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THE NEW

24 April

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BOOKS

This Department will include descriptive notes, with or without brief comments, about books received by The Outlook. Many of the important books will have more extended and critical treatment later FICTION

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Flower of the Chapdelaines (The). By George W. Cable. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. $1.35.

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A beautifully printed collection of the President's most striking utterances. An example of typographical elegance, size 9 x 124, printed on heavy Alexandra Japan paper with deckle edges. It contains a strikingly life-like portrait of the Chief Executive, suitable for framing. It comprises the finest portions of Mr. Wilson's addresses. Among these extracts are

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THE MENACE

Flag Day Address, June 14, 1017
CIVILIZATION'S DEMANDS

Reply to the Peace Note of the Pope, August 27, 1917
JUSTICE AND REPARATION

Address before Congress, December 4, 1917
THE BASES OF PERMANENT PEACE
Address before Congress, January 8, 1918

This beautiful brochure will be sent to any address in the United States,
properly protected from damage in mailing, upon receipt of One Dollar

In this ingeniously constructed story several tales of old-time life in Louisiana are so woven together that they really constitute one novel of life and character. Mr. Cable returns, to the delight of the reader, to his charming delineations of Creole character, social manners and customs, and delightful dialect. One almost feels as if he were reading a new volume of "Old Creole Days."

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House of Whispers (The). By William Johnston. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $1.40.

This story of theft and mystery is by the author of the very popular story entitled "Limpy." Its plot is laid in New York City and its incidents pertain to life in the modern luxurious apartment-house.

MUSIC, PAINTING, AND OTHER ARTS History of Architecture (A). By Fiske Kimball, M.Arch., Ph.D., and George Harold Edgell, Ph.D. Illustrated. (Harper's Fine Art Series.) Harper & Brothers, New York. $3.50. Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method.

By Benjamin Ives Gilman. (Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston.) Houghton Mifflin Company,
Boston. $3.

Science and Practice of Photography (The). By John R. Roebuck, Ph.D. Illus

trated. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $2. An excellent and comprehensive manual of the standard processes of photography. The book is not intended for the enlightenment of so-called "advanced workers," but will prove useful in both interesting and informing readers who have begun to take up the practical side of an art that presents ever-widening possibilities of utility and entertainment.

BIOGRAPHY

Autobiography of a Pennsylvanian (The).
By Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker. Illustrated.
The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia.
$3.

Governor Pennypacker's autobiography has a double interest. His career covered a most eventful period of American history, of which he was himself a part. His personality was that of a typical American man of affairs-forceful, many-sided, unconventional. His book will be read with great interest-the "Miniatures" in espe cial, in which he gives pen portraits of his contemporaries. He writes with a critical, sometimes mordant, pen. One gets the impression of a keen but cold observer, absolutely and sometimes ungraciously candid, but lacking the sympathy and charm that the men who have written the world's great autobiographies have had in full measure.

History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington (A). With Curious Anecdotes Equally Honourable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen. By Mason L Weems. Illustrated. The J. B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia. $1.50.

All Americans have heard the story about George Washington and the cherry tree; many will like to read it as it origi nally appeared in the book that made it famous. This edition-the eighty-first of Parson Weems's quaintly written biography -also contains some old woodcuts of the first edition, and is printed in very readable

form.

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Visit One of the National Parks

Have you ever been to YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK? Here in one small corner of our country are assembled some of the world's greatest natural curiosities in the form of hot springs of varied colors, active geysers, and a canyon in pastel shades. Or have you followed some of the delightful trails in GLACIER NATIONAL PARK or ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK that are so full of interest to the mountaineer and nature-lover?

At each of the Parks the most comfortable of accommodations in the form of camps and hotels can be found for the entertainment of the tourist.

A most delightful tour can be made including all three of the above-mentioned Parks; or a visit to any one of them is most enjoyable. Let us plan your trip. There is no charge to Outlook readers for this service.

TRAVEL AND RECREATION

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WOMEN IN MUNITIONS WORK

(From the "Iron Age")

While conditions in this country by no means have reached the point that made wholesale employment of female labor in munitions factories a necessity, as in England, an increasing number of American manufacturers are substituting women for men in the lighter forms of work. England has employed women on work as laborious as the machining of 6-inch shells, but their employment in this country has been largely confined to fuse work and similar operations which can be performed on drill presses, screw machines, and other smaller tools.

A Dayton, Ohio, factory is employing close to 5,000 women in this manner; a Baltimore, Maryland, munition maker now has about 1,800 at work; and in various other industrial centers women are being employed in gradually increasing numbers. A Bloomfield, New Jersey, fuse maker is now seeking a considerable force of women, and the factories of Jersey City, New Jer sey, have decided to try them as a means of solving the labor shortage there. At a meeting of Jersey City manufacturers to discuss the labor question the statement was made by the employment director of the city of Rochester, New York, that machine shops in his city had found women more efficient than men in certain classes of work. He said that there is a "wonderful field for women in the machine shop."

