This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.

1907. After graduating from the newly built Purdue University, Ade wrote for some newspapers in Lafayette before moving to Chicago where he found work at The Morning News, which later became the Chicago Record. He began publishing his own work in 1896, and kept writing for the rest of his life. He was well known as a humorist and for his tongue-in-cheek style of writing. Contents: Woman in Morovenia; Kalora's Affliction; The Cruelty of Law; The Garden Party; He Arrives; He Departs; The Only Koldo; By Messenger; As to Washington, D.C.; On the Wing; An Outing-A Reunion; The Governor Cables; The Homecoming; and Heroism Rewarded.

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Morovenia is a state in which both the mosque and the motor-car now occur in the same landscape. It started out to be Turkish and later decided to be European. The Mohammedan sanctuaries with their hideous stencil decorations and bulbous domes are jostled by many new shops with blinking fronts and German merchandise. The orthodox turn their faces toward Mecca while the enlightened dream of a journey to Paris. Men of title lately have made the pleasing discovery that they may drink champagne and still be good Mussulmans. The red slipper has been succeeded by the tan gaiter. The voluminous breeches now acknowledge the superior graces of intimate English trousers. Frock-coats are more conventional than beaded jackets. The fez remains as a part of the insignia of the old faith and hereditary devotion to the Sick Man.

1907. After graduating from the newly built Purdue University, Ade wrote for some newspapers in Lafayette before moving to Chicago where he found work at The Morning News, which later became the Chicago Record. He began publishing his own work in 1896, and kept writing for the rest of his life. He was well known as a humorist and for his tongue-in-cheek style of writing. Contents: Woman in Morovenia; Kalora's Affliction; The Cruelty of Law; The Garden Party; He Arrives; He Departs; The Only Koldo; By Messenger; As to Washington, D.C.; On the Wing; An Outing-A Reunion; The Governor Cables; The Homecoming; and Heroism Rewarded.