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...plutocrat tossed his gold watch (Waltham) into the arena. An animal lover contributed two cats, one live and one dead, followed by a tooth brush. An hospitable Freshman made a present of his door key. Others gave Sixteen Necco wafers and a bottle of soda mints. Among the remaining contributions were one cigar, one lump of sugar, one Boston garter, five beads, one cake of soap, one pipe, one safety pin, and large quantities of assorted fruit, most of which was far beyond its prime...
...regard his great achievements with any particular feeling of appropriation. It can lay no claim upon his distinctly universal artistry. It can only remember with pleasure that Sargent the man was in close sympathy with the University and that among other testaments of his affection his genial discerning brush has left to posterity and to Harvard portraits of two of, its greatest, presidents--tributes to them and now a precious reminder of his lovable personality...
Daniel Garber is essentially a painter of countrysides−gentle and spacious landscapes touched with the glamor of an April reticence, the regretful mists of fading summer, old houses, lanes, bridges, windless leaves enchanting a forest avenue. He paints on a toned canvas with a short stroke, a small brush. Shining spots of canvas show through the paint. Notable is his portrait of a girl in blue mending her underwear out-of-doors in the ripple and shadow of sunlight and uneasy willow branches. Yet for all this iridescent preciosity, there is solidity of grouping, vigorous draughtmanship, broad effects...
...half-breed guide of ours gone ?" And Cal replies : "Search me ! He was in the wagon until we got safely across the river." But the trenchant pen of the cartoonist* discovers the "half-breed guide"-and what does he wear but the face of Mr. Borah?-hiding behind the brush and whispering to the prowling savages who wear insurgent feathers in their topknots...
...Atlantic City, met the American Brush Manufacturers' Association, discussed the toothbrush trade. In the U. S., 113,000,000 people purchase only 40,000,000 toothbrushes yearly, whereas at least 330,000,000 should be purchased if U. S. brushers would keep their mollars unyellowed, said the bristle sellers. The life of a toothbrush, they affirmed, is no more than three months. Stated their President, William Cortes: "We hear of many instances where the same toothbrush is used from 10 to 15 years...