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ANNUAL MEETING.

AMONG TENBY PEOPLE.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUMMER AMUSEMENTS.…

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUMMER AMUSEMENTS. The promoter of summer devices for amuse- ment comes to understand as no other man does the overpowering ambition of those grown-up children called the human race to be seen "doing things." Your average citizen, for instance, will go through inconceivable effort to indicate of what tine material he is made. At the very idea of chopping wood for Mrs Fenderson on a hot day, Mr Fenderson will frown. But get him with a. heavy hammer at any amusement resort in the country, put him up against an indicator which will indicate to his fellow-humans the vast phy- sical possibilities of Mr Fenderson—and Mr Fen- derson will pay for the privilege of working three times as hard as he would in the infinitely more useful and domestic avocation of chopping wood. But in the last case Mrs Fenderson is the only luoker-on. If it were possible to gather an audience while Mr Fenderson chopped wood, and that audience could be induced to think what a wonderful woodchopper Mr Fenderson was, that aimnble gentleman would probably chop it with great industry. This is another phase in the psychology of summer .amusements. Knowing that mankind and womankind like to be seen doing tilings, it becomes the immediate aim and object in "life of every amusement-promoter to allow mankind and womankind to be seen-doing things.—October Strand Magazine.

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SNAPSHOTTING CELEBRITIES.

"0 BANNER OF THE WEST." --

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