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...serpent is forced underground again by the authorities, they might as well realize that he will return again and again, a little dirtier each time. Why not give the serpent a bath and recognize him as a pleasant and rather important member of society? John A. Strauss...
Fascinated by the question whether Parisians are dirtier than the citizens of Madrid, that outspoken Spanish daily La Voz commented last week thus: "Curious statistics recently gathered in Paris show an average of only two and three-quarter baths per year per Parisian. Surely in Madrid the average is not so low! Yet we urge the bath strongly as a daily practice of cleanliness. The Greeks and the Romans bathed often but under Christianity, which demanded austerity and deprecated beauty, the bath certainly declined in some countries. The results were uncleanly habits with which too many Spaniards are unhappily still...
...dirty magazines (TiME, December 28). The sweeping began several weeks ago in cities scattered throughout the U. S., was made conspicuous last fortnight by arrests of newsdealers in Washington, D. C. As its publishers had feared would happen, Ballyhoo was included in the clean-up of its much dirtier imitators, Hooey, Slapstick and the defunct Tickle-Me-Too. In every city where the cases were finally disposed of-Memphis, Knoxville, Atlanta, Richmond, Elizabeth and Newark, N. J.; Spokane, Bellingham and Yakima, Wash.-Ballyhoo was permitted to resume sale. In Manhattan newsdealers were warned by the license commissioner not to sell...
...Poet John Keats' Endymion: "calm, settled, imperturbable driveling idiocy." Gentle Poet Swinburne thus describes Ralph Waldo Emerson to his face: "a gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, and who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own finding and fouling: coryphaeus or choragus of his Bulgarian tribe of autocoprophagous baboons, who make the filth they feed on. . . ." Says our own Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain): "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This...
...best no more than fair. There are no outstanding numbers and no startling presentations of what there are. The cast is alright; it may even be the same as that which played in New York as far as we can remember, (though of course the costumes are a little dirtier by this time). But all of this just goes to prove that the important thing about it all is the unimportance of minor details like these. The Marx brothers are distinctly the show, and by all means see them now for they may not be in these parts...