Invitation to Life

Eric Knight

Sinopsis

Women  were wondering how large leg o’ mutton sleeves could be (and still remain not too ultra) and with great newspaper publicity Grant’s Tomb was dedicated on Riverside Drive, New York.
With headlong haste humans moved in the direction of the Klondike, where, it was said, gold could be found; people asked each other if it wasn’t horrible to think of the one hundred and fifty French socialites, mostly women, who had been burned to death while watching these new-fangled cinematographic pictures at the Charity Bazaar in Paris.
A man named S. A. Andree, with notable courage, went up in the air in a balloon at Spitzbergen and started for the North Pole; a person styled an “anarchist” cut short the life of Premier Canovas del Castillo in Spain and a man named Azcarraga became the next premier; in the interests of civilization men with the latest weapons of warfare moved on lesser frontiers in India, suppressing natives, thereby leaving Waziri, Fulah and Afridi widows to mourn for the suppressed.

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