W

E have just heard of a witness in an election fraud investigation who testified that he had been bribed twentyfive dollars to vote Republican. Upon cross-examination, the fact was brought out that he also received twenty-five dollars to vote Democratic. In astonishment, the examiner asked him; in view of the fact that his vote had been purchased by both parties, which way he actually voted. The witness, with great earnestness and with injured dignity, haughtily replied: "I I voted, sir, according to my conscience!"

A sign noticed above a drug-store soda fountain:

TAKE A BRICK HOME

IT'S FINE WHEN COMPANY COMES Publicity agents for a motion picture called "The Marriage Clause" are sending out thousands of letters with a small shiny circlet inclosed. Opening the letter and finding the ring suggests trouble-you are pretty certain to read the hand-written letter:

"Dearest

"My heart is broken.

"I am returning your ring because we cannot marry.

"The Marriage Clause forbids it. "I cannot tell you about it here, but do come to the Theater any night next week. "SYLVIA JORDON."

From "Life:"

Judge: Why do you say it is impossible for you to begin serving your sentence at once?"

Victim: "Because, your honor, this is Outdoors Week."

The latest strike in New York City was that of the "shills." A "shill" is one who sits in a sightseeing bus until the time to start and then decamps in order to occupy a conspicuous place in the next waiting bus. Bus owners have found that it is necessary to have a few people in each waiting bus to attract cash customers. The "shills" provide the needed touch to indicate that the bus is just going out. "Shilling" has become a regular trade in New York. Scores of people make their living by sitting day after day in these waiting busses. The "shills" banded together recently and were able to force their daily wage from $2.50 up to $3.

Housewife: "I'm having such rotten luck with my cooks lately. The first one stayed only three days, and the second one I can't get rid of."

A featured photograph purporting to show Sing Sing Prison-"thirty miles from New York"-appears in that excellent illustrated weekly of the British Empire the "Sphere." The picture itself plainly shows Blackwell's Island, New York City, with Hell Gate and Queensboro Bridges in the background. The "Sphere" calls it an unusual picture. It certainly is.

Methuselah ate what he found on his plate,

And never, as people do now,

Did he note the amount of the caloric count

He ate it because it was chow.

He wasn't disturbed, as at dinner he sat, Destroying a roast or a pie,

To think it was lacking in granular fat, Or a couple of vitamins shy.

He cheerfully chewed every species of food,

Untroubled by worries or fears Lest his health might be hurt by some fancy dessert

And he lived over nine hundred years'

New Englanders have, it seems, not lost their flair for pithy phrases. A member of The Outlook staff very recently hired a small sloop for an afternoon's sail in Gloucester Harbor. The tiller was turned over to a friend who was, to say the least, not an expert navigator. On the way back to the wharf the curious course of the sloop seemed to excite the interest of numerous onlookers along the water-front. One of them was later heard to ask the owner of the sloop what was the matter with the man at the tiller. The owner replied, quietly, "There's lots o' bo'ts he ain't sailed."

From "Punch:"

"Please, is a life-size enlargement awfully expensive?"

"Oh, no, my dear. What d'you want enlarged?"

"It is a snap I took of an elephant."

It seems that down in Alabama politics and theology are strangely mixed. R. C. Conner's display advertisements in his candidacy for the Legislature announces that "he is for fewer books in the schools, and for the Bible against Darwinism."

"Advertising certainly pays. We lost our mongrel pup-"

"And did you get it back again?"
"No, but we got two better dogs."

In this sixth year of prohibition a sign appears on the front of an employment agency in West 46th Street, New York City, reading as follows:

"Wanted a bartender to work out of town. $75 a month, plus room and board."

Hobo: "Ah, these capitalists! If we poor people only had our rights I'd be riding in my own carriage as I did before."

Skeptic: "Yes, but your poor old mother couldn't push you now."

