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A complete assortment of the latest and most attractive Neckwear for Women and Misses.

Real Filet Lace Collars-$2.50, 3.95, 4.25 and up.
Imitation Filet Lace Collars-95c.

Stocks and Jabots of Real Filet Lace-$3.95, 6.50, 9.50, 12.95.

We also have a large and attractive assortment of Stocks and Jabots at 95c.

Satin Collar and Cuff Sets-$1.50.

Crepe de Chine Scarfs in a variety of colors-$1.50, 3.50 to 5.95.

Imported Liberty Silk Scarfs-A special collection in plain and novelty effects-$7.95 to 16.50.

Lace Scarfs in Spanish Alencon and Shadow effects, also Beaded and Spangled-$7.50 to 39.50.

Orders by mail given special attention.

James McCutcheon & Co.
Fifth Avenue, 34th & 33d Streets, N. Y.

The Outlook

SCHOOL BUREAU

announces that it is prepared to give information concerning all types of schools, viz., preparatory schools, colleges and academies, schools for music, art and the drama, vocational schools, correspondence schools, special schools, etc.-and this information is furnished gratis to our

readers.

We cannot over-emphasize the importance of selecting the right school for your boy or girl, and a great deal of time and careful thought should be given to a perusal of school catalogues and other data relative to the schools you are especially interested in before making a definite decision. Wherever possible a representative of The Outlook, who is in charge of this work, has made a survey of the schools, and will thus give you the benefit of these personal visits.

If you will let us know the type of school you are interested in, the age and sex of your child, and any other data which you think will aid us in making our suggestions, we will gladly see that complete information and literature are sent you.

SCHOOL BUREAU

The Outlook Company, 381 Fourth Ave., New York

20 February

Simplified Motoring (Continued) developed for cold-weather driving. Different types of hand-warmers, electrically controlled and attached to the steeringwheel, are appearing The tonneau is warmed by the hot gases from the exhaust carried through a heater before passing through the muffler. Such a heater can be regulated to suit weather conditions The car-owner is relieved of the worry and danger of driving with a snow or rain covered windshield by the use of a windshield cleaner. By merely pulling a string he can be assured a clear vision through the windshield without stopping the car

A popular system of engine temperature control is that employing a thermal coil or thermostat controlling the flow of water through the radiator. When the water is cold, the passage leading to the radiator is closed and the water is forced through the engine jackets. When the water becomes heated, the thermostat automatically and the radiator becomes part of the opens circulating system. In the meantime the engine has rapidly attained its normal efficiency through the rapid heating of the portion of the water which has passed through it.

The man who drives his car in the winter time will require a warm garage. Complete heating plants for garages have accordingly been devised. One of the best systems burns coal as fuel and distributes hot water through pipes, automatically regulated, to all parts of the garage. The plant burns only about five cents' worth of coal a day, and requires attention only once, or in very cold weather twice, a day. It is absolutely safe from fire and has, indeed, been approved by fire underwriters.

THE MOTOR CAR OF THE FUTURE

When we look back upon the motor car of ten years ago, we marvel at the tremendous strides that have been made in securing comfort and simplicity of operation. Accessory manufacturers have been most ingenious in devising mechanical or automatic contrivances to replace practically every operation formerly accomplished by physical effort. One need only push a button, turn a lever, or pull a string in order to secure smooth and efficient operation of his car.

A writer in the "Scientific American" has recently made an interesting prophecy of the motor car of the future. Here are a few of the points that he discusses.

The automobile of the future will be weathertight. It will have glass sides, front, rear, and roof. The glass sides will come down for warm weather and curtains will keep out the glare.

A new fuel will be used, developing direct electrical energy.

It will have electrical brakes using stored engine energy, and an electrical steering control.

Driving will be done from a small control board which can be held in the lap. The driver may sit in any seat he chooses, front or back, as the control board will be readily movable.

The car will be low, so one can easily step into it. A six-inch clearance will be ample, as all roads will be smooth, level, and hard.

The car of the future will carry neither extra tires nor extra wheels. There will be either a nonpuncturable tire or an entirely new substitute for rubber.

The above prophecy may or may not

come true.

But if automobile and accessory manufacturers make as rapid strides in the next ten years as they have in the past decade, the perfect motor car will have been almost attained.

