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Hobbies. Leisure, fast becoming a surplus commodity, must be consumed. A plan: invite owners of hobbies to demonstrate them to school children.-Mrs. Cornelia James Cannon, Cambridge, Mass...
Salvos of cannon thundered across the Place de la Concorde and through the gardens of the Tuileries while President Doumergue, accompanied by the principal members of his ministry, marched to survey the opening of the International Exposition of Decorative and Applied Arts. All the important nations of the world, with the exception of the U. S. and Germany, were .represented. The affair, though it affected a pompousness amounting almost to dignity, greatly resembled the exposition of Architectural and Allied Arts held, last week, in Manhattan (TIME...
...period inevitably lent a lustre to extravagance and was a nursery of fantastic spirits. It is with this period that Author Minnigerode is primarily concerned. His essays are like the intricate oil-paintings of the time: a little figure in the foreground, and behind, in chiaroscuro, ships, crowds, cannon, marching men. In the interests of his characters, he has pried with a candle into many dusty cupboards. He is witty without being glib, and schooled in that subtlest accomplishment of scholarship-the ability to conceal his labor...
There will be brief outlines of "Progress on Harvard Observatory Researches" at 8 o'clock tonight in the Observatory. Miss Annie J. Cannon will treat the "Extension of the Henry Draper Catalogue": Dr. Willard J. Fisher, "Meteor Photographs": Miss Mary Howe, "Balmer Series in Stellar Spectra...
...nimble 33, 9 finished- 9 steaming, sweat-gilded, bloody-eyed horses, plastered with mud from cannon-bone to belly, and 9 taut riders bent to their necks. In front was Double Chance, owned by Fred Archer and D. Goold, at 100 to 9. Neither the horse nor its rider, Major J. P. Wilson, an amateur, had ever before ridden the course...