THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, POItTLiAND, JULY 24, 1921
SWIMMING HELD SECOND TO NO EXERCISE
IN WORLD FOR PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Persons Who Are Fat May Swim to Reduce and Those Who Are Lean Should "Swim to Preserve Good Pro
portions, Is Advice Giveu by Ekpert Authority. , ;
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BT ANTOINETTE DONNELLY.
FIRST, if you are fat you should
swim to reduce. Then, if you
are thin, you should swim to
develop. If you measure to a per
fectly proportioned figure, you should
(wlm to preserve the good " propor
tions. It may be said of swimming that
It is second to no exercise in the
rorld in point of acquiring and main.
talnlng physical efficiency. It has the
spirit of play, of absolute relaxation.
It forces pure oxygen into the lungs,
and there is not a muscle in the body
that the swimmer does not put to
work. When you can combine an ex
ercise that brings ail muscles into
play and add1 to that the pure recrea
tion feature of swimming, you have
the ideal form of exercise. It is a
pleasure plus benefit. And it is a
clean, cool, fine habit.
Did you know that man is the only
animal without natural ability to
wlraT Another good reason why you
should get out the bathing suit and
try. don't you agree?
And la It not the most democratic
f all sports? As some joker sagely
remarked: "No man is greater than
another in a bathing- suit." Every one
is happy and young, and there is no
other place where one can be as care
free and ridiculous as on the beach.
Now, with all the advantages ewim-
MELONS ARE WARM WEATHER
CROPS BUT EASILY PRODUCED
Requirements of Various Members of Family Much the Same Warm,
Rich Soil and Thorough Cultivation Necessary.
BY SHEBA CHILDS HARG REAVES.
hHE melon family figures largely
In the garden, comprising as it
does the various squashes, cu
cumbers, muskmelons and water
melons. The requirements of this
group of vegetables are very much
the same as to soil, time of planting
and cultural directions. They are dis
tinctly warm weather crops and
should under no circumstances be
planted before the ground warms up
in the spring. Of course this would
depend somewhat upon the season,
but year in and year out it is safe
to say that no planting should be
done before the middle of May, and in
cold, backward seasons it is just as
well to wait until the first of June.
If an early start is desired with
cucumbers or melons, some experi
enced gardeners plant seeds in dirt
bands indoors, but it must be admit
ted that the amateur fails with this
method as often as he succeeds. The
seedlings will grow beautifully In
doors, but it requires great skill to
transfer them to the open without
killing them outright or at any rate
setting them back so that the seed
sown in the open outstrips them. Of
course the professional gardener who
can make conditions exactly right
nd knows the psychological moment
for setting in the open may be able
to place h's crop on the marget two
or three weeks earlier than where
seed is sown in the open.
Experiment Costs Little.
If, however, the beginner wishes to
make an experiment of this kind he
has little to lose except a few seeds,
and it is interesting to try these lit
tle tricks at home. It will not be
- necessary in his case to purchase the
dirt bands a . f ew berry boxes will
do as welL The soil should be just
rich, snougli to produce a normal
mlng has to offer, you are not going
to leave the bathing suit in the trunk
for the moths to feed upon another
season, are you? When the water
comes right up to your back, door, as
it does to many, many back doors in
the land, isn't -it poor management
to refuse its health-giving offers?
Next week I shall give you some ac
tual swimming instructions the
breast stroke and the crawL But in
the meantime get your mind made up
nd get a bathing ouit,lf you have
none. I'll tell you what to put on
your skin to keep it from burning and
freckling, so your facial beauty will
not suffer.
If you feel the least bit frightened
that the water will not hold you up,
just remember it is floating iron
ships every hour of the day, so you
have small reason to believe your
hollow body will not float.
Developing the bust and arms and
legs and waist by swimming is done
through the deep breathing and the
consequent exercise of the diaphragm
and lungs. The abdominal muscles are
used fairly strenuously in pulling the
legs forward. Then it creates a healthy
appetite, which, by the way, the
woman fighting obesity has to re
member and provide against. No big
luscious ice creams for her or cones
or sodas or any food that makes
bulk. Water drinking will satisfy her
appetite, or if that is not quite suf
growth, for the piants should be
stocky. Too much sand in the earth
will cause it to fall apart when the
box is opened to transfer the plants.
thus exposing the roots and checking
the growth. Plant five or six seeds
in each box about three weeks or a
month before corn planting time and
set in the garden when the soil is
well warmed up, taking care to cut
the box away at the bottom and place
the contents so that the roots are
not disturbed. This method holds
good for cucumbers or melons
squash is not worth the effort, as It
does very well in the open.