NOW

BY GEORGE W. CABLE, OF THE VIGILANTES

The thought that I cannot put away is that whatever I might save now and fail to save now may be a hundred times the worst waste I shall ever have committed, though I have, like most Americans, many a past wasteful habit to regret.

It will be far the worst because not to save now is to throw away the co-operation of millions of others; because not to save now will tend to prolong the war; because not to save now will multiply the war's privations, lengthen its death-roll and the vast procession of its maimed men, and will make saving more difficult and less effective by and by when we shall be compelled to save through cruel conditions from which saving now might have saved

us.

THE HERO SHREW

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In the vast Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo, where the sun rarely pierces through the dense foliage and rain-pools stand for months in the foot-tracks of the elephants, a new sort of forest creature has been found. This is the "hero shrew -a variant of the common shrew [or shrewmouse], which is very widely distributed over the earth, being found in the Arctic Circle, Asia, Europe, Australia, England, and the Americas. The hero shrew, however, is known from only two localities, both in the Belgian Congo. These are the villages of Medje and Bafwabaka, both situated near the borders of the tropical rain forest, and only about thirty miles distant from each other. Easily recognized among other varieties of shrew by its more clumsy appearance and its longer, denser pelage, the most striking characteristic of the hero shrew is the remarkable strength of its vertebral column. Some interesting proof of the strength of its back is given by Mr. Herbert Lang, leader of the Lang-Chapin Expedition which was maintained in Africa for six years by the American Museum of Natural History. He says that the natives of the locality, especially the Mangbetu, delight in performing on captive specimens. "After the usual hubbub of various invocations, a full-grown man weighing some 160 pounds steps barefooted upon the shrew. Steadily trying to balance himself on one leg, he continues to vociferate several minutes. The poor shrew seems certainly to be doomed. But as soon as his tormentor jumps off, the shrew, after a few shivering movements, tries to escape, none the worse for this mad experience, and apparently in no need of the wild applause and exhortations of the throng." During this demonstration the head is always left free. The heart and other viscera are protected from crushing by the very strong vertebral column, made up of heavy, closely interlocking spines, and curiously convex behind the shoulder, forming there an arch highly resistant to pressure.

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The Mangbetu believe that the charred body or heart of the hero shrew, when prepared by their medicine-man, lends the quality of invincibility when worn as a talisman or taken as medicine. Those about in warfare or setting out on a langerous enterprise such as elephant hunting are always eager to carry along some part of a hero shrew as a charm against danger. Their faith in its protective power is doubtless a strong stimulant to courage and quick-wittedness, probably often causing extraordinarily heroic conduct. Without doubt this is the explanation of the

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THE PRUSSIAN VIEW-POINT

When the war first started, I had an acquaintance, a Prussian woman, who was caught in this country by the sudden outbreak of hostilities. One day I repeated to her what I considered a humorous conversation that I had heard between two colored men. The men were speaking of a mutual friend.

Said one of the men, "Gus is the funniest nigger I ever saw. He just lies all the

time.'

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"Dat's right," agreed the second.

"Now I looks at it dis way," continued the first. "If a lie is goin' to do you any good, why, lie; but if it ain't goin' to do you no good, and you can jest as well tell the truth, why, tell the truth."

Instead of being amused by the conversation repeated, my Prussian friend said, "Now isn't that sensible?"

(Mrs.) E. F. BURCHARD.

Washington, D. C.

THE FLAG'S MINUTE

BY LOWELL C. FROST, OF THE VIGILANTES

The bugle startled me

I had called it a day, rolled down my desk, and started for my car, when I suddenly remembered that I needed to buy some collars. The nearest source of supply was at the Central Department Store, just across the street, and a little quick-stepping brought me there about three minutes this side of closing time. I had just selected the particular style of collars which my wife calls the least unbecoming to my style of beauty, when that sharply incisive bugle call rang through the store. At the sound I noticed a sudden cessation of sound and movement about me. The collar man had interrupted himself in the midst of a remark about the high class of goods he was giving me, and now stood with his back to me, facing the sound of the call, in a stiff, rather soldierly attitude, saluting some unseen thing.

