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Which Millions Have Adopted

Prof. A. P. Anderson, the expert on foods, invented a way to explode food cells in grain.

Each wheat or rice grain contains millions of food cells, which should be broken to digest. Cooking breaks but part of them. He wanted all the food cells broken, to make every atom feed.

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Of course, they are breakfast dainties. They are served with cream and sugar, or mixed with any fruit. No other morsels half so choice are found on morning tables.

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The fearful heat gives Puffed Grains a taste like toasted nuts. They are often used like nut meats. Folks use them in candy making, and as garnish for ice cream. Mothers douse them with melted butter for the children to eat at play.

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JANUARY 10, 1917

Offices, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York

T

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

HE OUTLOOK does not drape in black its announcement of the death of Hamilton Wright Mabie. His vivid and victorious faith in immortality would make singularly incongruous any such symbol.

For thirty-seven years Mr. Mabie and I have wrought together in an intellectual and spiritual enterprise-an endeavor to interpret the meaning and the duty of our time. Differing in temperament and sometimes in opinion, we have never differed in the purpose which has guided and the spirit which has animated us: the purpose to test every event by its ethical and spiritual values, the spirit of faith in God and in our fellowmen. We have passed together through periods of social and. religious perplexity when it was our duty neither to fear nor to doubt. We have rejoiced in each other's happiness and shared in each other's sorrows. We have been in constant conference concerning the problems of National and personal life with which we have had editorially to deal, and often the resultant editorial, though written by one, has been the thought-product of the two. My estimate of him is a prejudiced estimate, prejudiced by a lifelong friendship. Nevertheless, I shall venture to give it here with that frankness which he would demand of me.

In 1879 The Christian Union (now The Outlook) was an undenominational church paper. It had a department of church news which included personal ministerial items, at that time a usual feature of church papers. I wanted some one to edit this department. A friend recommended to me a young lawyer of his acquaintance, whose interests were literary, not legal. This young lawyer called. I explained my desire, and Mr. Mabie was installed as a member of our very modest staff.

He did his work faithfully and well. His copy was always ready in time; he gave the paper performances, not promises nor excuses. It soon became evident that he took no interest in his department. Neither did I. I now wonder whether anybody ever was interested in it. It has long since been discontinued. Meanwhile, Mr. Mabie proving to be a willing worker, quite ready to give more than his contract called for, an occasional book was turned over to him for review. The reviews had quality, something which ecclesiastical gossip could not have. Presently he graduated from the gossip and became the literary editor. He began also to write occasional editorials, and, perhaps less frequently, contributed articles. Among the latter were some charming stories for children. He became an adviser whose judgment could be trusted in passing on manuscripts offered for publication, especially those of a literary character. Although increasing work brought increasing responsibility, I am sure that he never asked for any official recognition. But he earned it. On the second day of January, 1884, after he had left the office I put his name with mine at the head of our editorial columns and explained that I did so in order to protect myself from undeserved praise. "If," I wrote, "the editor is often compelled to accept in silence condemnation for words he did not utter and for opinions he does not hold, he is also sometimes compelled to accept in silence praise for industry greater than he possesses and for services which he has not rendered. This is the more difficult silence of the two; and this is my excuse, if one is needed, for this personal tribute to my associate, whose name I this week place at the head of these columns with my own.' When the next morning Mr. Mabie arrived at the office, he found this announcement in the issue of the paper lying on his desk. I cannot forbear giving to the reader a copy of the letter which he sent to me in acknowledgment, because it so well inter

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prets both his character and the nature of the friendship which has always existed between us. New York, January 3, 1884.

My dear Dr. Abbott:

You have taken my breath clear out of me; when I saw the "Christian Union" this morning I could not understand what had happened to it or to me. When I saw the page proofs last night the first page looked innocent enough, and this morning I find it full of dynamite. You can hardly understand my complete mystification, and as that was my first feeling I express it first here. When I comprehended what had happened I recog nized your thought and touch upon it all and was more grateful than I can express. In fact, I am still quite overcome, and feel as if I had been suddenly pushed out of obscurity into something like fame. It is a public companionship of which I am proud, I can assure you, and it comforts me to feel that if my work has not entitled me to it, my regard for and devotion to you would afford a kind of subjective justification. I set this result ahead of me as a prize to be held by better work and not as a reward for work done. I prize the association and the place as stimulants to and opportunities for the rendering of that service which is the joy of life.

My dear Mr. Abbott, you have opened the new year auspiciously for me, and I shall try to make this advance an open door to greater service and higher usefulness. Yours faithfully,

HAMILTON W. MABIE.

How he fulfilled this high purpose is well known, not only to the readers of The Outlook, but to a larger public which he has reached both by his voice and by his pen.

As a writer about books Mr. Mabie has been rather an interpreter than a critic. I think it is Coleridge who has said that there are three questions which the critic should ask concerning any author: "What did he undertake to do? Was it worth doing? Has he done it well?" Many critics never ask themselves the first question. That the author did not undertake what the critic would have undertaken is enough in the eyes of such a critic to condemn a book. It was with Mr. Mabie instinctive to ask the first question, and sometimes he did not get to the second or the third. His human sympathy amounted to genius. He read himself into the mind of his author. I do not know with what fluency he read any language but his own; but I know no modern critic whose interpretation of Turgenev or Goethe or Victor Hugo or Fogazzaro I would prefer to his. I do not think that he often held a book off at arm's length and subjected it to a critic's scrutiny. I doubt whether he ever laid it on the dissecting-table and investigated it with the scalpel and the microscope. But he saw what the author saw, felt what the author felt, was for the time being Russian or German or French or Italian, and, writing about the author, interpreted him in terms of the Anglo-Saxon mind. And this seems to me much the most important function of the critic.

This human sympathy determined his interest in and his writing about nature.

I do not think he took any great interest, either practical or theoretical, in nature's operations. I do not think he practiced horticulture, or floriculture, or arboriculture, or was familiar with any one of the natural sciences, or ever owned a microscope, or cared much to look through a telescope. Nature interested him but slightly as a machine, greatly as a book. What concerned him was not the relations of natural phenomena to each other, nor greatly their relations to the physical welfare of man. That he willingly left to others. What fascinated him was their relation to the intellectual and spiritual life of man. One

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