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Rats smoked in California. They were experimental subjects of Physiologist Hazel Field at the state university, who studied their antics before and after blowing through their cages, from clay pipes, puffs of smoke of Pennsylvania leaf tobacco. None of the rodents exhibited symptoms similar to those of small boys behind barns. On the contrary, the rats ran, jumped, squeaked more actively. Physiologist Field's object: to ascertain the probable effect of smoking on humans. After establishing that tobacco stimulates and produces increased activity, she proposed to investigate the popular notion that the after effects of smoking are depressing...
Leading the rest in point of authority is a spinster of 50, the last crisp leaf of a Dutch-American tree, incredibly wealthy, intellectual, unable to sleep until dawn and therefore noted for midnight suppers from which her guests escape with difficulty. Her private musicians fill the remaining night hours with concerts from esoteric composers, to which she listens with "the finest contrapuntal ear of her day." It is she, Elizabeth Grier, ever alert for novelty, who attaches the young New Englander to the Cabala and involves him in its members' affairs...
There was a figure like an English country gentleman-Mr. George H. Doran. There was a firm-jawed, genial Virginian-John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co. There was a well-preserved gentleman of some 67 summers, upon whose watch-chain hung a small gold ivy leaf-Arthur Hawley Scribner, who with his older brother Charles has carried on the business begun by their father in 1846. The swarthy gentleman whose dress, manner and accent bespoke the complete cultured cosmopolite was Alfred A. Knopf, master of the coursing Borzoi hound; the handsome lady with him -Mrs. Knopf...
...much bruited bill forbidding Occidental dancing in Japan. 2) The Government bill reducing land taxes. 3) Several Opposition bills to impeach Premier Wakatsuki, who thankfully retired from the session to rest and pursue yet another of his hobbies: the writing of poetry. Once he wrote: I take a leaf from Yuan Hsien* Who even in poverty enjoyed sports; A lingering thought to Chen-pin,* Who, with high ideals and thoughts. Always refrained from self-laudation. As a statesman of fiery zeal I admire Clemenceau ; As a gentle-souled Premier, I respect Gladstone...
Died. Leopold Schepp, 84, "The Cocoanut King," eccentric millionaire philanthropist; at Manhattan. As a lad, Mr. Schepp borrowed 18, from his mother and purchased twelve palm-leaf fans which he sold for 36, on a Third Ave. streetcar. Soon he had three other boys selling fans and was making $15 a week. At 27 he had amassed $200,000. Before he died, he had given away over...