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...subscribers write to TIME requesting" that no 'FASHION' be introduced, will you omit it ? Kindly tell Fashionable Lady Nancy that the newsstands overflow with fashion magazines, from a few selected Creations dites Parisiennes to a mass of Caricatures by Insanes...
TIME is very interesting, it is so concise and up to the minute, but it seems to me someone on your "staff" is entirely lacking in foresight when they omit a section on Fashion...
While waiting for this to happen no gentleman will omit a few modest, customary intimations that the number of birds which he slew last year on such-and-such a moor was really colossal...
...large, and his popularity with the students or perhaps, his reserve. His campus hick name, his mannerisms, his students form the mainstay of the biographical portions of the narrative. Nevertheless, in speaking of Eliot, of Wendell of Charles Eliot Norton and of others like these, it was impossible to omit all reference to their educational tenets to refrain from mentioning the main features of their best known theories and methods...
TIME prints letters just as they are received, does not "doctor" them (except to omit those portions which are irrelevant, prolix), does not respell them. The sincerity of Farmer Crane's letter spoke for itself-spoke far more eloquently than could fine phrases, fancy spellings...