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...Charmington. And therein lies a tale. For every evening as the crowd stood about the steps of the drug store and I ate my banana soda. Cartrack made her small but definite appearance, religion shining from her eyes. Up the street from her home she came with the Gleam in her eyes and betook herself to the Ninth Incorporated Methodist Church, where the Reverend Isaiah Poodle was holding service. There I was told she would sit for ten minutes by the watches of the crowd about the store when she would leave the perfervid Poodle as rapidly...
...accustomed itself to the religious dim, it caught the gleam of many a fair garment. There were the snowy ruffs of Danish bishops. Here was a strip of crimson across an Anglican back. There was an emerald twinkling from a Bulgarian chest...
From the Dark Continent comes a gleam of light, along the Capetown cable. The Union of South Africa has requested the King of England to refrain in the future from conferring orders and distinctions upon its citizens...
...President Eliot," this paper continues, "does not lose his large vision. He believes that the United States is far better governed today than she was when he started life. And while he is cautiously reticent over the growing influence of the universities in public life, his usually reflective eyes gleam with subdued delight when he recalls how this or that Harvard man has been found faithful in the administration of some high office...
...that the English population would continue to recreate itself like the hydra-headed monster. To adopt the fatalistic attitude and let nature take its course would doubtless lead in a short time to such swarms that all Britain would be a vast human sardine-can. Yet there is a gleam of hope like the dawn on far off hills. Before quarters become too close for effective slaughter, let England enlist in life's campaign for "Bigger and Better Wars...