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...perfect birthday party except that there was no cake with 2,678 candles...
...birthday without cake or candles...
...Leavitt's, midst the Famous Cake Box Mixture...
...very old man, President Emeritus of a Massachusetts University, celebrated a fortnight ago his 92nd birthday. No enormous cake glistening with petals of pink fondant marked the occasion; no 92 candles shone in the old man's eyes, no speeches were made, no toasts drunk. On the contrary, this aged onetime University President passed the day reading, studying, strolling in the morning sunshine, answering his correspondence. Once the intimate friend of Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Aldrich, Longfellow, he can still read with ease and operate a typewriter. In 1874, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, then working to perfect...
...word "wine", so objectionable to sensitive souls of today, has been changed to "raisin-cake" in a new Bible published by Charles Scribner's Sons. To further the good work of Scriptural regeneration, the Uplift Societies must now get busy upon certain other errata in the texts which, though not so demoralizing as the wine passages, are nevertheless capable of improvement. Joseph's narrow escape from Mrs. Potiphar, for example, might be changed--indeed must be changed to read as follows...