EVENING SPIDERS
An interesting experiment

New York, February 4. Mr. James Stillwell Rockefeller, grandson of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, is engaged to Miss Nancy Carnegie, great-niece of the late Andrew Carnegie. The announcement of this marriage, which is to unite the two richest families in the universe, is causing a lively sensation of curiosity in the United States.
This is understandable. Americans are impatient to know - excuse the expression - what will come out of it.
In the unanimous opinion of modern hagiographers, the billionaire is a sort of anchorite fed on boiled eggs and cooked salad, capable of working eighteen hours a day, dictating twelve letters at a time, following six telephone conversations in six different languages, simultaneously recording the course of stocks all over the world and fulminating without hesitation those stock market orders which modify the balance of the planet. There is a character like that in Wells' work, it is the Grand-Lunaire, who thinks of himself alone for all his people and whose smoking brain must be relentlessly watered with fresh water by two attentive slaves.
We see from these details all the interest that presents the experiment currently attempted across the Atlantic with a view to achieving, by judicious crossbreeding, the creation of a race as useful to humanity.

Bernard GERVAISE