Life — July 27, 1911 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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“GOOD GRACIOUS, BUT THOSE WOKMS DO SLEEP LATE! Save the City Hall Park! rages manfully against the Stil- court UR neighbor, the Tim well bill which provides for building a huge ne house on the north end of the City Hall Park, provided some other court-house site is not found and accepted within six months. All the local papers seem to disapprove this bill, which is not yet a law at this writing, but the Mayor favors it, He thinks, we believe, that the little City Hall Park is a good place for a court-house. That is a sentiment comprehensible in a man who lives in Brooklyn. We do not share any of it except so much as holds that a big new court-house with ventilation and other proper luxuries ought to be built right aw But not in the City Hall Park! Let us have no building in that park but the City Hall. Throw the Post-office out of it as soon as possible, and meanwhile beat the Stilwell bill, if possible, or else nullify it by getting a court-house site elsewhere. Let us not be such hogs as to build in that little park, which ought to be restored and transmitted to posterity Investigations any particular investiga- : concluded, Knowl from us to depree; current or alrea AR be it tion, either now edge is power. But the impression grows upon us that. countless busy people are conducting endless investigations with no tangible results. Even suppose a few more trusts are found guilty of the same old skulduggery, how is that going to help us? Even suppose a magnate or two are fined, how is that going to solve the trust problem? Investigations are all very well, but we can't expect to heep on investigating forever. The time must come for us to important conclusions upon the basis o norphose themsclves into execu which reach a few the investigators must metai tives, or executors, or in aggravated cases even executioners. ly knew “PVE just bought the most beautiful thing—if you It’s a real Rembrandt. e-power? it cost me. How the money “Indeed! hors many impression forms that ss, the one looks at Cor would do better the ship of state with more steam 1 fewer rudders. -LIFE- 145 How Can Women Hold Their Husbands? Fashion Reform League Lays Down Some A podictical Principles—A New Rule to Cir- cumvent Servile Imitators Abroad—What to Do Under All Circumstances ke a rule not to announce a have been obliged to W in Paris ond Lendon have been over here, and have copied ir models on the day they were out and spread the abroad. This can be permitted no longer. Hereafter, therefore, ir customers will be fitted, but they will have to permit us to ct the styles for them, and their gowns will be delivered yle. Thus every- new style in advance. This is because the tradespeo: ple on the day selected for announcing the new liody will blossom out on the same day, and there will be no servile copying by other countries, We shall, of course, have a few general models which every one is at liberty to use. A neat bathing suit we have just issued, made of Valenciennes lace with creton lining, the whole weighing two ounces, suitable for use at Narragansett, is free for all We have also some going away costumes for brides, which nd which any one can use, as they are purely conventional, offer no particular originality HOW TO ENTER A DRAWING ROOM LAUGH AND SCREAM AS YOU STRIDE BY THE LADY Who RE- CEIVES, PAYING NO ATTENTION TO MER WHATEVER—(TIIS MAN: ONCE WITH MOSTESSES OF THE OLD NER “PLACES ONE" AT While we are always glad to supply brides with clothes, we do not specially cater to them. They are always uninteresting to the spe It is only after has been married a few years e study. Then it becomes with her whether she shall hold her own a questi and if not, whose? Inasmuch m the basis for duty to lift them up into the ull modern love atlairs, it is o y belong true art sphere where comicbooks.com