Na recent issue of The Outlook," a subscriber writes, "you refer to Dr. rk as being, to the best of your owledge, the first physician to occupy I Cabinet position. It has perhaps eady been called to your historical ollection that Dr. James McHenry s Secretary of War in the Cabinets of shington and Adams." "Why, my dear, my razor won't help u. It's a safety." A few days later she met General acready at dinner in the Royal Hospil on the outskirts of Dublin, where he red with his family, and related the cident to the old officer. "Well, Mrs. "drawled the Genal, solemn and thoughtful, "I shave ith an old-fashioned razor. Every orning when I lather my face I take is old weapon in my hand and I say myself: 'Now, Nevil Macready, will u cut your throat or shave yourself?'id I always shave!" C." "But I can't say FFFTHEE; I've lost my tooths." "Then hold out your hand, and I'll teach you to lose your 'tooths,'' says the mischievous teacher. The small boy gets a crack on the hand amid great laughter, and the game goes on until all the victims have tried in vain to say C. A little girl, a contributor writes, is learning "The Village Blacksmith;" she astonishes her teacher by getting it this way in a rehearsal: The smith, a mighty man is he, Another-perhaps this was a case of tangle-tongue said that the National Hymn was "The Star-Bangled Banner." "Home Cooking," reads a sign in one of those New York delicatessen stores that are the haven and refuge of the tired apartment dweller. "That's what my husband likes," remarked one of these housewives as she was purchasing the family dinner while a reporter stood *by. A children's party among the Kaffirs South Africa, according to a book alled "Savage Childhood," has fully as uch fun as any of our parties. Among le games played is one called "Schoollaster." A twelve-year-old boy marnals five or six diminutive youngsters ho have lost their front teeth. He beins to teach them their A B C's. These three English letters are widely nown among the natives.) He says to he first tiny boy, "Now say A, B, C." he little fellow begins, "A, B, Thee." Wrong," says the teacher; "hold out our hand; it is not Thee, but C." The ild without the front teeth says, "But didn't say Thee, I said THEEEEE." Exactly," says the inexorable teacher; 50 hold out your hand and get hacked." Amid roars of laughter he ow says to the second boy, "Now, sir, y A, B, C." The little fellow wriggles nd says, "But I can't thay it." "Oh, ou can't 'thay' it, can't you? Well, I'll ach you to 'thay' it. Now, sir, say . B, C." This boy pronounces it with Feat emphasis, "A, B, FTHEEEE." Wrong again," says the teacher; "it is Anatole France, who is seventy-eight, went to Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize just after recovering from a severe illness. He was fearful of catching cold, and wore several well-padded waistcoats under his coat. The Swedish custom officers were suspicious. "What have you got in here?" one of them asked, with his hands on the great novelist's coat. "France," was the reply. The following story has appeared in several papers: "Shortly before going abroad last year Sinclair Lewis bought a fancy suitcase for his wife. They used it on a week-end trip up the Hudson and it was stolen on the train. In it was the manuscript of Lewis's new novel. The real tragedy is that Mr. Lewis did not have a carbon copy." Messrs. Harcourt, Brace & Co., Mr. Lewis's publishers, say regarding this story: "Aside from the facts that the stolen suitcase was not one but two, that they were not stolen on a train up the Hudson, U. S. A., but at a station in London, that in neither of them was there a single word of manuscript, notes, or any other literary material, that Mr. Lewis always keeps a carbon copy of everything he writes, and that, finally, when the suitcases were stolen he had completed only a small part of the new novel, 'Babbitt,' the story is a triumph of correct detail." The British office boy is fully as convinced of his own worth as is his American compeer, if we may judge from this excerpt from "Answers:" "Two office boys were outside the palatial building of a great firm. Said the first boy: ''Ullo, Dick! Wotcher lookin' at the orfice wot sacked you last week for? Are you trying to get took back?' His friend sniffed. 'No bloomin' fear!' he said. 'I just dropped roun' to see if they woz still in biz'ness.' NEW-SKIN For Cuts and Scrapes New-Skin forms a covering that protects while nature heals. Cleanse the injured part and apply New-Skin. It never "gets in the way." 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The Corner Stone of Every Home Library In the same manner as a man chooses his food for the good it is going to do his body, and his clothes for their serviceability, he chooses the books to put in these shelves for their ability to feed and strengthen the mind; books that clothe the man and his family with knowledge and give protection against ignorance. He probably has not unlimited means, so he must choose with utmost care to give his family such books as will be of the most value day in and day out. He is not interested in having books that simply look nice on the shelves. He insists that the books he selects must represent a worth while investment in knowledge; books from which he and his family can obtain a definite, material and lasting benefit. THE He selects and purchases first the Encyclopaedia Britannica and builds his library around this