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...children being called such insulting names as kiddies, brats, little lambs, little nuisances. They either display their children to visitors like new phonograph records or put them in corners like broken bridge tables. The old practice of cuffing children has given way to almost complete indifference. Parents who can afford a nursemaid seldom see their small children more than once or twice a day. Then, when a child gets older he is sent away to school. He returns and finds his parents vaguely familiar, like the clock on the mantelpiece, and about as interesting as the 1913 volumes...
...races tomorrow will afford track followers their first real opportunity to see many of the eastern track performers in competition on the cinders. The results should provide some basis on which to forecast the outcome of the Intercollegiates next month The I. C. 4A. meet, the culmination of the eastern track season, is scheduled for May 25 and 26, in the Harvard Stadium. Stanford captured the western track crown again this year, and is once more expected to be the strongest I. C. 4A competitor...
...rowed a steady 30-stroke beat most of the distance, with L. D. Parker '30 keeping the Ineligibles to an even 28 strokes to the minute. The weather conditions, even on the up-river stretch between the Arsenal Bridge and Gerry's Landing, were of a sort yesterday to afford a gruelling test for the oarsmen...
This increase in production will take borax out of the idle rich class of chemicals and put it to work in many industries which previously could not afford it. Already its value is well known. It has long been a familiar household god in the kitchen, a mild antiseptic (boric acid) in the medicine chest. It keeps glass from cracking under the strain of change in temperature; is used therefore in making lamp chimneys, incandescent lamps, baking dishes. Enamel ware, plumbing fixtures, chemical apparatus owe much of their resistance to borax. But wherever borax has gone in, the price...
...recollection of another item of news from Turkey goes far to explain the enigma. No doubt it was the abolition of the harems some years ago that enabled the Turkish male to discard his savage mien and fighting figure. With but one wife to engage his attentions, he can afford to neglect his diet and yield to the less violent diversions of the cinema...