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THE SUNDAY OKEGONIATT, PORTLAND, MAT 22, 1921
UNITY OF CHURCH IS URGED BY PASTOR
ON OCCASION OF ITS 1888TH BIRTHDAY
51 any Lessons in Unity Are to Be Learned, Declares Minister, in Growth of Religion Away From Idea of
National Creed and Its Tendency to Become World-Wide in Scope.
A Whitsunday Sermon.
To ISSath Birthday of the Holy Catholic
Church.
BT REV. THOMAS JENKINS.
EL David' Episcopal Church.
Text: And when the day of Pentecost
Is now corns .' . . there were dwelling
at Jerusalem, devout men, out of every
nation under heaven. Acta (1:1-0.
THE YEAR 33 was strategic for
the launching of a new world
movement. As Christ came Into
the world In the fullness of time, so
now the church is to be instituted at
a time when every condition favor
able to its success, was apparent.
The Roman empire, from Arabia to
Briton, was a net-work of highways.
Perhaps never in the world's history
had the spread of news found
little resistance and so few dlfficul
ties. Roman citizens and merchants
moved with comparative freedom,
The Roman government was in con'
atant communlcatlou with the far
thermost outposts of the empire.
new movement begun in any one of
Its greater centers was speedily
heard of in all the rest. Perhaps we
nave not fully estimated the value of
all this to the procairatinir of th
Christian religion at its beginning.
in the light of this, the reason
obvious to us today, why Almighty
ooa enouid nave chosen the Jewish
feast of Pentecost as the time for
Instituting his church. Gathered from
every section of that far-flung em
pire, devout Jews had come to their
mother city for, the observance of the
xestivai.
The apostles did not know, per
haps they did not sense this as the
occasion when God would give them
that power for which Christ had com
manded them to wait. But we read
that it was In Jerusalem they were
to wait. And Jerusalem at this time
afforded God his opportunity. And
eo in fulfilment of his promise, he
Bent to the assembled and waiting
apostles, that gift which was to em
power them for their work. This
was the birth of the church.
Like any other organism. It had
had a pre-natal existence. This
Pentecost wa to be its release the
beginning of its actual and active
life.
Youth Hardly Passed,
So we rightly number the years of
the church from this event; we
rightly declare Its birthplace to be
Jerusalem; we rightly teach that
Christ was its founder, and we
rightly believe that the holy spirit
is its life-giver and guide.
Compared with its life, Europe
has scarcely passed its youth. The
church has witnessed the rise and
fall of regal dynasties; it has seen
the beginning and ending of nations;
it has been present on a thousand
battlefields, and it has survived a
thousand wars. Beaten and torn and
tossed by the passions and hatreds
and machinations of nations and
men, it stands today stout and un
beaten the very bulwark of God's
cause in the world; the agency which
he still uses for the setting up of
bis kingdom.
As we look back upon that his
toric day, we can catch a gleam of
its significance in the establishing
of a Catholic church. For centuries
the Jews had tried to confine God
within the limits of a racial institu
tion. For centuries they had at
tempted to retain new wine in old
bottles. Persistently, willfully, had
they determined that their God
should be a national God. For the
rejection of their larger mission they
had lost even that which once they
had. Their selfishness and narrow
concern bad. made tnem generally
disliked. Now God was going to
over-rule their nnrully wills and af
fections. ' In spite of them, his
greater Israel was to be realized. ,
The first preaching of the gospel
y the church was to the whole then
known world, epitomized In that
Pentecost gathering in Jerusalem.
"From every nation tinder heaven,"
we read (and this must certainly
have included at least all the peoples
of that empire), heard the preach
ing of the" apostles. And so per
euasive .and convincing was its mes
sage that literally thousands' were
added to the little company. which
Christ had left. "Within a few days
many of these would be returning 40
their distant homes to tell the story
of what they had seen and heard, and
it is only on the supposition that
these men carried the gospel whither
they went that we can account for
so many scattered communities of
Christians within so short a time.
Who. for instance, planted the church
in Rome? Certainly not St Paul,
and more certainly not St. Peter It
must have been devout Jews who had
gone to worship at the mother shrine
at Jerusalem.
World Religion Assured.
From this time on it would have
keen imDOSsible to do with the
Christian revelation what the Jews
had done with their revelation of
God. To attempt to make Chrls-
tlanitv anything but a Catholic re
lisrion would have been to invite
disaster and failure. National
churches striving to live In isola
tion from each other has invariably
resulted in a narrow vision and
dwarfed life. The Catholic religion
is essentially .missionary, and should
it become unmissionary. it would
cease to be Catholic even in inten
tion. It may be that the present
condition of the world Is due to the
lack of that true Catholicity which
Christ intended his churcn to mam
fest. It is plain enough that nations
do not love each other, nor do they
seek to promote each others In
terests as their own. It is plainly
the duty of the church to effect a
change in the spirit or me nations.