My first thought was that the man was an ex-soldier absent-mindedly performing some military rite or other, and a foolish jest was on my lips when I saw another salesman in the next aisle standing in the same attitude. Glancing about, I found that every employee in the store was facing the bugle and standing at attention with eyes closed. And then, as the last notes ceased, I saw the Flag. It was being slowly lowered from a tall pole in the very center of the great floor space. Mechanically at first, and then with a distinct thrill, I straightened and saluted. Others were wonderfully doing the same. A moment later the rush of closing up was in full swing.

"Yes, sir," said the salesman, "we face toward the bugle and salute the Flag when it is raised every morning when the store is opened, and again at closing time, when "retreat' is played and the Flag lowered. "You see," he continued, "there are over forty of our employees with the colors, and some of them won't come back; so the rest of us take this way of honoring themand the Flag."

Learn
Learn the New
the New Way in
Shorthand
and Type-
writing at Home!

Business concerns and U. S. Government calling for stenographers. Demand greater than ever before. Salaries higher. Now is the time to become a stenographer. Right in your own home, in half the time, at ONE-THIRD THE USUAL EXPENSE, you can learn New Way Shorthand and Typewriting. Enables you to write 125 to 150 words a minute in shorthand and 80 to 100 words a minute in typewriting. No local business school can offer this amazing new system. Instead of learning slowly, laboriously, imperfectly and expensively, the New Way enables you to learn quickly and perfectly, at home, at very little cost, and so easily that in a short time you become more competent than many stenographers with years of experience.

Easy Now to Become a
Stenographer

The New Way is so simple, so fascinating, that you can now quickly acquire the highest grade ability. Beginners who never could write one word in shorthand are writing 125 to 150 words a minute, and can instantly read every word of their shorthand notes. And instead of typewriting 15 to 20 words a minute with one or two fingers, with eyes chained to the keyboard, they can typewrite 80 to 100 words a minute without looking at the keys, using ALL fingers, writing with amazing ease, and with an almost entire absence of errors!

Secret of the New Way

The secret of the New Way in Shorthand is borrowed from the methods used in teaching children to read! You learn actual words from the very first lesson, and can use them at once. In a short time you take practice dictation. The method of teaching is so different, so revolutionary, and so thorough that once you learn a word you will never forget it. And the study is so fascinating that it is exactly like playing a game!

Nothing like the New Way in Typewriting has ever been discovered. In only 10 easy lessons, you can learn to type write 80 to 100 words a minute, with remarkable accuracy, and with amazing ease. Special Gymnastic Finger Training brings results in days that ordinary methods will not produce in months. So wonderful are its results that thousands of graduates of business colleges are constantly enrolling with us and, practically without exception, they are doubling and trebling their former best speed in typewriting, and their salaries are being increased steadily.

Complete Secretarial Training

The New Way in Shorthand and Typewriting includes a complete and thoroughgoing commercial training. Without one penny of extra charge, right along with your shorthand and typewriting, you will be trained in Business English, Letter Writing, Office Methods, Secretarial Workeverything needed for fitting you for the highly-paid positions in the stenographic field-a better training by far than you can get in a local school. Yet everything is made so simple, so plain, so practical, that you can learn in far less time than any local business school can teach you.

Particulars Free!

Entire

Course on Trial!

We cannot completely describe here the New Way in Shorthand and Typewriting. But we have prepared a catalog which tells all about this wonderful new system. For over 17 years the Tulloss School has been giving training by mail to successful stenographers. The unusual ability of our graduates is everywhere recognized-everywhere they are given the preference in business offices.

If you are ambitious to get started right in Shorthand and Typewriting-if you are ambitious to get ahead quickly-if you want to earn a big salary as an expert stenographerdon't wait a single minute before sending the coupon or a postal. The New Way in Shorthand and Typewriting is so easy to learn, so thorough and practical that you will be doing yourself a big injustice if you fail to write for the facts NOW. Tear off the coupon and send it, or write a postal right NOW before you turn this page. Address The Tulloss School, 2962 College Hill, Springfield, Ohio.

Gentlemen:

Please send me your free book about the New Way in Shorthand and Typewriting. This incurs no obligation on my part.

Name.

Address..

