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Many people are parents. Many parents are stupid. They do not know their children any better than they know the milkman. They are responsible for children being called such insulting names as kiddies, brats, little lambs, little nuisances. They either display their children to visitors like new phonograph records or put them in corners like broken bridge tables. The old practice of cuffing children has given way to almost complete indifference. Parents who can afford a nursemaid seldom see their small children more than once or twice a day. Then, when a child gets older he is sent away...
...Congress could not silence embarrassing remarks by citizens such as one Harold Leavey of Brooklyn, N. Y., father of one of the embarking Marines. Said Mr. Leavey: "The boys are being sent to fight for the Wall Street brokers, not Uncle Sam. I'm only a poor milkman and I need my boy more than they...
...Broken heart (cooed) .63 Smelling salts for hostess 1.00 Refreshments 5.00 (Entry illegible) 33.00 Refreshments 5.00 Taxi, 2 blocks, protested by driver .15 Received from driver for vacating cab 2.00 Milk, wagon to 5th Ave. and 43rd St. 10.00 2 bottles Grade A. .40 1 Riding habit, borowed from milkman 12.00 1 Horse, gallop in Vanderbilt Ave. 5.00 Fine and Costs 13.00 Bench in Grand Central Experience Train to Northfield, Vt., by mistake 14.40 Refreshments at Northfield, Vt. (also by mistake) 5.00 Aspirin .15 Return train to Bratteboro. Vt., 3.47 Handear to Northfield, Mass. 19.62 Reputation lost in Northfield. Mass...
...When they sytruck, the company told them to move out, presumably wanting its houses for occupancy by non-union laborers. The union men would not budge. They paid their rent. They guaranteed to continue to pay their rent. The company thereupon forbade trespassing on its property and kept the milkman, the grocer, even the doctor from visiting its unwelcome tenants without its express permission. Then the company obtained from Judge F. P. Schoonmaker of the U. S. District Court an injunction for the union men's eviction, on the ground that they were hampering the company's business...
...wakes up next week to see the milkman's horse advancing down the block with a pince-nez on his nose one must not be surprised. The horse has become a four-eyed beast. The opening of the Saratoga, N. Y. Races was momentarily interrupted by Edward R. Bradley. Mr. Bradley announced (and he did not want anyone to laugh about it) that four of his horses, Barosa, Benedict's Vow, Billy Burke and Beneficient, were wearing spectacles...