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...unable to speak with authority on the damosels engaged in that profession; they touch nothing that they do not adorn; but . . . should a mediaeval warrior suddenly appear in a modern barbershop, and see a fat man reclining in a chair, with a barber scraping his face, a bootblack energetically rubbing his shoes, and a fair maid clipping his nails, he would doubtless believe that this was some new, elaborate, and efficient method of torture; perhaps he would be right...
...guessed he would have his daily shoeshine (he is an engaged man). Hailing a bootblack, he seated himself on-a park bench. Thought waves began to dizzy him. Some strange association of ideas was rising up his spine. A man came and sat next to him-very agitated-on the park bench ... on the bench . . . bench. Of course, a "bench" was a symbolical term for a branch of the Government. He furtively slipped his hand under the seat, felt a piece of adhesive tape. The tape was supporting some small, cold, metallic object. He wrenched it loose, the Evening World...
Just after he came to this country Mr. Gest worked in Cambridge as a bootblack but he declares bootblacking in Cambridge an unprofitable profession. "Harvard men," he said, "either black their own boots or go without." He later secured a position in the Dorchester Opera House, where he worked as all-around handyman. Once he was the waves in a performance of "Way Down East," and was required to roll to and fro under a great canvas. His later experiences were more impressive, but less appealing...
...that the vogue of any of the above-named gentry has entirely gone by. Tattered Tom, the bootblack, is still able to thrill adolescent readers as he helps the white-haired old gentleman across the street to receive in recompense a bright silver dollar and a great deal of moral advice. The athletic English striplings of Henty's confection continue to slay their thousands in every known historical period. But the last few years have only brought forth one writer with a true genius for the " children's story," Hugh Lofting, and he belongs rather with Lewis Carroll...
...Athletic Association will conduct an information bureau in New Haven at the Yale bootblack parlors, directly opposite the Yale athletic association office, until noon today. Any tickets returned between now and 12 o'clock Saturday will be disposed of to graduates at that place...