Varying conditions have led to the em ployment of women. In some cities employers have been driven to it by the shortage of male labor. A Baltimore manufacturer believes it to be patriotic policy to employ women on work which they can do as well as men, so that more men may be released for the shipyards and other heavier forms of labor where women cannot so satisfactorily be used. In most cases the women receive the same pay as men for the same work. Fuse makers in particular report that women have more patience with such small operations as drill press work, which becomes deadly monotonous to men workers.

PERMANENT FIREPROOF BUILDINGS FOR MUNITION WORKS

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(From "Construction") When the European war started in 1914. munition factories everywhere sprang existence, and many of these were temporary and cheap structures, intended only for the

period of the war. The folly of erect ing buildings of this type has been proved by the great number of fires which have started in plants making war supplies, and many of the explosions which have completely destroyed entire plants have been caused by fires starting within the plants. As opposed to this policy of constructing cheap, temporary buildings, the Colt's

Permanent Fireproof Buildings for Munition Works

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Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, erected high-grade permanent reinforced concrete buildings, and the Aberthaw Construction Company has been called upon three times to carry out the work of erection.

The first of these structures was the Commercial Building, erected in the spring of 1916. Foundations were begun for the Commercial Building in February, and the building was completed in June, 1916.

Military activities necessitated additional facilities, and in order to increase their production of United States Army revolvers Aberthaw was called in to construct a four-story building, 490 feet long by 60 feet wide, with wings at each end approximately 60 feet square.

The building attracted Nation-wide publicity on account of the speed with which it was erected, the contractor requiring forty days from foundation to roof. The progress schedule was made up at the beginning of the job and was published broadcast in the magazines by means of circular letters, and notices were posted around the plant so that every workman knew exactly what had to be done and when the job had to be completed.

In addition to this fact, the construction work ran into freezing weather in the late fall, and, although this presented additional obstacles, it did not hinder the rapid completion of the job.

Four months later, in April, 1917, the Aberthaw Company was called in for the third time for a new building-in this case a one-story building 490 feet 6 inches long by 260 feet 6 inches wide.

The policy of the Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company in erecting permanent fireproof buildings of this kind is certainly commendable. Such buildings can be erected with the utmost speed when undertaken by a large contracting organization, and are a permanent asset requiring no repairs or maintenance.

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A novel scheme was decided upon by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company to bring home to the employees some idea of the amount of food products and manufacturing material wasted each day in its plant at East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A storage battery truck was fitted up as a traveling exhibit and driven up and down the shop aisles. The truck was loaded with a collection of the food wasted by the employees, including bread, butter, cake, crackers, pickles, cheese, fruit, etc., as well as copper, zinc, lead, mica, rubber, felt, gum, and similar manufacturing materials much of which could be used again to advantage. A large sign was placed over the truck calling attention to the load.

It is estimated that the foodstuffs wasted per day amounted to between $35 and $50, the cost of which comes out of the employees' pockets. The waste of the manufacturing material runs into hundreds of dollars daily, and would be a total loss to the company were it not for the fact that a force of men is continually employed assorting this apparently scrap material, and either turning it back to the stock-room for use in the plant or classifying it so that the highest price may be obtained for it as

scrap.

There Are Guns

That Send Out Joys

There are guns in our mills which boom every minute, to send out airy grain foods which taste like bubbled nuts. Whole grains of rice or wheat go in them. Or pellets of hominy. And they come out airy, flaky tidbits, eight times former size.

That's how Puffed Grains are made-by Prof. Anderson's process. Their flavor comes through an hour of toasting in a fearful heat. Their flimsy texture comes through steam explosion. A hundred million food cells in each kernel are thus blown to pieces.

Why This Bubble Form?

Many people think we do this to make fascinating morsels. To make grain foods flavory, thin and flimsy so they fairly melt away. To make them food confections.

But a college professor-a scientist-invented this strange process. And the only object was to fit whole grains to easily digest.

Ordinary cooking, baking or toasting breaks part of the food cells in grain. But our method alone breaks them all. So these are the ideal grain foods. Every granule is fitted for digestion. Every atom feeds.

That's why these three grains-which can be puffed-should be largely served in puffed form. That is their most delightful form. It is their hygienic form. Served at any time-at meals or between meals-they avoid any tax on the stomach. If you knew Puffed Grains as experts know them would you serve them many times as often. There is nothing like themnothing in grain food so attractive, nothing so perfectly prepared.

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