The preparation of the seed bed
Is very important in the growing of
these crops. If the soil is poor it is
an advantage to dig a hole about two
feet deep and fill in with the best
soil it is possible to obtain. Well
rotted cow manure is the best fertil
izer. A little nitrate of soda cau
tiously worked into the hills after
the plants are well up greatly stimu
lates the growth- Be very careful
not to overdo this matter, as too much
will cook the vines. Fresh poultry
manure La useful providing it does
not touch the vines. It may be ap
plied at any time through the sea
son with good results.
Early Cultivation Trsed.
In planting use plenty of seed
10 or 15 to the hill are not too many
for they may not all come up and If
they do there are still bugs to be
reckoned with. A good stand will
be one-third of the seeds planted, but
in case there are too many plants to
the hill it is an easy matter to pull
up all but three or four, leaving the
largest ones.
Cultivation should begin as soon as
the plants are well up, but if there
is a tendency to bake, the soil may be
very lightly loosened before they ap
pear. The object here is to keep the
eoil moist by the natural conserva
tion of moisture. To this end culti
i vatioa should be very frequent and
ficient, she may eat an apple or some
other unsweetened fruit.
For the business girl during the
warm weather, the morning dip is
particularly recommended. The fresh
air inhaled and the actual physical ex
ercise provide energy enough to pull
her through an otherwise fatiguing
day.
Children should be taught to swim.
It teaches grace and1 poise. It gives
confidence. The frail, sickly child
may be made over Into an attractive
young lady via the swimming route.
There have been instances of mal
formed bodies being righted and
physical handicaps greatly improved
in swimming pools. It is told of
Annette Kellermann that during her
childhood days she suffered frightful
humiliation on account of weak and
ill-formed legs, but swimming con
verted them Into perfectly normal
members of an exceedingly well
formed body.
As a cure for obesity evidence a
plenty has been presented me first
hand. One woman of my acquaint
ance lost 25 pounds last summer and
another sent 18 pounds avoirdupois
down to Davy Jones locker. Swim
ming is a tremendous- oxygen consum
ing exercise, and consequently the
fat burns up more quickly. The mo
tions are particularly effective for
waist-line reduction, giving health
and tone to the vital organs. For the
fat under the arms and on the back,
a large bust and fat legs, the mus
cles involved: in swimming move
ments are lnvenuable.
should be kept np until the vines
cover the ground.
Some gardeners do not believe In
pruning cucumbers or melons, but it
seems to me that there is a distinct
advantage in this practice. It will
be noticed that this family bears
stamlnate and pistillate flowers on
the same plant; it is easy to distin
guish between these. The pistillate
blooms have the small fruits set on
them when they appear; if pollina
tion is not complete they drop' off,
however. The pistillate flowers are
borne near the base of the plant
it is logical to conclude that judicious
pruning will throw the energy to
them and thus cause fruit to set on
earlier and' in greater quantity than
where nature Is left to do the reg
ulating. If pruning is to be followed
pinch back the ends as soon as the
plants are about a foot high; this will
cause branching also and thus give
more fruiting surface.
Bus to Be Considered.
The size and number of squashes
to the vine Is largely governed by
the pruning. Wait until a quash vine
has seven leaves and pinch out the
end and later pinch off part of the
lateral so that the first fruit to set
will mature and there will not be so
many green ones in the fall. If very
large squashes are wanted, -try limit
ing the number the vine bears to one
or two.
Then there are bugs to .be given
consideration. A ring of radish seed
around the outer edge of the hill will
help to keep them engaged until the
vines are strong enough to with
stand their onslaught and furnish
radishes, too. Scatter air-slaked lime
over the surface of the hills. The
spotted beetle Is the worst enemy of
the melon crops. ' Spraying with a
weak Bordeaux mixture will eradicate
them if done In time, but in small
gardens thorough cultivation will
nearly always give the plants vigor
enough to withstand these pests.
Six or eight hills of cucumbers,
properly managed, will give all the
cucumbers a large family can con
sume in salads and pickles for win
ter, unless they should be particu
larly addicted to, the use of them. If
the space is small, allow four feet
each way for the hills, but five or six
feet is better. In cramped quarters
the Japanese climbing cucumbers are
ideal. A row 10 feet long may be
planted and the vines supported with
i a trellis large mesh poultry wire set
on a slant is the best. The cucum
bers hang through the meshes of the
wire and thus grow straight and long.
The flavor- Is excellent, and the fruit
is slender with a small seed cavity,
which are good points In judging a
cucumber.
Cncumbera Need Water.
All cucumbers need plenty of water
through the dry part of the season
they are likely to be bitter if there
is a lack of moisture. In picking
cucumbers be careful not to bruise
the vines, and do not allow any to
mature If the bearing season is to be
prolonged. They should be gathered
every third day at least.
Squashes are apt to take up more
room than the city gardener can af
ford, but if space can be spared it is
well worth while to raise a few for
winter use, as it is difficult to obtain
the fine new varieties on the market.