Her commission was "to make dis
ciples of the nations" and not alone
of the individuals. But if the church,
as the Jews would have had it, is
only national or denominational or
sectarian, she cannot create wunu
spirit. It is plain to me that In the
of Christ, tne cnurcn
their polljcat party. But political
life should be regarded in the light
of the national life, and the religious
life should be regarded in the light
of the church's life, and, not until
Christian men rise to the vision of
a Catholic religion and a Catholic
church, can they ever hope to be
come the saving leaven of the
world's life. '
Missionary Work Urged.
If so-called Christian nations were
as anxious to spread abroad what is
good in their life, as they are to ex
tend their commerce, they would
manifest something of that which
they profess to be when they call
themselves Christians. It is 1
moulding the national life that a dl
vlded church fails. The Impact of
a divided Christianity upon any na
tlon today is so feeble as seemingly
to make but little difference to what
that nation may do.
For example, it does not seem to
concern any of the modern com
mercial peoples that when they in
troduce their commerce to the
heathen nations of the orient ' that
they disurb the life of those nations,
create new neaos, and modify heir
worm ideas x say it does not seem
to disturb us that we give them the
products of our factories and with
hold from them the power that makes
our civilization more to be desired
than theirs. A nation whose ambl
tion it is to be commercial, should
have a corresponding ambition to be
serviceable, we have more often
sent destructive drugs in our com
merce than we have helpful and life
saving missionaries. And this all
serves to add force to what I said
that we have not made disciples of
the nations.
Well, today the world is without a
Catholic church In the sense that the
church was Catholic during the
period of the great councils. Then
the church knew how to be both na'
tional and Catholic There was in'
deed in those days a league of na
tional churches in which everyone
was an equal. It is as destructive
to Christian loyalty as it would be to
political patriotism to submerge all
nations into one and to mold all races
after one pattern. The church will
regain her unity when she recovers
her sense of diversity. Nothing is
more blighting or monotonous than
uniformity. We cannot, as I view
the problem, ever hope to restore the
visible unity of the church until we
assume as one of the foundation prln
clples that while God has made all
men of one blood to dwell on the face
of the whole earth, he has not made
them all of one temperament.
We must recognize that the rich
ness of life lies in Its Infinite diver
sity. The life of the church will only
be rich in goodness and power when
all nations pour their gifts of service
into its common treasury. The strong.
est evidence that the quest for unity.
by way of uniformity, will fail Is
that it always has failed. Both Latin
and English Christianity bear witness
to this.
Lessons to Be Learned.
Perhaps in the end we Bhall have
to learn something of the way toward
unity from the older part of the
church of the farther east. A few
nights ago I participated in the cele
bration of Easter In the local lireeu
Catholic church. In that congrega
tion were four or five different na
tional languages represented. What
I saw there I suppose could have
been found In any Latin or English
church. The men1 of each national
group heard the principal parts of
the service in their own tongue and
each responded as he was able in the
language of his youth. Never have I
seen elsewhere such a demonstration
of Christian democracy. I was re
minded of what the great Llddon said
after returning from a visit to a
great orthodox cathedral, that he
never expected to see another sight
like what he had seen in that cathe
dral until he reached heaven. There
was unity and family life in diversity
of raoje and temperament.
It is not an easy task even to be
gin what I have here suggested the
uniting of the great diversity of re.
ligious life into one catholic body.
But the difficulty of the task does not
relieve us of the duty. It is Christ's
will that those who are his shall be
one flock, united under one shepherd.
Who shall show us the way? may well
be the cry of the present hour. No
greater task, no nobler -undertaking
awaits the doing. That Christian
body will be forever blest that has the
faith and the courage to venture
upon this work of reconciliation. At
the present no one can say from what
quarter that leadership shall rise, out
what nobler cause could Christians
of America pray for than that they,
united at home, might lead the world.
united, to the feet of the one Father,
through the one Saviour, guided by
the one Spirit?
And so today, we keep the feast of
Pentecost, the day on which the
church was empowered, by the de
scent of the Holy Spirit, to inaugu
rate and publish abroad the gospel
which Jesus Christ came to give for
the salvation of the world.
We tta well to think of the churcn
as Christ would have it to be united
to him by' the Holy Spirit and its
members united to one another as
God's family on earth.
The broken unity of tne cnurcn
will never be restored till we its
members begin to think in terms of
the whole. Too long have we thought
of it in parts and of our part as hav
ing peculiar privileges and posses
sions. It is humility, not pride, that
henomes those who would Beek to re
build its broken walls. Of the church
it may be truly said that "its enemies
are those of its own bousenoio. uniy
united ch-urch Is adequate to con
struct out of the present moral chaos
a world fit for the sons and aaugn
ters of God to dwell in. Schism and
sectarianism have failed. Only catha
lie thinking and catholic living will
be equal to the rebuilding a catholic
church and only a catnonc cnurcn
will be equal to the task of saving
th world. God has retrard for the
whnlA world and he planted nis
church In the world! to do his will.
n Gracious Father, we humbly be
eech thee for thy holy uatnouc
church that thou wouldst be pleased
a mi it -with all truth. In all peace
Where it is corrupt, purify it; where
if in error, direct it: where in any.
thing it is amiss, reform it; where it
is right, establish it; where it is in
wont nrovlda for it: where it is dl-
videdt reunite It; for the sake of him
who died and rose again and ever
liveth to make- intercession for It,
Jesus Christ, thy faon, our xoro.
