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...James Thurber who occupies a high place among the humorists of the "New Yorker" has set forth a work on marriage, care of animals, and the correct use of the subjunctive mood with instructive illustrations under the title of "The Owl In The Attic And Other Perplexities". The first part of this opus has to do with the domestic relations of big, strong Mr. Monroe and little Mrs. Monroe. In spite of Mr. Monroe's great powers as a protector and defender of the weaker sex the conclusion is that real strength lies in unity. He repulses burglars, bats...
...from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with Me Now"; the verisimilitudinous fable of the aleful mother who staggered home with her child in one arm, a bag of meal in the other, threw the baby in the meal...
Judging from the price lists for the various rooms in the new Houses, I should think that there is going to be keen competition among the none-too-rich students for the privilege of getting muscle-bound by climbing four flights of stairs to the attic rooms on the fifth floors. But what interests me more is the fact that the price rates for rooms in the Freshman dormitories now being converted into Houses are raised from twenty-five to over one hundred percent above the rates which were charged us as Freshmen. The rates have been raised in some...
...ignored by the thousands who descend upon Saratoga every summer for a brief fortnight of track betting are the 25 curative, State-owned mineral springs which brought the town its first fame, made Saratoga more fashionable than Newport in the '705, put hump-backed Saratoga trunks in every fashionable attic, Saratoga (thirst-making) chips on every smart table. Throughout the town and the i,ioo-acre state park around it, the springs of Saratoga bubble today as they did 50 years ago through cast-iron hydrants and bronze pipes into dingy pagodas and drinking halls. This despite the fact that...
...Dungeon Treatment: Girls have been confined in two compartments, each about six by eight feet in size. They look like shed roof hen houses and are built against the wall of a rather dark attic in the top of the boys' building. The only air that can get in comes in directly through a space covered by chicken wire at the top of the front. It is about six inches by eight feet. One cannot see his hand in front of him when inside. There is no furniture except a blanket and pail in a corner. Girls have been...