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...kind of Chinaman shivered at Peking last week as thermometers read 10?? below zero; but 1,200 miles southward, in Canton, quite another sort of Chinaman was as warm as a Miami mermaid. The two kinds of Chinamen could by no possibility have understood each other in Chinese, so different are their dialects. But the Yang-kuei tze ("Foreign Devil") has taught a few Chinese of every region English, especially the word "Nationalism...
...taken from their breasts, an amount carefully regulated so that the natural child will not be starved. Some mothers yield only 3 to 4 ounces* a day. Others give 15 to 20 ounces. The average output approximates 10 ounces a day. For this milk the nurse is paid 10?? an ounce for the first five ounces. Over that she earns 15¢ an ounce...
...Pasteurized cow's milk costs from 10?? to 15¢ a quart in most U. S. cities...
Just as the Argosy was about to go under, Munsey started Munsey's Magazine. That too was a failure until, in the nick of time, he cut the price of it (a monthly) to 10??, and that started something in U. S. journalism. A few more years of the mad wheel and his income was $700,000?all this before the grocery episode, all this from the writing and publishing "game." Of his Maine boyhood he said...
...time Secretary of the Interior, was an Independent and a Progressive, and that he was typical of the greatness of German-Americans today. He said that German-Americans had done great things for the Government. Seats were sold at from 50¢ to $2.00, programs for 25¢, the speech for 10??, and a collection was taken for the party campaign sheet. Afterward, several turnvereins exhibited gymnastics and German singing societies sang...