great work. Why? Because it furnishes him with authoritative information on every conceivable subject written by the greatest authorities the world affords. Because it gives to every woman information which she needs to keep posted on the events of this intensely interesting world. Because it furnishes the son and daughter of the family the information to satisfy the children's expanding minds and supplements their school studies. Because the Encyclopaedia Britannica has been for generation after generation, since 1768, the standard encyclopaedia of the world. The Luxury of India Paper He chooses the Encyclopaedia Britannica because it is well made from the physical standpoint. It is printed on the genuine India paper, which makes the Britannica far more usable than any encyclopaedia ever was before. The beautiful and serviceable bindings make it a book that he is proud to have in his library and to be seen by his friends. The Encyclopaedia Britannica is sold on easy terms of payment, a small amount with the order and moderate monthly payments. Every family can thus afford the Britannica and have in the home the greatest means to knowledge ever put in the hands of mankind. Send for the large illustrated booklet describing the Britannica, and giving its attractive prices and terms of payment.. 2 ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA THE OUTLOOK. April 19, 1922. Volume 130, Number 16. Published weekly by the Outlook Company at 381 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879 The Outlook Do You Think... Copyright, 1922, by The Outlook Company TABLE OF CONTENTS Vol. 130 April 19, 1922 No. 16 а man Jonathan's Opportunities $2.00 The Red House Mystery By A. A. MILNE The Messengers. By Elsie Spicer Eells At Genoa. The Louvain Library The Greek and Roman Churches.. The Attempt to Scrap Our Navy... The Printing Bureau Dismissals.. Men of Such Great Leading.... Cartoons of the Week ... 628 629 $2.00 By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Author of "Lad: a Dog" and "Bruce." A poignant revelation of the power of a fine dog's trusting companionship. $1.50 The Prospect for Cheaper Coal...... 636 By William P. Helm, Jr. Knoll Papers: A Social Gospel...... 638 By Lyman Abbott The Coal Strike-Defense and Offense 640 Defenders-Forgotten and Unforgotten 641 America's Boss-Ridden Athletics.... 642 By Newton Fuessle You Can't Make a Man Work-.... 645 By Elmer T. Peterson A Fortune in Growing Apples?..... 647 By E. K. Parkinson A Guest Speaks (Poem) By Aline Kilmer Gandhi in Jail By Myrtle and Gordon Law The Fair Name of a City.. By Fullerton Waldo Tin Cans, Temples, and Waterfalls of Kashmir.. Pictures from an Outlook Reader $2.00 The Book Table: The Later Mr. Yeats.. Your own Outlook called it "one of the most exciting novels of adventure ever written." Brass A Novel of Marriage By CHARLES NORRIS By Herbert S. Gorman The New Books.... 649 649 6559 655 656 $2.00 A novel which continues to stir the country, because of its picture of what comes from marriage ties, carelessly assumed, easily broken. $2.00 Have a package sent to your E. P. DUTTON & CO. 681 Fifth Ave., N. Y. -That you don't get half enough sleep? -That you are terribly overworked? -That you must coddle your stomach? -That you must have purgatives? -That you have most unusual nerves? -That you are a neurotic semi-invalid? (Well, you probably aren't that sort of person at all. Read "Outwitting Our Nerves" and get a clue as to what you really are. It will entertain you immensely, help you to analyze your family, friends and neighbors, and set you far on the way to a cure if you need a cure.) A "COUNTRY SCHOOLMA'AM" ON THE UNDER-WEIGHT DELUSION M AY a humble "country schoolma'am" speak in reply to Mr. Charles K. Taylor's attack on "The Great Delusion"? Being one of "the victims" of an eruption such as Mr. Taylor refers to, I feel moved to speak. One day last September the county public health nurse descended upon us with her scales. She tactfully asked permission to weigh and measure the pupils. We were pleased. Everybody likes to be weighed! But, horrors! We were under-weight: 29 out of 54 of us. We were so much under-weight as to be "malnourished." We also had many decayed teeth, a few diseased tonsils, some adenoids, and one or two were somewhat deaf and more complained of eye trouble. Of course these things had been noticed more or less before the nurse's visit, but such things were, and simply had to be endured. But to be underweight! That was something we all objected to being. The drooping shoulders, hollow chests, and dark, tiredlooking circles under our eyes had not been matters of importance to us. But when we learned that these were the result of being "under-weight" and as long as they remained with us we would continue to be "under-weight" we became interested in learning how to improve. Milk we had always known was good food for calves and pigs. For chickens too. When we wanted to show our stock Jat the county or State fairs, we always gave them lots of milk. Oats too were good for the stock. Oatmeal we knew made the baby chicks grow nicely. Milk for us? Oh, no! We preferred real "eats"-fried potatoes and pie just suited us. Eat oatmeal for breakfast instead of fried ham and hot cakes? Why? We liked the hot cakes with plenty of syrup. And coffee of course! But the nurse said we were "underweight" and if we did not drink milk, eat oatmeal or those other things called "cereals," with