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...between meals; then their acquisition instinct is curbed when they are unable to understand that a diamond bracelet is more valuable than a rocking horse. When the sex instinct makes its appearance, it is unhealthily denied by the parent's explaining as my parents explained to me, that no decent person ever had such a thing as sex. Finally when the self-preservation instinct develops, it is fought under when the father punishes the child for scrapping with the boy next door. A baby is nothing but a bundle of instincts, and gentleness, never punishment is essential to rearing...
...Vladivostok is the only decent port which the Soviet Union has in Eastern Asia, and it is only 490 miles from Harbin. Naturally the mustache of Soviet Commander Vassili Constantinovitch Blucher. Commander-in-chief of the Soviet Far Eastern Army, began to bristle. Five thousand miles from Dictator Stalin, in Khabarovsk, Siberia (which is only 480 miles from Vladivostok) bristling Commander Blucher shouted at his Red Soldiers: "We won't permit any White Guard imperialistic rascals to tread upon our socialistic soil with their dirty feet! If any one is thinking of stretching forth his dirty paws toward our coal...
...After a decent period of mourning, His Majesty George V had a new dog last week. Like its predecessor, it is a lively, ginger-colored Cairn terrier. Snip, the previous Cairn, was an affectionate beast who whimpered outside the royal bedroom all the time King George lay gravely ill three years ago, and accompanied His Majesty to almost everything except the state openings of Parliament. Snip died in April. Mourned by the royal household and the nation, he was buried in Sandringham by the side of Edward VII's dog Caesar who had the distinction of preceding the Kaiser...
...facts.-ED. Sirs I hereby order you to stop sending your publication to my home - 7 Webster Road, East Milton, Mass. . . . Any publisher who will gloat over the lan guage used in your issue of Feb. 1 (p. 4) is not deserving of the support of decent people, and I forbid your publication coming into my home. . . . TILTON S. BELL...
...Lord Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Lord Dartmouth presumably made an unsuccessful effort to show it to the King. He reported: "As his majesty did not receive it [the petition] on the throne, no answer will be given." What Edmund Burke later described as "a very decent and manly petition from the Congress" then found its way into the care of William, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam, who scribbled on its back, "Petition of American Congress to the King" and let it rest at Milton Hall. There his great grandson found it last year. A duplicate of this "Olive Branch...