Show OLIVES OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES yesterday august 29 20 was the anni anniversary ve reary of the birth of probably the most noted american author now living we refer to the distinguished poet philosopher and humorist Oliver Wendell holmes olmes II who was born in Cam cambridge mass august 29 1800 to this beloved autocrat whose charming works hava have given him an almost personal acquaintance with every lover ol 01 books in two continents many thousand messages of cheer and congratulation will be mentally conveyed few men of 0 letters have had so marked a gift as be for making himself at once the acquaintance and the friend of bis his reader he ile is never distant lofty or chilling he ile is always homely familiar and delightful he ile enjoys the honest admiration of all who have read ead r the he t product of bis his brain and all will wish him in his ripe old age the best of health and undisturbed happiness as long as life shall seem de do to him |