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Title: The Forum
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York, N.Y.: (Events Pub. Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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the other day, and I know hes asnormal as the rest of us. Thats an awful thing to say, Cobleigh, I demurred.Smithkins paid no heed to my remark. I doubt if he even gotthe little green line of sarcasm in it. Of course youd say that, you got paid for examininghim, insisted Smithkins. I—er—hope to, murmured Doc. Cobleigh. Stifling agroan and glaring hard at Smithkins, I wrote a check forthe doctor. It was somewhere around 2 a. m. Our respective wiveswere in the country. We were over at the Golf Club, due tothe fact that our man, Welles, had won the golf championshipand incidentally the $500 Victory-bond prize. One wouldthink that such an event could in no manner call forth fromSmithkins, or any other member of our club, that ancientuntruth to the effect that all men are created equal. Butthen, if you knew Smithkins, you would not marvel at any-thing he did. Only recently he had turned what we termed ParlorSocialist. This didnt startle us in the least, for Smithkins 145 PUZZLE PICTURE
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Find the Socialist! 146 THERE AND BACK WITH AN ISM 147 is a dear old nut who cannot get along without some newfad or hobby any more than a fish can get along without fins.Not long ago he went in for Cubist art. He didnt knowthat it went out along with hobble skirts and mens sportshirts. Before that he tried New Thought/ or FreeThought, or Automatic Thought, or whatever it was.We never pay much attention to his fads here at the club. But recently he had been making himself rather of anuisance at the club. First, he thought that since the clubwas on a sound paying basis, with far more income thanoutgo, we should divide equally the few thousands surplusin the treasury. He had a habit of coming in and littering upthe reading-room with booklets, pamphlets, leaflets and whatnot, all on the subject of Socialism, with a capital S. Heeven dropped a few, surreptitiously, on the links. Our guests from the rival club, who had settled thedinner bill, had departed. We, together with David Welles,co

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