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Show All That One Observer Could See in Mirror Max Epstein, philanthropist and patron of the arts he has just given Chicago university $1,000,000 for im art gallery said at a dinner at the Blackstone : "Because fool novelists, stealing their ideas from Freud, make out that we have abandoned virtue aj5 a mistake, a lot of people really think that virtue has been abandoned. Absurd Ab-surd ! "People who think that way are as far from the truth as the men in the anecdote. "It's an anecdote about a woman who went to a sale and bought a handsome mirror to hang above her bathroom washsland. The mirror wns large hut not heavy, and she decided to carry it home. So she boarded n trolley car, nnd sat witli It upright on her lap. Naturally she couldn't help looking into it now nnd then, arranging her hair, you know, and H maybe powdering her nose and so forth. "All the men In the car were very much Interested, and one of them was heard to say: "'Well, you never can loll what's coming next. It's llie Infest fail, I suppose.' " |