The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, Volume 47Ess Ess Publishing Company, 1915 - Literature, Modern |
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Page 152 - Fall and \Vinter wardrobe and paying hundreds of dollars for the suits, gowns, etc., you select. The gown you buy and never wear is the really expensive gown! Gloves, boots, hats, that miss being exactly what you want, are the ones that cost more than you can afford ! $2 Invested in Vogue will save you $200...
Page 283 - Mr heart is a garden of dreams Where you walk when day is done, Fair as the royal flowers, Calm as the lingering sun. Never a drouth comes there, Nor any frost that mars, Only the wind of love Under the early stars, — The living breath that moves Whispering to and fro, Like the voice of God in the dusk Of the garden long ago.
Page 300 - It is almost impossible, in the present day, to find a situation which is thoroughly new. It is merely the manner of looking at it, and the art of treating and representing it, which can be new, and one must be the more cautious of every imitation.
Page 300 - ... it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood ; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
Page 307 - No American, no matter how sharp his critical sense, can ever get away from the notion that democracy is, in some subtle and mysterious way, more conducive to human progress and more pleasing to a just God than any of the systems of government which stand opposed to it. In the privacy of his study he may observe very...
Page 309 - The selection of a particular hole to live in, of a particular mate, of a particular feeding-ground, a particular variety of diet, a particular anything, in short, out of a possible multitude, is a very wide-spread tendency among animals, even those low down in the scale. The limpet will return to the same stickingplace in its rock, and the lobster to its favorite nook...
Page 156 - WE WHO HAVE LOVED" A \ 7E who have loved, alas ! may not be friends, " * Too faint, or yet too fierce, the stifled fire, — A random spark — and lo ! our dead desire Leaps into flame, as though to make amends For chill, blank days, and with strange fury rends The dying embers of Love's funeral pyre. Electric, charged anew, the living wire A burning message through our torpor sends. Could we but pledge, with loyal hearts and eyes, A friendship worthy of the fair, full past, Now mutilate, and lost...
Page 268 - I pray you all, fair gentlemen, Pray for his soul and mine. He lived to lose the heart he loved, And drink but bitter wine. He wrought a woe he knew not of, He failed his fondest quest, Now sing a psalter, read a prayer, May all souls find their rest.
Page 152 - Why take chances again this year when by simply sending in the coupon, and at your convenience paying $2 — a tiny fraction of the loss on a single ill-chosen hat or gown — you can insure the correctness of your whole wardrobe?