•* 'Tho 1 " failings-of tho • present ago are, 7 un-i ; . ■.doubted ly, maiiy, but stupidity is hardly ono i .of $hem.-.; There' is,'-'indeed; so. niuch clever- ;Y ■ ness : abbu(: that'it'is, perhaps, more ■ exhausting "'than tho, stimidity of a former; .geiiotatiftii.—'.'Ladies''Field.", v .. ' • . The tall, blank, grev houses, with their '•'groy'.wboden'.'shultersj. in. ,tho;,quartdi\ of, tho.,': / •Chanips lopk ho more . real than. the'' ' cardboard l houses in a stage play. Moreover,' .if seehis' iiiipossibloi lhat ariyono'is alivo ' • side the/houses! J. You. never .see a- face at'a V window. Tlioigroiniess; the monotony, the - — comparative silonco aro. incredible 'uftcr tho wiii-tri dolours, 'the rod-brown skies, the por-' ■ toutous, seething "movomont" of Loudon.— "
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 142, 10 March 1908, Page 9
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106Page 9 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 142, 10 March 1908, Page 9
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