Life — April 29, 1915 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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“Every Hamburger can meet the crisis like a man” liance. One smooth aiternoon while skies are filled with blues, he send up enlarged German dirigeable baloon for float over town, All Hamburgers see this, and sight of that great airboat remind them so muchly of sausages not a heart can remain untouched, Consequence of that, 1000000000 table- cloths is brought forthly to make white-wag wave. Peace comes march- ing in with guns and before midnight German Relief Fund have provided 9 meals daily for happy Hamburg homes Hon. Zero Kuroki tell this while estimating. I could only ade his wis- dom by following intelligence: “War are like all other branches of love,” I negotiate, chasing itself in cirel Hoping you are the ic Yours truly Hasuimura Toco. (Per Wallace Irwin.) Must Be Prevented HERE is danger that Washington's home at Mount Vernon, now an established historical shrine, will be sliding off into the Potomac, on ac- count of the disintegration of the soil support. It would be a pity to permit this. It is a monument to enduring character which—among so few left— we should take pains to preserve. It are always Rules (For cats who are abandoned during the summer by their owners.) KF? up appearances. If you are slowly starving, look pleasant about it. Don’t haunt the neighborhood, otherwise the people who have left you behind would get a reputation for cruelty. This might not affect their social position, but it is hard on the tender-hearted neighbors to feel they have such folks near them in winter, If your fur begins to wear off over the corners of your bones, rub cold cream on freely. Can be obtained at any first-class drug store. Don't sit on the back-yard fence and yowl. Consider others. If all the hungry souls were to do the same, nobody could enjoy themselves. Don't paw the kitchen door and miau. Remember that a latchkeyless life contributes to a judicious silence. Don’t, in any unseemly manner and in your haste, overturn an ash can. Always respect the health and well- being of others. The Vulgarity of Refinement ULGARITY is either conscious or unconscious. Unconscious vul- garity is rarely offensive to the sym- pathetic student of human affairs, unless either his inexperience or bad luck make it impossible to avoid it. Even in these circumstances, the con- tact with unconscious vulgarity may have its compensations. A person un- consciously vulgar is likely to be good-humored, and is often amusing. Conscious vulgarity, however, is much more hopeless, particularly when it takes the form of a more or less con- spicuous refinement. Livery is, not always, but often, an illustration of the vulgarity of refinement. The same thing is true of some kinds of learning. A man who wears upon his sleeve a certain brand of philosopher may be as definitely vulgar as the one whose butler wears gold epaulettes. The vulgarity of refinement is not the same as the refinement of vulgarity. Newport illustrates the former. Chi cago, broadly speaking, the latter. New York, being more cosmopolitan, contains a mixture of both,