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...bicycle craze. Princess dresses ? monkey-dinners at Newport ? What's Wrong With Our Colleges? (that hardy perennial)?McKinley? the Bland-Allison Act?Battles and Leaders of the Civil War?Cartoons of Nicholas II and Wilhelm II? Joseph Chamberlain?Franz Josef? how odd they look...
...Marquis Curzon: "In a speech in London I denounced the modern craze for digging up skulls and bones and declared that the antiquaries had gone mad. I protested especially against the excavation of a church yard at Gravesend where ' a lot of ghouls' are trying to find the body of Pocahontas, supposedly buried there...
...London Daily Express comments as follows on the dance endurance craze...
...This craze for temporal economy is reminiscent of a certain thrifty emulator of Phineas Fogg. Obsessed with the desire to store up time, he spent his life travelling westward, gaining a day on each trip around the world. When he died, it was computed that he had "saved" several months. Nothing is said of the years of effort wasted in his pilgrimage, or of his failure to benefit anyone except the transportation companies...
Some of them seem to think so, for they are attempting, in their latest craze for being " primitive," a thing really opposed to the earlier phase. They are trying to get back to the " unspoiled vision" of a child or a savage; which is the same as looking "out" instead...