FROM THE MAIL BAG (Continued) the trade-blown Atlantic, an island rich in beauty. Once at sunrise I sailed into its harbor. There are houses close to the sea; houses that are many of them white, others are blue, and there are also pink houses and houses of pale green; there are large pepper trees and low-hanging palms there; and flowers of the most brilliant coloring abound. Cliffs rise almost perpendicularly from the deep blue of the Atlantic to the mountain ridges above, where there are laurels and heather trees forty feet high, often hidden in the low-hung clouds. There is a stone breakwater there, broken by the raging of the Atlantic in several places, but a thing of great strength and of a silent loveliness that I am unable to try to express. There used to be a great iron bell upon the end of that breakwater. For a reason that I do not try to find, your second stanza brings to me the GENERATION glory of my days of roving in that By OWEN JOHNSON A brilliant, sincere novel of contemporary American life, in which Mr. Johnson digs hat deep into the heart of things. The Wasted Generation places Mr. sho Johnson definitely among the few aristocrats in of modern American literature."-Gertrude Atherton. island that is so beautiful. There is, they say, a river called the Styx, and at its brink a ferryman who waits beside his little wherry. There are many who speak of this ferryman as an aged, crabbed fellow, who takes pleasure in ferrying frightened souls across his dark river. I like to think of him rather as a young man, of perhaps original taste, who chose this particular task of his at LITTLE, BROWN & CO. the ferry for the pleasure that he would Publishers, Boston -Not One Gray Hair, Now" "And my hair was quite gray a short time ago! "It was falling out, getting brittle and stringy. 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I like to think that a day will come when I shall take young Charon by his hand and bid him farewell, going aboard my waiting clipper and casting moorings loose, to set sail for a glowing shore below a glowing sea rim. I like to think that the sea will be there more wonderful even than the blue Atlantic or the gray sea by the little churchyard of my youth. What would one ask, a sailor, but that it should be his good fortune to swing seawards with a lofty clipper from that old wharf? It may be that the great Captain of all fleets will bid his angels cease from their singing that he may bow his glorious head to harken, smiling, to the rough songs that we bring to him from the decks and from the seas and harbors of our mortal voyages? Who shall say? God, who gave to us our sea, will not take from us its loveliness? Pardon me for thus taking your time, and for thus intruding my foolish thoughts upon you. I have no money to send you for your verses-thank God that money is but a little thing of no great value here, and of none along that old wharf's plankings. But I wished to say to you thank you. BILL ADAMS. The demands of the children for a "tasty" drink are well met by Baker's It is, moreover, very nu- REG. U, S. PAT. OFF. HOTEL JUDSON 53 Washington Square adjoining Judson Memorial Church. Rooms with and without bath. Rates $3.50 per day, including meals. Special rates for two weeks or inore. Location very central. Convenient to all elevated and street car lines. Hotel Webster (Near 5th Avenue) 40 West 45th Street NEW YORK 'Directly in the fashionable club and shopping section. Within five minutes' walk to all principal theaters. A high-class hotel patronized by those desiring the best accommodations at moderate cost. Rates and map gladly sent upon request. JAMAICA, B. W. I. Bungalow near Mandeville and within 21⁄2 hours' motoring from Kingston 2450 feet above sea level. Fully furnished stone house containing 4 bedrooms,1 drawing room, 1 dining room, bathroom, pantry, etc., 10 foot verandah on three sides, garage, also all necessary outhouses. 55 acres-flower and vegetable gardens, grazing pastures, orchards, 23 head of cattle. Will rent for £300 per annum. Address F. N. Whitelake, Grange Hill, Jamaica, B. W. I. CONNECTICUT IN THE FOR SALE FOOTHILLS OF THE BERKSHIRES, Litchfield County, Connecticut, a country place of about 8 acres, with Colonial house, stable, etc., icehouse, two-car garage, flower and vegetable gardens, individual water supply and sewage disposal system. Admirable church and school advantages and golf. Price $50,000. For further information address 5,881, Outlook. FLORIDA 515, Outlook. ing apartment of 3 bedrooms and large salon facing south, overlooking gardens in a private house. Meals will be furnished. French, Italian, and English spoken. Only an engagement of several months would be considered. 5,949, Outlook. AGENTS WANTED LADY agents wanted to sell an article of universal demand; quick seller; takes at sight. Liberal pay. Address Box 2685, Boston, Mass. AGENTS coining money selling Universal Gas Savers for every gas stove. Wonderful device. Cuts gas bills in half. Increases heat. Popular prices, 100% profit. Exclusive ter ritory. Write quick. B. A. Moore, Gas Saver Company, Topeka, Kan. AUTOMOBILES AUTOMOBILE owners, garagemen, me chanics, repairmen, send for free copy of our current issue. It contains helpful, instructive information on overhauling, ignition troubles, wiring, carburetors, storage batteries, etc. Over 120 pages, illustrated. Send for free copy to-day. Automobile Digest, 527 Butler Building, Cincinnati. