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Mary Roberts Rinchart Writes a Travel Volume—A Stpry of e F. IDA GILBERT MYERS. NOMAD'S LAND. By Mary Roberts Rinehart, author of ‘“The Red Lamp, ete. Tllustrated. New York: George H. Doran Co. OMING out of “Nomad's Land,” one.realizes that here the traveler's usual question of where to go ceased in no time at all to have any im- portance. For right at the start it £tond clear that the company was the main count in this adventure. The pyramids, and the Sphinx, and the temples, and the tombs of Egypt went into sudden eclipse behind the massed influence of the desert. and Dabaheah. and Assour., and Mary Roberts Rine- hart. Graveyards and dead kings— the stock in trade of Egypt nowa- days—have been overplaved. over: taged. Xo one would catch that fact more promptly than this wrher.d‘x;o_ ene would understand more readiiy than she that a really live outfit 1;\ the desert would he in"the nature of say, an oasis. So while Mrs. Rinehar makes respectful o\aelunco to the i and gone gran :fi:‘l’ent Kings and gives graphic de- Seriptions of this and that in the way of custom, and rite, and ceremony, ghe, for her moments of sheer tri- Gmph. devotes herself to the desert and Dabaheah, and Assour, and the dafly routine of ::enexr;egzein Routine ot the word, for g thing in this.adventure. Dabaheah s the camel that Mre Rl:;:‘?en:u:e ide after a_while wher ] ;:n: of the businers. 5;1\271“:-:?1;" er t. fingling W Dorious neckinces 10 keep o‘fln‘;hemni\‘(;l X acquiesc d. chadowy figures who had be ing on her douhlrd~ur~x(otr°el‘ehs: :::nzi? er rear shot up in h " A o e portion followed suit, another nich let out behind and ‘another Tront, and she was up. So was o Far below me were the sands of thd Libyan desert. The tall Bedoulns b chrunk to insignificance. "hh turned her long neck and gave heah e e Io0E bk The sournev in the desert If Of What is the use of talking f‘ ": trip or any other made by thi woman? You all know her: you & read her Rut I want to ask !fl\(;. ”fr toh Mrow any iother mrjter of ALY doings—and she converts evervthing {nto the exchange’of common evente Who has the completely communica : pirit of humor, gusto, common Sense Jaughter, mental alertness and tomic aire that this one has® Out en 1he Fanch when Summer comes, up in th Where “the sky's the limit.” these te ax manifest as when the author ' is in Egypt or any n(ho'\‘ where. A charming traveler to g a-roaming with —no deubt about that air gifte P By W. H. Davie y ography o author of “The Autobiography f a 'Super-Tramp.” etc. New York George 1. Deran Co. 46\ AGABOND" .is a beautiful word that has fallen upon evil davs Not at all does it carry in its essence the taint of wastrel, or aven ruffiianiy. existence that now =0 commonly Il Applied to it. Instead. it points out the Ll ialler. moving here and there. as the heart dictates, as the skies invite, A the wind calls. as the song of hird or the scurry of hare throws out the fure of & new road and a fresh feld. Now, W. H Da\]dps |Sn"»“n|\‘eorf‘!"l€‘l\\{ od’ vagabond, leading s fl'gxm‘&re And delight and refresh- Mente-an easy-going man. ready stop for talk and a cool stretch upon the grass. A pocketful of talk this Vvagabond has on all manner of sub: jects—beggars, poets. artists har Juck and good luck. authors by sea ana land, war. politics, socfety. loaf fng along the road. famous men—what not Fasy talk unning along like a Pusy brook: homely talk about com men things—tobacco. and dogs. food, and drink. Wise talk sometimes. too. like how to kr of making a mistake a | chen vou come upon e a%h curious assortment of tin cans, and if vou know anything about beggars and the way they live you Wil see by the position of the cans what kind of men were there last ¢ thev were true travelers and pro fess heggars, the cans will be tu 1 upside dow o that the dew or rain shall net get inside and rust them ¥or in his consideration for others the true traveler a gentle man.” And so on .hrn.u;\} a long and dalightful list of possibilities for these Kings of the open road. It seems that great writers have a lustful eve tyrned upon vagabondage. for of the opened their LATER DAY ke a beggars’ camp is hearts te the enviable Jite of this “super-tramp”—Conrad. Hudson, Masefield among them. A peautiful book. a true vagrant, brim- ming with a thousand things that are without price; things that demand only the heart to desire them, and there they are. . * % x ¥ E BIG MOGUL. By