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Streeter: Beany Gangleshanks and the Tub...
...topics of every day life. The whole world of little intimate human experiences is his field, and no incident is too commonplace to undergo an appealing and entertaining metamorphosis under the touch of his skillful pen. Such homely topics as the Saturday night bath in the old wooden tub, or the quiet pleasures of Christmas in a simple country home, are the subjects that are the favorite of this writer of human interest...
...Sunda tabernacle or a revivalist revival meeting, she might have done so. But she was in Symphony Hall, in Boston, among the cold and dispassionate. Perhaps it is kinder to imagine that she was merely interpreting her feelings on finding that the last piece of soap in the bath-tub had disappeared down the drain-pipe...
...amateur forum is organized, like nothing so much in the broad world as a Ladies Aid Society holding a sewing bee. To the weary and unwilling listener to these parleys it seems strange that so much wisdom could be contained in so small a space. Surely Diogenes and his tub had nothing on a few loquacious spirits and their library...
...have responded to this plan. Among those listed is a locomotive engineer, who, having finished beginner's Latin, is going on with advanced work for pleasure. Railway clerks, men in mining camps, lawyers and doctors, ministers and court reporters are fellow students. A girl who gives her occupation as tub mending is deep in the translation of Virgil. Instructors of science and mathematics feeling that their training has been too specialized are studying Latin, and Catholic sisters are taking courses to improve their teaching. Evidently under such a system many people, heretofore unable to receive a liberal education, are being...