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WANTED, by widow living alone, working housekeeper. Must be well and able to cook. One other helper kept. Would not object to her having some nursing experience. Am Beeking woman of refinement between 35 and 45 years of age, one willing to travel or stay, who desires permanent home and can give loyalty and interest. 7,968, Outlook.

WANTED-Nursery governess to care for four children under nine in Cincinnati. Wish to fill position by August 15, by refined and educated woman. Address Mrs. Frederick V. Geier, Bay Head, N. J.

A

LOT of these awfully busy people are only nervous.

Ac

There should be a great revival in Sunday-school work in North Carolina. cording to William Allen White, certain school boards in that State are offering contracts to young and winsome teachers which contain this sentence:

"I promise not to go with any young man except in so far as it is to stimulate Sunday-school work."

"My papa's a bookkeeper," said little Albert, proudly.

"Yes, I know it," rejoined small Dorothy, whose father was a minister. "He borrowed a book from my papa six months ago and hasn't returned it."

A new breed of collectors has appeared on the scene who have been grouped by an enterprising dealer as "Foliophiles." By this is meant persons who, lacking the price of a rare volume, are content with but a single leaf from cne. To appease this appetite book-shredding must result. A new catalogue reveals a rather inexpensive way of possessing samples culled from rarities. A leaf of the first King James Bible can be secured for $2. One from the 1529 edition of Dante costs but $1.50. Luther's Wittenberg Bible, 1584, $2. Pages from the fourth Shakespeare folios range in value from $3 to $7.50 each.

By the Way

The Census Bureau of the United States Government has compiled these figures to show the number of customers patronizing the average retail establishment: Grocers, 449; butchers, 880; drug-stores, 1,341; drygoods stores, 1,682; men's clothing, 1,682; hardware stores, 2,615; furniture stores, 4,132.

From "Life:"

The poet: "My love for you, dear, is as enduring as the stars, as infinite as night, as"

She: "Oh, quit talking shop, Harry, and get down to cases."

This seems a new contribution to an old form of international pleasantry:

In Germany everything is forbidden that is not permitted.

In England everything is permitted that is not forbidden.

In Austria everything is permitted that is forbidden.

From the "Progressive Grocer:"

"If hens weren't intelligent," said Mrs. Newlywed, "how could they lay eggs that exactly fit our egg-cups?"

H. W. Deans, of San Francisco, who has spent several years in Japan, writes of his interest in the Japanese traffic rules recently printed in these columns, and incloses a translation of some of the rules printed on the back of his Japanese license card:

ART. 22. Conductors and Drivers must observe the regulation as follows:

On passenger car it is prohibited to be exceed the full strength of staff to take

car.

REMARKS: Less than 4 years of age is out of full personnel and 1 of each over 5 years to less 12 years age is considered a person.

It is prohibited to lend license to other persons.

It is prohibited to drive when he drunk.

In the night it must put light to keep candles which rules in the regulations. It is prohibited to go parallel with other car.

When the car goes forward connecting with other cars it must keep distance for 10 ken.

It must always bell and go slowly when the car is going on cross-roads, bridge, slopes, muddy places and also across railway or street car roads.

It must always keep road into left side except when the car meet with troops must pass right side.

When it is trying to outstrip the other car it must bell and go right side of the former car.

When close by horse car it must take Icare that do not astonish a horse.

When it meet with other automobile it must less candles for his convenience of motion.

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LONELY person of refinement, fond of housekeeping, can have pleasant home with teacher in return for care of first floor, including cooking. 7,958, Outlook.

CORRESPONDENCE lessons in English. Anna Wildman, The Clinton, Philadelphia.

TEACHER of experience, very fond of children, and accustomed to their care and training, will take into her pleasant suburban home a normal child of any age. Terms sixty dollars per month. 7,957, Outlook.

Anxious mother: "And is my boy really trying?"

Tired teacher: "Very."

Orator: "And what do we do? We pursue the shadow, the bubble bursts, and leaves but sackcloth and ashes in our empty hands."

From the Allston "Recorder:"

Joe: "There's one job I wish the marines would do for me while they are in China." Moe: "What is that?"

