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Hermione How do you suppose people ever got along a generation or two ago before the Cosmos and all that sort of thing was discovered?

I've often thought of it… and of what life must have been like in those days! As Emerson… or was it Emerson?… says in one of his poems: "Better a year of Europe than a cycle of Cathay!"

That's what Fothy Finch says he always feels about Brooklyn… though I will say this for Brooklyn—the first girl I saw with courage enough to wear one of those ankle watches on the street lived in Brooklyn.

But don't you think Brooklyn people are rather like that… go to the latest things in dress, you know, in an extreme sort of way, so that people won't suspect they live in Brooklyn?