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...collected $2.75 in pennies and about one dollar in silver. He averred that the rest of the offerings had collected in the footlights and been taken in by the sweeper...
SERENA BLANDISH-A Lady of Qual-ity- Doran ($2.50). "Though it is better to marry a young man, best to marry a rich man, next best to marry a distinguished man, it is better to marry a crossing sweeper than not to marry at all," said Countess Flor di Folio to Serena Blandish when, struck by the girl's beauty, poverty and discretion, she made her a member of her household and launched her upon her desperate enterprise. She met many men who made proposals to her but not of the kind she wanted to hear. For, although Serena...
...song constitutes a versified testament and is entitled "Father Abbey's Will". An explanatory preface precedes the first lines which reads: "Some time since died here Mr. Matthew Abbey in a very advanced age. He had for many year's served the college in quality of bed maker and sweeper. Having no child, his wife inherited his whole estate which he bequeathes to her in his last will and testament as follows...
...towns and villages have not their broken ragpicker, their derelict mower of lawns or sweeper of streets? belly lurched out in a flabby bag, neck narrow and bowed to an ugly vertebrate knuckle, legs short and wobbly, feet flat and weak, head huge and misshapen, with drooling mouth, bleary, vacant eye, putty nose and unkempt thatch of hair. He is the "village idiot," the Tom o' Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential...
Amelita Galli-Curci continues to issue aphorisms in protesting her determination (TIME, Nov. 26) to abandon the Chicago Civic Opera. Her last : "An artist cannot give of her best if there are turmoil, bickering, quarreling. Even a street sweeper is shown consideration if he sweeps well. I have been shown none...