Life — November 19, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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The Lawyer I? rather be a Timber-sawyer Or Candy-peddler than a Lawyer. The Lawyer looks upon the Hills And thinks of Nuncupative Wills. The Lawyer views the Rolling Prairie And talks of Writs of Certiorari. The Lawyer to the Lake resorts And reads up Kickleton on Torts. The Lawyer lies where Sylvan Peace i And dreams of Mortgages and Leases. I'd feel Starvation’s Tooth a-gnawing Before I'd get my Bread by Lawing! Words, Words, Words! N lives not by bread alone, but largely by catch- phrase For instance, the activities of the poor nd ‘the rich do not differ much, except in nomenclature. The poor walk to save car-fare and call it misfortune. The rich walk for pleasure and call it golf or pedes- trianism. The act is the same and the results are about The poor call it a necessity and the rich call it a privilege, just another difference in names, It is a life- saving device in both cases, nullifying many of the effects of too little money in the one case and of too much in the other, The poor coachman sits by his master and drives, calling it his work; or the master sits by his coachman and drives, calling it pleasure. The poor man works in the garden because he must, and calls it labor ; the rich man because he wants to, and calls it play. Both sweat, get tired and eat heartily; both are benefited alike, but each clings to his separate name for the thing. The poor largely go without doctors and their dope, and call it disaster; the well-to-do are doing much the same, and calling it Christian Science or New Thought. The result is about the same. Life triumphs somehow over hoth disease and doctrine, and both classes get well for the most part. Lady Victoria Welby, perhaps the greatest English- woman of her time, as her noble forebear the great Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was of hers, has evoked a new and profound philosophy based upon language. She was the first to set forth formally the tremendous fact that instead of words being an expression of life, life has become enslaved to words. We are not masters of speech, as we are likely to believe, but are ourselves the creatures and serfs of language. The thing we have created for our use has become a monster for our undoing. The new philosophy is called “ Signifies", and we advise all those who consider themselves educated, and particu- larly all teachers of language, professors of literature and philological sharks, to get the lady’s books and ponder them well. She has the right idea. Words, from being merely the expressions of concepts, have become the crea- tors of concepts, James Howard Kehler, sevillttn Mr. Gazelle: sty coopy: HAVE HAD LIV! “THERE goes Miss Van Antler. Weren't her father and mother divorced or involved in some kind of a scandal?” “Yes. But she is so pretty and engaging that she hopes to make her way without taking advantage of that.” WHY CHELSEA 3530 DIDN'T ANSWER comicbooks.com