Mail to THE TULLOSS SCHOOL 2962 College Hill

Springfield, Ohio

The Outlook Classified Advertising Section SPECIAL REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENTS

The issues of March Twentieth and April Seventeenth will be Special Real Estate Issues particularly adapted for announcements for the Sale or Rental of Property.

CANADA

FOR RENT at Windermere, Muskoka

(Near Royal Hotel)

For July and August, well-furnished bunga low, 7 rooms and bathroom. Good bathing and safe for children. Apply J. O. ANDERSON, 55 Castle Frank Road, Toronto, Ontario.

CONNECTICUT

Litchfield, Conn. Twelve-room attractive

cottage, $600 for season, furnished. All improvements, 3 acres, orchard, garage. Desirable location, fine views and open surroundings, C. R. McNeil, 39 E. 42d St., N. Y.

FOR SALE or RENT

At Morris Cove, Conn., on the beach, 1 cottage with 16 bedrooms, large living-room with stone fireplace, large dining-room with stone fireplace, 2 screened porches, garage and separate servants' quarters. Suitable for boarding house or club. Also 8-room cottage near by, both beautifully furnished. 7,535, Outlook.

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MAINE

Is This Your
Country Estate?

FOR SALE beautiful wooded tract 75 acres.
Frontage 2,000 feet on ocean, one mile from
Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Lying WHOLLY
WITHIN MY TRACT and only 350 feet
from ocean is "Lake Appalachee," a beau-
tiful spring-fed lake, wooded, irregular
shores, stocked with black bass. Rare oppor-
tunity for the most unique Country Estate
on the Atlantic Coast. Now run as a high-
class Camp to accommodate fifty people;
city water, electric lights, sewer, etc. Ideal
site for Club or Hotel. Mortgage and terms,
E. O. GROVER, 1922 Calumet Ave., Chicago.

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CAPE Ballston Beach Bungalows Central New York. One thousand feet front

by the ocean surf. Choice loca tion. Moderate rents season, S. W. BALL, 198 Broadway, N. Y. PIGEON COVE, MASS.

Sans Souci Cottage, on ocean front, for rent

Completely Furnished. Ten rooms,
bath, sun parlor. Address 7,567, Outlook.

Hotels and Resorts

NEW YORK CITY

Hotel Le Marquis

31st Street & Fifth Avenue

ADIRONDACKS
THE CRATER CLUB
Of the Burnham Cottage Settlement, Essex-
on-Lake Champlain, offers to families of re-
finement at very moderate rates the attrac-
tions of a beautiful lake shore in a locality
with a remarkable record for healthfulness.
The club affords an excellent plain table and
accommodation. The boating is safe, there are
attractive walks and drives, and the points of
interest in the Adirondacks are easily access-
ible. Ref. required. For information relative
to board and lodging address Miss MARGARET
FULLER, Club Mgr., 115 E. 71st St., New York.
Furnished cottages without housekeep
ing cares. Circular and particulars on applica
tion. John B. Burnham, 233 B'way, New York.

FOR SALE
Country home in Finger Lake District of
age on Owasco Lake, fertile farm of 220 acres,
30 in woods, 25 in brook pasture, 7 in apple
orchard, rest under cultivation. Main house
built about 1800, remodeled, 15 rooms, 2 baths,
furnace, gas, open fireplaces, sleeping porches,
garage, icehouse. New tenant house of 9
rooms, ample barns, livestock, and tools. On

NEW YORK

FOR SALE-CATSKILL

MOUNTAIN Trout Brook Farm, fifty acres. Price with furniture $1,500. Good place to build up one's health. Dr. G. F. PITTS, Warwick, N. Y. FOR SALE OR RENT

Herrnhut House

CRAGSMOOR, N. Y.

Small summer hotel on a spur of the Shawangunk Mountains. Extended view overlooking Ellenville and Rondout Valley. Twelve acres of land with furnished house accommodating about 40 guests, 7-room cottage and laundry. Episcopal chapel with daily service within five minutes' walk. Moderate price. Address A. KITE, Frankford, Philadelphia, Penna.

FOR SALE! Beautiful Summer

Residences in 1000 Island region and GOOD FARMS on shore of St. Lawrence River. reasonable. JOHN O'LEARY, Clayton, N. Y.