Amen. .
serve all the encouragement that can
be brought to them, with the least
modicum of criticism possible. If the
book trade survives, Jt will be be
cause of their courage and confi
dence in the present hour. For
though the public may become, to
morrow, as great a lover of books as
Nlmrod was a hunter of beasts, that
will not help the publisher or the
bookseller to balance their accounts
today."
It is true the public doubtless has a
right to prefer chocolate to literature,
but it has no right on the basis of
that preference to set up as Judges of
anything but chocolate.
After an absence of narly three
years, Maude Adams is returning to
the stage. Booth Tarkington. has
been asked to write a play for her. .
.
The author of "Jean-Christophe"
has written a new novel, or rather,
as the author himself prefers to call
t V, ,nnfatnn nf a frPA Knlrit tell
I in'g of its mistakes." Romain Rolland's
Clerambault" is douotiess parity au
tobiographical in spirit, if not in fact.
Its theme is the struggle of the in
dividual eoul against the tyranny of
the collective mind, and Rolland
should know something of that bitter
struggle..
Soon now we are going to know
all about where we really come from.
Roy Chapman Andrews, whose recent
book, "Across Mongolian Plains," is
one of the outstanding travel books of
the season, is to head the third Asi
atic expedition sent out by the Amer
ican museum of natural history. The
main object of this expedition is to
discover the origin of the human race.
"B-r Joseph Macoueen.
Hope Chest Shower Is New
and Clever Idea of Girls.
Way to Make Inexpensive and at
Same Time Attractive Gifts la
Revealed Little Artistry Needed.
THE UTBlRYMISGOPgJ
BT ETHEL R. SAWYER.
Director of Training- Class, Library AssO'
elation of Portland.
ERE is William McFee's Sea Li- j jr-da, taFjjand frowsy,
u ra. j v, xx o DLy a i 1 is "j
alysis. Sleep and Dreams," draws from
one reviewer this versified comment:
Prea.rala.nd, la which Z loved to stop.
H
rjurrjose
tn h one. united as a living organ
Ism and spread throughout the
world, animated by one spirit and
having as its one head. Jesus Christ.
Plainly, the church's business is to
possess unltjr unity with God and
union among her meraoers. m.u
out this, she does her work as a
divided army fights its battles. And.
ead to relate, what we so often sing.
"We are not divided, all one body
we." is not actually true.
One hardly knows which to press
forward as the more important
problem today the reuniting of the
sundered parts of Christ's body,-the
church, or the carrying of the gos
pel to the farther ends of the earth.
But it appears plainer and plainer
to me that the gospel will never be
.. ... 1 .J n r.i nn.n
effectively preacuBu .v .
world until the church can do It with
one mind and one purpose.- Tb.e task
is too big and important for people
doing the same thing, seeking the
same end, to maintain divided ranks.
It Is little wonder that men scoft
at and nations ignore us. We have
succeeded in making disciples of a
few individuals in the world, but we
have not succeeded in making dis
ciples of the nations. Without fault
ing any one here, it Is plain to me
tiat men regard religion as they do
deep-sea sailors, because
sailor reads only at sea. As soon as he
approaches land he goes ashore. Mr,
McFee recommends this list as a Dai'
anced whole, not for individual items
"Tom Cringle's Log." by Michael Bcott.
Two Years Before the Mast," by xu xx.
nun.
"Midshipman Easy." by Captain Marryat
' Captains courageous, oy nuujiuy juy-
llnr
The Flying Cloud." by Morley Roberta
"Cruise of the Cachalot," by F. T.
The Salving of a Derelict." by Maurice
Drake.
"The Grain Carriers," by Edward Noble.
"Marooned," by W. C. Russell.
Typhoon," by Joseph Conrad.
"Toilers of the Sea."' by Victor Hugo.
"An Iceland Fisherman," by Pierre LoU.
The Sea Surgeon," by Gabrlelle a An-
nunzio.
'The Eea Hawk," by Rafael Sabatlnl.
News comes of the publication of a
very interesting book by Arundel
Cotter "The United States Steel A
Corporation With a Soul." Whether
this Is a humorous book does not ap
pear in the announcement, although
it is significant that one of tne cnap
ters is an explanation of the pur
chase of the Tennessee Coal, Iron &
Railroad company, wnicn tue govern
ment held was so feared by the cor
poration that it (the United States)
engineered the financial panic of 1907
in order to facilitate the absorption
of the Tennessee Coal. Iron & Rail.
road company. So it's probably just
another book of good corporation
jokes.
Q. When a corporation is wearing
out, what should be done to repair it?
A. Take it to Cobbler Gary to be
half-so(u)l-ed.
Harry Hansen of the Chicago Daily
News says two books are sufficient
for a clear understanding of European
affairs John F.. Bass' "The Peace
Tangle." and Paul Scott Mowrer'e
"Balkanlzed Europe." We don't Know.
Two books are enough for some, but
whole libraries have been thrown
away on those who lack the essential
predisposition to understand. Of
course, Bass and Mowrer are not en.
tirely free from former connection
with the Daily News.
