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There is an infinitude of new titles. Many aren't worth very much attention, but now and again a book rushes ahead of its fellows and compels attention by its very "speed". Such a book is "The Wagon Wheel". As a rule "western" stories are not popular here in the Square, but we venture to predict an all night session for whoever purchases this volume...
...Women who sew and bake and in the spring hoe and rake, and not afraid the garden to make. Those who are pleased with a good team and lumber wagon to go to church on Sunday, and who will be satisfied with three good meals a day and a warm home and not afraid to call the chickens. Not one hat will threaten one with divorce courts when you don't purchase a new hat every spring and fall...
...innumerable rewards in Boston for the pilgrim in search of historic tid-bits. Those who live in a place for long are apt to settle into indifference to the curiosities that others come many miles to see. Laziness is a feeble excuse, for there is always the "rubber neck wagon". Although the megaphone would announce a few things that do not need to be pointed out: "on our right we see the habitat of the Harvard Lampoon"--yet it would say much more that the college man has not heard outside of History 32: Bunker Hill Monument, the Old North...
Other exercises are less easily explained, the frantic pulling on the handles of the little express wagon that does not move, the juggling of 500 lb. weights, lap after lap on the running track (perhaps the commuter will miss his train). The "sights" in Tartarus itself were not more diversified or less productive of apparent results...
...reaction, blurred in all cases by local issues, is not a complete repudiation of socialistic tendencies, but is an expedient adopted because socialism in practice has been found an idea with too few heads to comprehend. There still remains in opposition a strong liberal element which will ride the wagon but not steer...