The Archive · 1941

The Dear Departed

Wenn to dispel the shyness of the newly formed juvenile dancing class, the teacher said, Now we will all be little birds and hop about. Wat will you be, Jean?

A sparrow.

Ana you, Mary?

A robin.

Turning to the stolid male four-year-old: Well, Peter, what would you like to be?

A dead bird, was the instant reply.

The fact is, a woman abandons her opinion as soon as her husband adopts it.

Even in No Trouble church, the women sing the tunes anvoctave higher than the men that they may differ from them in all things—Jean Paul Richter.

In 4 few minutes the dentist overheard a accustom no particular organization, no simple ides, distinct "Damnation" from the other room, and It is plain enough that no single princi in a moment the word was repeated. The dentist immediately went in to say: Tm special power, has ever been permitted to obtain possession of the world, to mould it into a durable form, and to drive from it every opposing tendency, so as to reign itself supreme.

Various powers, principles, and systems. here intermingle, modify one another, and struggle

Francois Guizot 7 never whol conquered, never con subduing, now sul A Large Nest As the crowded bus came to a standstill, a stout,, middle-aged man descended the stairs the name of trifles, foi The humour of exploding many any things under y imagin-carrying a small girl. ary goods, is a very proof of magnanimity, ana a great check to virtuous little. philoso Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building, 12 The Bund.

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