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This picture of R. L. S. from a fellow-student is not inaccurate for his entire career As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation. Always he delighted to emphasize his eccentricities. His queer foreign face, bright-eyed and animated, peered forth under a battered straw hat. He was wont to wear velvet jackets, brigandish cloaks, black shirts, loose collars? the whole as shabby and disreputable as any tramp's. Thus garbed, he delighted in the astonished gaze of the passersby...
Author Reymont, one of the dozen children of poor parents, grew up under the hardships to which so many Slavic writers have been heirs. Early expelled from school for refusing to abandon his native language for the Russian, he tried variously to make a livelihood?as store clerk, telegraph operator, actor, rail employe, farm hand, Paulist novice. He wrote his first short story, The Death, in 1894. He is now working on a cycle of six novels, of which one will have its setting in the U. S., whither he came in 1919 to study the life of Polish peasants...
When Mr. Charles Dillingham went there this fall with Mr. Basil Dean, Author Barrie's special ambassador to the U. S., they saw to it that the forest grew enormously,, that the Indians multiplied, that the pirate crew recruited many a new hand and the funny old pirate ship became a thundering big frigate. "You would hardly know the old place," people said when Mr. Dillingham opened the doors and took them in last week...
...show that the vibrations themselves have an effect on the starch they pass through. Starch left in the dark underwent no dissolution; exposed to sunlight, it disintegrated slowly; exposed to polarized light, rapidly. The reaction to the rays by starch in living plants was identical. Seeds in the dark grew not at all; seeds in the sunlight grew slowly; seeds in the moonlight grew quickly...
...First National grew enormously under the Forgan touch: its assets from some 49 millions in 1900 to nearly 260 millions in 1915; its deposits from 43 millions to 219 millions in the same period. Its good will and reputation for sound policy increased equally rapidly. Mr. Forgan concerned himself with the character and welfare of his employes, giving fatherly talks and plain advice to each newcomer...