monthly allowance. Ideal living conditions. Tennis, surf bathing. 3 hours from New York. 8-hour day. 2 year course. Age 18 to 32; 2 years high school. Send for descriptive folder and application. Southampton Hospital Association, Southampton, Long Island, N. Y.

STATIONERY

WRITE for free samples of embossed at $2, or printed stationery at $1.50 per box. Also business printing at low prices. Lewis, stationer, Troy, N. Y.

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READER sends in these Japanese traffic rules:

"At the rise of the hand of policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him by or otherwise disrespect him.

"When a passenger of the foot hoves in sight, tootle the horn trumpet to him melodiously at first. If he still obsticles your passage, tootle him with a vigor and express by word of the mouth the warning, Hi, hi.

"Beware of the wandering horse that he shall not take fright as you pass him. Do not explode the exhaust box at him. Go soothingly by, or stop by the roadside till he passes away.

"Give big space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway. And avoid entanglement of dog with your wheel spokes.

"Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurk the skid demon. Press the brake of the foot as you role around the corners to save collapse and tie-up."

The speed of a Kansas jack-rabbit is timed at thirty-eight miles an hour. Dr. H. L. Halthouse, of McPherson, Kansas, jumped a jack-rabbit when driving. The animal took to the road ahead of his car. He "stepped on her," and the race was on. At twenty-five miles an hour the rabbit yawned with boredom. The speed was run up to thirty and then thirty-five, with the long-eared bunny holding his own. The speed was further increased, and when the speedometer showed thirty-eight miles the car gained. At forty miles an hour the rabbit jumped sidewise and disappeared in the swamp alongside the road.

HELP WANTED

WANTED, by Sept. 15, gentleman companion for semi-invalid willing to read aloud and drive automobile. References. Mrs. J. D. Pratt, Chestnut Hill, Pa.

SITUATIONS WANTED ACCOMPLISHED woman will be governess. 7,886, Outlook.

AGREEABLE lady wishes to be travel companion. 7,887, Outlook.

AMERICAN woman, experienced, take charge of widower's, bachelor's, business girls home, matron institution, companion to woman, girls' club, school. 7,905, Outlook. COLLEGE student wishes summer position as traveling companion or tutor. Dríves any make automobile. Fine references. Box 521, Bardstown, Ky.

COMPANION-chauffeur. Young woman' expert driver; assist household. Cuban col lege student. 7,911, Outlook.

COMPANIONING desired in established home of American gentlewoman by Protestant American lady, literary, linguist, traveled, who enjoys nature, gardens, dogs. Accustomed to servants. Or to preside in similar motherless home. 7,899, Outlook.

EXPERIENCED housemother desires connection with school or institution. Boys preferred. 7,908, Outlook.

GOVERNESS, companion, teacher. Permanent position wanted by French-Swiss teacher; experienced. Moderate salary. Relerences. 7,876, Outlook.

HOUSEKEEPER, supervising, thoroughly competent, disengaged after July 1. 7,906, Outlook.

By the Way

The following story about Dean Inge reaches the Manchester "Guardian:"

An American publisher cabled to the Dean: "Will you write your life? Offer two thousand pounds." The Dean cabled back that he would not write his life. The American publisher then cabled: "Will you write life of Christ? Lower terms, of course."

"Don't you think he is a convincing talker?"

"I did, till he talked back to a traffic cop."

The "New Yorker" reports the following instance of communism in our midst:

"A greengrocer had a puzzling customer in the person of a young woman who regularly every Thursday bought from him a bill of goods totaling twenty-five dollars or so, but who bought nothing at all on the other days of the week. Conducting an investigation, he discovered a league of seven married couples who rotate from house to house for dinner, each serving a meal at home just one night a week and then serving the whole fourteen."

There are now 3,806 landing-fields in the United States. The State of Texas leads

with 274, California has 251, Illinois 240, Pennsylvania 183, and New York 182.

President Eliot was once introduced to a lady who had attained the age of one hundred years. "What," he asked, "would you say, as you look back over your long life, has given you the greatest and most enduring pleasure?" The dear old thing didn't meditate very long. "My vittles," she replied.

From "Capper's Weekly:" The professor of astronomy had shown his fair visitor all through the observatory, and explained the work in minute detail. "I can understand how a new star might be discovered," she remarked sweetly, “but how do you clever people ever find out its name?"