There have been twenty-five jobs for men in the motion pictures this year for every one position open to a woman. The popularity of films devoted to army and navy battles is responsible for this. "Old Ironsides," "Beau Geste," "We're in the Navy Now," "Tell It to the Marines," "Sherman Was Right," "What Price

Glory?" and several other pictures now being made are using fifteen hundred men each.

A new criminal "racket" has been disclosed by a recent arrest in Los Angeles. The culprit made a practice of renting furnished homes from a realty company and then driving up a truck and stripping the houses of everything of value within them. The schemer would call up an auctioneer, asking him to send his truck. He would explain that the house had just been sold and that the furniture must be disposed of at once. By offering a high commission he was able to collect the proceeds within a few days, besides getting free trucking service.

Breakfast Cocoa

Means Something

The United States Food Standards define "Breakfast" Cocoa as cocoa containing not less than 22 per cent of cocoa butter. Many cheap cocoas (which cannot be labelled "Breakfast" Cocoa) contain not more than 14 per cent or 15 per cent of butter. Baker's Breakfast Cocoa contains not less than 26 per cent of cocoa butter, almost one-fifth more than Government require. ment. The phrase Baker's Breakfast Cocoa means a pure, delicious cocoa of high quality and possessing a considerable amount of nourishment.

Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.

Established 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS. Canadian Mills at Montreal Booklet of Choice Recipes sent free

Two suites of two rooms each, with connecting baths and open fireplaces, in a delightful colonial home are available for elderly people, semi-invalids or other persons of discriminating tastes who wish a year-round home without the responsibility. Rooms may be taken in suites or separately with a private bath for each room. Table and service that of a refined home. Prices from fifty dollars a week for each person.

District of Columbia

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HOTEL

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New Mexico

RANCHO ANIMAS

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JOHN T. MCCABE, Animas, New Mexico

New York City Hotel Judson 53 Washington Sq.,

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Board-Rooms Conservative American Home for busi

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people permanently located.

with or without additional single room. 508 West 114th St., New York City. Apt. 81.

Excellent accommodations are offered in physician's home to elderly person, or one looking for home-like surroundings. For terms and further particulars address Mrs. C. J. HYDE, 63 Gulf St., Milford, Conn.

Real Estate SCHOOL FOR SALE Wonderful

North Suore property. Summer school or year-round Accommodations for 150. No agents. Retiring. Write 6,487, Outlook.

Bermuda

For Rent, Hamilton, Bermuda Delightful

house, ideally located. Write H. W. KING, Box 98, or Outlook Travel Bureau.

Florida

Eau Gallie, Fla. te resorts on the Indian

is one of the prettiest win

River. Half-way between Jacksonville and Miami. New hotel. All kinds of sport available. We have houses and apartments, furnished or unfurnished, for rent and for sale, also home sites, farms and acreage. Write J. E. TORRENCE, Realtor, Ean Gallie, Florida. 25,690 ACRESd truck land citrus fruit

facing St. John's River 15 miles, at $45 per ac e; appears to us remarkable bargain, and our experience in Florida real estate covers over 10 years.

HENNING & SMITH, 246 5th Ave. Ashland 9600.

views. Excellent buildings Priced immediate sale. J. S. JAMISON, Pennington, N. J.

UPPER MONTCLAIR. N. J. Ideal

new home combining taste with comfort and convenience. Built under owner's close supervision. Center hall, 9 rooms, 3 baths, showers: oak floors, screens, awnings, cedar room: Frigidaire; oil burner (readily convertible to use of coal); artistic decorations and fixtures. Plot 65x209 with double garage and stately trees. Exclusive neighborhood. BUTLER, 86 Parkway West, Bloomfield, N.J.

North Carolina

FOR SALE-One of the choicest places in " WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Main Line Southern R.R. Just outside city limits

Locality noted for its healthfulness. Magnificent mountain views on all sides. Property consists of 130 acres of land, modern 10room colonial style house, all conveniences including hot water heat, extensive gardens and small greenhouse, lawns, woodland, and fields in grass. Responsible inquirers may obtain photos on application to Morganton Insurance and Realty Co. Morganton, N. C.

