Life — February 19, 1914 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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“LE GRE The New Pulpit Drama HE idea of making the pulpit over into a stage and improvising plays which shall bring home important truths to the congrega- tion, is perhaps not bad, and the Rev. Austen Kempton, o1 Cambridge, should apply for a patent immediately. This gentleman, the pastor of a leading Baptist church in Cambridge, has not only produced a play with real scenery and costumes, but has persuaded someone to im- personate a sinful man and his terror, to say nothing of a blind boy who takes the part of a result. According to the papers, the performance was witnessed by double the usual number of auditors. Could this not be improved upon, however, if real sinners, selected from the congregation, were made to take part in the plays? Let us assume that the wealthiest man in the congregation had made all of his money out of a pro- tective tariff, had contributed for years to Republican cam- paign funds, and was profiting by child labor. And sup- pose, for the good of the cause, he was induced to act out his secret feeling of guilt—what crowds would come! And how much more good it would do him than under the present system, where millionaires can only feebly placate their own feelings by giving away huge sums for chari Fashion Note HE black silk slip-cover that comes with a gift umbrella is rarely utilized for its original purpose. But the deft fingers of a handy housewife may easily transform it, at slight trouble and expense, into a fashionable skirt. No refitting or re-shaping necessary. Simply turn the affair upside down, cut off the metal end, and attach a belt. See that the slash comes at the side. nae len “JULIA, HAVE YOU SEEN MY NEW WHITE SILK WAISTCOAT?” “ YES, DEAR; I HAVE IT ON.” “1 HEAR THAT A NEW BABY HAS ARRIVED AT YOUR HOUSE, BILLY” “YES, * June! BY THE CLOTHES, AN’ THE CRIB, AN’ 1 £ BROUGHT WITH HIM, I GUESS He's GOIN’ We Shudder T the National Conference on Race Betterment, held not long ago in Battle Creek, some of the delegates evidently forgot themselves. This dreadful thing about American girls was reported as being lettered by Dr. Carolyn Geisel, of Rome, Ga.: “ Women's schools are inefficient because they fail to Prepare women cither for livelihood or motherhood. Graduates come out of women’s schools physical wrecks with a valucless flood of useless information and a penchant for fashions which leave them as nearly nude as the law will allow.” Until we read this treasonable statement of Dr. Geisel’s we were laboring under the impression that our modern girls who attend women’s schools were the soul of modesty and shrinking retirement; that they spent most of their time in disciplining their minds and acquiring self-control ; that they denied themselves material things, bent their energies to household duties, and delighted in helping their parents to live within their income. Can it be possible that Dr. Geisel, who is reported by the New York Times as being a woman and by the New York Sun as being a man, has inadvertantly struck the nail on the head? Shocking! TH officers of the National Guard at Albany have been protesting against vaccination for typhoid, on the ground that it makes it the more difficult for them to get recruits, A man will enlist in the army and take his chance of being shot for his country, but there is appar- ently no glory in dying of vaccination,