miss edith n. allen read the humorous essay of the evening, entitled “The Modern Aeneas.” She described the Aeneas of the books, his wanderings, his character, and his grand opinion of himself, and likened him to a be-gloved, be-caned, be-mustached young exquisite who leaves his home in the east to come west and grasp the fortune that he knew is waiting here ready for his hands to seize upon.
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