JOE, THERE AIN'T SO MUCH TO THIS GAY CITY LIFE.” WOMAN'S ETERNAL QUESTION WHICH HAT 10 TAKE? population. It will help it along to get the subways built and mitigate the strain on the public transit facilities. Chicago in Fourth Place T says in the paper (C. M. Harvey in Leslie’s Weekly) that in population, wealth, business activity and various other qualifications, Chicago is the fourth city in the world, The order is London, New York, Paris, Chicago. Our second town looks much more important so as- sociated than when considered as the second city in the United States. She beats Berlin and Tokio not only in pres- ent population (a little) but in vigor and prospects. For that matter, if vigor and Prospects are to count it is probably fer to think of Chicago as occupying, temporarily, the fourth place among the cities. . Funny times, in which all the cities glory so in getting fat, and all the women in getting lean. Acrostic Sputtering strong statements. Ululating ultra utterances. Females foolishly fussing. Filing feminine fetters. Rasping reckless remark Advancing annoying arguments. Gregariously gossiping grievances. Enunciating empty elocution. Talking terrible twaddle. Shricking senseless sentiments, comicbooks.com