Britain and Ireland, who quarreled "genteelly" and fought out their
bloody duels "in peace and quietness." Something like this, also,
after the jump of a century, was the attitude of employers and
trade-unions all over the world toward industrial disputes. Words
were wasted breath; the time to strike or to lock out your employees
was when you were ready and your opponent was not. If you won, so
much the better; if you lost--at any rate, it was your own business.
Outsiders were not presumed to interfere. "Faith!" exclaimed Sir
Lucius, "that same interruption in affairs of this nature shows very
great ill-breeding."


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(_McClure's Magazine_)

RIDING ON BUBBLES

BY WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT

"And the Prince sped away with his princess in a magic chariot, the
wheels of which were four bubbles of air."

Suppose you had read that in an Andersen or a Grimm fairy tale in
the days when you firmly believed that Cinderella went to a ball in
a state coach which had once been a pumpkin; you would have accepted
the magic chariot and its four bubbles of air without question.

What a pity it is that we have lost the credulity and the wonder of
childhood! We have our automobiles--over two and a half million of