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Show Turning th Page ' By E. W. Osborn (Cprrurht. 111 (N.w T.rh e-elo. e-elo. WendJ. Fre Pebllehuur C..J It the beginning; waa Olumph, And there was na god but Olnmph. He of the elagle eye aad the alngle Idea He eat en high, and hla .Ittlns; was wonderful. So that when he sat aothlng happened. hap-pened. He said that the world la a vary email place after all. Aad when he had said theaa werda he bowed beaef iclontly And there waa much worshipping sbout him. Olumph said also thst It takes all klnda to make a world. And whea ke kad aald that there was a great aolee of congratulation. congratu-lation. And Olumph said at laat That a man getteth wnat ha de- eerveth In this world. . Whereupon tha multitude cried out exceedingly, eaylng, "Mighty is Olumph: hla wisdom ehall be our wisdom. And his word aur lawl . Ws get this outburst from "Ths Demons Notebook." by Swinburne Hale, publtehed by Nicholas L Drown. We tblnk it haa a moral. We think the moral Is: "Don t bs a Olumph! ... ADVMTialHa A. U'rTKATimsL Out of Aldous Huxley's lateet book of eeaaya "On tba Margin" tloraa, ws clip this paragraph: The problem pr.seated by the Ponn.t Is child's play compar.d with the problem af the acver-tlsement. acver-tlsement. In writing a sonnst ana need think only ef aneeelf. If one'a readers find one boring or ob-eeure, ob-eeure, ao much the worse for thm. But In writing an advertisement ad-vertisement one must think of other people. Artvertloement writers may net be lyrical, or obecure. or In any way eeorterlc They muat be universally Inteltglble. A good advertleem.nt hea this In common with drsma snd oratory, that It must bs Immediately Imme-diately oomprehenelble sad directly di-rectly moving. But at the same time It must posaeee all tba succinctness or eplrram. Thers nrs two things to bs said sbout this declaration. In the first place It le true. In the second place, coming from the highly polished Pn of Mr. Huxley, It conflrme tne well-conc.lved well-conc.lved sdvertlsement In Its rank with the real literature of the day. e e e LOST UBUTIU or MAW. " Turning a pass In ths "Point of View" department of the July Bcrlb. ners. we read: For agea It was man's naln-terfered naln-terfered with right and privilege, privil-ege, and Indeed hie moot 'dle-tlnaul.hrd 'dle-tlnaul.hrd attribute that of ea Jovlng 111 health. If he wished to do the thins, he ought not to do. or not to ao the thing, h. ought. to do. It was nobody', bu.tne.e but hie own. He might feaet till hie head for other part of his anatomy) ached, drink till ha ssw serpents, ser-pents, enjoy the luxury of Idle muscles, close his windows aaalnst chilly night air. sleep In feather beds, go without j hard an ed arteries and hlfh , blood pressure. If ha ehosa. There waa no ona to frown tipon him or aay him nay. To tha man who sings that It waa "not Ilka that In tha olden days." wa tug-teat that ha paate thaaa reflections re-flections In his hat. They may keep him Cram talking through It. aee dl FOBr aUfAPfODl. With new poetry fortunately on tha wane, tha old rhapaodtes ara returning. Wa rail In wltneaa theaa lines, which drift across aeaa from tha book, "Landecape of Cytherea. tha work of W. J. Turner, Englieft poet: Bhe whom I Sova Is na flna air Through which mouniam eagleg atara Aad aee within earth's crystal sreama Blower-fitting, grosser beams. For she's unknown to every aensa That finds on earth Ita recompense The eye that can her beauty sea Faatena soma copy, 'tie not she; And when my hand toachea bar band I feel Columbus touching land And lose for a email lovely acene |