Life — September 3, 1914 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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and kill nothing but a solan goose, does not need any culture or consider- ation of the habits of animals or the rights and properties of men. Hence it is but one of the hundred small in- dications of the calamity that threatens all our liberties and traditions to-day; the creation and consolidation of a new and very strong aristocracy with- out a trace of the one thing that made aristocracy sympathetic and support- able, the strong sentiment of locality. We talk of the pomposity of the French “de” or the German “von”; but after all these at least limit a man to a place; and have even a rustic modesty. But the new nobleman could not use the particle unless he were called “Comte de Partout” or “Graf yon Ueberall”. All the birds of our woods are silenced by migratory birds that overshadow them like hawks; and if you will look long enough at the houses in Park Lane, you will sce that they are only the huge caravans of a people more wandering than the gypsies. Do I understand you to ask, “ What about Golf?” I beg your pardon. I had forgotten it. You pick up a stick and put down a ball; then you don’t hit it, then you do hit it, then you hit it a number of times till it falls in a little hole; and then you do it all again, That is what Golf is. I didn’t know you were interested in that. wt A On y In Defense of Our Colleges 3 * ~ HOSE inclined to be aspersive | 1anogs toward our colleges should bear in mind that it is no easy job to take To have a Chickering in your home is, at first, to have a yourg man full of curiosity, fill his merely a new piano which sheds its charm over the head: with :a butiget of conventional whole room, in which it is the most conspicuous object. and more or less moribund culture and send him forth with the belief that he is educated. If we but consider how simple a thing life is after all, we must perforce admire our academic legerde- main and confess that it takes a well- curried curriculum to surround it convincingly with mystery and misin- CHICKERING & SONS, BOSTON formation. Division of American Piano Co. But to keep a Chickering in your home is to come to know it as a vibrant, vital thing, responding to your moods like a sympathetic friend of infinite understanding. Literature mailed gladly. Uncle Henry—“Nothing Like It” ~ “The biggest little motor help that ever came dow: pike. Handy? Ishould say! Strong the job! Every man who drives a car ought to have one. Basline Autowline “The Little Steel Rope With The Big Pul ‘cessory that can't be safely overlooked. Tire pumps. lifting jacks, wrenches and pliers all help, but the little Autowiine gets you home—every time. Weighs 45 pounds. Made of flexible, di ble, celebrated Yellow Strand wire rope. Stows under acushion. All supply dealers. Price, east of Rocky Mountains, $3.95. FREE: Mlustrated circular giving Autowline information. MORE FORCIBLE FEEDING THE EUGENIC PILL