Mr. Mowrer thus defines the
"morbid Psychology" that afflicts
central and southeastern Europe: "A
nervous exaggeration, affecting whole
peoples, of distrust, fear, self-pity,
self-glorification and self-righteous
ness, accentuated by propoganda and
militarism and complicated by social
unrest. Mr. Mowrer, however, sees
light ahead. "The glooms . of other
writers are dissolved in direct beams
of common sense." It would be re
freshing to find some of this latter
quality. Fear and hysteria seem to
have rendered It one of the most un
common attributes of our daily life.
"The Four Horsemen of the Apoc
alypse" la having a sales revival
owing to tne recent mm version.
People want to read It, even if they
do ask for it under the title of "The
Four Apoplectic Horsemen." ,
A recent peculiarly blatant case of
plagiarism came to light when "Pearls
and Pomegranates," iby "Dorian Hope,"
was withdrawn from the market by
the publishers. The book was made
up of poems clipped from various
places, largely the work of Miss
Miriam Vedder who recognized one
of her poems from the "Wellesly Re
view," of 191S, as quoted in a book
review. Says one comment, the case
seems to show that sometimes a
swine knows a pearl when he sees It."
The reading of Trldon's "Feychoan-
Asleep when I am good and drowsy.
Those ports to which my ship of dreams
Scudded before a snoring gale,
Lighted by lurid Freudian beams.
Loom perilous, and yet I sail!
Though banned the dreamland I esteemed
And quarantined each port o' call,
'Tis better to have slept and dreamed -
Than never to have slept at all."
KEITH PRESTON.
"
Di you know that Henry' Kitehell
Webster, author of Mary Wollas
ton," "The American .Family" and
other "great American novels" used
to be a writer of "detekatuff" stories
some ten or 12 years ago? And that's
not the worst of It. He wrote under
several pseudonyms at that time,
whether to fool the editors or the In
come tax collector is not certain, but
now his duplicity is finding him out
Just as Mary J. Holmes Eays it will.
Mr. Webster remembers thafc- one of
these detective stories was a good one
and he wants to get hold of a copy.
But he doesn't remember under what
pseudonym he wrote it, nor is he cer
tain who published it. So picture to
yourself the tragio case of this au
thor 7oingr about to all the book
shops inquiring for "The Green
Cloak," author unknown, and having
to Inspect all the articles of that
name to see if he can identify his
own. . There is sometimes too much
safety in numbers.1
Marie Corelll has entered the lists
against the modern glrL In her
'Love of Long Ago" we are presented
with Marjorie Lesley, a 17th century
heroine, whose chief bid for greatness
seems to be that, being robbed by
death of her betrothed, she "remained
faithful to her vow" and pined away
on her maiden stem. Miss Corelll
puts it to us with no mincing of mat-;
ters. She asks: "Can we truly believe
In love at all nowadays, and If we
can, do we? Is there a 'Marjorie Les
lie' to be found among the gracefully
flippant, cold-eyed debutantes one
who, having plighted her troth to her
first love, would or could remain
faithful to her pledge even though he
to whom she gave It were dead?
Would not such a love be made a
mere subject for idle mockery, even
If it existed? And would not any
woman capable of remaining unwed-
ded all her life for the sake of it be
jeered at by her own Bex in the ape
like derision of the majority for
something higher and nobler than
themselves? I fear so! For the days
of Marjorie Leslie are not our days!"
And now you know what your fa
vorite authoress thinks of you.
The record price for moving pic
ture' rights to a novel or play re
cently has been paid to the Wallace
estate for Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur."
The reputed amount is Jl, 000,000.
Since 1899, when the play version of
the story was first put on the boards,
more than 20,000,000 persons have
seen the play, bringing in receipts
close to $10,000,000. The film version
is to be produced in Jerusalem and
Syria.
The Christian Science Monitor, in a
recent issue, puts the blame for our
chocolate fudge reading taste right
where it belongs on us readers. It
says:
Now it is perfectly obvious that
there is not much to be gained by
blaming the public for preferring
chocolate to literature, but it should
be equally obvious that it is not even
just to blame the bookseller, and ln-
ferentlally the publisher, for the pub
lic's lack of literary appreciation.
There are probably no two classes
which are making a more strenuous
fight today for the good of humanity
than the publisher and the bookseller,
and, in the circumstances, they de-
f T SEEMS as if every idea under the
1 sun that could be used in giving
a brand new shower to a girl about
to be married had been used. Then
some very clever friend will sit down
with her thinking cap pulled over her
eyes and presto! there is a new idea
all ready to be launched that her
friends will declare "the best ever.
That is the way Libbie Talbot gave
her hope chest shower to her best
friend. Kathleen Norcross.
"I want to invite all the girls who
know and like Kit," she said, "and I
want to ask them to bring things that
will not tax the pocketbooks of tha
girls who have to work for their liv
ing. and still I want them to be nice.'
And that is what she did, made
every one bring something 'that she
could slip into an envelope. And she
furnished the envelopes herself, too.
