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mand for propriety is much keener than the de- 

 mand for truth, and you are no exception. So 

 on he goes, pointing out residences of millionaire 

 packers and brewers and car magnates where 

 you know they do not live, and peopling long 

 blocks where there is nothing to tell, with million- 

 aires of his own invention. 



Where the boulevard is closed for repairs, your 

 vehicle makes a perilous turn into Indiana avenue, 

 and as you pass old Trinity Church the mega- 

 phone roars out "ruins of All Souls' Roman 

 Catholic Church." Now, Chicago has an All 

 Souls' Church, but it is as far as possible from 

 being Roman Catholic; and who so ignorant 

 as not to know that the great, rich Mother Church 

 would never let one of her edifices lie in ruins for 

 years to the detriment of the souls of the parish? 

 But no one objects. When, on our return trip, 

 we pass the real home of All Souls' Church in the 

 brand-new Abraham Lincoln Center, we are 

 electrified by the stentorian sentence, "Lincoln 

 Center, where Abraham Lincoln delivered his 

 presidential address." Even to this there was 

 no demur. From then on, we fell to picturing 

 punishments to fit the crime in a future world. 



But by the time we have turned from Michigan 

 boulevard into Grand boulevard our stentor 