STATIONERY

WRITE for free samples of embossed at $2 or printed stationery at $1.50 per box. Thousands of Outlook customers. Lewis, stationer, Troy, N. Y.

PERSONAL STATIONERY - 200 single 6x7 or 100 double sheets, 100 envelopes, $1.00. Get Christmas orders in early. Work guaranteed. Hicks, Stationer, Macedon, N. Y.

EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

SECRETARIES, social workers, superintendents, matrons, housekeepers, dietitians, cafeteria managers, companions, governesses, mothers' helpers. The Richards Bureau, 68 Barnes St., Providence.

HELP WANTED COMPANION-helper for elderly lady and two other adults in Summit, New Jersey. Would be member of family. Must have health, tact, and Christian character; be able to read aloud, cook, and assist in light housework. 7,256, Outlook.

HOTELS NEED TRAINED MEN AND WOMEN. Nation-wide demand for highsalaried men and women. Past experience unnecessary. We train you by mail and put you in touch with big opportunities. Big pay, fine living, interesting work, quick advancement, permanent. Write for free book, "YOUR BIG OPPORTUNITY." Lewis Hotel Training Schools, Suite D-5842, Washington, D. C.

HOUSEKEEPER WANTED. Woman with executive ability and refinement; one who has had experience in household of ten or twelve servants. Must be conscientious and thoroughly competent to take care of the culinary department as well as house proper. Personal reference required. No letters answered. Apply in person, Thursday morning, September 23, at 10 o'clock, 416 Parker St., Newark, N. J.

thirty or thereabouts to direct food preparaINTELLIGENT, industrious woman of tion and service in a small high grade institution. Box 17, Harmon-on-Hudson, N. Y.

MOTHER'S helper, competent, intelligent woman of agreeable personality (not servant type), to assist in home duties. Protestant family. Mrs. David Sternbergh, Sinking Spring, Pa.

HELP WANTED

SWISS French teacher or highly recommended governess to live as member of family. Must be interested in progressive educational methods and fond of children. Congenial, happy surroundings. Apply to Mrs. Henry H. Perry, 200 Prospect St., Belmont, Mass.

WANTED-A gentlewoman to take charge of the linen room in an institution. Apply 7,235, Outlook.

WANTED-Reliable woman for cooking and housework; family of three; all conveniences; small house in country; permanent position; good home. Answer to P. O. Box 265, Phoenixville, Pa.

SITUATIONS WANTED

CAPABLE young woman, pleasing personality; some hospital training, fond of children, desires first-class position, nursery gov erness, "elder sister,' companion institutional work or any position of trust. 7,248, Outlook.

COLLEGE graduate with three years' teaching experience and twenty-three hours towards Master's degree in history desires position small university or private school. 7,246, Outlook.

CLUB HOSTESS- Household manager, supervising housekeeper (54), tactful, Lewis trained, hotel experience. References. 7,227, Outlook.

COMPANION-secretary to elderly lady, by clergyman's daughter. Exceptional references. 7,186, Outlook.

GOVERNESS, mother's assistant. Educated, experienced woman, good sewer. 7,251, Outlook.

LADY. refined, cultured, competent, supervising housekeeper, companion, or chaperon. Would travel. Highest credentials. 7,245, Outlook.

OPPORTUNITY of going South caring for children. References exchanged. 7,255, Outlook.

PHYSICIAN, hospital consultant, New England descent, experienced Continental travel and residence, fluent French and German, wishes accompany elderly or nervous invalid, European health or winter resort. 7,243, Outlook.

POSITION wanted by young lady of cultivated family, as governess, preferably for young children, or companion, in family residing in Washington, D. C. Has knowledge of French and art. References given. 7.249, Outlook.

REFINED young woman, French, English, German, wishes position as oompanion or governess-companion. Middle west preferred. Will only devote herself to gentile and genteel people. 7,244, Outlook.

WANTED, by Canadian university graduate, 22, position as governess, tutor, companion. Teaching experience. 7,229, Outlook.