She bought sheets of gold-colored pa
per and pasted them to stiff paper
with library paste, because the gold
paper wasn't heavy enough. Then
she folded the sheets three times, hav
ing the top fold narrower than the
others, and drew on it little boxes
like those we used to draw in school.
Then she cut them out so they
opened for all the world like a little
chest. The lines were inked in with
black' ink and . the nail holes made
with black lnkl There was a Mttle
lock on the cover that slipped into
two slits to keep it closed, and she
pasted the two ends together so it
really made an envelope. Then she
wrote Kathle's initials on the end with
gilt paint. Really the little cases
were the prettiest things.
Inside these envelopes she slipped a
correspondence card on which was
written the following verse:
Ribbons, roses and rings,
Love's serenadings.
When a girl marries happiness begins.
So to start Kathleen out in the way
she should go
Slip something into this little hope
chest for her trousseau.
Keep it all a secret, but bring it along
with you
To my luncheon next Saturday at 30
minutes before two.
She made a miniature hope chest by
covering a pasteboard box with the
gilt paper and when the little envel
opes were all in it on Saturday she
tied it up with a gilt cord, tagged it
with Kathleen's name, tucked a spray
ol little white rosebuds from the gar
den into the knot and out it in the
center of the table.
There was a low bowl of the roses
ready to be put into its place when
it was given to the guest of honor.
The first course was a work of art
Libbie had made a little hope chest
for each- plate by fastening sugar
wafers into a box shape with sugar
syrup. Any thin cookie - or sweet
cracker could be used. Those for the
ends should be shorter than the other
two. A whole cookie was laid over
the top for a cover. This was filled
with fruit cut up and sweetened for a
cocktail. This same idea could be
used for the salad, making it of sal.
teens, or it could be used for the des
Bert, using thin slices of sponge cake
to hold the ice cream or any whipped
cream puaaing.
Of course the gold hope chest was
given to Kathleen during the lucheon
and you would have been surprised at
tne variety that she Jouni in the
little cases inside it. The girls must
nave discussed things before they
made their gifts, because there were
no duplicates. There was one hand
kerchief, white handkerchief linen
with a pink thread run into the hem,
a little patch not much larger than a
postage stamp nemstitched into the
corner with a tiny nosegay of pink
roses in the popular bullion stitch,
wim a nine inn or tace around it.
xjvoryining loonea -Dnaey. as one
of the girls said. There was a nalr
oi lingerie straps tnai nold the shoul
der bands together, crocheted; there
was a pair or riDDon shoulder straps
made of white satin with a little
bunch of ribbon roses in pastel shades
sewea to one ena, and little gilt safety
yiua sewea 10 oou ends to pin them
to the chemise.
The sachet that one of the girls
made was the prettiest thing; every
" oo was going to copy it.
oim mauo a nine circular sachet, us
ing a tumbler to cut it out by, she
said, of pale green ribbon. She frilled
a narrow lace ruffle all around it and
then sewed ribbon roses to it so that
it looked just like an old-fashioned
bouquet There was a bow of green
baby ribbon sewed to one side and a
safety pin to pin it to the front of the
waist. Another girl made six very
dainty doilies for under the sherbet
cups and finger bowls. They were
white iinen hemstitched with a little
cross stitch basket in the center of
each.
- These were the things that were
made. Some of them were bought.
They were a Madeira doily, a flat
painted powder-puff case, a package
of soap papers, a lace collar, and a
pair oi couaoir garters.
"Nobody could possibly think that
there were ten perfectly beautiful
mings ior my nope chest in this little
bundle, could they?" Kathleen said
happily, as she wrapped up the box to
take it home.
May fair to Moscow Clare Sheridan's
Dairy. Illustrated. Boni a Llveright,
mw xora oity.
There is a delicate charm, also
delicious frankness of manner in the
writing of this book that reminds one
of Margot Asquitb. G. K. Chesterton
says: "London is talking about two
books, Margot Asquith's and Clare
Sheridan's.'
Mrs. Sheridan is an accomplished
and agreeable Englishwoman of pa
trician family. Her cousin is Wins'
ton Churchill, and one of her personal
chums is the Princess Patricia. In
her earlier years our author traveled
about Europe a good deal and once
Bhe passed a winter in Stockholm,
Sweden, with the Crown Princess Mar.
garet and the crown prince of Swe
den.
xsy profession Mrs. Sheridan is a
sculptor who as a rule works seven
hours per day at it. In the recent
world war Mrs. Sheridan's husband
was killed and she was left with her
children particularly her eon Dick
(Richard Brlnsley Sheridan), born
September 20, 1915. In England our au
thor led a gay society life, dining with
jjoro. unis ana xaay That.
Mrs. Sheridan's book is chiefly not-
aDie Decause it gives tne reader a
close view of bolshevism at short
range and describes how Mrs. Sheri
dan got into Russia in the fall of 1920
and made clay models of Trotzky, Le
nine and other illustrious ones of the
bolshevlst republic.
In London Mrs. Sheridan met two
Influential Russian bolshevikl, Kam
enerv and Krassin, and from conver
sations with them she caught the idea
to go to Russia and secure clay mod
els of at least Trotzky and Lenlne.
Immense difficulties were in the way,
but our author surmounted them.
