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...Dolly Madison were alive today," said Mrs. Colman, "she would have been classed as a flapper. . . . She was frivolous, used rouge, dipped snuff, and . . . played cards for high stakes. . . . Quite another sort of woman was Martha Washington, a quiet lady, gentle and demure...
Pride is the historical constant of the United States Senate. All generation of Senators from Clay and Webster, through Douglas and Seward, Aldrich and Allison, Lodge, LaFollette, and Penrose, have bequeathed this spirit of independence. It is as permanent as the snuff-boxes on the wall, of which Mr. Lowry writes, "Probably no Senator has taken snuff since Millard Fillmore's day, but it is the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to keep those two boxes freshly filed...
...their sins and repent them. In temples the repentance will be decorous; in synagogues, vigorous. Men will beat their chests and proclaim conventional errors. The very orthodox will pray with covered heads and unshod feet in their humiliation. Children will play with apples spiked with cloves; men will sniff snuff; women will surreptitiously hold vials of heart-strengthening aromatics to noses. Behind screens, separated from the men, will sit the women of orthodox congregations. After their day of fast they must go home to cook the evening meal. (In synagogues of modified orthodoxy women are not screened off; in reformed...
...LORING MYSTERY -Jeffrey Farnol-Little, Brown ($2.00). Out of his early Georgian property room, Mr. Farnol brings another grand collection of Hessian boots, shirt frills, snuff boxes, rapiers, gleaming dirks. These he disposes as skilfully as of yore. The plot lurks excitingly -how young David Loring came from Virginia to inherit his father's English estates and was tangled, at the peril of his life in the cunning of his Uncle Nevil, diabolical usurper. Murder creeps by night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over...
...million in the same month of 1923, declined last February to 498 million. February in the past three years, found manufactured tobacco declined from 29,215,513 pounds in 1922 to 29,083,145 pounds last year, mounted to 31,218,840 pounds this year. Snuff has increased steadily from 3,240,117 pounds in February, 1922, to 3,528,224 pounds in 1923, and to 4,133,832 this year...