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...kitchen garden, had one laid out much larger than her own family needs, sold produce to neighbors. Here among the cabbage tops, the bean vines and the other garden truck Henry John used to play. In the house basement he used to watch his mother pickling and canning. The grating of horseradish was an eye-smarting task. But Mrs. Heinz' preparation of this root was so appetizing that it found a ready sale. Henry John was its eager boy salesman...
...social thinking of America needs to root itself in roulettes. If the experiences which The Nation's contestants have undergone were common to great numbers of college undergraduates it would not be too much to expect a virtual revolution in their political and economic creeds. A summer in a canning factory can cure for a lifetime as well impracticable economic idealism as the more common fault of a callous social conscience...
Moroccan Affairs. M. Briand announced to the Chamber that his Government refuses to contemplate at present the signing of peace terms with Abd-el-Krim. Deputies gasped as the Premier calmly admitted that he believes the offer of peace made by Krim through one Captain Gordon Canning (TIME, Jan. 4) to be genuine, thus reversing the Quai d'Orsay's original contention that Captain Canning could not be dealt with because he might be an impostor. The Chamber sat up very straight and pricked its ears as M. Briand went on to imply that France and Spain expect...
...Louis Mann, now appearing in "Give and Take" at the New Park Theatre, is giving a very good character sketch in his interpretation of the role of John Bauer, an old German American whose canning business puts up a hard fight against the encroachments of modern producing methods used by rival firms...
...once a notable stir was created in Paris. Numerous papers, led by Le Matin, demanded that Captain Canning should be fully heard and every effort made to put an end to the expensive and unpopular war which France is waging in Morocco (TIME, Dec. 28 et ante). Meanwhile the Foreign Office coquetted with the idea of giving official cognizance to a purely self-styled envoy...