Kamenev liked our author's modeling
of "Victory." representing the victory
of the allies in the recent world war.
Kamenev told her that artists are the
most privileged class today in bolshe
vlst Russia. He warned her, though,
that she must not expect many lux
uries there.
Escorted by Kamenev, Mrs. Sheridan
arrives in Russia and hurries on to
Moscow, the head of the soviet world.
Mrs. Sheridan is taken to the ballet
Capbella," which was "beautifully
produced and the orchestra the finest
I ever heard." The audience con
sisted of working people who had ad
mission free through the distribution
of tickets to certain unions.
"There was a motley crowd, chieflv
en blouse. It was intensely moving to
see the absorbed attention of the au
dience. If my evening's pleasure was
neutralized by the concentrated aroma I
which arose from the great unwashed.
it is only lair to observe there i no
soap in the country, and most people
here have for two years or so only
had one suit of clothes in which thev
stand up."
Mrs. Sheridan did not find anv
newspapers or letters in Moscow. She
met H. G. Wells and John Reed, for
merly of this city. To get along in
Boni & Loveright, Ino a. a.
Clare Sheridan, author of "May
fair to Moscow."
of pulmonary diseases. In the Ford-
ham university medical school, and is
a lecturer on hygiene, sanitation and
disease prevention,
Why Die So Young?" Is a well
written, friendly book on longevity,
and how to ward off disease. The
book is non-sensational. Here Is one
of our author's common-sense state
ments: "I, a physician, am urging my
readers to emulate the oyster, wnicn,
I am more or les credibly Informed,
has no diseases is either healthy or
dead." Dr. Huber divides up his book
and human life along well known
Shakespearian lines, and discusses
with scientific accuracy, but in popu
lar language, the diseases and dan
cers that beset "the seven ages of
man." He absolutely disavows hy
srienlc Dessimism. He thinks that
the century is the allotted period of
life, according to natural law.
One health rule for all is open-air
exercise. Few can work hard daily
with both body and brain, "but we
should all regularly use both; choos
ing which to work, with and whlcn
merely to exercise." For those who
do sedentary work the physical exer
cise taken should be equivalent to a
five-mile walk. The author, in his
own phrase, is "strong for walking."
He cites Johnson and Goldsmith,
Blalkie and Hazlitt, Stevenson and
Dickens in Its favor. A young woman
asked a wise physician for a recipe
for a good complexion. He replied:
"Get one pot of rouge (any kjnd of
rouge) and one rabbit's foot (not
left hind footj. xsury
necessarily
.n.A wiUaa ttri Try i nm ft ( CiT from
Moscow our author pretends to be bol- the line of any trolley or other con-
vevancel ana waiK out auu u
shevist.
Through the kind offices of Com
rade Kamenev, Lenine is reached
tp. 1101.
He has a crenial mannar unA o
kindly smile which puts one instantlv
at ease."
He gave Mrs. Sheridan four hours to
model his features and she noticed:
"He has a curious Slav face, and how
111 he looks." He appeared pleased
with the clay model.
It was October and cold, and there
was apparently no money visible any
where in Moscow. "Borodin found me
after breakfast miserably wrapped
around in my rug. shivering with cold
and depression. Tears were irre
pressibly streaming down my face."
Difficulties were met with in the at
tempt to get Trotzky to agree to a
sitting. But MA. Sheridan had got
Lenine's "head," and had accomplished
what she came for "so to with
Trotzky" (p. 132).
Ultimately Trotsky relents and
agrees t see Mrs. Sheridan. "He
pointed out to me how unsymmetrical
his face Is.- He opened his mouth and
enapped his teeth to show me that his
unaerjaw is crooked. As he did eo
he reminded me of a snarling wolf.
When he talkes his face lights up and
nis eyes iiasn. it was hard work
"taking" Trotsky ana Mrs. Sheridan
was, eeverale times in despair, but
eventually she triumphed.
Mrs. Sheridan attended John Reed'
zuuerai. xn uctoDer, is 20, she was
stricken with mild typhus, but re
covered. She found medicines, nhy
sicians and hospitals scarce. Her food
was often unpalatable, yet she dls
liked to leave Russia. "I love the at
mosphere laden with melancholy, sac
riflce and tragedy. I am inspired by
this nation purified by fire. I would
like to live among them forever."
But home and children? Ah. re-
fleeted our author, they count after
all. So she goes to England and then
proceeds to this country to lecture.
In the Auwka-Tukon Game Lands, by J.
A- aiciiuire. otewart. xvlau Co.. Cincls
aa.il. unio.
There is enough narrative descrlb
ing adventures in the far north, car
ticularly the hunting country on the
White river of Alaska and the Yukon
territory, to keep the reader with
remembrance of the thrill of it all
busy for months.
The book is the result of a success
ful trip taken by a party of sports
men for the purpose of collecting
specimens ior tne Colorado museum
of natural history, on which moose
white sheep, caribou goats and small-
er game were secured.
In the preface WUliam T. Hornaday
makes an appeal that our congress
put -Aiasna in the .list of well
financed and well-managed political
and economic units of the American
possessions.'
