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...daughters, Jeannette and Alice, could not make both ends meet, no matter how hard she tried. So Jeannette, at 18, weary of poverty and shabbiness. set out to find a job?in the days when nearly all women gave up their jobs when they married. She found one, and fell in love with young Roy Beardsley at the same time. Then the struggle began, as she rose in the business world and became private secretary to the head of her firm. She was earning as much as Roy; she loved her work. Could she give up adventure and independence...
Marta and Edwards fell in love. And Sonora Jack and the Lizard did their best to raise H?1?but, H?1, what could they do against the forces of Virtue? The mysteries of Marta's parentage and Hugh's suspected crime were all wiped up?the Mine with the Iron Door discovered ? Natachee had an opportunity for several symbolic orations?and "in the blue depth of the sky a wheeling eagle screamed . . . Natachee . . . smiled." So did Mr. Wright. Also D. Appleton and Co. Likewise, every bookseller and train-news-agent in these United States when they heard...
...Harding's final illness was undoubtedly brought on by his strenuous exertions on the last few day of his trip, especially his arduous day at Seattle after landing from his Alaskan journey. Indirectly his death at this time may undoubtedly be traced to excessive work which fell to his lot as President. His death, following the severe illness of President Wilson produced by the same cause, has led to many suggestions that the duties of the Presidency be divided so that they should not fall with their full heaviness upon...
...Zamenhof's original idea was to resuscitate a dead language. Then he tried to construct a new tongue on an a priori basis. Finally he fell back on the roots of extant languages, selecting from European sources chiefly. His choice was guided by a desire for internationality, but his results were not satisfactorily impartial...
...paying members of the Association as well. The landscape painters contribute two or three paintings outright as their share. The portraitists offer to paint portraits of members gratis. Miss Beaux, probably the most distinguished woman painter in America, stipulated that her sitter must be a man, and the lot fell upon Richard H. Webber, of Detroit...