The first four people he met didn't remember him and
the next three didn't know he had been away.
"That antagonist of yours says he is going to leave footprints in the
sands of time."
"He won't," replied Senator Sorghum. "His mind is in the clouds. He is
an intellectual aviator. When he comes down he will leave a dent, not
a footprint."
Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call:
She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.
--_Pope_.
For what is fame, but the benignant strength of one, transformed to
joy of many?--_George Eliot_.
Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds.--_Longfellow_.
FAMILIES
A Kansas man is reported to be the father of thirty-two children.
It is not known whether he will apply for admission to the League of
Nations or just let America represent him for the present.--_Punch
(London)_.
A census-taker was working in lower New York on the East Side, and
came to a tenement that was literally crowded with children. To the
woman who was bending over the washtub he said:
"Madam, I am the census-taker; how many children have you?"
"Well, lemme see," replied the woman, as she straightened up and wiped
her hands on her apron. "There's Mary and Ellen and Delia and Susie
and Emma and Tommy and Albert and Eddie and Charlie and Frank and--"
"Madam," interrupted the census man, "if you could just give me the
number--"
"Number!" she exclaimed, indignantly.
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