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...climax was as follows: "Anyone who has witnessed the new invention, the birth of new industry . . . which has so vastly increased the wealth of the world and altered our entire mode of living within the memory of those present, cannot be discouraged about either the immediate or the distant future. The opportunities which have so multiplied in the last generation are only the forerunners of perhaps greater ones, which will come as the result of forces now at work and constantly being discovered...
...such improvement in the quality of journalism must depend on a change in the public's mode of thought. As long as sensationalism sells papers, it will not disappear. Even if the dailies admit that news is what the papers play up, some will continue to seek readers by playing up the most extravagant stories available. The "popular commercial press" is bound to remain commercial...
...Marriage," announced cupid-like Mr. Whiteman in Chicago, "is a middle-class institution. At any rate, it seems to work best for those of the average mode, somewhere between the hodcarrier and the banker...
...must congratulate you and the writer of such information regarding Cuban matters for its exact veracity and its splendid mode of telling the things we are undergoing...
...Douglasses, F.F.V.'s at home, had not been home for a long time because Paris was the kind of town their irresponsible, penniless but aristocratic mode of life exactly suited. Mrs. Douglass was dead and not much missed. Dreamy Hugh and absent-minded but hard-hearted Catherine adored their charming failure of a father, who managed to enjoy life by running up bills, keeping a mistress, being popular with a large acquaintance. Mr. Douglass was fond of his children too, but failed to keep a weather eye on them. He never knew Catherine had become the mistress of egotistic young...