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other ; could not easily have read the books, had 

 they been open before him. 



Another friend has given me her experience. It 

 seems that a number of the passengers had taken 

 through tickets from Philadelphia to Cleveland, 

 and with the understanding that there was no 

 change of cars. At Harrisburg, where the train 

 stopped for a few minutes, a gentleman and his wife 

 stepped out to get refreshments, leaving their little 

 ones with the nurse. While they were absent, a 

 brakeman came along, calling on the passengers to 

 go at once into another car. So, with only the 

 nurse to attend to it, the children, with their many 

 scattered wraps, and bags, and parcels, must be 

 quickly gathered up and hustled out. A lady in 

 the same car, to whom this move was as annoying 

 as it was unexpected, in an aggrieved tone asked the 

 brakeman, "Why is such a change necessary?" 

 "Because," replied the brakeman, "we have to 

 make this up for a smoking car! " 



" THE DEMANDS OF MODERN TRAVEL ! " 



And where will these demands end ? 



TOBACCO-BARBARISM . 



There is a close if hidden connection between 

 the minor and the major moralities. 



No one can violate the former without blunting his 

 finer feelings and becoming far more likely to in- 

 fringe the latter. 



In the Art Journal, Jackson Jarves, in treating 



