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...fishing village which the Vagabond remembers, the streets are cobble-stoned, and the old houses have iron gates. A wind comes up from Spain, and shakes the elm trees on Main Street until the cobbles are buried in leaves. They are falling now, for Autumn comes early there, and blowing, red and gold, over the cobbles. The people who come every year with paint and canvas have packed up and gone. And one by one, every day, the ships come in from the fisheries: ships whose hulls have been painted by the wind and the sea for a whole summer...
Just above the middle line of New Jersey the elm-lined streets of Princeton lay immemorially somnolent. In the buff colonial parallelepiped that is Nassau Hall, the permanent cogs of Princeton University prepared in time-honored fashion to open the college, not particularly exercised over the fact that higher education in the U. S. faced a trying moment, and that Princeton, one of the traditional leaders of U. S. pedagogy, was at a corner in its course through its second century...
...York's moths were snow-white linden moths (Ennomos subsignarius) of the measuring-worm or elm-span family (Geometridae). In the caterpillar stage they live on leaves, preferably elm and linden, and also like lettuce salad. Having but two pairs of prolegs. the worms push themselves with their hind legs until they are humped like a croquet wicket, then slide their front ends forward. Grown fat, they spin a thread, slide down it to the ground, snooze under fallen leaves. Early in July the moth emerges, seeks company, goes off whichever way the wind is blowing. Last week...
...three most healthful outdoor sports, most conducive to good living and longevity (he is 70) are in his opinion golf, fishing, shooting. He golfs at Old Elm, top-notch Lake Forest, Ill. club for men only. He fishes at Coleman Lake Club (Wisconsin), shoots ducks at the Sanganois Club (Illinois River). He is an ardent Prohibitionist for medical and scientific reasons. He takes himself very seriously...
...sold his seat on the New York Cotton Exchange. With more time for golf, he found his game almost as good as of old, when he was famed for his putting and for playing a rusty old iron off the tee. Last week, like Bobby Jones and George Von Elm, Golfer Travers turned businessman golfer, announced himself willing to play exhibition matches for money but not to hire out as a professional teacher. His first exhibition, and first important match since his elimination in the first round of the 1919 amateur, is scheduled for next month at Upper Montclair...