Joe: "I wish they would go across country and see if there are any flying fishes on the road to Mandalay, and also if it is across the bay from China. I want this Kipling thing settled for good."

"Hold 'Em" Joe Powers, who broke into the headlines with his sixteen-day squat atop a Chicago flagpole, is hard put in the invention of new worlds to conquer. He now announces: "I will sit on one of Chicago's highest flagpoles thirty days, leave by balloon, jump from balloon by parachute, release from 'chute at 300-foot height and dive into Lake Michigan."

The New York "World's" London bureau lists the names of some of the unusual professions listed in Kelly's Post Office London Directory:

Anatomists' osteologists.

Annato manufacturers.

Bactopeptone manufacturers.

Brewery amalgamators.
Coal dust grinders.
Dandy roll makers.
Dust layers.

Milk guard manufacturers.

There are, according to Kelly's, two buhl cutters in London, and it is comforting to know that there is one maker of diethylbarbituric acid. Armorers and braziers, bowyers, borderers, fletchers, girdlers, horners, loriners, skinners and upholders still sustain the dignity of city "livery" companies, if not regularly practicing the more ancient form of their ancient trades.

Little girl: "I want it for my mamma. She has stomach trouble and the doctor says she has to diet, and mamma wants a pretty color."

A sentence taken from a serial story in the Cincinnati "Enquirer" reads: "Herod had such word," said Jared, "and sent forth men to slap the babes in Bethlehem."

Can you make a "square word" from the following? That is, words which form a square and read alike vertically as well as horizontally. Answer next week. A useful part of a monkey.

A measure. The rainbow. Smaller.

The Thousandfold Thrill of Life

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every port, a cattle keeper on shipboard, an engineer amidst his oily engines, are put before us in Kipling's stories and poemssays the editor of The Warner Library-so that we recognize them as lovable fellowcreatures responsive to the thousandfold thrill of life.

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 crown ing characteristic and merit of Rudyard Kipling's work.

Had Kipling stopped with his rollicking ballads of the barrack-room he would have won his place in the hall of famous poets, but he went further and higher as the uncrowned laureate of the English-speaking people.

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"Twenty Questions

on General Information

Answered in this issue of

The Outlook

Give yourself 5 points for each question correctly answered. One hundred points is a perfect score. You can find the correct solution on the pages cited.

1. To what member of the Cabinet is the Forest Service directly responsible? (P. 508.)

2. What is the highest peak in the United States that can be reached by railroad? (Inside back cover.)

3. Of what State was Lowden formerly Governor? (P. 497.)

4. What bridge was just dedicated at Buffalo? (P. 197.)

5. On what lake is the Plattsburg Training Camp? (P. 498.)

6. What office did Leonard Wood hold at the time of his death? (P. 499.)

7. Of what organization is William Green head? (P. 500.)

8. Who was Captain James Cook? (P. 494.)

9. Of what country was Liliuokalani once Queen? (P. 494.)

10. Who was John Dillon? (P. 494.) 11. At what university is William Lyon Phelps a professor? (P. 511.)

12. Who wrote the "Biglow Papers"? (P. 512.)

13. In what State is Penobscot Bay? (P. 511.)

14 Who is National Commander of the American Legion? (P. 495.)

15. Who is the Governor of Maine? (P. 503.)

16. What Catholic Cardinal resides in New York City? (P. 505.)

17. To what British lord does Maryland owe its doctrine of religious freedom? (P. 504.)

18. Who said "Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation"? (P. 511.)

19. Who is Mustapha Kemal? (P. 494.) 20. What nation bestows the Order of the Rising Sun? (P. 499.)

Free for All

What Marx Really Accomplished

I

WAS much pleased with your article on Marxism by Mr. Vandervelde, feeling that every one should be informed upon old and new Socialism. However, I wish that the author had not merely stressed the principle of class struggle and said nothing about the principle of surplus value. If the proletariat could not secure the wealth going to the rich, there would be no betterment for them. Moreover, I think that Socialists in our time have placed much importance upon this principle. I think their view is all wrong, but it has been a beacon light to them all these weary decades.