There are but ten broadcast stations in the United States that are showing a profit, states H. A. Bellows, of the Federal Radio Commission. Of the 694 stations, only 25 are owned by manufacturers of electrical equipment, 13 per cent by radio dealers, 23 per cent by educational and religious institutions, and 9 per cent by newspapers.

SITUATIONS WANTED SOUTHERN lady wishes position where refinement and efficiency count. Foud of children. Have had experience as dietitian, companion, and some office work. References exchanged. 7,907, Outlook.

TWO competent, experienced women desire positions in club house, institution, or large school. One an expert stenographer and familiar with all kinds of clerical work, the other a dietitian and first-class housekeeper. Best references. 7,875, Outlook.

UNPREJUDICED? Position sought for attractive young Chinese woman, university graduate. Education, social service, typing. Highest references. 7,901, Outlook.

WOMAN of education and refinement, with executive ability, in last situation four years as inanager of household in motherless home, wishes similar position. Best of references given and required. Address Box 7,912, Outlook.

WOMAN, seventeen years' experience as commercial teacher, secretary, and accountant, desires secretarial position. Good references. Interview if desired. Address 7,909, Outlook.

MISCELLANEOUS

TO young women desiring training in the care of obstetrical patients a six months' nurses' aid course is offered by the Lying-In Hospital, 307 Second Ave., New York. Aids are provided with maintenance and given a monthly allowance of $10. For further particulars address Directress of Nurses.

TEACHER will take into her home in the country during summer three normal, healthy children, aged five to nine years. Board $15 per week each. Best care. Harriet S. Allen, White Creek, N. Y.

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An electric cable, a steam-engine, a banjo, or a mess-room toast offer occasion for song; and lo! they are converted by the alchemy of the imagination until they become a type and an illumination of the red-blooded life of mankind. The ability to achieve this is a crowning characteristic and merit of Rudyard Kipling's work.

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War and Pinochle

N page 235 of the June 22 issue you speak of the "Fighting Sixty-ninth" Regiment. May I ask if the other regiments are supposed to have been playing pinochle while this modest and retiring regiment was "fighting"? Brag is a good dog, and there is not wanting those who gladly assist in the propaganda. Tell us about the Irish regiment in the Mexican War which deserted. HENRY CONNELLY. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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No Proof of Scour

WEAK point, yes, the weak point in Engineer Freeman's article in the issue of June 8, is his easy assumption that levees will cause the Mississippi to "scour" its bed and reduce it lower constantly than at present, thus rendering lower levees possible for the future.

Whence this expectation?

Does a study of the Eads jetty system furnish any hope of this? Under the most favorable placing of opposite jetties there is little or no "scour."

According to Mr. Freeman's own statement, too, levee building on the lower Hwangho has resulted in raising the bed of that river thirty feet above the surrounding country. Moreover, the Hwangho is not a crooked river like the Mississippi, which drops mud in all its many bends.

I am glad Mr. Freeman advocates building flood refuges. They will be needed. C. A. STEPHENS.

Your letter inquiring about prohibition conditions in the State of Washington followed me on a trip East from which I recently returned here.

There is much misrepresentation by the wets of the conditions throughout the country.

Here in Spokane they describe the frightful conditions in New York City, and one would expect to see half the people on the streets there drunk. In the New York newspapers and other wet Eastern papers it is a popular game for wet enthusiasts to describe the conditions in the Western dry States as wet.

My own observation is that conditions are enormously improved in New York City over what they were before prohibition. In the clubs and banquets which I attend there I see a very great difference. This last April I was at an annual banquet of a thousand members of a National organization. Fifteen years ago the rear part of the banquet hall was a bedlam of drunken men. This year there was not a single man showing any signs of intoxication. It is a fact that at half a dozen tables near where I sat in the back of the room two or three men had brought something in a flask and poured it into their glasses. Even so, there was not two per cent of the amount of liquor and wine drunk at that banquet that was drunk at the same banquet fifteen years ago, with the same men and their friends in attend

ance.

I didn't see a drunken man while I was in New York, and I have not seen one here

in a long time. It is a fact that one who goes to look for it can find liquor in Spokane. We have published that fact repeatedly, but when one considers the amount that was drunk in the saloons, restaurants, and clubs before prohibition, the amount used now, even when one considers those of the so-called smart set who think it necessary to disregard the law in their homes, it is a mighty small item.