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES WANTED-Competent teachers for public and private schools. Calls coming every day. Send for circulars. Albany Teachers' Agency, Albany, N. Y. DIETITIANS, secretaries, cafeteria managers, governesses, matrons, housekeepers, social workers, superintendents. Miss Richards, Providence, R. 1. Box 5 East Side. Boston, Trinity Court, 16 Jackson Hall, Thursdays 11 to 1. Address Providence. PLACEMENT BUREAU for employer and employee: housekeepers, matrons. dietitians, governesses, secretaries, mother's helpers, attendants. 51 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Mass. FOR THE HOME HONEY- Wholesome and delicious new buckwheat honey direct from producer. Warranted pure and clean. Children enjoy honey sandwiches. 10 pounds $1.80, 5 pounds $1.00, postage prepaid Zones 1, 2, 3. Herbert A. McCallum, Great Barrington, Mass. DOMESTIC SCIENCE correspondence courses. Good positions and home efficiency. Am. School Hoine Economics. Chicago. STATIONERY WE have sold a lot of printed stationery and so far as we know have never disap pointed a single customer. Send for free samples and be absolutely sure that if you order you will get exactly what you want. 200 sheets and 100 envelopes printed for $1.50. Lewis, 284 Second Ave., Troy, N. Y. HELP WANTED Professional Situations WANTED, for Bernardsville, N. J.,, a registered trained nurse for rural district nursing, A fully furnished house, light, heat, telephone, and transportation provided. Salary $125 per month. One month's vaca tion a year with salary. Nurse must find housekeeper, who may be relative, friend, or servant. There is also a vacancy for an infant welfare nurse. Please reply to Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills, P. O. Box 45, Far Hills, N. J. Companions and Domestic Helpers WANTED-Companion-secretary. Chicago in winter, New Hampshire in summer. Must be interested and willing to help with vegetable and flower gardens. Permanent position. In reply state experience, references, and salary expected. 433, Outlook. WANTED Working housekeeper to do cooking only. Must be experienced and willing. Salary $80. Wanted also, mother's helper to do chamber work, sewing, and help in care of three children. Salary $60. In country New Hampshire all the year. Refined home with all modern conveniences, including electric stove. No servants need apply. For Sale Two Furnished Bungalows Prefer ladies who have had their own homes. or Rent one 8 rooms, bath, sleeping porches, screened throughout; one 3 rooms, bath; facing Indian River, short drive to ocean beach. Garage. 2 acres in grove. 700 ft. dock. For particulars address Box "M," Cocoa, Fla. To Rent for Season, $1,250 house of 5 bedrooms, two baths, furnace; best location.. Address J. W., First National Bank, De Land, Fla. For Sale FIVE ACRES PECAN and ORANGE GROVE on highway in Jefferson Co., Florida. Write for particulars. 5,933, Outlook. In reply state experience, age, give references. 434, Outlook. WANTED-Refined person to go to Florida to act as maid, seamstress, and assist generally about house. Wages fifty-five a month and expenses. Answer" Westlands," Bronxville, N. Y. WANTED-Dietitian in large State hospital in the West. One with experience preferred. Good salary and full maintenance. Applicants will please furnish photograph. 468, Outlook. WANTED - Practical nurse to care for elderly lady and her house. Two in family; modern bungalow; college town; delightful country. 496, Outlook. S Business Situations SECRETARY, college graduate, five year experience in bookkeeping, stenography Te d correspondence, etc. Good references Outlook. Well educated wo stenographer, typist, general; full or time. Highest references. Moderate term 489, Outlook. UNIVERSITY woman, successful educ tional work as teacher and director, serer in years' business experience as secretary-cor respondent, desires position in New York or TOI with headquarters here. 505, Outlook. Companions and Domestic Helpers LADY with ample leisure and wide experi, ence in the management of larger or smaller households, desires position as visiting borse keeper, companion or secretary in New Yo City. 355, Outlook. d in S WANTED. - Experienced woman wi position as working housekeeper for bus women, widower, or companion to invalid. No objection to children. 448, Outlo WANTED-Position as companion in Th tured family. Will assist with housekeep if desired. 454, Outlook. POSITION as companion desired. Best references given and required, also perso interview. 488, Outlook. to HOUSEKEEPER, experienced, for wid er, business woman's home. Coaches childre? ca in French, piano. Or housemother in school Sympathetic in illness. Executive. Beter als ences. 495, Outlook. WANTED-Position to assist in the hom by capable, active elderly gentlewoman. Men in t H. Andrews, 1711 University Ave., New Yor City. ol SECRETARY, reader, chaperon, and try ing companion desires engagement. Outlook. ще REFINED woman of good judgment wi care of child four years or older in fa going to milder climate or as compania woman of culture. Fond of children and g of reader. 