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Aftermath. The national sorrow exceeded all ordinary bounds. Black flags were unfurled spontaneously everywhere. King Alexander came and stood as though dazed at the bedside of his dead counselor. Tears streamed from His Majesty's eyes. When he finally left the room he returned a moment later to clasp the dead statesman's hand...
...that I love and that love me! They love me for myself, not because I am a Queen. In your cities, everywhere that I went, to Seattle and Chicago and all of the little places that I can't even remember, they broke through the police lines to clasp my hand and tell me of their affection. It is them that I love and to them that I shall someday return. ... I cannot look into the future, and enough unto the day is the joy or the sorrow thereof...
...Standards, after measurement of 14,400 pairs, decided the standard length should be 27½ inches from heel to top. On a girl 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighing 130 lb., the hose will come eight inches above the knees. Stockings of this length can be held by clasp or band garters, or be rolled. Children's stockings will range from 15 to 26.5 inches. Men's socks will be 14 and 14½ inches long...
Perhaps Helen Wills is keeping a diary of what she does these sunny days at Cannes. It is rumored that she makes entries every evening in a large notebook bound in red morocco and fitted with a silver clasp-lock, whose contents a U. S. publisher has contracted to bring out in the fall. If Miss Wills is really writing a diary, her many admirers are likely to read it more for its probable charm than in the expectation of finding out anything new about her, for the newspapers have reported her activities so elaborately that what she puts...
...certain of death; had been refusing all medicines. Towards the last, attendants thought they heard him whisper " . . .rien qu'attendre . . ." About two o'clock in the afternoon he went into a deep coma. The oxygen did no good. Kneeling and holding in the Cardinal's clasp a lighted taper was a nursing sister. Brother Hubert of the Community of Morey, kneeling, held the other hand. Both prayed softly for the soul of their superior...