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...Gumbril's Patent Pneumatic Trousers-They Protect the Lumbar Ganglia and Lend Incisive Poise to Businessmen. Of his extraordinary exploits in Love and Business, under the beaverish protection of a huge, artificial beard. Of Casimir Lypiatt, the boomingly futile would-be genius-and Shearwater, the scientist who investigated sweat- and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amours-and Myra Viveash with her expiring voice- and Zoe-and Emily-and Rosie-a whole horde of fantastic characters dancing the antic hay around the sophisticated maypole of their own futility. Pickled peacock stuffed with pistachio-nuts-champagne and liquid...
...PREFACE TO LIFE-Edwin Justus Mayer-Boni ($2.50). The candid autobiography of a youth whose physical and spiritual adventures touch upon Harlem and Hollywood, "William Blake and Joseph Conrad, manufacturers, magnates, movie-stars, sweat-shop-workers, policemen, poets, editors, reporters. The growth of a mind, the rise of an intelligence, the development of an interesting and hostile point of view. Well written, fertile of ideas, suggesting one of the many possible answers to the query: " What's wrong with civilization in general and American civilization in particular...
...Sweat-Shop Employee, She Looks on from the Street at Her Daughter's Debut...
...together with Justice Holmes and Justice Sanford, dissented from the majorities' opinion that the law interfered with the right of contract. Mr. Taft insisted that if the majorities' opinion is sound it becomes unconstitutional to regulate working hours or working conditions and that a return to the sweat shop might result. Justice Holmes declared that giving the vote to women did not rob them of the right of protection ; that it had changed the Constitution of the United States, but had not changed the constitution of women...
Among the favorite topics of the day are those which have to do with time. Efficiency experts are as keen for the salvation of a minute as for the elimination of a bead of sweat. Jazz, with its syncopated notes, follows the fashion by trying to crowd more "music" into a shorter period. Nor are legislative bodies free from the influences of this movement. Daylight saving, a recurrent cause of conflict, is merely a means to make the most of recreation hours...