AT HOME AND ABROAD.
One is never too oH to yearn. Socrates Started to learn to play music at 60; Cato. at SO, began to learn Greek; and J'hitarcii. at the same age. started on Latin. Chaucer began his "Canterbury Tales" at 04. and Doctor -Johnson began to ~tudy Dutch at 60.
Emily Howland. a Friend in her 100 th vcar. living at Sherwood. Cayuga County. fca:- been the recipient ot the honorary riegree of Doctor ot" Letters conferred upon her by the University ot' New York tState. This is the first time that the University at Albany has conferred an honorary degree on a woman. Miss Howland had arrived in Xew York the previous evening, after a 19S-mile motor ride from her home, apparently none the ■worse for the effort.
Shops which sell books to Queen ilary generally provide a good selection of gardening works and of books on every sort of collecting. And to be snre of meeting with, her approval, such books mast be well printed, open easily, ead be well bound. And the average: look of tne day is. none of tiiese tainjre '.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 143, 20 June 1927, Page 11
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AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 143, 20 June 1927, Page 11
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