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...vegetables for the market. This firm grew, changed names, moved to Pittsburgh, expanded. In 1888, at 44 Henry John retired for a season. He had done some traveling, wanted to do more, eventually had seen the continents. From Rome he brought and erected in his Pittsburgh administration building a fountain. Ivory collecting was a pleasant avocation. His gathering contained 1,300 carved pieces, one of the few of its kind in the U. S. In 1919 he died, 25 years after the death of the Irish girl, Sallie Sloan Young, whom he married the year he set up in business...
Three days later Manager MacMillen found her in Chicago at the soda fountain of the Auditorium Hotel with her 16-year-old son, who at his mother's bidding had run away from his grandparents' home to join her there. She would never play again in public, she said. She would turn her mind to composition...
...wipe out the past. Lampy lived; not only lived, but flourished on the jokes the CRIMSON kindly furnished him. Indeed, the CRIMSON may assert a modest pride in Lampy's modest humor, since the CRIMSON often is to Lampy what Prince Harry was to Falstaff--the inspiration, source, and fountain...
...wine Horace offered in no dogmatic way. He meant merely to suggest that the concealing, congealing, civilized man became more honestly himself, more obviously himself when in his cups. And though Mr. Nathan may have had more psychological training above Cayuga's waters than did Horace above the Fountain of Bandusia, he knows little more of men. A liar is nearly always a liar. But he is only more obviously a liar when drunk. And when Mr. Nathan disputes the axiom of his elder he is missing this point. But then one cannot expect an eclectic critic to realize every...
...prescription is something that a physician writes with a gold fountain pen on a little pad with incredible rapidity. "Get that filled," he says with a cheery nod, and drives away in his buggy or his Isotta limousine. The person lying sick tries to read the hieroglyphics scrawled on the bit of paper. Those venomous little curlicues, what do they mean? Of course the chances are that the physician was an honest fellow, but-well, there is something sinister about a prescription, the sick one thinks. It might mean absolutely anything. Suppose the doctor had taken a dislike...