falling 



children, carrying out scientific demonstrations 

 surrounded by physical or chemical apparatus, or 

 executing some elaborate work of art. 



It may serve a useful purpose to advertise 

 births, deaths, and marriages; but the publica- 

 tion of lists of guests and the presents each one 

 contributes can hardly be regarded as anything 

 but arch-snobbery. 



The only way I can discern to fit the craze for 

 notoriety and advertisement into the economy of 

 nature is to regard the almost fortuitous living of 

 a life of continuous public exposure, less to one- 

 self and more to the community, as a kind of 

 necessary training of the individual to accustom 

 himself to self-sacrifice in order that he may be- 

 come the more fitted to act his part in the promo- 

 tion of the interests and welfare of the race as a 

 whole. 



Having expressed the present state of my senti- 

 ments on advertisement, I will return to the gar- 

 den. There is rather a dry sandy bed, sheltered 

 from the north by a hedge, in which nothing has 

 thriven very well. I have prepared the soil and 

 have planted it with mixed Irises, which, I hope, 

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