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Show v i : X : X v X v I : i v I v I v Ivlvl v i '.' i . A v J'.'ivi v l'.'ivi v v i v i v A v i v i ; Historians Skip Many Matters of Interest An American history written In the old fashioned way would never mention men-tion the rise of the million picture diversion. di-version. The kind of histories to which we have been accustomed don't appear ap-pear to be In the least Interested In Hie ordinary life of the people, which Is us much history ns taking n fort or carrying nn election, u writer In the St. Louis Globe-Demoornt asserts. Between wars there Is almost a blank Interregnum; nnd from the history his-tory you would never know that a book had beep writ ten, ll picture painted paint-ed or n machine Invented. We once knew a school history of the United Slates that did not menlloii the com ing of the railroad; hut every Indian chieftain from Miissasolt to Sitting Bull was personalized. These strange silences of formal history his-tory leave us to the historical novels for our general Information of the times the clothing our ancestors wore, their pastimes, their religious faiths, their literature, their customs nnd their modes of thought. |