226 Main St., Pine Grove, Pa. WANTED-Position housekeeper, d panion, or care linen room. Miss Deans North St., Burlington, Vt. TIONS Piel CAPABLE Protestant woman wishes p tion as mother's assistant or as attend housekeeper to elderly people. Compet of managing a home and help. Country ban ferred. Reference. 504, Outlook. YOUNG college graduate, adaptable, des excellent health, desires position as secretar me companion, or governess. Will travel. Bold erences exchanged. 502, Outlook. WANTED-Executive position of trus home of wealth and refinement by lady adapted to take charge of servants. Outlook. SELL COMPANION desires position accomp ing lady going to California. Refere exchanged. J. Pennock, 1744 F St. Ni Washington, D. C. PHYSICIAN'S WIDOW will accept) tion trust (nothing menial) where she o associate with cultured people. Work versatile services. Small compensation maintenance. References exchanged Outlook. Sew YOUNG English woman, ex-war nur sires to see America as traveling comp or chaperon. Large salary not chieft tion. 514, Outlook. REFINED young lady desires posit companion to Protestant lady spending ter in Florida. No salary required expenses are paid. 513, Outlook. Teachers and Governesses YOUNG man, experienced in child institution, settlement work, case work teaching, desires executive position in for boys. Best references. 341, Outloo WANTED-College or norinal school ing or administrative position. Exper offered: Education-A.B., A.M., Phi Kappa; successful work as education ecutive; teaching experience in schools; much practice in public spea successful work as business administ Address 462, Outlook. TUTORS Two gentlemen, Manh residents, twelve years' teaching exper will tutor backward or advanced p Grammar or high school subjects. Indiv or classes. 465, Outlook. PROTESTANT clergyman, teachin New York City technical school, will private pupils at their homes, afternoon Saturday mornings, grammar or high s subjects. Three college degrees. Refere 492, Outlook. TRAINED Englishwoman, house m in school or governess; Latin, French, m stenography. American references. Outlook. FRENCH teacher desires position pri school; experienced in all grades. 516, Outk d PUBLISHER'S NOTES EN-NAMES again conceal the identity Por nearly all of the contestants in Prize Contest No. 4. The Outlook continues to be a father-confessor to its readers, while "The Turning Point" as a contest-title seems to be cleaving unusually fertile ground and unearthing dramatic human episodes. We hope "The Turning Point" will not lay too great a tax on your powers of introspection. We do not insist that contestants confine their letters to explosions of the soul. You may be as commercial or as material as you like. We should welCome letters having to do with the turning point in your business if you are a pman or woman of affairs. America is "full of men who started in life as newsDboys and wound up as corporation heads; and we hope that many of our contestants will prove to be merchant tings and industrial leaders, willing to isclose to our readers just when and now the turning point occurred in their careers. The present contest closes October 21. important industrial subjects written by HERMAN ROGERS has just returned S from N trip to Arkansas, where he has been levelling a penetrating eye at He president of a Dayton, Ohio, rub- Ia regular subscriber to The Out bot ber manufacturing company writes hs, apropos of our recent article entitled Rubber's Right of Way:" "Articles on des MISCELLANEOUS WANTED to buy on contract or lease th prospect of buying promising business College. 422, Outlook. Pen BOYS wanted. 500 boys wanted to sell The e Outlook Company, 381 Fourth Ave., redw York City. 18S Guthman, New York shopper, will d things on approval. No samples. Refere. 309 West 99th St. RUNKS, bags, suitcases. Why pay two Idlemen profits? Buy from factory direct. arged for free catalog. Monarch Trunk tory, Spring Valley, Ill. OARDING school for boys. Scholarship terially reducing cost of board and tuition services in office and library. Applicants at be over fifteen years of age and must nish testimonials of good character and andolarship. Address 456, Outlook. REE UNITARIAN LITERATURE. Corpondence solicited. Mrs. Helen Whiton, ngham Center, Mass. OTHER, conscientious and warm arted, desires to take child from 1 to 16 OKLAHOMA farms. Write for free ngricultural booklet. Board of Commerce, Shawnee, Okla. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IS SOLICITED FOR A HIGH GRADE MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL. 509, Outlook. we suggest that you read the special DEAF? Have You a Rare Book, a Carved Chest, or a Personal Talent to Sell? There may not be any hidden treasures in any of your chests or cabinets, but there may be some rare old book in your library, some historic piece of plate in your cupboard, or some talent of your own that might be advantageously marketed by means of a brief advertisement in The Outlook's classified advertising section. Thousands have advertised property, employment, and other opportunities in this way and have profited by it. Unemployed have used it effectively to secure positions. Those of you who have read The Outlook regularly for