Show Sale of Life T IS announced that Charles Dana Gibson has purchased purchased pur pur- i I IT chased the controlling interest in Life and that ho and G. G B. B Richardson and George Goorge U will hereafter hereafter hereafter here here- after manage it Mr Nr Gibson purchased tho the magazine from the estate of Andrew Miller one of its founders who died last December The first issue of or the tho publication publication cation calion was in 1885 and Mr Gibson was one of its earliest earliest ear ear- liest contributors as a a. cartoonist He sold his bis first cartoon to Life when lIe ho was a boy living at Flushing Long Island Spurred by the tho sale of tire the picture which was ent entitled tIc II The The Moon and I and showed a n small dog log barking at t tho moon he went home borne and sL stayed up the gr greater part lart of the night it is said at his sketch board finishing twelve pictures all l of which were ere rejected re- re the tho next net day by L Lifes Life's cs c's editor He afterward became became be be- came however a member o of tho the art staff and held the thirty four years vears J The New York Tribune commenting on the tho change of 0 ownership p says The Tho news touching touching- our old friend Ufo Life will bo be welcomed 4 aai American the tho affection for b by every everyone one possessing possessing- tion ion i A high mark of character and aid intelligence has been maintained by this official of oC American humor Its ts humor has tended to become too official formal and conventional almost bureaucratic bureaucrat In Its search for tor tl the c safe g to a jok joke But its edl- edl tonal orial pages pases and its policy have havo been distinguished and hl high h as wise and headed clear ns as S they thoy have e been good natured U Upon n tho tim foundation of or such Americanism as Mr Mitchells Mitchell's and ond Mr Martins Martin's has our country built all the tho permanency that it possesses The now now new ownership will carry on this fino fine tradition we vc are arc euro nrc Will it also alga go JO delving delving- Into new fields of ot humor In n an an effort to widen tho the appeal of ot the tho Life Lle Pase page TK There C Is s unmistakably an opportunity for tor growth here For better bet bet- ter cr for worse leadership of ot American humor has p passed from rom tho the magazine mas field to the tho newspaper in the last gen sen- J r Uon Life has bas suffered in consequence nce 1 W We agree with the Tribune that thai tho the new newspapers areto ore are oreo to o a 30 very great extent O occupying tho the field o of the best American humor The and the columnist of the tho big dailies have largely usurped th the pl place cc of the weekly comics while the daily cartoons appearing in the newspapers are arc funnier than anything that comes out in in n the m magazines and being up to the minute arc psychologically psycho- psycho logi logically lly better appreciated An English artist has refused a 3 commission to paint 1300 American portraits for or I If f the man man wi with h the hc money can reconcile himself to substitutes he will have bava lave no in jn getting tho the work done Local oMI daylight saving was in force two days when he the state legislature at Albany New cw York repealed the he law To bo be c effective it must be universal Arguing before the supreme court against prohibition prohibition tion ion Mr Bryan thinks Elihu is the Root of all eviL Cap Capture ure N If you yon can say that hat you can speak Russian Hussian fluently |