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...From Canada, from the green teeming northern forests to Walton, N. Y., came well-named Robert Carver North, aged 12. Lecturing in a Methodist church, he showed pictures of streams far away under big strange trees, of mysterious mischievous animals, of great mountains, of wide unfamiliar lakes in which shone, with the regular rhythm of a clock, the black night sky or, in the daytime, the reflection of green hills. These were photographs which he had made when on an expedition, consisting of himself and one Indian guide, 1,250 miles into the wilderness of Canada...
...Manhattan one R. C. Walton, newly arrived from England, inquired how best to reach Coney Island, famed pleasure beach. When advised to take the subway, he became elated at the prospect of a good walk...
Accompanied by his wife, his daughter, Mr. Walton entered a kiosk. From the platform he surveyed with disfavor a gloomy pathway, splotched with grime and puddles, lined with tracks. "Whatever would they want tracks for?" he inquired of his wife as the three of them jumped down off the platform, paraded off into the dingy passage. Soon a train nosed around the curve, gathered speed, screamed toward Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter, ground brakes, shivered, stopped. Passengers, lifting themselves from the floor where the abrupt halt had put them, watched Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter clamber aboard, smiling...
Then to pace His Royal Highness at black bottoming, she called up from the crowd Nora Bayes, Georges Carpentier and Florence Walton...
...Study to be quiet" was Izaak Walton's grand old fishing axion, and if there was ever a disciple of this school, the President is such a one. In that study he has perfected himself, and his competence has stood him in good stead, as much in dodging the lures of his baiters as in filling each day the larder of the White House in South Dakota...