However, there is more than merely hope in Marx's theories. To-day the germ of surplus value survives, in that working people everywhere are buying stocks with their savings, and so in a real way (though far different from that of Marx) are getting the long-desired surplus value (their share of the return of capital), now rightly won. I believe a certain American Thomas N. Carver has written a book on the subject. I liked also your own editorial upon Mr. Vandervelde's paper. Doubtless you

are familiar with Spargo's "Socialism," with its sympathetic portrait of Marx toiling in dire poverty for his beloved masses and giving to the workers his beacon light of hope. Even if later times and leaders have builded differently upon the foundation of Marx, or even if he did not build but merely lighted a great hope which was to be fulfilled, then he is deserving of the high respect and honor due all those who labor honorably for the lessening of the burdens of the poor and needy. H. M. ALLEN.

Auburn, New York.

Ford's Retraction

ET me enthusiastically applaud your regarding the Ford withdrawal It needed some one to say something along the line that you selected. Most of the editorial comments that I have seen have been rather perfunctory. H. F. SHERWOOD.

Fall River, Massachusetts.

Journeys in Moonshine Land

HE article "What Prohibition Has Done

issue, seems to me to have the bias of a man of old experiences. At heart he is still in sympathy with the old moonshiner. At heart he is still a moonshiner. He has turned over his father's still to a cousin who really continues his work as a lawbreaker.

I lived in the mountains of Kentucky from 1882 to 1887, and in the mountains of Tennessee from 1892 to 1917. While living in Kentucky it was as much as a man's life was worth to go into the neighborhood of a still. The moonshiner would fear he was a revenue officer. These moonshiners wanted to add the revenue to the price for which they sold their moonshine. This man has not met with a change of heart, like Paul. He was not the same man after conversion as before.

While living in Tennessee a Revenue officer told me he could count from a hilltop in one county one hundred stills by their smoke. Why so many moonshiners? The tax added that much profit to their moonshine. The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment added another profit-the scarcity value. That is why moonshining continues in the mountains as elsewhere.

In the month of May of this year myself and family spent a month on the way and in Middle Tennessee, a distance of 2,000 miles by automobile. We passed through parts of Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. That was onehalf the time spent by Mr. Pridemore. I did not see a still, a place where moonshine was sold, nor smell moonshine We breath on more than two or three. kept out of the larger cities, and were again delighted with the beauty and progress of the Southland.

This writer says he saw in two months poison moonshine enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States. Of course, he saw more than I did, having been in the business; but what an enormous amount he must have seen!

I join hands with him in extolling the general scrupulous honesty, unfaltering loyalty, and unfailing hospitality of these people, having lived among them for thirty years.

Should this man go back to the mountains to lead these people to the principles of prohibition and obedience to law, he would show that he had met with a change of heart. The moonshiner acts without regard to the ill or good he is doing to his fellow-man.

(Rev.) WARREN E. WHEELER. Barkhamsted, Connecticut.

ARGAIN-HUNTING woman to ticket agent:

BAR

"What time does the next train leave for the city?"

Ticket agent: "At 3:45, madam." Bargain hunter: "Make it 3:15, and I'll take it."

Second-hand dealers report that the hardest book to buy second hand is the Bible. The leading dealer of Chicago is quoted as saying that from 75 to 100 calls for second-hand Bibles come in during a week, and he can hardly keep a sufficient supply to meet the demand.

From the Columbia "Jester:"

Judge: "What did you do when you saw the deceased? The officer says you neither slowed down nor turned out."

Defendant: "I took all precautions, your Honor. I blew my horn and cursed him."

Summer boarder: "But why are those trees bending over so far?"

Farmer: "You would bend over, too, miss, if you wuz as full o' green apples as those trees are."

The "Yes-man" of the movies has become well known. He is the attendant who follows the director around answering "Yes" to every query. It is now claimed that his technique has been bettered. The movies now boast a group of "Ah-men," whose duties are to stand behind the cameramen and to explode with a long-drawn "Ah-h-h-hh!" of admiration whenever a good shot is made.

From "Good Hardware:"

"Why do they have those glass cases with axes in them in the railroad passenger cars?"

"Oh, they are put there in case some one wants to open a window."

The very latest in "Shoppes" is to be found in Marblehead, Massachusetts-"Ye Olde Clam Shoppe."