Joseph C. mmenm. author of “Queer Judson etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co. (~ERTAIN novelties have done more to move entire localities into the Intimate affection of readers than his- torians have done, or. indeed, than any other brand of authorship has suc coeded in doing. Joseph Lincoln is clearly one of these. By way of his ptories, New England has moved out into every other part of the country— its characters as familiar as the folks poross the waw its features of the east coast life as clear as if they had been lifelong companions. A great achievement by way of an art that has held steadfastly to sincerity, to the will to reproduce in words the people whom Lincoln has always known; peo ple of whom he is himself a part. feel ing as they do, behaving as they do, looking at life as they do. but just enongh removed to obtain that truth of distance which is the alm of all art Joseph Lincoln’s characters are as really a part of New England as Cape Cod is a part of it, or Plymouth Rock And to the sincerity of this writer is added a ki to hand the themes of his choosing “The Big Mogul’ projects the great an of tha town. He is a type, no matter where the town that bows 1o him may be. Dominating. inconsid erate, hard. In this case it is a love Story which the mogul seeks to de- stroy that serves Mr. Lincoln as an other chance to portray a character that is less harsh than its rough ex terfor indicates. This is Joseph Lin coln’s business—to remove the hard shell of the Yankee through the me- éium of his own discerning friendship and genial humor. A Lincoln novel is a tonic to one “all run down” from excesses in morbid literature. Tt peps one up in no time at all and puts one | in debt for “The Big Mogul”_er any other of the Lincoln stories of New ngland. e ok k% HILL. York: Jennings Simon* & THE WINDY By Perry. New Schuster. OVE is the novelist's only theme Love—trie or false. fleeting. lawfu! or lawless. modern or anclent—sets the limits of his field From this theme mountains of undis tinguished work emerge. Distin- guished work, the subtle something That sets a writer apart from the or -gatisfles ing. crowd, the-sol » eur of EgYP's| to| and | how without chance | First there | ndliness, half humorous and { altogether friendly, that fits like glove | abiding or | listen to this lishers—A “Keep Movi | With equal zeal she exgludes from it S DA Jost circumspect of these have | | I | { hand. {has a good structure and a definite | | career | present <ome | 1ance which would give them the op- | somewhere else. " the exacting and charms the sense of clear artistry—this kind of work is rare and dear. Here {8 a love story picked off from one of the kinds of love already named here. What the story is you will find out by reading. And you will read it—that is, you will read it if you once begin it—for here is a writer from whom you will not wish to escape. He has the gift, that indi- vidual gift which cannot be copied— sensibility, originality, grace, virility, charm. The novel begins this wa “‘Playing God'—that was her phrase. Once in one of her letters I saw where she had written, ‘Oh, I have played God with so many men! She meant she meddled in men’s lives, bent them or twisted them about. It was a sort of vampirism. She could not have helped it, I believe. It was her des- tiny, and she 'was very desirable. ® ¢ * On this night she. had been playing God with John Starr, and better than she knew.” Then the story—a strong one. Here at the end of it John Starr is talking to the girl who had “played God with so many wmen.” I had a dream and you had a dream. You were my dream and you were your dream. You desired to be the splendor of vour life—I de- sired to bring glory to the drabness | of mine. You were to me the lady of the ballads, the poems, the romances, the legends. You were the bright" light after which my heart cried and my youth followed, barefoot and re- vering. But my youth came to the end of its tether, Clita; it has learned to wear shoes and be grown up. s s s And had peace, since we both wanted you * * + You haver't changed. Clita To you. you are still the cynosure of the universe. * * * And [ shall always love vou, as vou love your- self.”" A deep insight here, a beauti- ful and ‘distinguished story, besides, by a writer of many trades and pro- sions and occupations. But, above all—a writer _— By Boston: PORTIA MARRI Phillips Gibb: Brown & Co. HE theme of “Portia Marries” picked