plenty of cream, we might stay under-weight. When the county paper published a story on the school that had the most under-weight children in the county, we knew who the children were, though they were so considerate as to not mention names. BAG The nurse visited us again in March. When she finished weighing us again, she said to "teacher:" "Tell me, have you been doing anything differently from what you have always done? Have you changed any habits-done anything special to make you gain?" "Indeed, we have tried to gain. See that row of milk bottles in the cloakroom? That has been there nearly all the time since you were here last fall. And we have done other things too. Tried to stand up straight and practice breathing deeply, as you taught us to do. Indeed, we have tried to gain. Have we gained?" "I should say you have," said nurse. "And that is not all. You are lots better looking than you were when I saw you before. I wouldn't have recognized you as the same group of pupils. Keep it up. I'm mighty proud of you!" When the nurse's little flivver started out of the yard, the pupils were gathered at the gate, waving "good-by" and crying, "Come again, Miss X; come again soon." We want her to come again. We want to "be descended upon" and "deluded" if this be delusion. As well write a criticism on the Christian religion, saying it consists of teaching there is a hell, as to condemn the weighing and measuring of school-children because it teaches that some of them are under-weight. Can Mr. Taylor suggest a way of getting the children interested in their own health and food habits that will be superior, to this? If so, we will be glad to hear from him. If not, we wonder why he was given space in a publication so broad-minded as The Outlook for a tirade that has nothing constructive in it. Being an educator, he should know that children are not interested in such abstract things as "health." What could be more concrete, more vital, more interesting, than our own weight? It means physical development. It is expressed in units of measure which we all understand. Let us have more of the "Great Delusions." PEARL E. WILSON. El Reno, Oklahoma. [Last week we published a series of enthusiastiletters commenting most cally upon C. K. Taylor's article on "The Great Under-Weight Delusion." Of the few letters attacking this article the foregoing is perhaps the most interest suggest a way of getting the children interested in their own health and food habits that will be superior to the present weighing system. If she will turn to The Outlook of March 15, she will find a graphic illustration of the stimulus towards physical perfection given by Mr. Taylor's height-weight system. The effect of the application of Mr. Taylor's system is also told in the letter below.THE EDITORS.] STANDARDS FOR BETTER CHILDHOOD THI HIS is a day of standardization in all lines of instruction, but in the field of moral and physical development there is room for tests and measurements. What seems to be needed is an abiding faith that definite results may be accomplished in this field. Dr. Charles K. Taylor, of Orange, New Jersey, has that faith. His plan of moral education by a system of physical standards was outlined in the classroom of the University of Pennsylvania about ten years ago. At that time I offered to co-operate with him in the Meade School in trying out his system. In association with the Singerly School we were able to enter competitive events singly and in groups. Every boy was judged physically according to his own build. This proved to be an effective way of hitting bad habits a deadly blow. Each boy saw the impossibility of competing with Lee Griffiths and Mifflin Armstrong if he continued late hours, coffee drinking, and smoking. Cigarette smoking almost ceased during the period that Mr. Taylor's system was in full swing. A lot of boys substituted hiking for corner loafing when Andrew McGowen, the mile-runner and hurdler, and Wallace McCurdy, the Olympic champion, were in charge of Saturday "hikes." Girls undertook home planning, room planning, decoration, care of hair, teeth, and the like, under the direction of Dr. Frida Lippert, who sought to give them wholesome ideas and ideals of "home." Assembly talks by educators and representative citizens developed a fine co-operative spirit in the school as a whole. CORNELIUS J. WALTER, Supervising Principal, Meade School, Philadelphia. LETTERS TO MR. TAYLOR Ou are quite right about the types of ing which we have received. This Y figure. Before the beginning of the writer, like most of the other adverse commentators on Mr. Taylor's article, ignores the fact that Mr. Taylor places great emphasis upon an adequate medical examination. He would be just as much opposed to the unbalanced diet of the children described in the above letter and just as quick to criticise the drooping shoulders, hollow chests, and tired eyes as the visiting nurse who effected the revolution of the health of these country school-children. Miss Wilson asks if Mr. Taylor can Christian era Philostratus, in an interesting book on gymnastics, divided men into greyhounds, lions, and bears, and I have some photographs showing these various types very distinctly. R. TAIT MCKENZIE. University of Pennsylvania. Your articles voice my own thoughts exactly, only in a much more able way than I could do. Your idea of offering prizes for the all-around development of the body, to conform to symmetrical |