Evelyn A. Cummins tells of two battered and shabby-looking old fellows who were sitting together on a bench in a city park. One said, "I'm a man who never took advice from anybody." "Shake, brother," answered the other; "I'm a man who took everybody's advice."

"Every one of us is more like every one else than he thinks he is," pointed out the late lamented "McNaught's Monthly."

From the Detroit "News:"

"Listen," remarked the exasperated driver over his shoulder. "Lindbergh got to Paris without any advice from the back seat."

Lucio in the Manchester "Guardian" suggests a terrible weapon:

[Embodying brand-new possibilities in the art of abuse, as suggested by a report of police court proceedings in which the defendant was said to have used threatening language to a neighbor, including the declaration that he was "a red-headed, oscillating -"]

I thought I had showed him my hate if
Mere words could achieve that effect-

I had labeled him coward and caitiff
In terms of extreme disrespect;
From booby to bottle-nosed buffer

I used every phrase that would fitBut it seemed that the wretch didn't suffer

The least little bit.

My temper was up and in tireless
Invective I rose to the strain-

In words I had learnt from the wireless
I started all over again.
Grown even more brutal and brisker
The torrent gained volume and pace:
You common cat's
"You grid-leak!

whisker!"

I hissed in his face: "You asinine amplification!

You static transformer and scamp! You heterodyne oscillation!

till you've

You arrant and ignorant amp! I'll shout out your sins shunned 'em.

You megohm!" (He wavered and blushed.)

"You cathode! You mere carborundum!" He slunk away crushed.

The Florence "Herald" says "if deforestation continues, flood sufferers of the future will not have a single log to float on." That must mean that the trees are already on the trail of the lonesome pine.

"I wonder why the artist called this picture 'Home'?"

"Because there's no place like it, I should say."

The income of the average family is said to exceed in buying power the income of But, remarks the average family in 1914.

the Boston "Transcript," the average family of to-day wants a lot of things the average family of 1914 never heard of.

From an exchange:

"What kind of a fellow is Smith?"

"Well, if you ever see one fellow trying to borrow money from another, the fellow shaking his head is Smith."

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Volume 146

In Memory of Leonard Wood

NE of the strongest reasons that led Leonard Wood to remain at his post in the Philippines about four years ago was a letter from the inmates of the Culion Leper Colony. They urged him not to abandon them without the assurance that "the great and noble work" he had undertaken "for the despised lepers" should be continued.

As in Cuba General Wood's work in sanitation paved the way for the eradication of yellow fever, so in the Philippines he inspired and aided a constant, vigorous, advancing campaign against leprosy, which he called "the one remaining black terror of the race." He believed it could be made to yield to science. A veteran American surgeon, Dr. W. W. Keen, told recently in The Outlook of a new method of leprosy treatment that had found its maximum benefit at Culion. Before that in an article in The Outlook Mrs. Wade,

August 24, 1927

wife of the head of the Colony, through an interview with Mr. George Witten, pictured Culion "not as a prison for the dead but a haven of promise." It was asserted that if eradication of leprosy in the islands followed, as seems entirely probable, it would be due to the ardent campaign of General Wood aided by United States Army doctors, a dozen French nuns, and a few volunteer missionaries.

Two years ago General Wood wrote, "I believe we are on the verge of great results, . . . but we need more help." The word has gone forth in the islands that a thousand lepers have been cured and sent back to their friends. It is computed that there are twelve thousand

Number 17

Wood's heart. There could be no conceivably fitter memorial of his service than that proposed by a committee headed by General Harbord-a $2,000,000 fund for the eradication of leprosy in the Philippines. Aguinaldo, the former insurrectionist, said just after Gcneral Wood's death, "He was a genuine apostle working for the health of his people."

This drive against leprosy is of worldwide importance. We hope that many of our readers will join it. Information may be had from, or checks may be sent to, the Leprosy Eradication Fund, Metropolitan Tower, New York City.

In the Air

said, "It does not seem proper that a rich country like America should have lepers under its flag without providing for them."

This work was close to Leonard

son for transoceanic flights drew near its end, and still the great feats accomplished remained those of Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Byrd, and Maitland.

The pilots of two great German mono

American Ambassador greets German aviators