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...already almost a disgrace to be seen walking. One should always get into his automobile if he is going more than four blocks. An old-fashioned stroll is a series of embarrassing rejections of invitations to ride from kind-hearted and invitations to ride from kind-hearted and pitying motorists. Every self-respecting citizen waits for the elevator rather than walk down one flight of stairs...
...Triste Sibelius 4 Fantasia, "Samson and Deltish" Saint Saens 5 Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier 6 Asa's Death from "Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg 7 Slavonic Dance op No 3 Drovak 8 Finale, Fourth Symphony Tschkovsky 9 Dance of the Hours Ponchiell 10 Waits, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss 11 Ride of the Valkyries Wagner
...special program has been arranged, consisting of the music of Rimsky Korsakoff and Wagner. The Russian composer will be represented by his symphonic suite, "Scheherazade", and Wagner by the following numbers from the "Ring Cycle"; "Forest Murmurs" from Siegfried, "Funeral March" from "The Dusk of the Gods", and "The Ride of the Valkries". Excerpts from "Die Meistumger" will also be played...
...Furlong showed many pictures and told many stories of famous horses and buckaroos. There was Sundown Jackson, a full-blooded Indian, who at the age of fifty won the world's rough riding championship by sticking to a fierce "outlaw" horse, "raking" him and "fanning" him at every buck, and finally riding him "out", after he had been scraped against several fences, carried through others, and carried round, and round the arena. Then there was a cowboy, the best rider in the West, who because he was a Pendleton boy had to "ride out" four of the worst horses...
...cowboys could find a boa-constrictor that bucked, they'd saddle him up for the Round-up", said Mr. Furlong, "for they try to ride any animal that has a buck in it". The worst of all are the bucking buffaloes, which no one has ever been known to stick to. Bucking bulls are the next hardest, particularly as the saddle is put as far back as possible "to get everything that's in the bull in the way of a buck, out". The most famous of these animals was Sharkey, who was black, weighted a ton and a half...