FOR RENTISummer Homes. Prices

ESSEX ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN

28 miles from Plattsburgh Camp. Old Colonial house, 6 master's bedrooms, modern plumbing, 9 fireplaces, ample grounds. For rent furnished by month or season. Mrs. W. A. Townsend, 227 E. 72d St., N. Y.

Dower Place Charmingly furnished Colo

nial house; 5 master's bedrooms, 4 maids' rooms, 4 baths; 12 acres; delightful situation on shore Lake Champlain, splendid views; boating facilities; garage. P. H. Boyle, Essex, N. Y.

Country Place on Lake Champlain,

N. Y. 28 miles from Plattsburg. 14 acres, 500 ft. lake front. Apple orchard. Rose and vegetable gardens. House of 10 rooms, 2 baths, sleeping porch. With cottage of 3 rooms adjoining. All furnished. Electricity, hardwood floors, open fires. For sale at $20,000. Rent for season $850. 7,547, Outlook.

NEW YORK CITY

Comfortable Home

Bensonhurst Section of

Brooklyn, N. Y.

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House with 12 rooms, 3 baths, garage for two cars, on 13 lots. Easy access to New York by machine or subway. Address

E. H. MADISON, P. O. Box 1977, New York.

PENNSYLVANIA

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3n America--An English Inn

WYOMING

ALL SEASON CAMP
Wyoming sunshine for young men, with
trapping and horseback riding on a real ranch.
Address TRAPPER LODGE
Shell, Big Horn County, Wyoming

Dr. Reeves' Sanitarium A Private Home for chronic, nervous, and mental patients. Also elderly people requiring care. Harriet F. Reeves, M.D., Melrose, Mass

Apartments

New York City

An attractive, 5-room apartment to sublet for spring and summer. One block from Riverside Drive, facing Columbia Uni versity buildings. Two minutes from subway station. First-class service, two elevators. Very reasonable rental. Address 7,575, Outlook.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

PRIVATE school. A small, well-established girls' boarding and day school. Convenient to New York and Philadelphia. Capacity enrollment this year. Principal desires to retire. Box 1,592, Philadelphia, Pa. Correspondence confidential. T. H. G., P. O.

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two Special Real

Estate Issues of The

Sanford Bennett at 50

Sanford Bennett at 78

An Old Man at Fifty

Outlook, which will A Young Man at Seventy

appear on March

17.

20 and April An advertisement in these issues will cost but a few dollars and will reach the class of people who will be interested in your property. Write us about and your property we will help you prepare a suitable advertisement.

THE OUTLOOK Department of Classified Advertising

ADDING MACHINES

THE Ray Adding Machine. Saves time, money, labor. Costs less than an average mistake only $25. Adds with speed and accuracy of highest priced machines. Also directly subtracts. Used by U. S. Govt., International Harvester Co., B. & O. Ry., business and professional men everywhere. Handsome desk stand free. Send no money, but write for 20day free trial. The Ray Company, 1550 Power Bldg., Richmond, Va.

FOR THE HOME DOMESTIC SCIENCE, home study, good position. American School Home Economics, Chicago.

HELP WANTED

Business Situations WANTED-Two active, educated men between 30 and 60 years of age for special work. Address Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc., 449 Fourth Ave., New York City.

Companions and Domestic Helpers DIETITIAN wanted. A large State institution in the Rocky Mountain region needs an experienced dietitian. Liberal salary paid and maintenance allowed. Give age, education, experience, and references. 5,634, Outlook.

The Remarkable Story of Sanford Bennett, a San Francisco
Business Man, Who Has Solved the Problem of Prolonging Youth.
By V. O. SCHWAB

There is no longer any occasion to go hunting for the Spring of Eternal Youth. What Ponce de Leon failed to discover in his world-famous mission, ages ago, has been brought to light right here in staid, prosaic America by Sanford Bennett, a San Francisco business man. He can prove it too, right in his own person. At 50 he was partially bald. Today he has a thick head of hair, although it is white. At 50 his eyes were weak. Today they are as strong as when he was a child. At 50 he was a worn-out, broken-down, decrepit old man. Today he is in perfect health, a good deal of an athlete, and as young as the average man of 35.

