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THE SUNDAY OltEGONlAN, PORTLAND, JULY 11, 102O
LIFE SKETCHED BY ARTIST WHO SENSES SPIRIT OF THE DAY
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The family criticism "You aren't going out on the street like that,
are you. Jenny'" cwhicb only goes to show there la no pleasing a
toother)
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Faint praise. Mrs. Ronney is letting a dear friend down
easily with the deadliest of kindly phrases "Oh, well, I
always say Carrie means awfully well!"
Emma Is not saying much about it, but she is sizing up a couple of her mother's callers most
carefully, showing that the critical mind is wi th us even in early life.
- T do not see what
men like in those
artificial doll tyues
of women!" Miss
Horton doesn't
know tohat men
are thinking of!
The man who baa .
to live up to a rep
utation for being
no end of a clever
dog at satire. Does
it quite success,
fully by ridiculing
people's weak
points. Not always
the pleasantest
person . to have
around.
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-t wont"1 ' Trt(rsfy ou
speaking of her in -that
fashion. Sarah Smith
is a noble character!"
Auntie Loomis is quite
ready to exercise her
critical faculties on a
friend's weak points,
provided she does the
knocking, but let any
one else begin and
then.see what happens.
Harry, the filing clerk, likes nothing better than
to tell at great length, generally for the benefit
cf an outside listener, about how the fifty thou
' sand dollar deal the boss put through "oughta
j.been done eattiref.differenjT
Cousin Ed Rowe fs critical of , anything
and everything that is of a later date than
1895. According to Cousin Ed's reason
ing, the millennium must have happened
aioiig-somewhr jn. th middla cighues
The critical highbrow takes the attitude that
if he pulls everything to pieces and makes
enough noise about it he will be regarded as
a sure enough discriminating highbrow. He
refuses to see anything -woxtk wijiLe jinlesaiiii
discovers. .It himasl '
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The snent criticism, ery deadly. Mr. Boggs has remarked "There's a rood 7L.
tag woman,. Addy. how do yon like her?" and Mrs. -Boggs is replying by fo
i eloquent rontortions-the lace aignifying uUer coopt. - r;