Try sweet potato squash if the seed
can be secured they are the very
last word in squashes, though the ba
nana is a close second. The summer
squashes are much admired by many
people and cordially detested by oth
ers there seems to be nothing half
way about It.' The yellow bush crook
neck takes but little room two or
three hills will furnish numbers of
fine squashes all summer long. The
crookneck has a superior flavor,
though the white and yellow patty
pans are good.
Then there are the gourds. I ad
mit that they have no particular use,
except for rattles for the baby, for
nesteggs or to slip in a stocking
when darning, but a package of
mixed gourds will delight the chil
dren there is so much fun in watch
ing to see what each one will be like,
UNCLE JOE CANNON UNKNOWN
JN LEADING NEW YORK HOTEL
Distinguished' Statesman Knows What He Wants and When He
Doesn't Get It Attends to the Matter Himself.
THE OREGON! AN NEWS BU
REAU, Washington, D. O. July
91 TT - T.b-
where everybody from subway guards
to Wall street wolves are supposed to
look with some contempt on statesmen
down in Washington, it does make a
difference, when the test comes, just
who a man happens to be and the
position he holds.
Uncle Joe Cannon went up into the
wilds of New England over the
Fourth of July and coming back to
Washington for duty with congress
he stopped over in the world's1 great
est city for a few hours. His daugh
ter was with him and they put up at
the leading hostelry of the hour,
where everything is up to the sec
ond and where they charge with all
the abandon of the income tax col
lector. -
The morning after their arrival
they went down to breakfast in one of
the grills, and while Mr. Cannon toyed
more or less hungrily with his bacon
and eggs and coffee and toast, or his
small steak, his daughter decided she
would go out and make a purchase
nearby which she wanted to make
before they left for Washington. She
left her father smiling serenely at
the world, reading the news and en
joying in contemplation the breakfast
he had, ordered.
Fifteen or 20 minutes later she
came back to the spot and there was
nobody there. Uncle Joe had van
ished completely from the scene. She
was alarmed and made inquiries.
This is what happened:
Uncle Joe noticed, that there was a
continuous breeze blowing on. the
nape of his neck. It came from a fan
almost directly above his head. Mr.
Cannon called a waiter, told him he
didn't like the fan's attentions and
asked him to shut it off. The waiter
said he couldn't do it. Uncle Joe
thought that over for a few minutes
and) then got up and shut the fan oft
himself.
The waiter was- dumfounde-d. No
body in New Tawk had ever done that
before to his knowledge. He called
the captain. The captain was told
about the trouble. Uncle ' Joe said
he turned it off because he didn't
want the cold air on his neck. The
captain was dumfoundedi almost as
much as the waiter. He wanted to
turn the fan on again.
"Oh, go to Danville," said Uncle
Joe.
But instead of taking a trip to
that pleasant Illinois city the cap
tain called the head waiter, who is
quite a dignitary and never takes less
than a dollar tip. The head, waiter
looked his grandest. He was plainly
insulted. Mr. Cannon patiently ex
plained again and the head waiter
impatiently wanted the fan started.
"Oh, go to Peoria," said Mr. Can
non, naming another popular Illinois
summer resort.
By this time things began to look
bad and Uncle Joe had refused to sit
there any longer, said he didn't want
his breakfast and didn't care much
about the hotel anyhow. Just about
the time he was about to explode
someone- of the management found
out who he was. Then the hotel al
most turned Inside out to remedy the
error.
Uncle Joe hasn't decided; yet wheth
er he -will ever patronize it again or
not.
Vice-President Coolidge was watch
ing the senate proceedings with one
eye on the thermometer and. one on
the floor and with hardly an ear
working at all. Somebody demanded
a yea and nay vote and the vice presi
dent gave the usual directions to the
official who calls the senators' names.
When the rollcall was completed the
caller reported and under the senate
rules the "names of the absentees"
haa to be called so they could go in
the Congressional Record which no
body reads. The clerk reminded the
vice-president that this was the order
of the minute.
"The clerk will call the roll of the
I supernumeraries," said Mr. Coolidge.
Senators in tie cnamoer laugnea. out
now everyone is wondering just what
he meant. The public printer, who is
not aliower to have a sense of humor,
didn't put it in the Record that way,
so the senators who were absent are
safe for the present.
When Mr. Harding's brother editors
went over to give him a chair the
other' day there were Beveral in the
crowd Mr. Harding knew, but there
was one who had worked for him.
"Hello, Arthur," said the president
to one of the group. They shook
hands. It was Arthur Porter, who
went to Marion back in 1896 to. draw
cartaons and do art work on the
Marion Star, which the president
owns. Mr. Porter said he was living
in New York at the time, but he heard
Mr. Harding wanted a cartoonist and
he got the job although Marion
looked a long way west of Broadway.
