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NOISE IN MODERN LIFE. “Nobody, cares' how much ho disturbs another. Instead of the slow, quiet walk, young ladies now run up and 'down a room as if they were answering a bell, and by this means secure the easiest chairs before their seniors have got halfway to them.” Things do not seem to have changed so. much for. the worst in 120 years, judging by this extract from a letter written by a lady in 1813 and quoted by a correspondent to the London Times ” on the subject of “Noise in Modern Life.” m m 'k ." ® " ■ WORDS OP WISDOM. I am not bound to win, but .1 am bound, to be true. I am nor. bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.—Abraham coln,m ® s 8 TALE OF THE DAY. Tea'cher: “The mole eats ns much every day as he weighs.” Bright,Lad: “Please, sir, how docs the mole know how much he weighs?”
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Northern Advocate, 15 July 1933, Page 8
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