Wild-Fowling" Tales, compiled and pqb-
uanea oy vviuiam --. xiazelton, Chicago.
Fifteen tales selected from the
writings of representative snorts-
men-autnors. and really worth read
ing because of their entertaining
value, ana as a welcome opportunity
to secure recreation and relaxation.
The book adds much to permanent
literature on the subject of w,lld-
fowling.
Some sketches depict "That Pond
n the Hills." "Millions of Ducks.'
"Opening Day in North Dakota,'
Duck Shooting in Southern Call
foria," "Timber Shooting on the
Illinois River," "Recreation and Our
Brotherhood." ""
Feed for Fish. Expensive.
VANCOUVER. B. C The cost of
feeding some 85,000,000 fry at present
in the dominion hatcheries is giving
the federal authorities eome deep
thought. It is estimated that it will
require 450 pounds of canned salmon
or other foods to feed a million fry
per day after they are 12 to 15 months
old. Their fastidious appetites call for
a canned fish and liver diet spiced
with caviar. The latter class of food
is obtained by taking unfertile fish
eggs and drying them. ;
The Borzoi 1SS0. Alfred A. Knopf, New
Tork city. .
Issued as "a sort of record of five
years' publishing," this is a brilliant
idea in the book line. In the space of
143 pages the reader is presented
with about 40 stories, poems and
sketches selected from the .writings
of certain authors quite a notable
list. Among these authors are Sid
ney I Nyburg, H. M. Tomllnson,
Arthur Waley, Conrad Aiken, Robert
Bridges, E. W. Howe, etc Some of
these tales and about the best of
them reflect the late world war.
One splendid tale Is "A Memory f
Ypres," by H.. M. Tomlinson.
Why Die So Yonngt by John B. Huber,
M. D. Harper & Brothers, New York
city. -Dr.
Huber was formerly professor
every day (In any and every kind of
weather, wearing, if necessary, arc
tics or rubbers in rain or enow) so
as to be sure these articles are still
where vou buried them." There were
other doses: Eisrht hours' sleep, cold
baths, three square meals, six glasses
of water and elimination or pastry. .
In walking, here is expert advice:
"Throw back your shoulders, military
fashion, the chest out. the pectorals
expanding, the nostrils dilating, the
mouth closed, the head erect, the
arms swinging, but not like a wind
mill." As for refreshments, Weston s
favorite was an egg beaten up in a
cup of coffee. "Some of my own most
agreeable recollections," adds Dr.
Huber, "are of my seat atop a con
venient barrel in any cross-road or
country Btore, crackers and cheese in
one hand and a bottle of tonic (gin
ger ale or sarsaparilla with a straw
In It) In the other hand, with discus
sions of the perversities of our po
litical system with the congregated
rural citizenry."
Good physical results are received,
proceeds our author, from setting
n mcetved as a member of
the national guard. Dr. Huber ought
to know, as he was once a national
guardsman.
Dr. Huber writes clearly about dis
eases; tells how to recognize early
symptoms so that medical care may
be secured at the outset when such
care is most effective; and discusses
correct diets, proper rest, sleep, air,
exercise, etc.
Chapter heads are: Infancy, Child
hood, Youth. Maternity, The Price
of Life, Three-score and Ten, and
Old Age.
Nerves and the Man. by W Charles Loos
mare. George H. Doran Co., New Tork
city.
There are many people waiting for
such a comforting, healing book mes
sage such as this.
Mr. Loosmore writes not as a med
ical expert, but as a practical psy
chologist of wide experience. He Is a
nvnwn .rhnlur of Glasgow university,
Scotland. The book has a special call
for the sufferer who has had "a
nervous breakdown." Mr. Loosmore's
advice is hopeful ana consirutu.o,
and gloom and I-told-you-so are ban
ished from his pages.
"Perhaps one of the highest forms
of relaxation Is religion," observes
our author. ."Disappointment, fail
ure, sorrow, fear, grief and pain each
and all these find a quiet outlet In
the consolations of faith and trust.
Measures of cure are on a mental
basis, says our author. He discusses.
The nature of nervous breakdown;
the causes, heredity and education,
fatigue, nerve strain; the remedies,
the call of nature, rest and relaxa
tion re?t and sleep, health habits.
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Financial Engineering1, by O. O. Goldman.
this city.
Mr. Goldman, the author of this
book, lives at 1227 Denver avenue,
this city, and the publication has been
cordially commended by quite a num
ber of American and xingnsn news-
rjaners.
This book Is the product of the
hlsrhlv Dractical American mind and
alms at instilling . . . that absolute
efficiency which we associate with
our friends across the Atlantic, name
ly rood work combined with good
profits. The work may be accepted as
unlmpeachably authoritative, eays
the Oldham and district Journal of
Commerce, England.
The author's statements are eml
nently sound and the work deserves
the attention of practicing engineers.
says the Automotive Engineer of Lon
don In a two-column review.
"Its Americanism Is sometimes an
noylng to the British reader, but apart
from this It may be warmly recom
mended to all engineers, consultants
and power users who desire to make
sure that their plant is or will be of
maximum financial efficiency," says
the Power User, London.
