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...Selma Lagerlöf Swedish...
...Story. Selma Thallinger, New York shopgirl, supplements her daily earnings by teaching every evening in the "Merry Grotto," an East Side dance-hall which provides partners for unattached men, under the guise of giving them "dancing lessons." According to the author, she is "innocent" in spite of the fact that she is the mistress of both Pete Ravanni, the proprietor, and Max Lisenco, his assistant. But she is discontent with this lot and decides to throw them both over. The very evening she does this, "Crazy Man" appears...
...cloak room of the establishment. He comes back again, is again thrown out. This happens six times. As he mounts the stairs for a seventh time, he discovers that the defense has been worn out by his persistence. By this time he is an enthusiastically worshipped hero. Especially to Selma, who sees in him an ally to her own determinations...
...Selma Lagerlof Swedish...
...addition the following men were elected editors: Frederick McGeorge Bundy 2G.B., of Norfolk, Va.; Paul Codman Cabot 2G.B., of Brookline; Carlton Robert Eagle Sp.G.B., of Pontiac, Mich.; Charles Arthur Glover 2G.B., of Selma, Cal.; Edward Blair Gordon 2G.B., of San Francisco, Cal.; Howard Goodman 2G.B., of Chicago, Ill.; Deane Waldo Malott 2G.B., of Abilene, Kan.; Dave Hennen Morris 2G.B., of New York City; Samuel Francis Nicholson 2G.B., of Richmond, Ind.; Clarence Brett Piper 2G.B., of Belmont; and Henry Meldrum Stevens 2G.B., of Portland...