Author, U: Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 145

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Author, U: Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 145

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Excerpt from Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 145: June-November, 1922

When I was in London I used always, in glancing at the morning papers, to get a first impression that the whole world was almost asleep.' There was, for-ex ample, a heading called Indian Intel ligence, which showed, on close exami nation, that two thousand Parsees had died of the blue plague, that a powder boat had blown up at Bombay, that some one had thrown a couple of bombs at one of the provincial governors, and that four thousand agitators had been sentenced to twenty years' hard labor each. But the whole thing was just called Indian Intelligence. Similarly, there was a little item called, Our Chinese Correspondent. That one ex plained, ten lines down, in very small type, that a hundred thousand Chinese had been drowned in a ¿ood. And there was another little item labeled, Foreign Gossip, under which was mentioned that the Pope was 'dead and that the President of Paraguay had been assassinated.

In short, I got the impression that I was living in an easy, drowsy world, as no doubt the editor meant me to. It was only when the Montreal Star arrived by post that I felt that the world was still revolving pretty rapidly on its axis and that there was still something doing.

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