Mr. Harding at the time was having
some opposition and he thought 'the
Star would be Improved with a car
toon and pictures. According to
Porter the- present president used to
go out himself and get pictures of
persons about to be married and often
he would come into the Star office
with an armful of photographs.
.
One of the greatest volunteer pub
lieitv men who ever put out a hot
piece of news about a statesman Is
now without a job.
He is Gus J. Karger, long the
Washington correspondent of a Cin
cinatl newspaper and close personal
friend of William H- Taft, our very
newest chief justice of the supreme
court.
Ever since Mr. Taft became secre
tary of war many years ago Gus has
played a most important If unobtru
sive part in his political fortunes.
When a Washington correspondent
Gourds may be planted as a porch
vine if a good shade is desired. Small
squashes and pumpkins can be put to
the same use.
Afoakjnelons Easily Grows.
Musk melons can be grown In the
city garden. The cultural directions
are the same as for other members of
the family; they require plenty of
room and very rich soil, and in most
instances will ripen well and be of
most excellent flavor on account of
being allowed to ripen on the vine.
Those on the market are gathered be
fore they are fully ripe. It is beet
to choose the small early ripening
varieties, such as emerald gem or lit
tle nutmegs.
Watermelons may be grown on
sandy river bottoms in this locality,
but they do not amount to much in
ordinary seasons In the soil which is
commonly found in vegetable gardens.
Melons should not be attempted un
less there is plenty of room. There
are so many other crops which are so
much surer.
There is a common notion that
planting squashes or melons close to
cucumbers will cauBe mixing and
spoil the flavor of everything but the
cucumbers. Now it is claimed that
this is not so, because the mixing
would affect the seed and thus spoil
next year's crop, and this is perfect
ly reasonable, but at the same time I
do not plant them close together. It
may be just imagination with me, but
I believe the flavors are spoiled by
close planting, scientific opinion to
the contrary notwithstanding. At any
rate. If such crops art planted to
gether, it would not be afe to save
the seed, for there wonla likely oe
some crossing.
was in a terrible hurry to find out
what Mr. Taft thought, if he couldn't
reach him at that particular instant
and somewhere west of Suez an edi
tion was about to go to press he
probably would take a chance on
what Gus thought Mr. Taft would
think. And it wasn't one time in a
couple of million that Gus was
wrong.
Lots of students of political history
think T. R. made Mr. Taft president.
or rainer gave him the nomination
which led to the presidency, because
ne naa picked hira out as the very
best man in sight. Maybe that was
the reason, but don't overlook the
tact that Gus had been on the job a
long time giving the world the Im
pression that Mr. Taft was the very
best man in or around Washington
to succeed Mr. Roosevelt in the White
House.
If Gus had only been given a large
field in the campaign of 1921 Mr.
laft might have made a better show
ing. But, as he says himself, he had
a lot to do with the eastern states
and Mr. Taft carried Vermont. What
more could anybody ask than that?
But now Mr. Taft has gone on the
supreme court bench. There Isn't any
news to print about him any more,
except when he talks on decision
days Or something of that kind. Su
preme court justices as a rule don't
make speeches; they don t give inter
views; they keep quiet and saw a lot
of wood. But a skillful publicity
man-like Gus can get much printed
about such things.
Along with a few other of the old
friendly customs that didn't find
favor in the Wilson administration
President Harding has revived that of
giving to the world which visits the
executive offices each day the list of
the callers of that day. That is, the
list is made public put up where
anybody can see it. In much of the
Wilson administration there could be
no callers and when there were they
frequently went to the White House
proper and there visits were more or
less quiet.
Since Mr. Harding went Into office
there has been a colony of movie men
and photographers camped at the en
trance to the executive offices, so
that no guilty man or woman who
has the courage to face a camera and
let -the world know he or she is call
ing on the chief executive need go
away disappointed.
But like anything else the photog
raphers get tirea of pictures of
ordinary senators and members of
the house, bankers and railroad
presidents and that sort of people.
So someone connected with the White
House office force decided to rig up
a little scheme on them. They framed
up a list of names for one morning
and had it posted bright and early, so
that the first man to get on the job
was lifted clean out of his boredom.
Here is something of the list:
10 Tex Rickard.
10:15 Clara Kimball Young.
10:30 Senator Lodge and Repre
sentative Blanton of Texas.
lu;4o Admiral Sims and ex-Secre
tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.
1:30 Boys" Reform school.
The Idea of this distinguished gath
ering was too much for the early
arrivals among the photographers.
They dreamed of a posed picture of
the dignified Lodge arm in arm with
Mr. Blanton, the terror of the house
or of a motion picture of Admiral
Sims and Mr. Daniels playing Al-
phonse and Gaston at the door. They
telephoned their offices frantically
for help and cameramen began to ar
rive in droves, and there was
much excitement as if Laddy Boy bad
choked on a bone.