right off the top laver of | modern circumstance. Not altogether common vet is the practice of eco- nemic and occupational independence | of wives. But it is already a going concern, tremendousiy attractive to the army of smart young women who today are so joyously kicking up their heels in the open field of self-suppor? and industrial competition As its title implies, such independence is the | subject of this novel Its author is clearly an advocate of a matrlmoninl‘ program of this order In treatment | the story is a plain case of special pleading for a 50-30 plan of individual | freedomi applied to matrimor There- | to this thesis Mrs. Gibbs brlngs‘ supporting fact that the nature and scope of the theme will carry. » Jeannette Little, 1 is| every controverting detail, no matter how essential it may be to the plausi- bility and realism of ‘the matter in By virtue of this exclusive partisanship the novel as a whole is no more convincing than any other fairy tale. Honors are much too easy here to be convincing. Yet the story movement, It carries a_sense of hu- | mor, except in the character and | of tortia herself. 'The super qualities of this young woman are 8o seriousiv conceived' and so confidently projected as to cast a doubt over what looks like excellent comedy in other parts of the narrative. Serious in purpose, ardent in spirit, pleasant in effect, here is a novel which is at misleading, since it deliber conceals the enormous difficul ties underlying such achievement as Portia represents in the cause of in dependence for the married woman. ‘'wenty-five vears from now maybe women will have settled some of the problems that Portia now turns off so easily. ¥ % ox K HEART OF BLACK PAPUA. Merlin Moore Taylor. New Robert M. McBride & Co. now, thousands of miles away from It all and with fts vividness dimmed by time. 1 often find myself in the gri of a nightmare in which 1 live over again those days and nights when inland Papua struck at the very core of my being. Again I am hedged about by naked black men whose peering eyes ever seem focused upon me, waiting and watch ing for that moment of relaxed vigi- THE By York portunity to strike. Again 1 hear their savage cries in the night, ring- ing eerfly from cliff to cliff across the chasms. Again I see them In ever- increasing numbers in the trall before me, their bows tight drawn. their epears poised. * * * For Papuais like that.” Beyond this opening para- graph there are pages and chapters of sheer adventure among a savage and suspicious people in the midst of a strange and threatening land. Magic, sorcery, treachery. primitive and bar- barous ceremonijes. odd wavs of life. cruel customs to their own kind and an unbroken sense of hidden enmity— we should never have | the Vagabo'nds—Newest Fiction From the Pul:- Yarn. of the migratory instinet in full swing. " * % % THREE SKALLYWAGS. By Walter 8. Greenough. _ Illustratie Wil Vawter. Indianapoll Bobbs-Merrill Co. ND here is the tuneful saga’of " Johnny an’ Lige an' Harrison Tate, skallywags in their native state: For them three fellersll laugh an’ grin. No matter what kind of a 8X they'rs in.* Except when somebody, makes ‘em mad- Ao’ than hey'll fignt or they'll cuse right The neighborhood loafers, lazy and good for nothing. Fishin' all day, coonin' all night, and in between talkin' politics and pacifism, likker and the laws. ‘The minstrel for these Indlana farm boys is Jimmy, whose thrifty wife, Mary. hasher hands more than full trying, to keep Jimmy.away from the lure of Johnny an' Lige an' Harrison Tate. Reminiscent of Riley are these sing- ing Hoosler tales of homespun. And not In any degree are they behind the well known poems of the beloved In- diana poet. The pictures by Will Vawter are very much alive. One sees actual movement, or thinks he does—the old horse caught in the very tail motion of flicking flies, the out:flung hand of a skallywag in some earnest moment of speech. Delightful stuff. all of it. Having commenced it, you will keep right on chanting it out loud to the very last word. BOOKS RECEIVED CREWE TRAIN. By Rose Macaulay. New York: Bonl & Liveright. WAS A GIRL_IN SWEDEN. By Anna-Mia Hertz man (Leonne de Cambray). TII- lustrated from Photographs. Bos- ton: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. CHEMISTRY IN THE WORLD'S WORK. By Harrison E. Howe, Editor, Tndustrial and Engineering Chemistry Technologic Seri etc.. author of "New Stone Age," etc. New Vork: D. Van Nostrand Co. ANN LEE'S: And Other Stories. By Elizabeth Bowen. New York: Boni & Liveright SPRING By Mrs. Dotglas New York: George H. A MANIFEST DESTINY D.