Life — November 2, 1911 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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Old Masters in the THERE Who an old man, Cimabue, fond of chop- was awfully © painted a lot To fill his old pot With a Jes gummy and gooey II. He had for a pupil Giotto, Who, when the Duke told him he'd got to, Built In less than tall tower an hour, His reward was a dish of risotto. very I After him came the galantuoma, Who built the d Fillipo Brunclteschi, With temper His rivals all had to take bromo. on the Duomo, so pesky IV. Somewhat later, Paolo Ucello Found his pictures would look a pale yellow, So he painted them blue But the yellow soaked And made them most wondrously through mel- low. Vv There probably was a Benozz0 His art wasn’t good till it got so. He painted a chapel And Eve and the Apple (This story is true or is not so.) VI A Fiesolan sculptor named Mino Did statues in fine cipollino. Among Was a Of that prince of philosophers, Zeno, them the wust horrible bust VIL Rafaello Sanzio d'Urbino, After breakfasting on Would paint several Of Madonnas with And put in the night playing at Keno. VIL. Then came a Venetian, called Titian, Whose only and darling ambition Was to paint ladies nude, With their heads slightly skewed, And their arms in a pretty position. am) a cd oom Light of Criticism IX Always Bolognese painter, G. Reni, painted cyes upturned and strainy His ardor was such, And he painted so much, Cook's still think him That tourists quite brainy x one Murillo look like a pillow hair At Seville, in Spain, inted figures that With siraw colored And faces so fair, All drooped like the d weeping willow XI Last of all comes Antonio Canova, Whose like And spank them so 1 That the splinters and such Should fly all the way to Jehova L. et A. How Big is Hunnewell ? ILL the Director of the Census oblige many friends by issuing a pamphlet giving the population of all the towns, villages and hamlets in the United Sta We need this information, For observe the case of Hunnew Kan, the that statues we'd to turn over ach the woman Mayor, with whom other town settlement officers have talked was Utica, or Roche oma, recording and discussing its affairs and such details as the proceed- Chamber of Ce But there began to be a rumor that Hunnewell was a small place. It did not appear in the World Almanac’s list of cities of 7,000 population and over dispute. The papers bout Hunnewell as though it ter, or Dallas, or ings of its nmerce ‘Then some one whispered that it had 407 inhabitants. Following that the Director of the Census disclosed on appeal that by the last fede (i910) Hunnewell had 2c8 fol Shades of Malthus! What is a ham let of that size doing with a Ma Is the whole tale of Hunnewell a joke Send out the pamphlet, Mr. Census Man. As it is now, we have no protec- tion against any microbe village that gets consent from the tions to pose as a full sized place. news associa 767 Poor Frisco ! LIFORNIA, as San I a State, desired And she got it ‘ancisco, as a city, did not de- n suff And she got it. n Francisco knows, as most of us know, that the sire wom one of worst. things that can happen to any city is the fe male vote. M The more thoughtful the voter the better he knows it; and the more he dreads it He knows that the ignorant vote and the purchasable vote will be doubled: that it is the death knell to civic re- form. All that, however, does not disturb the suffragette. And there is no rea- son why it should. She is no more to blame than a baby for scorching its fingers. Unlike th refuses to learn. le voters know it. baby, however, she Men who have dis- cussed this subject—or tried to—with suffragettes know the futility of the effort. As well bird It is certainly an excess of punish- ment that San Francisco, after its carthquakes and. its ul be afl gue with a canary fires, sl ted with the female vote. Women May Smoke if Men Do LDERMAN DOWLING women should not restaurants in New thinks smoke ia York, and n ordinance to forbid it. Somebody please take the alderman aside and expound it to him that laws to forbid to women ordina i and indy wants ences that are permitted to We have overcrowd- ng of the public vehicles in New York could be greatly relieved by a rule for- bidding women to ride in them, but men don't go in the courts. long been aware that the the lawyers say such a rule would be unconstitutional, So with Alderm: Dowling’s rule “to. prohibit tob: smoking by females in public places. Men and women in the United ates are equal before the law. So far as that goes women already pos- sess what the suffragists practice and orate to win for them. RICES are governed by the law of supply and demand—the sup- ply of easy-going consumers and the demand of the trusts. comicbooks.com