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...time I had seen him, but he was all dressed up and looked fine. ... I had met lots of Christians, socalled, and rather despised them . . . but I had to admit they had done something for this man. And what impressed me most, this man was waiting to tell some boy that was a drug addict that Jesus Christ would cure...
...compared to their 1.4, defenders of the younger generation took opportunity to give several rousing cheers. The New York World, however, bitterly points out that the present day youth is not expected to know as much as his father, that "there was a time when a college boy had to wrestle with Greek and Latin he had to report daily on the doings of pious Acneas, with special attention to the accusative as subject of the infinitive in indirect discourse." The boy of today, on the other hand, "For languages elects Spanish or French, for philosophy and economics a combination...
...Thomas Beecham has poured out to advance the musical education and opportunities of Britons, not only at Covent Garden but in park bandstands and at the colleges, was amassed, as everyone knows, through the world-famed pills which his father, Joseph (later Sir Joseph) invented as a farm boy and peddled on country roads until he could make the backs of barns, signboards and fence-rails peddle for him. "Beecham's Pills,"* the newspapers and country sides of England, eventually of the world (including Greenland), echoed and re-echoed. Sir Joseph died the third richest man in England...
...Joseph Beecham while a boy helped cure sick farm animals, found that the English peasants liked potent effects from their medicines. They even used horse remedies on themselves. So when, at 20, he devised his physic pill he used aloes, ginger and soap. Aloe is bitter and astringent, and is used under prescription for some cases of menstrual irregularities, chronic constipation, atonic dyspepsia and worms. It is apt to be intensely griping, an effect which Sir Joseph modified with his ginger -but not too much, for his customers wanted lively results. The pills themselves are lively. They bounce 14 inches...
...Black Boy-The fight game reveals the Negro ; with Paul Robeson...