Then somebody told them the truth
It was a sad-looking bunch the rest
of that day.
DRIVE ON FOR MEMORIAL
(Continued From First Page.)
ruary to April, 1914, Pierre Monteux
organized the Society of Popular Con
certs at the Casino, but far from be
ing what we recognize as "popular'
in this country the programmes were
devoted largely to modern music
France and foreign countries M
Monteux having produced under these
auspices Stravinsky s -"Fetrouchka
and "Sacre du Printemps." Monteux
gave a concert at the Salle Gavea
May SI, when Paris did full honor to
its favorite, who had not been heard
there since the war.
We get echoes of Mengelberg from
Madrid and from Rome. There, as i
this country, the illustrious Dutch
conductor showed both his skill an
his predilection for Teutonic music
la Rome his first programme consist
ed of numbers by Beethoven, Wagne
and Strauss and for fne second con
cert the first symphony of Mahle
was announced. Mengelberg won hi:
laurels in America In music of thi
school and inasmuch as he is to b
largely identified with the orchestral
concerts of next season it lsto b
hoped that he will show & more
catholic side.
Toscaninl. too, has returned to his
home after a brilliant tour in this
country. Before leaving these shores
he was most emphatic in his expres
sion Of gratitude to Loudon Charlto
and to Harry Cyphers for their wor
in making the colossal undertakin
such a success. In Milan Toscaninl
who is making great plans lor the re
opening of La Scala. gave a series o
three orchestral concerts, his third
programme consisting of "Do
Quixotte" (Richard Strauss), "Signo
Bruschino (Sossini), "Nocturne" an
"Scherzo" from Mendelssohn's "Mid
summer Night's Dream," "Nocturn
and Novelette (Martucci), and
Beethoven's seventh symphony.
r
The Storm's Gift, by Dr. C. E. Linton. In-terauate-
bindery, Vancouver, Wash.
Dr. Linton of Alsea, Or, who lives
In a picturesque part of the Yachats
country, has a wonderful imagination
and It has been well worked out In
constructing this novel of marine
wonders, pioneer life In southern Or
egon, almost unbelievable adventures
on an Island in the south Pacific
ocean, and a real, old-fashioned duel
In which both combatants are ehot.
The plot is daring and well
planned, and the Interest In the story
is so well sustained that the reader's
attention Is held from first to last.
"The Storm's vilft" is one of the most
enterprising of Oregon novels.
In his Introduction the author says:
So much of the book is a true his-
ory of pioneer times that the re-
iewers of the manuscript claim lor
it a place among the historical rec-
rds of Oregon. " As many or tne
characters are still living, it was
ecessary to use fictitious names.
However, numbers of Oregon pio-
eers will tecognize the characters
nder the assumed names. The south
ea' island spoken of in this book has
been visited by the author, where
many evidences of the Clarke colony
still remain."
The novel opens with a storm on
sea and land. Three guns for aid at
sea are heard by Mr. and Mts. Martin
Clarke and other setslers in the Al
sea country, and especially by Hugh
Clarke, hero, then 7 years old.
Through lightning flashes the Clarke
family see a three-master, probably
whaler, a wreck, and beginning to
found on the beach. Hugh sees a
sailor, with a child clasped in his
arms, washed ashore. When the sailor
s resuscitated he says he is Joseph
De Somer, of the whaler Grace and
Dell, and that the baby girl was
given him by Eskimos, who in turn
ad. found) the child and her dead
mother (p. 24) In a wreck.
From papers in a walrus skin
bout the sailor's neck it appears
that the dead mother was Jessie Fa.
guay, and the baby. Charlotte or Lot
tie. The sailor and baby are cared
for by the Clarke family. He tells
them of an island he and the other
members of the crew had reached
the whale ship an island in the
south Pacific ocean, an island rich in
oal, copper and fruit. Having told
this, the sailor dies.
Lottie and Hugh grow up together,
and as children they are sweethearts.
Jonas Alden, a government Indian
agent, yn his way to inspect an In
dian tribe located at the mouth of
the Yachats, meets the Clarke fam
ily, and learns of the romance of
Lottie Fuguay, washed ashore from
the wrecked whaler. Alden knows
the child's father end says he is Mr.
Fuguay, a French diplomat at Washi
ngton. D. C. Alden's stow is that
he Fuguay family on their way from
France to America were shipwrecked.
and were blown far south in a storm
The husband, separated in the storm
from his wife and baby, was picked
up by a merchant vessel and landed
n New York city.
It -was supposed that Mrs. Fuguay
and baby ware picked up by a whaler,
wnicn was afterwards wrecked on
the Aleutian islands. Alden. takes Lot
tie to her father, who is a wealthy
man, in Washington. D. C.
