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Somehow there always seems to be a plot. In this instance, it is concerned with the progress of an orphan girl to the ultimate in feminine success?for-tune and a husband. The presence of a few execrable jokes may be condoned owing to the profusion of legitimate risibility. A prospective song hit, Going Rowing, completes the entirely satisfactory exhibit...
...hollow of his hand the realization of the superman of Shaw and Wells. In fact he has been holding it there for fifteen years, but no enterprising magnate has had the energy to remove it and put it to work". The recipe is simplicity itself. Take one hundred orphan children; add a few good foster mothers and ten thousand acres of California land; then mix well with three hundred and thirty-five days of sunshine per year. Let them eat, be educated, and intermarry. In short, run what Mark Twain once described as a "human stud-farm". "In the second...
...parallel with Stephen Girard is curiously close, and it is significant that Mr. Hershey went to Philadelphia and studied the college there before he opened his own school in 1909. Girard's will in 1831 specified that " poor, male, white orphan children" only should be admitted. Preference was to be given first to those applying from Philadelphia, and then to those from elsewhere in Pennsylvania and the U. S. Mr. Hershey directs likewise that the first favors be shown to applicants from surrounding counties. Girard enforced a prejudice of his against sectarianism when he directed that no ecclesiastic be allowed...
EMILY OF NEW MOON-L. M. Montgomery-Stokes ($2.00). There is good pollyanity and bad pollyanity. This is good pollyanity-at least one can read it without wishing to rush out instanter and murder the first quaint child one sees. We have with us again the precocious girl orphan who confides in her diary and longs to be an author-the unsympathetic relatives who are won over by her shy independence - the Great Family Secret-the letters to Father in Paradise-etc., etc. But the peppermint sticks are tastier than the run of such literary peppermint sticks; the author knows...
Connie is an unfortunate actress. She is 20 and out of a job. The burden of her years has never been so appalling as at the moment when she determines to return forever to an orphan-asylum home in Illinois only to discover that her funds are limited to a half-fare ticket. Accordingly she puts her hair down and her skirts up for the purpose of traveling as an eleven-year-old child. While en route she is adopted by a wealthy Chicago family. Within the household she proves so indispensable that she is finally adopted for life...