Life — August 3, 1911 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Ladies, Remember Your Horses And Do Not Make Them Suffer By the Use of That Abon: inable Check Rein—A Japanese Girl Who Evidently Reads Life—Other Letters Dear Str: Will you allow me through the medium of your paper to make an ap- peal to the fashionable women of New York against the crucl usage of dress- ing their horses in tight bearing reins? Iam a woman myself and feel sure that my fellow women would not permit the continuance of this practice if only they could be brought to realize the ex- tent of the suffering it entails. I want them to try and imagine what it must mean to a horse to have its head, for hours at a time, strained back, with no means of even for one moment lower- ing it, gnawing ache on throat and neck, and feel convinced that if only their per- sonal thought and interest could once be aroused a very big step toward the reme- yg of this error would have been taken, Even if it be too much to ask that the bearing rein be at first altogether dis. carded, great care should at any rate be taken to see that it is never put on tco tightly or orders should be given to the coachman to, whenever possible, drop it off the terrets if horses have to be kept standing for any length of time, for it is also then that so much useless suffer- ing is endured. Mus, Zenra, Still in the Ring To te Evitor or Lire: Dear Str.—While I have always liked Lire, I used to think that your claim of being the only independent paper, save one, was considerable of an exag- geration, but I am beginning now to think that you were too modest rather than too exorbitant in your statement. Some papers are part independent all the time, some are all independent part of the time, but you scem to be all in- dependent all the time. Forgive the feeble parody, 7 let me offer my serious congratulations upon your lampoon against the Aldrich treasury grab. So far as my observa- tion extends, and 1 am quite a wide reader of current periodicals, you are gainst it, case, and the only one to utter a word And yet it is the most ambitious piece of formal graft that has been proposed for year: Iam amazed and astounded at the very audacity of it. A plainer attempt to put the public funds into private hands and to put the public credit be- hind a private money-making scheme could not be found in all the annals of legislative enactment. When the idea was proposed I fully expected to sce an occasional editor here and there fly into an unconsolable fit of righteous indignation, Perhaps, as is so often asserted, our press is d cadent or perhaps they were so stunned by the audacious brazenness of the pro- posal that they were knocked over the ropes and haven't yet caught their breath. Perhaps—I don’t know. I am glad to sce that you weren't knocked out, however, and that you are still in the ring prepared to give punish- ment, I hope you will keep up the good work. You may possibly shame other editors into co-operating with you until the looters run to cover. Please ¢o not disappoint me. H.C. New York City, July 1g, 1911 Business Men Look Alike > Dear Mr. Enttor—Why do artists and actor folk persist in representing the American business man as a fat, porcine person with side whiskers, frock coat, white vest and a silk hat? Offhand, can you think of a single business man among your acquaintances who even approximates this universally accepted cartoon? Even in your Business Number of Lire I failed.to find a single drawing that did not libel the American business exceutive, who, after all, is our most in- telligent, qnost efficient and most repre- sentative citizen. Are artists and actors so unobservant that they fail to notice true-to-life types? Or do they move in such narrow spheres that they know only their own kind? Inquiring}: Kexpat. New Yorx, June 26, 1911. Do All Banxinc. Life in Japan Dear Lire: When a Japanese amah laughs in this way you must have issued a humorous number ahead of the schedule. The real scientific value of the photograph, how- ever, lies in the fact that it proves that Lire arrives in Japan at seven minutes past nine, which is certainly quick time. Yours truly, “Yoxomasta.” Yoxonama, June 12, 1911 comicbooks.com