Arran the award of the Nobel prize to Sinclair Lewis, there are going to be many people in. this world who will regard George F. Babbitt as the foremost American citizen, Not Forgotten 'THe twenty-eighth anniversary bef their wedding-day was drawing nearer and nearer without the subject being touched on at all, This slightly anayed Joan, who finally decided to raise the matter herself, She did so at breakfast tthe other morning.
"L suppose you Know what pens on Saturday?" she began.
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Learning the Language Tne difficulties that beset the foreigner who would learn English are not all inherent in the language, writes a correspondent. Injudicious reading is a fruitful source of trouble, A young Scotswoman, who te studying in Paris, met at the boarding-house where she is staying French girl, who tearfully informed her that she had just failed, for the fourth time, to pass her "English oral." 'The Scot offered to help by speaking English with her table, and a strange conversation ensued.' "What do you tink of Rober" Louis Stee-vong-song?" asked the Frenchwoman. 'The Scot made a brief reply, and asked for the opinion of the' student, who answered, with perfect seriousness:
tink he is Danny on zo crumpet.
CowuNist Calvin Coolidge has just uttered another profound statement. He says that it is a good thing to own your own home. America has not been s0 agog since the eventful morning he said that it is a good thing to be healthy.
A Cherished Crocus Or guards stationed and forgot ten, one of the most curious stories comes from Russia, Not long before the war some economist questioned the need for a sentry on duty, night and day, on one particular spot on the lawn of the Imperial Palace at St. Petersburg. No one could answer until old military records at the palace were turned up, when it was found that Catherine I, admiring an early crocus on the lawn, had desired the plant to be protected from unwary feet. So a guard was mounted, and, no countermand being issued, had been maintained for nearly two centuries.
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