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...command of Nature has been put into his hands before he knows how to command himself. . . . So man finds this, that while he is enriched with a multitude of possessions and possibilities beyond his dreams, he is in great measure deprived of one inestimable blessing, the necessity of toil. . . . Where shall we look for a remedy? I cannot tell...
...Kansas City, to Congressmen investigating Government interference in private business, Mrs. Ida Watkins, weather-beaten "Wheat Queen" of Sublette, Kan., pulled off her hat. bared a brawny, toil-hardened arm. shouted: "I just want to kick the devil out of the Farm Board. ... I draw the line on the doggone, damnable Government interference with our affairs...
Though Congress vacated the Capitol fortnight ago, its manifold committees, regular, special, select and joint, were left last week with plenty of summer work to do. The House and Senate had ordered a mass of investigations, probes, surveys, inquiries, studies, inquests and hearings, each of which meant toil and travel for one or more members at public expense...
Forlornly braying, the mule lives a life of toil, barren of love. For like many hybrids, the mule is sterile. So skeptical of the few reported cases of mule fertility is Encyclopaedia Britannica that it refuses to consider them authentic. But last week from Natal, South Africa, issued a report that appeared to have the stamp of authority. In a letter to Nature (British weekly), Ernest Warren of the Natal Museum reported the following "indisputable example of fertility in the mule...
...every breeze a zephyr. It's when every man is sick of four walls and ceiling; the time when the last Victorian wrote that "man he must go with a woman which women cannot understand," and Tennyson asked, "Ah, why should life all labor be, why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?" Spring is when seniors try to get worried about Divisional and can't, but only about studying for them; when Juniors feel that here is nothing quite like a Chrysler and a bottle of Rye, when Sophomores first realize they must have studied before...