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...camp-meeting ground is not a clutter of triple-porched cottages named Bidawee, Restawhile, or Dewdrop Inn, as you state in your article...
...camp-meeting ground is now a clutter of triple-porched cottages named Bideawee, Restawhile, Dewdrop Inn. There are several faintly classic concert & lecture halls, a huge wooden amphitheater, a miniature reproduction of the Holy Land. Chautauquans may study anything from basket-weaving to playwriting. Most cottagers, who return year after year, are elderly. Men have a Horseshoe Club, women a Bird & Tree Club headed by Founder Miller's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Each day begins with community prayer. Chief social events are ice-cream-&-cake festivals. A ban on smoking has been lifted lately. Younger Chautauquans may boat...
...Knowles' device, a dewdrop could be made to stop a battleship, a passing cloud to turn on all the electric lights in New York, a sunbeam to start the most ponderous locomotive...
...plot long ago worn threadbare, although originally it had the merit of basis in fact. "Lost and Found" is deserving of praise for its clever structure; it is the only story in which the movement of the plot cannot be anticipated at the start. "Antonio's Visit" and "Johnny Dewdrop," are thrilling and well sustained, but far removed in atmosphere from academic life. "A Freshman Foozle," must have been written to publish the fact not generally known that Freshmen read one another's private letters. Unlike some of its companion stories, "When in Rome,--" is consistent in structure...
GOOD luck is like a dewdrop gleaming...