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...feel obliged to abandon sound prose to get an "effect." The Author. In Europe they regard Dorothea Frances Canfield Fisher as a ranking U. S. writer, one broadened by a cosmopolitan life but never apologetic for her Kansas origin. When she was a high school girl in Lawrence, Kan., a dashing young Army officer taught her to ride horseback and do higher mathematics. This officer has since been known as Gen. John J. Pershing and while he was helping to conduct the War, Dorothy Canfield did "the steady, quiet work of holding life together" in relief stations behind the lines...
...Atherton, Kan., Mrs. E. T. Perry, rich lady, issued invitations for a wake. Several friends came and sat with the bereaved. Through 96 hours (four days and four nights) the corpse lay in its silk-lined coffin, the head on an embroidered pillow. Solemnly, Mrs. Perry related the deceased's virtues and exploits, beginning with the day in 1913 when she bought him, "the cunningest" French poodle puppy, in San Francisco; tearfully ending with her "dear Phil's" heart attack several months ago, his removal to a nursery adjoining her regal bedroom; his brave struggle for health, aided...
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...Leavenworth Prison, Kan., Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, mendacious near-discoverer (1908) of the North Pole, busies himself with needlework while serving a term for oil-stock fraud...
...chapter called "Wasted Land" goes back to the last appearance of the Midwest's last purple people, the Dalton boys of Coffeyville, Kan. ... "A tall, harshly beautiful young man" (W. J. Bryan) comes out of Nebraska to be the Silver Knight; pallid Altgeld governs Illinois; Andrew Carnegie's detectives shoot strikers at Homestead, Pa.; solid Mark Hanna quietly bosses Cleveland; Coxey's army marches. . . . "California fruits and heiresses appeared seasonably in New York and were absorbed," but Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce are supplied by the same place...