years without having made use of this classified advertising service have overlooked a practical opportunity of unusual possibilities. If you are in need of a household helper, companion, nurse, governess, teacher, or business or professional assistant, you will probably find that a small advertisement in this department will bring prompt and gratifying results. The steady growth of this department bears witness to its ability to get results. The advertising rate in this section is only ten cents per word, including name and address. Decide now what you need or what you want to sell, and then send us your advertisement before you forget about it. Department of Classified Advertising THE OUTLOOK COMPANY, 381 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 3 BY THE WAY "T wo colored people I know have just got married, and they sent me an invitation to their wedding," a reader tells us. It reads: E have all stood at the crossroads. We have all made memorable decisions. a second prize of Thirty Dollars You are cordially invited to participate and enjoy the festivities of Mr. and Mrs. at their residence --, Service September 1, 1921, 9 P.M. sanitary." "I was at a loss to understand," our sub Was your Turning Point found in school, in college, in business, in marriage, or failure to marry? Was your decision made with the help of teacher, parent, or friend? Or did you go it alone? Did you come upon it after a disaster or a great happiness? Or an accumulation of little things? Do you regret or rejoice in the Turn that you made? CONDITIONS OF CONTEST 1. Write your name (add a pen name if you like, for publication) and address in the 2. All letters must be typewritten on one side of the paper only. 3. Limit your letter to 600 words of average length. 4. Your letter, to be eligible, must reach us on or before October 21. 5. We reserve the right to purchase for publication desirable letters not winning prizes. 6. Unavailable letters will not be returned. 7. The staff of The Outlook will be the judges of the contest. Address all contest letters to Ca rice th 10-0 The German photographic supplies r which are coming into the American r market are in some cases accompanied of by directions "done into English" of a comical sort. Here is a sample from 8 circular that accompanies a German film es pack: "Pull out the tabs straightly and with steady firm drawing. . . . Oldall bathes are to be avoided on all accounts because giving easily stripes. . . . Do m not employ for drying the films baths, containing acetone or alcool. The films can be dried at convenience hanging. freely or pinned up on a board etc. A sticking on with the backside is not to be feared, as the films have no back." a subscriber way let the 10 An English duchess, writes, apropos of a story in this col umn, had been owing her milliner & long time. The money was sorely needed, and after the bill had been re peatedly ignored, the milliner finally pond sent her little daughter to collect it. "Be sure to say 'Your Grace' to the t duchess," said the anxious mother, and an the child gravely promised to remem ou ber.. sem busin When, after long waiting, she was an ushered into the presence of the duchess al the little girl made a low courtesy, antal c then, folding her hands and closing hence eyes, she said softly, "For what I ante u about to receive, may the Lord make mer truly thankful." The quick-witted duchess flushed amo her eyes rested on the wistful child whosing so unconsciously had rebuked her, an without delay made out a check for the amount due to the milliner. me Wal a mites Jag The second-hand book dealer was in vited by a book collector to bid for the "weeds" of his collection, a literary periodical says. ""They're no good to me,' was his disconcerting reply. What,, none of them?' 'No, not one.' Some one CONTEST EDITOR, THE OUTLOOK COMPANY, 381 FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK suggested that as the books had to go. the dealer might better have them for 0 strip Tap Seasoned railway men say that never the within their recollection has there been such a raft of tramps jumping trains as Ehere are to-day. So says a press desgratch from Albany, New York. "They saay," the despatch goes on, "that they stre virtually taking their lives in their ing lands in walking along to inspect the ars of their trains at night. Peace officials of most of the towns situated he long railway lines refuse to jail these cool ramps and let them go under suspended mien entence, the reason being that these be owns cannot afford to keep the tramps n their lockups for several days. It is aid that one town, where an obliging magistrate had developed a habit of sending railway tramps to the cooler, is about $2,000 in debt for expenditures incurred for the care of these prisoners." er A correspondent who is fond of reading advertisements sends this, from an announcement in the "National Bottlers' GaGazette," as an example of mixed ideas: "Doubtless you are aware that the Soda Fountain business is gradually increasing by leaps and bounds." This is matched by the following from the editorial columns of the New York "Herald" (once the "Sun," edited by that Durist in the use of English, Charles A. 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