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Bargain Poetry. One may now buy a pocketful of poets for less than the cost of a novel. Carl Sandburg, Elinor Wylie, Poe, Whitman, Nathalia Crane, H. D.? these are ready, more are coming, prepared in essence on strong paper as a Pamphlet Poet at 25c the pamphlet. Now one may have an anthology piecemeal, buy it on the installment plan and include only his own favorites. The pocketful of U. S. Pamphlet Poets is published by Simon & Schuster. F. A. Stokes has published a British pocketful, including Keats, Shelley, Laureate Bridges...
...Duty. The Associated Press reported that a U. S. correspondent at Moscow was recently charged $66 duty on six 25c tubes of U. S. tooth paste sent him by a Manhattan friend. Urbane, he presented the tooth paste to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in lieu of paying the duty...
...themselves are lively. They bounce 14 inches after a drop of three feet, thus affording a measure of amusement before taking. Their constant buyers have always been among the poorer middle classes everywhere, who cringe from a doctor's bill, but can afford lOc for 12 pills, or 25c for 40, or 50c for 90. Still, Sir Joseph, on a visit to the U. S. in 1912, could brag: "My pills are taken by dukes and lords, who conceal the fact from their family doctors. I have positive evidence of this. Medical men take them on the quiet...
...private car, journeying to his home to shave him on Sundays. Last week Banker English gave Barber Wagner a two months' holiday in Europe. Was this, people asked, the correct tip for Mr. Wagner's period of service? What is the right pourboire for a 25c shave? For $1 worth of shave, haircut and conversation? The tip for a 25c shave is ten cents, critics recently agreed. A talkative barber may be snubbed with no tip. It is not necessary to tip a man who shaves you every day, but you should give him something at Christmas...
Gillette Safety Razor, at Boston, daily makes 2,000,000 razor blades to double-edge keenness, machines 75,000 razors to precise balance. Its net income for six months: $6,093,674. Last week directors declared the regular 75c quarterly dividend, graced it with an extra 25c a share...