Life — October 19, 1911 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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et g ee ey z a E Ey é' z Et 2 B = =4 E 2 ei Ef ES Et Ee] IS = Ee EB i E Le E a i Hail, Boston! ANY attempts have been made to bring Boston down from its proud pedestal of superiority, but so. far every one has failed. Boston still leads everything else. It is usual to refer to all cities in the feminine gender. This being so, Boston is the intellec- tual woman of them all. Her cork- screw curls are symbolic of premedi- tated virtue. Her spectacles are in- dicative of profound depths of cussre. Boston, indeed, has supplied enough culture to cover the far Western Sta Whole colonies of pocts, rztigionists and philosophic systems are founded through the West by the pioncer from Boston who has ventured away from his native place. Nothing ever happens to America that has not previously taken place in Boston. That is why every true Bostonian sniffs complacently when someone else tells him “news.” He knows where the im- pulse first originated. Boston is warmly, nay, passionately intellectual Boston is immoral, even in her religions. She will take up any religion that comes along without any dis- crimination. Possessed of an insatiable curiosity, she stops at nothing. And as for philosophies, Bos- ton has tried them all. It would be impossible to do justice to Boston in a single number of Lire. Many will regard even the attempt as hopeless. Well, we have done the best we could. An Ethicless City N Des Moines, Iowa, the people thought that the prices charged by grocers for ¢; fresh vege tables, fruits and such produce were too high. So 2 public market was established. The farmers brought the produce there and sold it. Prices immediately dropped about 50 per cent. and have remained low Dealers im other cities scoff at this. It may go all right in Des Moines, but it cannot be done elsewhere, because of natural conditions and the weather and the disturbances in China. Besides, Des Moines is a city that indulges in self- advertising—and this fact puts Des Moines beyond the ethical pale. je The Perfect City h at Boston? Toston has More culture than Athens, (Ga.) More art than Paris (Ky.). More age than China (Me.). More manufactures than Birmin More colleges than Berlin (Conn.) More shipping than Amsterdam (N. Y More in Britain (XN. C.) More London (0O.). More Irishmen than Dublin (N. H.) More Poles than Poland (M ¢ (La.) am (Ma.). More waterways than More law than Rome (N.Y An Urgent Necessity A DSTINGUISHED theologian was invited to. mabe an address before a Sunday-school. The divine spoke for over an hour and his remarks were of too deep a character for the average juvenile mind to comprehend At the conclusion, the superintendent, according to custom, requested some onc in the school to name an appropriat hymn to be sung. Sing ‘Revive Us Again the room, shouted a boy in the rear of ardent Lover: peaxest, WUEN 1 GAZE INTO YOUK SOULFUL EYES I FEEL MYSELF TRANSPORTED INTO A MIGHER SPHERE, AND MY MYART CKIRS OUT TO You wITIt A GREAT YEARNINC Miss Boston: weatiy? mow intrerstine! comicbooks.com