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Examiners encounter a varied set of answers to tests calculated to ascertain the mental ages of the children by means of having them explain various pictures. One, portraying a loving couple with supplies, being paddled down a stream in a canoe was explained as a kidnaping, a picnic, a couple sick of life and about to jump off at Niagara, and just a picture of a boy friend and a girl friend. Loyalty to the family likeness upset one test when it was found that a little girl of fire was insisting that the homely woman in the test...
...Observation's victims were brought to the ferry house at 134th St. In that same place 28 years ago were laid out the bodies of 1,021 children, teachers, parents who. bound on a Sunday-school picnic, were burned or drowned when the excursion steamer General Slocum caught fire a few hundred feet away. Next to the General Slocum, the Observation took its place as the greatest marine disaster around New York...
...niece; and between expertly amorous Henri and Annette, a silly U. S. beauty?begin to blossom on the trip. Mrs. LeRoy lends them both bits of her wisdom, begins to need it all for herself when Professor Vinstead falls in love with her. The t'ao pings capture the picnic party. For a few hours it looks as if all love-affairs were over. Thanks to Mrs. LeRoy's leonine nerve and to peripatetic British pluck, the party is rescued. Derek gets Judith; Mrs. LeRoy and the professor nobly part; Annette, because she is silly and American, incapable of growing...
...more English novel?in the Kipling, sun-never-sets-on-it sense ? than Peking Picnic would be hard to imagine. Authoress Bridge puts her not always tacit low opinion of all foreigners in a sufficiently high light, repeats with religious fervor the Kipling creed of England über alles. Broad-minded if not exactly up-to-date, the judges of the $10,000 Atlantic Monthly Prize unanimously picked Peking Picnic out of 750 manuscripts submitted for the contest...
...wharf, poked patients into ambulances. Some 200 others were placed into trucks & cars, hustled to hospitals. The steamer went back for those who had refused to return early, found many of them ill. Doctors went to the Bonus Army's camp at Anacostia, where some leftover picnic boxes had been sent, treated a score of veterans who had eaten before being warned. That night more than 150 excursionists slept in hospitals, some 200 others were recovering at home. Food Poisoning- Washington's hospitals recorded the cases as "ptomaine poisoning." Physicians blamed the potato salad and deviled eggs, which...