All this he has accomplished by some very simple and gentle exercises which he practices for about ten minutes before and three minutes after arising in the morning. Yes, many of the exercises are taken in bed, peculiar as this may seem. And three minutes a day after arising, is devoted to abdominal massage. As Mr. Bennett explains, his case was not one of preserving health, but one of rejuvenating a weak, middle-aged body into a robust old one, and he says what he has accomplished anyone can accomplish by the application of the same methods, and so it would seem. All of which puts the Dr. Osler theory to shame. There isn't room in this article to go into a lengthy description of Mr. Bennett's methods for the restoration of youth and the prevention of old age. All of this he tells himself in a book which he has written, entitled "Old Age-Its Cause and Prevention". This book is a complete history of himself and his experiences, and contains complete instructions for those who wish to put his health and youth-building methods to their own use. It is a book that every man and woman who is desirous of remaining young after passing the fiftieth, sixtieth, seventieth, and, as Mr. Bennett firmly believes, the one hundredth milestone of life, should read.

Partial Contents

Some idea of the field covered by the author may be gained by the following topics: Old Age, Its Cause; How to Prevent It; The Will in Exercising; Exercising in Bedshown by fifteen pages of illustration. Sun, Fresh Air and Deep Breathing for Lung Development; The Secret of Good Digestion; Dyspepsia; How I Strengthened My Eyes; The Liver; Internal Cleanliness; Massage of the Colon-how it removes and prevents constipation and its many attendant ills; external cleanliness; Rheumatism; Varicose Veins in the Legs; The Hair; The Obese Abdomen; The Rejuvenation of the Face, Throat and Neck; The Skin, and many other experience chapters of vital interest.

Don't Send Any Money

"Old Age-Its Cause and Prevention," with its 400 pages, profusely illustrated and handsomely bound in HELP

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Teachers and Governesses WANTED-Competent teachers for public and private schools and colleges. Send for bulletin. Albany Teachers' Agency, Albany, N.Y. CALIFORNIA needs teachers with graduate study. Consult Boynton-Esterly Teachers' Agency Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cal.

WANTED-Governess for two little girls, five years and seven years old. French conversation necessary. 5,631, Outlook.

TEACHERS desiring school or college
positions apply International Musical and
Educational Agency, Carnegie Hall, N. Y.

NURSE or nursery governess, preferably
French, wanted for two little boys, three and
five years old, in suburban town an hour from
New York. 5,654, Outlook.

cloth, contains as much material as many Courses of Instruction selling for $25 or more. But you can secure a copy of this book for only $3. Before committing yourself in any way, however, the publisher will send you "Old Age-Its Cause and Prevention" on approval without deposit. In addition, you will receive one of Mr. Bennett's Backbone Boards-his own invention for exercising the spinal cord. This simple device is alone worth many times the price asked. It increases nerve force and nerve energy, benefiting every organ of the body-the brain included-by keeping the vertebræ of the spinal column young, flexible, elastic and in perfect alignment. If after examination in your own home you feel you can afford to be without youth and health, send them back within five days and you will owe nothing. If you decide to keep them, send your check for $3. There are no strings to this offer. No money is required in advance. Merely fill out and mail the coupon and by return post" Old Age-Its Cause and Prevention," and the new Backbone Board will be sent to you at once.

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Mail Coupon

For having solved the problem of prolonging youth during life, the world owes Sanford Bennett a vote of thanks. Of course, there are those who will scoff at the idea, but the real wise men and women among those who hear of Sanford Bennett, will most certainly investigate further and at least acquire a knowledge of his methods. This the publisher will allow you to do without cost or send no obligation, through his money" offer. But it is advisable to mail the coupon today, because this unusual no-risk offer is liable to be withdrawn any moment. Address CHAS. H. DESGREY, Book Publisher, Dept. 12, 5084 Metropolitan Building, New York.

MAIL THIS TODAY-NO MONEY REQUIRED Send me Sanford Bennett's book-"Old Age-Its Cause and Prevention," and his wonderful new Backbone Board. I will either remail the book and the Exerciser within five days after receipt and owe you nothing, or will send $3 in full payment.

Name..... Address City..

