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...Paris preened herself for the advent of the "Second Expeditionary Force," certain U. S. citizens began to move away from there. Their attitude was well illustrated by a recent drawing in Life showing two men in conversation on a deck of an ocean liner. One (an obvious cad) says: "Of course, I hated to come home so soon?but I really couldn't bear to be in France while those American Legion rowdies are there!" To which the other (an honest and courageous gentleman) replies: "As I remember, you felt that way about it when they were there before...
...this: A big U. S. battleship, the Maine, had rested in the harbor of Havana and there, one soft evening, when the captain was on shore, a greasy Spaniard had externally applied explosives, which had blown a hole through her bottom and had driven her keel upward through her deck. Most of the sailors, 258 of them, and two of the officers had been killed. In Washington, men in frock coats sat around long tables and talked into a blue haze of cigar smoke. Ambassadors called on one another and chatted over tea or whiskey & soda. In munitions factories...
...yacht was backing away from her wharf in Sydney, Nova Scotia, early one morning last week. Suddenly her superstructure, just forward of her one funnel, shook and belched with the flames of a violent explosion. An engineer staggered on deck, his face broiled, clothes hanging in sooty tatters. The fire, racing aft, drove two half-dressed women out of their cabin. They were badly roasted stumbling to the wharf. A man with a dory rescued the captain's young son from where he was marooned on the burning quarterdeck...
...then, bring art aboard ship? Here a man rests his eye upon an expanse of rolling blue, strolls the deck a few times for stimulation, seeks about for some object of interest and finds he just has to look at the pictures in the salon. Since there are not too many pictures, each must be studied. Studied they are appreciated, just as are the pictures hung in a gentleman's private gallery. The artist exhibiting under these conditions finds them ideal for a sale?he has a proper display, his prospect the proper attitude, and usually, aboard fine steamers...
Clicking smoothly over groomed lawns, globes of lignum vitae or other dark and ponderous fibre, rolled down into India, over the Himalayas, through the hot, level borders of Persia onto the deck of a Spanish boat, over the blue waving turf of the Mediterranean, through Spain to England. Here, half the world away from China, yokels at twilight gathered on a sward, awninged by oak trees, bordered by oak-beamed cottages, breathed hard and bent over to twirl great wooden spheres-bowls, they called them in England...