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...Life ?and you can study dispassionately the periodicity of recurrence of all our jokes. Some jokes repeat every two or three years, others (like Halley's Comet) take longer. A little luck?and you can predict unerringly just what grey-bearded quips will march from the storehouse to reappear, all reglanded and mineralaved, in The Naughtinesses of 1924. Then there are the political cartoons?stings drawn by time? bringing only a philosophic wonder to the mind. The editorials in the weeklies?"the country will be ruined should B be elected, should the X law pass." B was elected?...
This excerpt from the diary of that old Puritan, Samuel Sewall, shows how completely the order of the English Parliament in 1644 put an end to merry Christmas. All the hoary customs were forced to hide their faces for very shame, and none of them dared to reappear, except on Merrymount, until dour Cromwell was succeeded by the lively Charles. Then one by one they came back until in 1719 Sewall mournfully writes "New England men came hither to avoid anniversary days, the keeping of them, such as the twenty-fifth of December...
...lightly turning; but how uncertain a sign! Not until the haberdashers round the Square cry aloud that Harvard's Straw-hat Day has come, when we meet Princeton on the track and diamond; not until we are enticed within to examine the copious supply of Panamas and Leghorns, and reappear with a "straw" in place of the old felt hat;--not till then do we feel convinced that spring is here...
...watch it closely with opera glasses. The Star Beta Capricorn, which is of the third magitude, will be found close to the dark side of the moon shortly after sunset. At the appointed time it will then disappear as it goes behind the moon. Some time later it will reappear on the illuminated side of the moon...
...should like to ask Mr. Borah whom he regards as an ultimate authority on statesmanship. He once declared that if the Savior should reappear on earth and support the league, he would nevertheless vote against it. And yet this illustrious senator terms President Lowell a traitor to the past because he does not apply the words of Washington, uttered more than a century ago, to the events of today. Surely the senator from Idaho is oddly inconsistent...