"A book which claims the revelation
of a correct method of determining
the financial efficiency of undertak
ings," says Lloyds' of England, "and
which by disclosing all sources of
loss will lead to the determination of
the most economical designs, is one
which should attract the attention of
all engineers. Mr. Goldman's subject
Is not a common one in the literature
of the manufacturing world and he is
to be congratulated."
The journal of the Chamber of
Commerce of London says, "It is dif
ficult to over-estimate the service the
author has rendered in presenting so
valuable a work as this to the public
For financial engineering is not what
might be termed a scientific segre
gation. It extends engineering over
business and administrative - prob
lems." "The book Is a remarkable exposi
tion of the business and administra
tive aspects of engineering," says the
Financial News.
roundinga. and feel In the Inmost
recesses of my being that God reign
and the government at Washington
still lives.
"But I am well stricken in years,
and now and then something goes
wrong with my works. I have rheu
matism, strlnghalt or blind staggers
and have to cover myself with poul
tices; then, as one who sees through
a glass darkly, I behold many things
which are grievously wrong, I am
filled with a bitter desire to reform
something and send somebody to Jail.
I have to hold myself down with an
iron band, to keep from breaking lnti
print demanding a lot of drastic laws
forbidding everything th man next
door enjoys. Optimism is a matter of
health."
The Lang, by Helen Bell. Small, May-
nard & Co., Boston.
Misa Barbara Barrows; Silver, a
sort of wolf-dog of the north; adven
turers, traders and men of the Royal
Northwest Mounted police and others
make up this exciting story of the
open Jn the Canadian Yukon,
How to Keep Optimistic.
Hearst's International.
"When I am feeling quite well."
says Walt Mason, "as I do most of
the time, I consider this world a most
desirable place. I am satisfied with
things Just as they are. I place the
seal of my approval on all my pur-
AUTHORS' WIVES KINDLY
But Only Three Modern Novelist
Find Mates Able Helps.
Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal.
Many are the women who con
tribute indirectly to the making of
a book. It Is their husbands' pro
fession, writing; theirs Is to see that
the cogs and wheels of affairs ar
well oiled, for the writing to continue
unperturbed.
Partnerships In writing are few and
far between; rarer still are partner
ships between men and women, hus
bands and wives. However, th
deaths of three novelists In tho last
few years suggest a trinity of part
nerships in each of which a wife was
an able collaborator with bcr hus
band. The marriage of Egerton Castle and
Mary Sweetman gave English fiction
a new note. Just what each con
tributed In tho blending of Ideals
cannot be estimated. That the man
Imagined and gave form to the rerolo
factors of composition and the woman
fashioned the softer figures of old
custom and youthful love Is a fair
guess. Their initial novel "The Pride
of Jennlco," stormed the heights of
popularity.
The Castles were fond of the old
days of high romance, the years of
men on horseback and the clatter of
steel.
The Williamsons, C. N. and A. M,
had the same love of blood-tingling
adventure, but they chose at first to
stage it In a truly modern fashion.
In fact, these two, working together
over their plots, created modern auto
mobile fiction.
Charles Norris Williamson begaa
literary work on the staff of the Ex
aminer, London. It required a man
of this mental virility to sustain the
strain of producing books that de
pended on the glitter of movement
tor their success, but Williamson naa
a remarkably ahlo lieutenant at nis
elbow In his wife, and it Is sure that
his long residence In the field of
novel production was made possible
by her valiant and intelligent assist
ance and advice.
Thomas W. Hanshew was one
spoken of as "the man who shook
stories out of his sleeve." He left
at his death a veritable pile of
schemes for plots, notes and unfln.
Ished stories and books. His wit
took up the pen where he dropped it
and has finished more than one
manuscript. Within a few weeks
The Riddle of the Mysterious Light
has appeared, with "M. E. and T. w.
Hanshew" on the Jacket of the title
jiiimftuiiiiitniimiimimfl
"Helen Will Be Delighted"-
Remarked Jean to her friend, Harriet
, ' Cooper, "with the book shower Mrs. Howard
is giving for her. Mrs. Howard has just re
turned from the east and she says that such
showers are very popular there. They are
so very practical, you know, and they mean
the beginning of a library that will bring joy
into the home for years to come. I under
stand that a number of such showers have
already been planned for June brides in the
next few weeks it's a custom that is bound
to gain favor. By the way, Harriet, I'm go
ing down town now to get my book for Helen.
Won't you come with me and get yours ? You
know where to meet me at
The J. K. Gill Co.
Third and Alder Streets
(lor further activity connected with Helen St. John's coming
wedding, see the society section.)
a& FLOCKMASTER
of Poison Creek
By
C. W. Ogden
f J sheep country. jfc
HE found, in a log cabin, among the
lonely hills of the sheep country,
a woman chained like a dog to a ken
neL He set her free and awaited the
homecoming of her "man."
The story tells how this chivalrously
simple school-teacher fared as a sheep
man; how he defied the superhuman
strencthof Swan Carlson and the treach
ery oi his own allies; and how he worked lilt
Jacob of Bible history, for a maid.
A book full of telling character sketches
and vivid descriptions of the life of tha