Life — February 8, 1917 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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LIFE Boston Still Wet spite of the Rev. Billy Sunday, Boston voted to remain wet. There never was any likelihood of the Hub going dry. There are too many evapo- rative and dehydrating centers of cul- ture in those parts which necessitate a corresponding reaction on the part of the merely human and mortal popula- tion. What man could live within three miles of Harvard and not need a drink now and then? And even a perpendicular forehead must sometimes lean toward toddy, or that favorite drink of Boston, the justly renowned “ward eight.” Oi all sad words of tongue or ben” the saddest are those ut- tered by the newsdealer who tells you he is “ sold out” when you ask him for the current issue of Lire, Order in advance. VS is Letters He met the wit and beauty of English society—he stood in the gorgeous splendor of the Russian Court—he admiringly watched the Boers wage their plucky fight on the veldts of Africa—he heard the bullets sing at San Juan—wherever things happened there was RICHARD HARDING DAVIS. Adventure had but to beckon and his seven league boots whisked him at once into action. The world was his playground, He was the Peter ‘Pan of American Letters and to the last minute retained his fresh, unspoiled love of life. In long, charming letters to his mother and family, written with boyish frankness and enthusiasm, RICHARD HARDING DAVIS recounts his adventures from his en- trance into the newspaper field in 1889. These letters, covering his most active and interesting years, have been gathered together and will be published serially in the Metropolizan, beginning in the March issue (on the newsstands February 8th). The writer's brothe:, Charles Belmont Davis, will add introductory. paragraphs to the letters and provide a sequential form for their publication. The Adventures and Letters of RICHARD HARDING DAVIS begin in a notably bright and interesting number of America’s Livest Magazine For instance— Metropolitan gives us a vivid behind-the-scenes DORE ROOSE- We have with us again that delightfully reat picture of Britain at War. THEO! victim ef calf love—no other than the William Sylvester Baxter. His liter: BOOTH TARKINOTON ing escapade of you at the tender phe LEROY SCOTT, the part in the Great War and the lesson it shou bring hor 0 Americans, There are eight big pages of ROTARY GRA- VURE pictures, anda striking siz-color cover design by HASKELL COFFIN, not forgetting the in Wa regular departmente-ART. YOUNG ii ton and C! way on books, people and things. 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Beginning with a compromise be- tween Blackstone, Jeremy Bentham and the old Persian Kazak, it is made clear that the anti-felony act was never meant to mean what it says. For an act to be meant to mean what it says would be ab- surd, because in that case there would be no chance for long-drawn-out trials, which in turn would confiscate the busi- ness of the lawyers, and this, of course, would be unfair, because many of the lawyers were innocent widows and orphans, In view of the impo: ity of taking the law as it is, it must therefore be taken as it is not. In other words, it must be taken ir. the light of reason. What light, then, does the light of reason throw upon the subject? Did Mr. Citi- zen have any rights which the defendant was bound to respect? The Potentate must decide that he had. If the Trust had taken away Mr. Citizen’s under- clothes, that would have been entirely different, and the defendant could have been punished without all this argument. Not only would that have left Mr. Citi- zen with nothing at all, but it would have been an offense against public decency and morals. But should the defendant have left the plaintiff any more than his underclothes? That was largely discretionary with the Trust. In the first place, it does not comicbooks.com >orcvre2s gatos