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Edward W. Bok, as his autobiography (The Americanization of Edward Bok) gives evidence, has had a remarkable career. Beginning as an obscure immigrant Dutch boy, he rose to be editor of The Ladies' Home Journal, became son-in-law of Cyrus H. Curtis, the publisher, established himself as a leader in the magazine world, then retired to devote himself to public service. He created the Philadelphia award of $10,000 yearly for the person who performs the greatest service for that city, for several years anonymously made up the deficit of the Philadelphia Orchestra-no small matter. His latest...
Fire destroyed several buildings in the extreme northeast corner of the " Forbidden City" section of Peking, but did no damage to the old Imperial Palace, present residence of the Boy Emperor...
...weather, the party crossed Missouri. Every time that the President appeared on the platform it was in the broiling sun, and he became badly sunburned-especially his lips. So in the afternoon at Kansas City he was obliged to stay indoors and cancel engagements for golf, a review of Boy Scouts and a visit to the War Veterans' Hospital. General Sawyer applied ice packs to the President's lip, so that he might speak in the evening, and Mrs. Harding reviewed the Boy Scouts. After dinner the President spoke on the railroad problem...
...Rovers are as American as The Saturday Evening Post - and yet they are neither Babbitts, beautiful, damned nor Gopher Prairie yokels. They are merely what the average American boy between ten and sixteen would like to be, and they do the things which that boy would like to do. The wandering Patagonian musing on the ruins of Brooklyn Bridge in the year 3,000 could reconstruct every external of our present life and civilization from this series of books, as well as most of our ideals. He would think our normal life a little more exciting than...
...Significance. This is what your boy really likes to read, out of all the world's literature, unless he's a prodigy, and what you liked to read when you were his age. Imagine a family library without at least one volume containing the glorious words "A cooky-prize," cried Dick Rover, "for whoever first sights the old school...