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...makes the particular event attractive to stout hearted men. But a true lover of the game is never fool-hardy, he never invites that risk. When mere chance then converts hard play into a fatal injury men pause to praise the play that cost him life and damn the fate that robbed...
Ingeniously the clothing trade, usually identified with Babbitry, is glorified by sophisticated treatment. An example is the story of the rise & fall of starched collars as reflected in the glorious reign and ignominious fate of the Arrow Collar Man -"a national idol who never lived." A chart showing the tumble of starched collar sales from 1919 (the advent of the soft shirt) is surrounded by colored reproductions of Artist Joseph Christian Leyen-decker's unbelievably handsome creation at critical stages of his career from the "merry Oldsmobiling" days of 1907 to the present. Captions tell the story...
...been enjoying the generosity and kindness of the Manchu royal family for over 200 years, and our ancestors for four generations have received the highest royal decorations. The former Emperor has never ill-treated you, and even if he did, you should endure it, for it is your fate, which should be endured until death if necessary to reciprocate all the generosity bestowed upon our family by the Manchu rulers...
...shammed. Yet, knowing what we do of him now, we may think that at his first sight of life he liked it so little he lay very still. There was never any more faltering. An undaunted mind-that was Hardy. He was a great man. That was his hard fate." ¶ Last week from England's Lake District came another literary incident. A Mrs. Jane Jefferson of Youngstown, Ohio, went to Cockermouth to see the birthplace of Poet William Wordsworth. She looked all over town, finally got some one to point out the unmarked house, now a doctor...
...money for the 1900 campaign. As a result of a quarrel before that election, he resigned and retired in disgust to the hamlet of Monte Ne, Ark. There in a modest little house, he became something of a hermit, puttering around among the hills, issuing dire predictions on the fate of the nation unless radical economic changes were made. A-summer resort he tried to start became an industrial college for Holy Rollers...