Hugh finds money and precious
stones buried In the house of a dead
miser new the Clarke home and
the money amounts to $138,300. A
convenient storm brings the wrecked
whaler under the lee of the rocky
headline of the Yaquina John point,
ana Dy tne law or salvage Clarke and
his friend Williams claim the wreck.
The two men decide to use the tim
bers of the wreck in the building of
a new ship, with which to proceed to
the island paradise spoken of by Lot
tie's sailor. This is done.
The new ship la named the Grace
and Dell, . and the Williams-Clarke
crowd sail June 6, 1S72, for the mys
terious island, which of course is
easily found. Hugh there discovers
in a cave a demented woman who
wore gold trinkets about her neck
and" on a locket was inscribed the
message "Jules Fuguay to his wife.
December 25, 1S59."
In this manner was disclosed Lot
tie Fuguay's mother. The adventur
ers find gold and precious stones
upon the island to the value of more
than $500,000 and transport their
riches to their' ship. Under Mrs.
Clarke's kind care, Mrs. Fuguay re
covers her reason. The whole party
return to the United States.
Miss Fuguay is now a society beau
ty in Washington, D. C, and one of
her lovers is Captain Roy Gilbert.
Lottie previously had gone to Alsea
to find the Clarkes, only to be told
they had gone on a sea voyage. Lot
tie is faithful to her youthful sweet
heart, Hugh Clarke.
When Captain Gilbert and Hugh
meet they fight a duel with pistols.
More adventures follow. Dr. Linton
is good to his characters in this novel.
He makes all of them rich men and
women.
Back to Methuselah, by Bernard Shaw.
Brentaao's, New York city.
Here we have an unusually Inter
esting, notable and amusing book.
It is in paper cover, and its sub-title
is "A Metabiological Pentateuch."
The pages are 401.
The contents up to page 101 con
sist of 50 essays on a variety of sub
jects, such as "Creative Evolution,"
Heredity an Old Story." "THe Brink
of the Bottomless Pit," "Why Darwin
Converted the Crowd," and others.
Within the space of 300 pages we
are treated to these five plays, pre
sented) in true Bernard Shaw style.
In the Beginning, a garden of Eden
episode, "The Gospel of the Brothers
Barnabas," "The Thing Happens,"
"Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman"
and "As Far as Thought Can Reach.
So far as can be detected the play
"Back to Methuselah" is not within
the covers of this publication.
Two Flays, Stewart. Kid 4 Co., Cincinnati,
Ohio.
"Six Who Pass While the Lentils
Boil." by Stuart Walker, is an ambi
tious, excellent play which runs to
54 pages. It calls for 11 people and
has an oldTworld plot, two of the
principal, characters being a queen
and a headsman. It was played with
significant success In New York city
July 14, 1915, and bad public per
formances afterward In Boston. In
1916 and New York city in 1916.
"Sweet and Twenty," by Floyd Dell,
Is a comedy in one act and calls for
four performers. It is a most amus
Ing modern love story.
Two Plays. J. R. Eellener & Co., Atchison,
- "A Deal In Ducks," by Guy L.
Clements, is a play in three acts, por
traye a newspaper office during the
period of the recent world war, and
employs six people.
"Trying Them Out," by Lillian
Stoll. is a comedy in one act. em
ploys six people, and describes the
fun created by tne hiring of
stenographer.
Elrht Playn. The Penn Publish Ins Co..
Philadelphia.
"The Ladies Strike," by Helen Sher
man Griffith. 22 pages. An amusing
play for girls, and told in one act.
"Goijien, Hope." by Gladys Ruth.
ZT tXoSEPH MaC(3UEEN.
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Copyright, Alvin Lang (ion, Co
burn. Bernard Shaw, author of a new
book, of essays and plays.
Bridgham, 41 pages, a play for girls,
and told in two acts.
"The Seashcll."1 by Fullerton L.
Waldo, a comedy in one act, 19 pages.
"Behind the Rain Curtain" bv
Edith Burrows, a bright play for
children, and told in 16 pages.
"Carrying Out a Theory." bv Wil-
lard Spenser, a comedy in one aot,
and in 13 pages.
Our Motherland." by Ediith Bur
rows, a patriotic pageant play and
told in eight episodes, S3 pages.
"His City Girl." by Ward Macauley,
THE' UTERAlgMSCOPfej
ETHEL It. SAWYER.
Director of Training- Class, Library Asso
ciation of Portland, Or.
THE WHITMAN revival is a real,
real thing. The "good, gray
poet" is to be put into a novel.
Grant Overton, the man who wrote
"The Women Who Write Our Novels,"
has invaded Whitman's private life
and made it the basis for a new etory.
The Whitman incidents selected would
seem to promise & very essential book.
but those who have read the text cay
that Mr. Sumner will have no cause
for action.
