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...ways and her mother, whose sole concern is marrying her daughters well, are of no help. Hanny, her elder sister, is infatuated with a handsome rascal, Warmelo. Tina watches Hanny's miseries, her mother's maneuvers with widening, saddening eyes. Suddenly she is in love herself. When Alf Ten Berge takes her out on the dunes, tries to consummate their love, she is terrified, runs home. Alf marries another girl for spite...
...takes up with Heloma, a middle-aged professor who loves her well but bookishly. She tries her best to love him back, they are engaged; but a chance conversation with a married man shows her that it was Alf, for all his terrifying lovemaking, whom she really loved. Alf was too wild, Heloma is too tame: she takes up spinsterhood...
...little of that is enough for her. She wants children, marries a wealthy cousin Ben Terwogt. The children come, but not happiness. On a summer holiday she runs into Alf. He declares that she had been his only love. Once more she has a chance, but, though it breaks her heart, she turns it down. In the masquerade of Delft society she has chosen her own false face, and now must live...
...generations of U. S. boys have gazed at the profiles of the five Ringling Brothers and their imposing mustaches pasted on the cow barns of the nation. As a matter of fact there were not five brothers but seven: Al. Gus. Otto, Alf T.. Charles E., John and Henry and their names were not Ringling but Rungeling. "Ringling" was a newspaper misprint which they decided not to correct...
...carry an overseas cargo directly into Chicago. Thirty-three days out of Antwerp, the Anna passed through the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt. Alf Jonasson a gold watch; Vice President Webb made a speech about oldtime Merchant Montgomery Ward's foresight in planting his plant beside the water...