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...live on a great island continent away from the other continents and unprotected. It is therefore of great importance to us not to become embroiled in quarrels that have stained the history of olden lands...
From the depths of Central Europe used to come in olden days young, men who, landing in the U. S., went directly to tailor shops and with great shears learned the artful intricacies of cutting out men's fashionable suits. Now, under the quota law, they come no more-or at least not in sufficient numbers to meet the demands of the purveyors of fine suitings. Young Americans cannot or will not serve as apprentice cutters. The ranks of experts grow thin. Wage demands go up. Hence the high cost of fashion...
Last week was perhaps the most remarkable speculative week in modern history of the New York Stock Exchange. Speculative, because there were no political or geological events like the declaration of War in 1914, or the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Modern, because in olden days (up to 1907), the trading was small in volume and almost entirely between professional speculators, consequently subject to more sudden and violent whims than the trading of today, which affects the fortune of perhaps 7,000,000 U. S. security owners...
Delegates to a Y.M.C.A. Olden Boys' Conference, to pay respects...
...secret places under Central Europe's dikes, slipping quietly through the floods out to drowned wheat fields, softly swimming like malicious undines or night-prowling water-sprites of the olden time, went millions and tens of millions of small water-folk rejoicing in a new paradise. Scientists do not believe in fairies, good or bad, but they were quite willing to believe that much of Central Europe's woe was the work of these small water-folk. They were muskrats, common American fur-bearing rodents, fiber zibethicus. In 1903 an enterprising Czech farmer introduced them to the Danube...