Part 22 (1/2)

THE PARTY OF THE THIRD PART

BY WALTER E WEYL

”The quarrel,” opined Sir Lucius O'Trigger, ”is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it”

So youth of Britain and Ireland, who quarreled ”genteelly” and fought out their bloody duels ”in peace and quietness” So like this, also, after the jump of a century, was the attitude of employers and trade-unions all over the world toward industrial disputes Words asted breath; the time to strike or to lock out your employees hen you were ready and your opponent was not If you won, so much the better; if you lost--at any rate, it was your own business

Outsiders were not presumed to interfere ”Faith!” exclaimed Sir Lucius, ”that sareat ill-breeding”

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(_McClure's Magazine_)

RIDING ON BUBBLES

BY WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT

”And the Prince sped aith his princess in a ic chariot, the wheels of which were four bubbles of air”

Suppose you had read that in an Andersen or a Grimm fairy tale in the days when you firmly believed that Cinderella went to a ball in a state coach which had once been a puic chariot and its four bubbles of air without question

What a pity it is that we have lost the credulity and the wonder of childhood! We have our automobiles--over two and a half ic chariots to us And as for their tires, they arebut the bubbles of air that they are

In the wholeso paradoxical, nothing so daring in conception as these same bubbles of air which we call tires

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(_Good Housekeeping_)

GERALDINE FARRAR'S ADVICE TO ASPIRING SINGERS

INTERVIEW BY JOHN CORBIN

”When did I first decide to be an opera singer?” Miss Farrar sht This is how I reood marks in most of my studies, but in arithmetic my mark was about sixty That ht, I distinctly remeoing to be an opera singer How long before that I had decided on my career I can't say”

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(_The Delineator_)

HOW TO START A CAFETERIA

BY AGNES ATHOL

”If John could only get a satisfactory lunch for a reasonable ahs the wife of John in every sizable city in the United States, where work and home are far apart