WOMAN of refinement, traveled and experienced, as companion-housekeeper. Has held similar position fourteen years. Excellent references. 7,242, Outlook.

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WILL take boy or girl, 13 to 17 years old, to attend school and live in private family in Maplewood, N. J. 7,231, Outlook.

RIMROCK Farm-For little girls and boys of school age or younger. Katharine E. Salkeld, Petersham, Mass.

NEW York shopping without charge by an experienced shopper. Reference required. Hattie Guthman, 530 West End Ave., N. Y. C. BOARD-beautiful private home near station and school. Will take responsibility children. References. Telephone 3393-W, South Orange, N. J.

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Volume 144

The Florida Disaster

T

HE semi-tropical hurricane which wrecked and desolated a wide belt in Florida was one of the same type that twenty-six years ago, and also in September, wrought terrible damage at Galveston. There the loss of life by conservative estimates was 6,000-far in excess of the highest conjectures made for the present disaster. These storms have been described as beginning in the tropical portion of the Atlantic, moving westward and northward into the South Atlantic or Gulf States, then veering to the northeast and disappearing in the Atlantic. Often, however, they dissipate before they reach our coast; on the other hand they may sometimes, if violent enough, push farther westward, lose their force, and never return to the Atlantic. "Hurricanes," says a statement just issued by the National Geographic Society, "are the creatures of atmospheric temperature and pressure, and variations in these in turn are caused by the sun beating down on the expanses of Atlantic water and the land mass of our continent."

The hurricane that struck the Florida coast on Sunday, September 19, originated somewhere north of Porto Rico, moved northwest past the Bahamas (how much damage it did there is not known as we write), struck Florida in a belt of over 100 miles running from Miami to West Palm Beach, drove northwest, reaching the Gulf coast between Fort Myers and Tampa, then passed, still moving northwest, over the Gulf, and turned northward to Pensacola and Mobile. What damage was done to these two cities was unknown on Tuesday morning. The destruction of telegraph wires and railway bridges and the wrecking of highways for a time cut them off from the country as completely as they were before the railway and telegraph were established.

Miami and its outlying resorts such as Hollywood and Miami Beach were hard hit, and these and other places will need, and will have, relief from the country at large. President Coolidge

September 29, 1926

CINCINNATI, OHIO Number 5

has issued a proclamation urgently appealing for generous contributions to aid the sufferers from this "overwhelming disaster." He designates the American National Red Cross and its local chapters as the most effective channels for relief.

Even three days after the calamity it is impossible to give any estimates of loss of life at all accurate. It is inevitable that in the confusion of such widespread injury in many places and in the temporary paralysis of ordinary news facilities, both city and country, enumeration of deaths and injuries should be slow and guesses should be in excess of probabilities. Such, it is hoped, were the early statements which put the dead at 1,500 or 2,000. On Tuesday, September 21, the known dead were said by the

Associated Press to be 328, with 4,000 injured and 40 missing. These figures are likely to be increased as the search goes on, and they do not include the damage that may have been done in Pensacola or Mobile. As we write relief is being pushed into the stricken region by train, motor trucks, and airplanes. The destitution and suffering of thousands not personally injured is a large

and pitiful element. Troops and Red Cross contingents were at work in Miami and Hollywood twenty-four hours after the disaster.

The damage to buildings was enormous. From laborers' shacks to palatial hotels, in cities, villages, and the open country, hundreds were destroyed, twisted, or uncovered.

Not since the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 and the Galveston disaster of 1900 have the people of America been so aroused by the call from their own country for human sympathy. Their response will surely be as prompt and generous as in the past.

The Winter of the
Farmer's Discontent
THE American farmer, with the

money for his 1926 crops in pocket or in prospect, began making his fall purchases with eighty-five-cent dollars. The general turn of prices during late summer was against the farmer, and the index of his purchasing power, with relation to that of non-agricultural commodities, dropped slightly. The farmer's dollar has not been at par with the dollar of other producers since the slump