It is the most innocent who suffer and those who have the least offended who are the most severely punished.

The German Emperor wanted a place in the sun, and, having decided that the right moment to seize it had arrived, declared war.

As a direct result, Mary Kelly, a telephone girl at the Wistaria Hotel, in New York, is looking for work.

It sounds like an O.Henry story, but, except for the name of the girl and the hotel, it is not fiction.

She told me about it one day on my return to New York, on Broadway.
"I'm looking for work," she said, "and I thought if you remembered me you might give me a reference.