The big thing is that we have done away with the saloons, and, in my judgment, we have the only practical method of dealing with the liquor crowd-namely, to outlaw them entirely, just as we outlaw those who commit social offenses and crimes like highway robbery, burglary, opium selling, etc. The fact is, we are making pretty good progress with this law. No great reform has ever been put over in this country in less than twenty or thirty years. It will probably take a generation to convince the wets that they cannot break down this Prohibition Law.

I am glad to answer your letter, as I am very sure that sentiment in this State is as overwhelmingly dry as it ever has been. As to the country as a whole, the situation is shown by the votes of members of Congress and United States Senators. There are more of them voting dry now than there have been at any time, in spite of the great effort made at the last election by the wets to elect their partisans in place of drys. W. H. CowLES, Publisher of the "Spokesman-Review." Spokane, Washington.

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Contributors' Gallery

MILE VANDERVELDE is a prominent Belgian statesman, orator, and Socialist. He was born at Ixelles, near Brussels, in 1866, and was educated at the University of Brussels. He has been actively associated with the Labor Party since his advent into public life and an acknowledged force in this group. During the war Vandervelde devoted himself to problems of national defense and the liberation of his invaded country, and it was at this period that he first became a member of the Cabinet At the time of the peace negotiations and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles he was active in obtaining the insertion of labor clauses, relating especially to the eight-hour day. After the war, as Minister of Justice, he brought about great humanitarian and scientific reforms in the prison system. When the Labor Party came into prominence in 1925, he was made Minister for Foreign Affairs. In this capacity he played an important part in negotiating the Locarno Pact in 1925, which he signed on behalf of Belgium.

AMES A. TEN EYCK has been coaching

JAMES

the Syracuse University crews since 1903, with the exception of two years. Before that he coached at the United States Naval Academy and at the Duluth Boat Club. He probably has rowed more races than any other living man, and has developed many famous oarsmen and crews. He himself held the New England singlescull championship for some time and was a member of various championship crews. Some of the fastest scullers that ever pulled an oar, two of whom he mentions in his article, were developed by him.

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HEN the last issue of The Outlook went to press, the sea route between San Francisco and Hawaii had yet to be conquered by an airman, and Byrd, Acosta, Noville, and Balchen were still awaiting impatiently at their Long Island hangar for the word to start for France. The flight to Honolulu by Maitland and Hegenberger went through almost on schedule time, and the courageous aviators completed to their credit the longest voyage over the sea which has yet been achieved.

Commander Richard Byrd and his crew reached Newfoundland and ran into a fog bank which spanned practically the whole Atlantic. With amazing skill they found their way to Brest, and then night came and they were unable in the darkness and mist to make their way to the landing-field at Le Bourget. Just before morning, after a forty-four hours' flight, they were compelled to bring the plane to the ground on the coast at Ver-sur-mer. In the attempt to land in the shallow water their landing gear was carried away and their lives placed in serious jeopardy. Fortunately for the gallant navigators, their friends, and the future of aviation, all four men escaped with comparatively minor injuries.

The voyage was in no sense an attempt to establish new records, but it certainly broke the record for a flight under adverse circumstances. It has resulted in broadening the knowledge of weather conditions over the Atlantic and in dramatic proof of the need for the development of radio beacons and for adequate weather reports. Of the four transoceanic flights of recent weeks, that of Commander Byrd may prove in the long run to have been by far the most important.

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The chapel of the Ile de France. M. Piaz, President of the French Line, is shown on the left, and Captain Blancard of the Ile de France on the right. Monsignor Lavelle, of St. Patrick's Cathedral, stands in the center

rations?" There'll be weighty arguments, pros and cons, for the Ile de France is not only the latest thing in liners, but also the last word in interior decoration. Her decorations are not merely bizarre, as so much that is called modern appears to be. They have the marks of a style possessing unity and force and vitality. Whether one likes them or not, they represent the work of

an artistic mind impelled by a definite conception of design. We doubt whether any one could come to a final conclusion about them in any single tour of inspection. They would have to be lived with for at least the length of an ocean voyage before a critic would have the temerity to say, "Thumbs up" or "Thumbs down."

When the Ile de France docked in