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Charles A. Whelan, President of the United Cigar Stores Co. of America: "My daughter Clara, mother of five and wife of my able vice president, John T. Cassidy, is a businesswoman. Her company 'Clio et Claire' does a nice business in cosmetics. Last week I was said to have chuckled when she announced: 'It is ridiculous to say that women must always affect the same makeup. With some frocks, for example, red lips and pale cheeks only clash. Why shouldn't women paint their lips green? Or blue...
...next Prophezzor also a disciple of Clio denied the first outright: "My aim is to get these young men to view the world in the large. I train them to follow trends, to trace movements, to see universals. If you hold a coin near enough to your eye, it will blot out the sun. Perspective is the word Perspective...
...Died.-Clio Hinlon Bracken, 55, sculptress; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. Pupil of Rodin, MacMonnies, St. Gaudens, she exhibited first in the Paris Salon. At 20, she received $10,000 for her statue of General Fremont, sold to an association of California pioneers. Her first husband was the late James Gibbons Huneker...
...skeptic will probably not be silenced by being reminded that the Greeks raised Clio to the highest place among the Muses, or that a galaxy of writers from Cicero to Bishop Stubbs have spoken in the loftiest terms of the value of History: "the light of truth and the mistress of life"; "philosophy teaching by examples"; "the great school of truth, reason, and virtue"; "next to theology the most thoroughly religious training that the mind can conceive...
...that institution. Whig is one of the two literary societies at Princeton, and it has been a secret organization since its foundation late in the eighteenth century. This step of doing away with secrecy in the Halls has been agitated by the Daily Princetonian and the Nassau Literary Magazine; Clio Hall, the other of the two institutions, has not yet had the matter before it for consideration. The vote in Whig was a preponderating majority...