The Bookman office offers a month
ly prize for the best answer to a
series ef literary questions. The
prizes are books, of course. Here is
one get of questions:
1. What was the charade in which Becky
Sharp scored such a success at Gu-uat
house?
2. Name three members of the famous
Brook farm community who later became
famous.
3. WluU modern EnfrIHh prelate had
three sons, all of whom aaslinguished
themselvea in literature?
4. In which of Waoaular's essays Is his
famous reference to the New Zealander on
London bridge?
5. What modem poem, widely quoted
during the war, has the refrain, "Play up!
play up! and play Che game!"?
6. "Who drew the famous cartoon in
Punch, "Dropping the Pilot," and what
occasioned it?
7. Name a writer who wrote excellent
modern fables before George Ade.
8. Where is the following masterly def
inition of good society to be found?
My Ideas of good company is the com-
pany of clever, well-informed people who
nave a great deal or conversation; laai is
what 1 call good company.'
You are mistaken,' said he genliy.
'that is not good company that la the
best." "
I wonder what Mr. Edison's score
would be?
;
Katherine Haviland Taylor cays she
has found a desert island right in
the heart of Philadelphia. Well. welL
we hadn't heard it was that bad. The
way of it was this: Miss Taylor, seek
ing for a place In which to complete
her new book, "The Second Mrs. Clay,"
went apartment hunting in the
strange city and, finding two limou
sines out in front of a certain houce
In which was a vacant apartment, she
trusted to the location being all
right. But you can't tell by limou
sines any more. One of these be
longed to a broker of old rags and
paper; the other to a merchant Ital
ian and purveyor of peanuts. The lo
cality is known as "Hell s half oc
But Miss Taylor is staying on. am
not bothered by social obligations.
she says, "and I have lotsbf time for
work. We re never boarred. Shooting
privileges go with every lease and
my vocabulary is enlarging all the
time."
The critics are complaining that
Bernard Shaw's new book is too long
But good gracious! a book that takes
you from the Garden of Eden to the
year 31.920 A. D., with a Shaw preface
couldn t be expected to be short,
could It? The theme of "Back to
Methuselah" is the need for the pro
longation of human life from the piti
ful three-score-years-and-ten to a
respectable three centuries, so that
we can have time to grow wise and
good enough to deal intelligently with
the immensely complicated problems
of civilization. Mr. Shaw is probably
counting on his interested readerB,
therefore, beginning to take a more
leisurely view of literature than the
prevailing quick-lunch attitude of
mind. With 300 years before you, you
could afford time to toy with Mr.
Shaw's ideas. And this latest fantas
ticalness does make one admit that
wisdom seems in our brief human
span to perish untimely in its in
fancy, or at latest in its early teeth
ing stage.
Interestingly enough, in partial sup
port of Shaw's thesis for longevity,
we come next upon a book by Dr.
John H. Huber. "Why Die So Young?"
Dr. Huber says: "The simple truth is
that, as a whole, we Americana are
the most extravagant lot on the planet
and in nothing more so than as to oflr
flesh and blood resources. It is pre
cisely a if many thousands of om
people were falling blindly over
dreadful precipice, at the bottom of
which, are the best-equipped ambu
lances In the world to take them off
to the most magnificent and b&st-sur-geoned
hospitals in the world, after
they have been hurt." So maybe we
could live 300 years If we wanted to.
the next question Is, "Do we want
to? And, finally, brethren, I would
ask our Pollyannas and our Just
Davids, "If not, why not?"
And then we pick up an old Atlantic
of the year 1916. when G. B. S. was
not enjoying great popularity at home
nor, in some quarters, abroad. Because
of his failure to react with the crowd.
There I read one of those hopeful
prophecies as to the wholly new
heaven and earth which was to come
out of the present hell: of the rebirth
of humanity and the enormous spirit
a comedy in one act, and) told in 27
pases. ,
"Is Your Name Smith?" by Edith,
K. Dunton. a comedy in one act, andt
running to 33 rme-ps
Sketches of Butte, by George Wesley Davis,
Illustrated. The Cornhlil Co., lioston.
"From Vigilante days to Prohibi
tion," is the sub-title of this book;
of 179 pages, and the phrase fittingly
desaribes the contents.
The chapters are 19 and each one
contains a separate sketch dealing
with life, scenes and people in Butte.
Mont, particularly the wild, frontier
Butte that is now no more. The style
of writing is bold, graphic and well
done.
The most thrilling chapters are
those on "Vigilante Days," " "Dope"
Colony." "From Virginia City to
Butte." "Extremes in Society," "The
Hanging of Frank. Little." These
memorials of a picturesque past age
in old Butte have a thrill for mod
ern readers of 1921 who know the
city only by hearsay.
Five Plays, The Perm , Publishing Co.,
I'hiladeiphia.
