Tudor Jenks

“ PEOPLE used to talk of business and of romance as if the two were in all ways opposed. Only of late years have poets and artists so far departed from the conventional as to find subjects for pen and pencil in the minor skirmishes of that great battle with inanimate things which in its entirety is known familiarly as "business." ”

“ But like many another man apparently immersed in the monotonous round of unchanging routine, this jeweler had his dreams and his ideals. It is true that they were connected closely with his trade. He does not seem to have been a man whose thoughts strayed far from the beaten path. He had been impressed by the high price which was charged for that fine pink powder known as a "jeweler's rouge." ”

“ Kipling, in "McAndrew's Hymn," demonstrated that there was no impassable gulf between ancient poesy and modern engineering, and we may be sure that wherever mankind is engaged in the struggle against nature, or against his fellows, to secure for his loved ones that which will make their lives happy, there is the essence of romance, even though it be hidden behind the sordid phrase, "trying to make money." ”