Life — October 10, 1912 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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1948 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Live's Fees Aik Funo has been in oper: ation twenty-five years. In that time it has expended $133,340.25, and has given a fort. night in the country to 33,737 poor city chil. dren, le Fund is supported entirely by bequests oluntary contributions, which are ac jedged in this column. Previously acknowledged. Powell & Giberson A Lover of Kids MJ. WH. $10,103.63 00 ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS. Two Hartford tires and two ine for the Farm runabout, from C. B. Whit sey, Secretary of the Hartford Rubber Works Company. Life’s Confidential Guide to Prominent People DEBS, EUGENE.—This les ning’ permanently for President on the So cialist ticket, having started in this pos tion early in'life. He will probably be pe: too old for service—unless fh ally become President, a possi bility which we by no means ignore. MUNSTERBERG, HUGO.—A professional d the habit of pizchologizing alo mown about the Very little was ican people before Professor Munsterberg explained who and what they are. as revealed the fatal truth, the responsibility lies en- tirely with him! We hope that he feels it SMITH, X.—A Senatorial inguisitor who stirred up all the humorists in England to write about him because, in seeming not to know what he was talking about, he succeeded in finding out the truth.” As a nautical expert, Senator Smith may not be a success, but this is, after all, purely incidental WHARTON, EDITIL.—This lady is consid- ered by many to be our chief feminine light in literature. She has a remarkable style and unerring literary taste, but lacks the kind of thing which has ‘made the Ladies’ Home Journal and the IWoman’s Home Companion what th GOLDMAN, EMMA.—An indi young woman does not agree with the peo- ple who are running the world as to how it ought to be run, and her passionate re- sentment has d her hh trouble. Whether she is right or not will require some centuries to reveal, are. t. This DERELICTS, All Things are Possible OME people assert that we are only one hundred years behind the rest of the world; others put it at a thousand, or even more. Our parcels post, unsatisfactory as it is, is probably twenty-five years be- hind the principal nations of Europe. Put we are probably about fifty years behind in our method of keeping our cities clean, In politics we can date back some- thing farther than this. Alcibiades for example, instituted a so-called reform movement in Greece some- thing over two thousand years ago, of which the present Bull Moose move- “Gee! THEM ment is but a weak imitation. So far as our art and architecture are con- cerned, we are so far behind that v are practically dependent upon the remnants which the Greeks have left. It is an interesting query as to whether the United States will ever catch up with the rest of the world. There seems to be some hope of this, considering that we have youth and vigor and an apparently innate capac- ity for suffering. HERE is a difference between an engagement and a “date.” The first leads to marriage and the other to divorce. Tinea ene TRAPS AL COLD SHIVERS. Mot YS GIVE ME THE comicbook $-CO!