Life — October 24, 1912 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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We are Constantly in Receipt of Important Letters Which are Too Long for Our Limited Space. Invited to Consider To tHe Epttor or Lire: Dear Six :—In your very clever “ Wood- row Wilson Number" under the cap- tion of “From Our Readers” F. C. R. of Cincinnati, O., writes that Catholics are forbidden under pain of excommun- ication to send their children to public schools. I should like to ask him his authority for the statement, and to name one case of excommunication of a Cath- olic for sending his or her child to the public schools, Further he states, or rather intimates, that the parochial schodls are inferior to the public schools, For the past few years (since its origin) in the free scholarships to the University of Pennsylvania given by the city of Philadelphia to the school children of Philadelphia (public, private and paro- chial) the highest averages have been attained by parochial schol pupils. R. should consider before he a subject of which he is whol- Yours truly, “ Putvapenrnia.” writes ly ignornat. Panuavenrina, Pa, September 20, 1912. Some Mistakes Tue Epitor or Lire: Your Ministers’ Number to hand. I assume that degree of accuracy is desirable even in a cartoon. Most of the clergy at whom your shafts of wit are aimed i Chureh, and t what hurts attempt to Dear Sik has just com some of scem to be of the E, I guess we can st is the vesture in which y garb us. For instance, “Charley, the Assistant Minister at St. Joseph’s"—and by the way $1,200 is a large salary for Charley; from his looks I should not say he was worth as much as that, at least he would not be as assistant to me—is dressed in a long old-fashioned surplice with bishop Young assistants some times copal bees in their bonnets, but Episcopal sleeves in their sur- Again Charley has around his neck what appears to be a feather boa or a tippet. Twelve hundred dollars would not allow him to sport such lux- ury. Lastly, Charley, who is apparently have E never plices. Brevity is Absolutely Essential to Publication meant to be a very high churchman, at least he looks like it, is wearing Geneva bands! What a combination! A long surplice with bishop sleeves, fur collar and Geneva bands is not to be found in the heavens above or the carth beneath —it might be in the other place, but I have my doubts. If any of your artists ever went to church for any purposc—incidentally it might benefit them and raise the moral tone of the paper !—they would see what hind of garments a minister docs wear, and their fun would have added force and pungency, I think, Iam sure Lire always wants to be correct, even in its humor. What I have said about Mr. Walker's little picture applies with equal force to Mr. Flagg’s extraordinarily vested par- son, Really, to what church does he be- long? They say we Episcopalians never disturb the peace. Can it be that Mr. Flagg has the idea that’ Presbyteri with their strenuous views on predestina- tion and the clection, are vested that Very sincerely yours, Cyrus Townsexn Brapy, Rector, s Ctry, Mo, September 23, 19 Grand Opportunity To tie Epttor or Lire: + Thomas D. Wood, of Co- University publishes a statement that 75 per cent. of the 20,000,000 school children need attention for physical de- fects which are prejudicial to health, and which might be partially or com- pletely remedied. With a National Board of Health and compulsory treatment for all defects we doubt not that a keen and intelligent examiner could bring this up to 98 per cent. as there are very few perfect hu- man beings. Think what a splendid thing for the medical profession it would be to be turned loose upon this helpless flock of 19,600,000 defective children. The escaping 2 per cent. of absolutely perfect children could be vaccinated, thus making a perfect score. Daxvitte, Va., September 15, 1912. UNPLEASANT DUTIES MR. GAYSPORT IS REPRIMANDING THE EW MAID FOR THE POOR QUALITY OF HER WoRK comicbooks.co