SITUATIONS WANTED

Companions and Domestic Helpers COMPETENT and companionable gentlewoman would like position as managing housekeeper for widower, or as companion for small children or lonely lady. References required and given. L. S., care Editor Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn.

WOMAN of refinement and education desires resident position as companion, chap eron, or supervising housekeeper. 5,647, Outlook.

YOUNG lady, English, desires position as companion. Willing to travel. 5,649, Outlook. GRADUATE nurse attendant in private sanitarium. Physicians' references. 5,650, Outlook.

DIETITIAN, experienced, desires institutional position March 1. 5,544, Outlook. COMPANION-nurse, useful in any capacity. City or out of town. 5,651, Outlook.

REFINED woman would assist mother care infant half day. 5,657, Outlook.

REFINED, educated widow of Presbyterian minister, 41 years old, wishes position as reader and companion, or in motherless home where servant is kept, or as pastor's assistant. Has had experience. 5,656, Outlook.

CHICAGO graduate nurse wishes infant or adult patient going California, February, March. 5,655, Outlook.

State.

SITUATIONS WANTED Teachers and Governesses WOMAN of 27. college graduate, 6 years' experience as teacher in private school, desires summer position as tutor, companion or chaperon, or secretary. References exchanged. 5,645, Outlook.

LADY recommends highly her very competent governess-housekeeper. 5,652, Outlook. FRENCH teacher, Parisian, wishes pupil at her residence, private house; quick results, highest references. Madame Rocheville, 108 West 87th. Schuyler 9272.

HEADMASTER, successful with boys, particularly strong in religious education, desires position of responsibility where personality will count. 5,660, Outlook.

MISCELLANEOUS

THE Red Cross needs nurses. The Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass., can train you. Send for information. A small hospital, excellently managed. Corps of experienced graduate nurses direct training school. University extension work for our school in Smith College Laboratory.

M. W. Wightman & Co. Shopping Agency, established 1895. No charge; prompt delivery. 44 West 22d St., New York.

WANTED-Defective persons Address W., Pawling, N. persons

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Don't Let Rupture
Spoil Your Fun

On the ice last win-
ter, a group of men
decided to go skating.
In a jiffy they had their
skates on and were
dashing off over the
shining ice-all except
one He was ruptured.
He wore a steel band
truss and dared not en-
joy himself because he
feared his truss would
fail him. This unsmil-
ing man was needlessly
robbed of healthful, invigorating fun. Had he worn a
Brooks Rupture Appliance

he could have joined his friends in their sport. The
Brooks Appliance is made of soft rubber, unaffected
by water. It will not slip because the Automatic Air
Cushion clings closely and follows every body move-
ment. Draws and binds the parted muscular tissues
together; gives Nature a chance to knit them. This
wonderful, new, scientific treatment of hernia has
helped thousands and will help you.

SENT ON FREE TRIAL
to prove its worth. A straight business proposition
in which you are the sole judge. If the Brooks
Rupture Appliance does not comfortably retain your
rupture at all times, send the appliance
back to us and get your money. Du-
rable cheap. Write for catalogue
and measure blanks today.
BROOKS APPLIANCE CO.
471C State St. Marshall, Mich.

BY THE

THE WAY

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The famous old English convict ship Success, which has been on exhibition in this country for several years, went to the bottom for the second time a few days ago -strangely enough, not at sea, but in the Kentucky River. She was making a tour of inland waters, and got into an ice gorge at Carrollton, Kentucky, which tore a hole in her stout teak timbers. During her eventful history the Success lay for several years at the bottom of Sydney Harbor in Australia, after her career as a convict ship had ended. She was later raised and then went forth in her new guise as a museum of the horrors of the time when she was a prison ship. She was built in 1790.

An old London firm of booksellers rejoiced in a five-barreled appellationLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. A book published in 1825 by this firm, recently picked up at auction in New York City, brings to memory this story: Archibald Constable, the famous publisher of Edinburgh, was fond of a joke. Mr. Longman, of the above-named firm, once visited Constable's palatial home. During conversation he remarked: "What fine swans you have in your pond there!" "Swans!" cried Constable; "they are only geese, you man. There are just five of them, if please to observe, and their names are Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown." This skit is said to have cost Constable a fat contract with Longman.

