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Paris-in-China. When people finally take their dream-trip to Paris they notice that it is on a river, that nearly every street is flanked by rows of shade trees, that the sidewalks teem with cafes, that French officials wear evening dress at day-time functions, and that many a signboard bids one to start the next meal with a Dubonnet...
...With no apologies, even to the shade of W. S. Gilbert...
...seeking, and shade-seeking plants. Stone walls with running water, foraquaceous plants are also to be mounted on top of the upper story. Another unusual feature will be a frieze running above the upper tier of windows, constructed of projecting copper-covered bosses, each showing one of the symbols of Biological Science...
Mayor Walker of New York City is a very, very sick man according to Mayor Walker, so sick indeed that he has had to go to California. There under the shade of the dated palm he will take his ease and contemplate the stars, wondering whether it wouldn't be advisable to hitch his wagon to another and less tarnished...
Every year about this time New York's stylista get together and tell the men of the country what they will wear when Spring comes along. Green is to be the dominant shade for 1931 according to the dopesters who apparently feel they no longer need disguise their bait. Or, if one refuses to look for mercenary motives, the new fashion may be considered a gracious compliment to the sons, of Dartmouth who last Spring told the world about their shorts...