These five favorite plays are for
children, in one scene, and three, four
and six scenes respectively; "The
Three Bears." "Red Riding Hood,"
-Bluebeard." -Cinderella" and ""Beauty
and the Beast." The author of these
charming ploys is Caroline Wasson
Thomason, and the plays are ar
ranged to be presented either In tha
English or French languages-
The Iark Oeraldine, by John Ferguson.
John L&na Co., New York city.
There are all the entertainment,
excitement and mystery one can rea
sonably expect In a novel like this. It
is a series of surprises and who-would-have-thought-its.
A treasure
hunt is featured, and also new secret
society called the Dark Geraldine.
ual changes that had been wrought
by the war. "As a. small instance,
B. Shaw's plays" (not G. B. Shaw or
Bernard Shaw, you will notice, but
just B. Shaw, as though the writer
could spare only the barest initial
for such rubbish) "that claimed to b
the intellectual novelties of their
day, are dead; Bergson spoke of thera
in London the other day as no longer
readable, as of une mode demodee,
une, affectation passee.' Certainly
they would bore every one now .and it
is difficult to trace in what their in
terest ever lay, so tedious they are
become." How inconsiderate! Doesn't
he know that he is dead that M.
Bergson hasn't been able to read him
for five years?
This is the way one bookstore diag
noses the matter:
Ornate dowager,
lorgnette flashing,
taking young book clerk aside
to ask him:
I want something.
Fome thing tra-la-la-something
that will entertain
and thrill me
to read at night
just before 1 go to bed.
They say " " is good.
What kind of a book is it?
What? You say It s THAT kind of a bookl
No, of course 1 don't want It!
Besides I was only aaking- for a friend.
(Ten minutes later In another bookstore.)
Have you got " " ?
Two dollars? Too much!
Oh. well (sigh), I must have it.
Wrap it up!
This may be one of the caases that
removes the roses from the young
librarian's cheeks and furrows tha
brow of the book salesman.
Any of our statesmen who have read
"The Mirrors of Downing Street." by
A Gentleman with a Duster, must b
feeling rather nervous just about now.
For they say we are to have this fall
"The Mirrors of Washington" in whica
certain of our prominent American!
are to'be "shown up" after the Eng
lish pattern. It is being writen bj
an American who knows personally
the men who are unconsciously sit
ting to him for their portraits, bul
he author's name . will b3 kept a
dead secret. Among others we are to
be shown Lansing, Harvey, Penrose,
Pershing, Knox, Borah, Lodgei
Hoover. Hughes. Johnson, House, Ba
ruch, Wilson and Harding. The c o n
cealment of the writer's naroar yos
will see, is necessitated-by-fne desire
to limit to the jaertfuie probabilitj
of being de
m
t must be a great comfort to tha
New York police department to read
Honore' Willsie's novel, "The En.
chanted Canyon." There is a police
man in that story who is neithel
a villain nor a fool, and whose honor
able part it is to rescue the boy-her
from the grip of the underworld,
Mrs. Willsie spent some time undo
Police Commissioner Wood, observ
ing the "welfare" activities of tha
force and found- an interesting though
little-talked-of work going on. Sht
has written a pamphlet on "Tom
Friend, the Policeman"; and ex-Commissioner
Wood's own book Is one oi
the most interesting accounts of mod
ern police work.
Paper-Covered Books Popular.
New York Evening Post.
When Mrs. Atherton's new novel
-Sisters-in-law," was issued in twa
bindings, paper and cloth, somi
months ago, the publishers declared
that they wished to test the possi
bilities of the paper-covered book is
this country. It is often argued thai
the practice of Continental Europa
in this respect results in making
books cheap, and people have askea
why American and English publisher!
do not follow the example of theii
European colleagues. Now Mrs
Atherton's publishers have reported
on their experiment In the Publishers'
Weekly. In all their advertisement!
they mentioned the existence of tht
two styles of binding, but, after fiv
menths, they find that "the propor
tion of. sales is one copy of the papea
to 54 copies of the cloth." The de
mand for the paper-bound editioi
came chiefly from the eastern cities
particularly New York. "Nearly one
third of the sales were made in on
hook department which took a spe
cial Interest in the paper-covered
edition." The conclusion is that "tha
booksellers flatly do not want paper
covered novels and that the novel
reading public does not want thera
enough to demand them, even whea
they have been announced and dis
cussed as widely as in this case."
In the case of this book of Mrs.
Atherton's the difference between tha
prices of the two editions was 5G
cents, representing an increase ol
one-third for the cloth binding. In
France, however, the extra saving
on paper-bound books is considerably
more. In the advertisement of a Parii
firm issuing novels in the two styles
of binding the additional cost of cloth
binding is some 60 per cent. Obvious
ly, here the incentive to buy paper
covered books is powerful, apart al
together from the influence of habit
and custom