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...pile. When I saw that publication my face became so grim that the bellboy was frightened. ' Any missing ? ' he asked, apologetically. ' No,' said I. ' There is one too many.' With that I handed the American to the astonished boy. ' Take that away,' I directed, ' and take care that one is never brought to my room again as long as I am here. I have barred that paper from my home in New York, and it is just as objectionable to me in French Lick as it is in New York...
Howard Pyle was best known as an illustrator, in heroic style, of adventure stories for boys. He it was who first made Stevenson, Cooper, Malory's Morte d'Arthur-not to mention his own Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, etc.-alive in many a boy's heart; but he was also a great and serious artist on canvas and in mural decoration. Pyle was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1853, and lived there until his death in 1911. He knew the satisfaction of being an honored prophet in his own community. To his home flocked...
...motives are simple. They are not, as George F. Babbitt ignorantly supposes, an " advertising stunt" for Hershey almond bars. Mr. Hershey was a poor boy. He had no education. He learned a trade and made a fortune out of it. He has no children. Now he would like to give an opportunity to as many boys as possible to make fortunes for themselves. Girls he does not provide for, on the ground that they can always get married or do housework, and so find homes. "Girls don't need help like boys," said he, " so I decided on boys." Boys...
...good Christmas present for the boy like boy...
...Boston Public Library, it seems, is to play the role of Rebecca. When some disciple of pure English, anxious to struggle out of the habit of saying "atta boy," telephones for help, it will draw forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare...