Life — August 31, 1911 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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= a3 ae We Are Constantly In Ri are Tow Long for Our Absolut “I Pray Thee, Sit” To tue Evitox or Lire Deak Stx.—Our Zoological boast of its dimensions, its clegance and not of comfort ai- Park can its collections, but forded to its visitors. A German traveler lately compared it in this respect unfavorably with the Per- lin Thiergarten, where thousands of visi The London “ Zoo” 1, 1 pray afternoon tors can be seated. seems 10 say to every con thee, sit.” And, of tea can be had for a sixpence, ing it is, too, after one has made the rounds of that fascinating place. Zoo" scems on a hot day a long distance from the trains and trol leys. And when, one day that turne out hotter than it promised, we took our- and the children to the Flower Show at the Botanical Garden, besides the Zoo, we found, though mak- ing all the use we could of a cartis that we did a vast deal of walking. Our chances to rest were few and far Le- tween. I did not wonder that a brig’ young working girl had said to me: went once to the Zoo with my friends; it is too hard work for shan't go again; I couldn't sit down a the time I was there.” That afternoon when wo for our cab to come back for us we had no choice but to sit in the blistering sun on the bench of the handsome esplanade, And we with the young working girl that it was too hard for a holiday. B. New Yous, August, r9tr. A Few Leading Questions Dear Lire In your issue of August 10 you lished an editorial referring to the ap- peal of Secretary Morrison for funds to defend J. J. McNamara. In the last part of the editorial you said you would like to know what was in the minds of the two m nm union course, Refresh, The Bronx selves doir holiday; 1 were waili sun-heated stone agreed ipt of Important Letters Limited Essential to Publication Which Space. Brevity i workers, whether they wanted to sce a fair trial and a just verdiet or proportion of “what them feel toward men who blow up buildings in the supposed interest of the structural iron workers, revolutionists fecl toward nrades who throw bombs at the ussian their ca officials of the Czar.” I would like to answer at “great body of American citizens.” First, I want everybody trial, whether a working man or a capi- lalist. cond, for one of to get a fair that every man is innocent until proved guilty, In. your editorial you talk as though they had been con will not be done until as mear a Los An Vieted, and that they have had they can get in trial of a union cording to zine would be good for sore eyes. Why can’t of venue? show his brothers? nin some cities, ac- some im articles, MeNamara get a change Why docs the judge openly hatred for Why did Typog blowing up the Times office Union with before he even found out that anybody was killed, and later change to the Structural Iron Workers. If I could have had these answered I would not have zestion and given fifty charge the questions acted on your st cents ins:ead of twenty-five cents. Last, but not least, that everything that capital has it has got through or- ganization. But when labor organizes they are called anarchists and compared with Russian revolutionists. Wishing the best success to Lire: and the workingman who realizes that his “Union Card,” [ am, Yours truly, “A Ustox May.” fortune is Nugust 10, ror Marry Again Miss Freda ‘Thomas, this city, is reported as a lawyer of ying : The age when the Church can prevent an exercise of a right which has been law has ceased contract sanctioned by Marriage is simply a sane- the State and orda nd usages of ned by the two tioned 1 customs society. If persons find they are unsuited temperament, or that her in enter ing into the contract of marriage, they should have the absolute right to ap- peal to the law that sanctioned the con- tract and ask that it be revoked. This revocation should always g both parties the right to remarry find suitable companions, for life of condemning them, as the Church would, to an existence of deception and fraud upon society. This is an aye of liberty. The law of divorce is sanctioned both by the Mosaic law and the law of all civilized nations, and it ill fits an organized church in this twenticth century to attempt to coerce the freedom of the individual to cach other in either party has deceived. the © to and instead Si seems very cold.” “Yes,” answered his friend, “ she’s a Boston girl, but after you've given her one or two burning kisses she begins to thaw out.” JUDGMENT OF PARIS comicbooks.com