And, of course, many a Viking child would be conceived in the bed furs by Viking men and women who were bored and lustsome.

Twanged the ſtring, out flew the quarell long, / And through the ſubtile aire did ſinging pas, / It hit the knight the buckles rich among, / Wherewith his pretious girdle faſt'ned was, / It bruſed them and pearſt his hawberke ſtrong, / Some little blood downe trickled on the gras; …

My life is one social whirl.

The simple mopholder found in every American home and which can be purchased today at any five and ten cent store in this country was invented and patented in 1893 by Thomas W. Stewart.