Life — June 8, 1911 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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1110 Life’s Fresh Air Fund of 1910, Lire’s Fresw Air Funp has been in operation twenty-four years. Jn that time it has expended $126,447.44 and has given a fortiight in the country to 32,730 poor city children. The Fund is supported entirely by bequests and voluntary con- tributions, which are acknowledged in this column, Balance at close of la:t searon + $4343.28 JaHorlicces antes . : 3.00 Alice S. "Clarke... A II 10.00 eS ‘ ears : 5.00 From a Concert at Ridg Conn: 5 : 5.00 Grenell_Island Sunday” School. 7:30 Collection at the Rev. Mr. Inclusi wunday | Services Richard W. Cash . Bluc! GW. J C.D. Snedeker . Proceeds of a minstrel entertainment given at the Hotel Plaza, New York, March 23, by the Young Ladies of Mrs. ple’s School. : Mrs. Edith A. O. ‘T. Druce, of Paris, F J. HI. Postlethwaite. : Herbert C. Pell...... $1,868.84 ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS. 106 posters for “Minstrel Show for Fresh Air Fund" from the Williams Printing Company. Parents T seems remarkable that with about sixteen thousand new criminal statutes recorded each year, nothing has yet been done for the regulation of parents. Children are daily, nay, hourly, subjected to mortifica- tion because their parents commit some breach of modern etiquette or betray hopeless ignorance of some vital point, and this goes on day after day and year after year and noth- ing is done about it. Too much, of course, should not be expected of our mod- ern parents; that they know nothing of geography is, for ex- ample, not necessarily to be laid to their discredit. But that they are hopelessly ignorant of slang, that they sniff at cigar- ettes and rouge and that they like to see plays where the villain meets his just due and virtue its reward, and that they wear shockingly old-fashioned clothes, are all matters for public as well as private concern. What are we to do with parents who never drink any. thing stronger than lemonade, leave their spoons in their coffee cups, refuse to sit in roof gardens until midnight and dislike to ride in a motor going more than thirty miles an hour? Keep the “ Record" Clean T us hope that Congress will not adjourn without tak- ing action to make the Congressional Record an honest publication. It is a common charge that newspapers lie. No doubt, taking them by and large, they do print a good deal that isn’t so, Some of them do it because they don't care whether they tell the truth or not; others because they can’t always get true reports in a hurry. But no paper in the country deliberately falsifies its rec- ords of events as the Record does, in printing as part of the proceedings of Congress speeches that have never been de- livered. These “leave-to-print” speeches, with “ [applause] ” and “ {laughter} scattered through them, are put in to de- ceive, and that is disgraceful. Congress ought to print an honest Record. “LASPSE 2 A Proverbial Tragedy - HE Rolling Stone and the Turning Worm And the Cat that Looked at a King, Set forth on the Road that Leads to Rome— For Youth will have its fling, The Goose will lay the Golden gS, The Dog must have his Day, And nobody locks the Stable Door Till the Horse is stol’n away. t the Rolling Stone, that was never known To Look before the Leap, Plunged down the hill to the Waters Still That run so dark, so deep; And the leaves were stirred by the Early Bird Who sought his breakfast where He marked the squirm of the Turning Worm— And the Cat was Killed by Care! Arthur Guitern Work for Cinderella : ALMOST all the tragedies of the ages may be summed up in the statement that the person affected was born at the wrong time. That is the real difficulty with Cinderella, She was obliged to sit by a lonely fire and to dream dseams while the rest of the family was enjoying itself. Then again, the house- hold drudgery was left entirely to her. But think of what she could do if she lived to-day. She could be a typewriter and stenographer, and in the course of a few ycars get the prince by ordinary business methods. She could become a lady book agent, the head of a library, the conductor of a European travel bureau, run a servants’ agency, write novels, be a special correspondent, start a pickle factory, edit a paper, invent a new candy or be a Cus- tom House inspector. : And yet the philosophers say there is no such thing as time! “THE LURE OF THE ANTIQUE”