The yield of peanuts in 1917 totaled

more

than sixty million bushels nearly
twice the quantity raised in 1916.. The
crop's money value more than doubled.
The popularity of "peanut butter" proba-
bly accounts for the increase.

For saving coal during zero weather,
"Popular Mechanics" suggests that, in-
stead of shaking the grate of a furnace, a
hooked poker be used to rake out the
ashes between the sections of the grate.
This will, it is claimed, lessen the waste of
half-burned fuel. A further suggestion as
to heat-conserving is that frames of corru-
be used to cover the north and
gated paper
west windows of rooms at night.

The Dramatic Mirror," complaining
about the restrictions on American theat-
rical activities, says that more than thirty
playhouses in Paris are open every night.
without restriction as to hours of opening
or closing, and that even London, beset by
Zeppelin and airplane raids, objected to
the order to quit "carrying on
playhouses and succeeded in having it
rescinded, so that its theaters now give
their performances as usual.

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A rabbi in New York City, so a contribu-
tor to the "Christian Register" says, was
catechizing a class of small boys whose
parents had come from the land of the
Czar. "Now, Isaac, tell us who was the
first man?" "George Washington," came
the prompt reply. Exclaimed the amazed
rabbi: "Surely you know better. Isaac.
You, a Jew, to say that George Washing-
ton was the first man? You ought to know
My teacher
Adam was the first man." "

she say George Washington was first in
war, first in peace, and first in the hearts
of his countrymen. And, anyway, you know
we Americans don't take much stock in
those foreigners."

People who think that the betting odds
are indicative of forthcoming events will
be interested in the report that London
clubs are again betting as to the time when

the war will end. "I'll lay you 3 to 1 that the war will end by April," declared a member of one of these clubs, a Colonel who has seen a lot of service "out there," according to a despatch to the New York "Sun." A favorite bet with other clubmen is that the war will end by next Christmas, as Kaiser's Christmas gift to the world."

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An unusual advertisement is this from a New York City newspaper:

Carmela is looking for her husband, Pasquale who has been missing from her seven years. She is anxious to find where he is and is willing to forgive everything and do as he says. If any one happens to know him, kindly call at That the lady should have stood out seven years and then surrendered so meekly is pathetic.

Referring to the statement recently published, that the postal rate established in 1851 was "from two to four times the present one," a subscriber writes: "It may help further to contentment with the present cost to learn that in 1834-only seventeen years earlier-the postage from New York City to the newer settlements halfway across New York State was 1834 or 19% or 37% cents. The correct change was easily made by use of the coins then current-sixpences and New York State shillings, worth about half as much as the English coins of the same names. There were no postage stamps; the amount to be paid was written by hand upon the corner. There was no railway; the stage took several days for that trip, one way. Envelopes were not in use; the large square letter sheets were folded in an ingenious and rather intricate manner to make the outer leaf form a secure wrapping, then fastened by a wafer or sealing-wax. This folding was taught in school by the writing teacher and was puzzling to learn."

The small people of the country will hear with delight that the circuses do not all expect to be put out of business this spring because of war conditions. "We have our own baggage cars and freight trains," said one circus manager, " and all we require is an engine to haul them. But if worse comes to worst we can return to the wagon route that formerly prevailed." The sight of those gay wagons and strange beasts on the country roads again would bring joy to a host of circus-lovers, young and old.

The recent sale of the paintings collected by James W. Brady ("Diamond Jim") brought out this anecdote from a dealer: "One morning my telephone rang. Mr. Brady was at the other end of the wire. Moss,' he said, burglars got into the house last night. I'm short a Diaz and two other pictures.' What had really happened, I found, was that guests he had had at dinner had admired these paintings and that he had made presents of the pictures to them. His object in calling me up was to order me to have the gifts packed and delivered. Many a collection in this country started with the gift of a painting from Mr. Brady."

A subscriber writes from Rangoon, Burma: "The following is an excerpt from an essay by a Burmese student in the last grade of my high school (a school of 967 students the largest school in Burma): Camouflage-this is the French ward. means "Artificial tree." In the sea the steamer pretends herself as a tree growing on an island situated in the sea. Thus the enemy is deceived and the steamers are largely escaped from the danger of the

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