Varia

Excerpt: There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance. Such a phrase?employed with tireless irrelevance in journalism, and creeping into the pages of what is, by courtesy, called literature?is the ?new woman.? It has furnished inexhaustible jests to ?Lif...