Life — July 31, 1913 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Inhuman Jails HE recent published reports that Sing Sing prison is not a desirable place to live in have not made the dent in the public mind hoped for. The public as a rule from time immemorial has usually been indifferent to the conditions in jails. When the abuse becomes too flagrant the officials are deposed and others succeed them. These offi- cials in their turn rapidly deteriorate to the jail level—a mixture of cruelty, dirt and callousness. Jailers rarely succeed in overcoming the excessive wear and tear upon their characters by jail contact. They are forced into being harsh with the worst prisoners. They rapidly become accustomed to inhuman acts. The public doesn't care much. If it argues about the matter at all, it argucs that people ought to keep out of jail in the first place. The public ought to care, however. It ought to take to itself the responsibility of the conditions which multiply jailbirds. The fewer jailbirds there are, the better the jails will be. The next best thing to going to New York is to have New York brought to you! Not the hot, noisy, dis- agreeable side of a great city in Summer, but the cool, dainty, at- tractive side—the little shops and big stores as they display the first suggestions of the ‘new models and matenals for the coming Fall. VOGUE is the one magazine in the world that can do this for you. You may go away to the mountains or the sea- shore, you may tour the country, you may go abroad—but Vogue takes no vacation. Go where you will, so long as Vogue goes with you, you will never get out of touch with what is touch with what is going on, Vogue newest and best among people of taste becomes a necessity. The Outdoor-Life number is now In the Summer, therefore, more than on sale. This copy above all others any other time you will need your you will need right at this season. Vogue. During the Season — when And while you are getting it, be sure Send for TRIAL BOTTLE 20 ¢ You have never seen anything like this before ‘The fragrance of thousandsof bios soma ina vial 2 inches high. The Drow equi exqulaite perfume scken Produced. Not diluted with alcobol. © ? Hower Drops Send “200. stiver or stamps for miniature bottle with long glass stopper. \ention name of Pas! Rieger, 17™1st St, San Francisca Mater of High Grate Perfumes OATST RGUABOIC Paris New York San Francisto you are in the city to observe and judge for yourself—Vogue is almost a luxury; but when you are out of to arrange for the next three numbers, Your newsdealer will be glad to re- serve them for you. VOGUE FOUR FORTY-THREE FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY Condé Nast, Publisher 23 cents a number Twice a month $400 0 year 24 numbers The Real Wrong Doers I lay to the door of the so-called “idle rich" the making of many criminals — Congressman Wm, P. Porland, of Kansas. RMIT us to suggest, Congressman, that the real difficulty is not so much with the idle rich as with the idle poor. Among the idle poor may be mentioned all those workmen who are put down in the statistics by sociologists as receiving from eight hundred to twelve hundred dollars a year, but not counting the time during which they are laid off. That is the trouble, Congressman. The poor are idle so much of the time, they don’t get the wages they are set down as receiving. There are not so many of the idle rich in proportion to the whole as there are of the idle poor; oh, no, not nearly so many. The idle rich degenerate, of course, but there are more things to keep them from degenerating than there are in the case of the poor, who can't play the races, or golf, or travel in Europe, and who live principally on dregs and bad air. Under these conditions they produce many who become criminals— many more criminals in proportion than among the idle rich. The idle poor are to blame, Congress- man. They ought to know better. They ought to be stopped. Think of what huge and lavish pleasures they give the idle rith during the short time in the year when they do work! WAIST ENERGY Cox