* Howden Smith. Brentano's. THE BLU BOOK OF COOKERY: And Manual of Hou Manage- ment. By Isabel Smith. Introduction by Post. author of “Etiquette, New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co. for the Literary Digest. SWEEPINGS. _ By Lester Cohen. New York: Boni & Liveright. CHRIST AT THE PHONE. By Charles A. Jenkens. Boston: The Stratford Co. \ STRATING. 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Volume 14, 1926- 1927 Fdited by Albert Nelson | Marquis. _ Chicago: The A. N. Marquis Co. THE TWO VIRGINITIES. Herbert S. Gorman. New The Macaulay Co. SOLVING THE FARM RIDDLE. By Edward Jerome Dies, author of “The Wheat Pit,” etc. Chicago: Pascal Covicl. THE SBHOW-UP: Stories Before the Bar. By Charles E. Erbstein. Chicago: Pascal Covicl. THE WORLD THAT WAS. By John G. Bowman. New York: The Mac- millan Co. MR. AND PARIS, Ogden Stewart. by Herb Roth & Bros. By Arthur New York: on PE By | York: MRS. HADDOCK IN FRANCE. By Donald | With Drawings New York: Harper such are some of the items in this hazard of Black Papua to a little group of white men. Then it is all over—home, safety, the plain run of events. Never again. But again the chance comes to feel the thrill of dan. | ger—“the deep, dank jungle! Those | mistencircled mountains! By George. I do want to g0 back!” Queer animal, man’ If yvou want adventure every min-, ute and danger around every corner and change from second to second, here it all is. And matter-of-fact, too. * ok ox % I'LL. NEVER_ MOVE_ AGAIN. By Fitzhugh Green. Illustrated by Don Herold. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. \[OVING time on again for @ armies of nomads. And here right at hand is a completely authentic vecord of the regular semi-annual mi- gration, reduced to a literal account. warranted to fit the case of each indi- vidual victim of the instinct of va- grancy. Tt is all here. from taking out a new lease to giving it up in preparation for another move. Here vou will find vourself and no other wrestling with furniture and furnaces, with plumbing and bathtubs. with “murder and the landlord"—indeed, with every step of vour own agoniz- ings over the business of getting A tragic odvesey, vet one to double you up in laughter and profanity and tears as vou step again into the familiar track of many movings. “I have moved 52 times"—the au- thor talking. *'No, there is no trick about it. I am not a drummer, nor a circus manager, nor a bigamist. T am a respectable though unfortunate American who has picked up bag and baggage. book and box. bale and baby, and moved from one lodging to an- other 52 different and consecutive times.” Then come all the familiar and harrowing details of the matter. Finally, after it is all over 52 times. “Secretly 1 shall go on moving—in my mind, of course. There is only one rule that I ecan unreservedly recommend as a sure cure for the blues or any other mental hysical {ll. That is—keep mov- Just-a trus and hilasious tale - THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each iPyle. Sunday. The following books may be found in the industrial division: Mathematics. S. Six Place Tables. Austin. W A Laboratory Plane Geometry. LED-AuTl. Bal‘é‘e;z H. C. Everyday Algebra. LD- Buchanan. H. E., and Emmons, L. C. A Brief Course in Advanced Alge- bra. LD-B853. Court, N. College Geometry. C83. Crawley, E. S., ed. Tables of Log- arithms. LDL-C85. Cullimore, A. R. The Mannheim Slide Rule. LBB-C8%m Curtis, A. B.. and Cooper, J. H. Mathe- matics of Accounting. LCC-C84m. Edgerton, E. 1., & Carpenter. P. A, Advanced Algebra. LD-Ed33. Gonnelly, J. F.. and Huff, L. G. Sev- enth Year Mathematics. LB-G586. Granville. W. A. Elements of the Dif- ferential and Integral Caleulus. 1911. LG-G766e. Hart. W. L. College Algebra. LD- H258c. Hawkes, H. E.. and others. New Sec- ond Course in Algebra. LD-H315na. Lennes. N. J. A Survey Course in Mathematics. LB-L548s. Ligda. Paul. The Teaching of Els- mentary Algebra. LD-L62t. Longley. W. R., and Marsh, H. B. Algebra. LD-L865. Love, C. E. Differential and Integral Caleulu LG-L%434 March, H. W., and Wolff, H. C. Cal- ulus. LG-M33. Moyer, J.. A. Engineering Descriptive Geometrv. LE-M878e. New York (State) University. Syllabus for Elementary Schools: Arith- metic. LC-N422, Nyberg, J. A. Second Course in Alge- bra. LD-N8§2e Overman. J. R. Principles and Meth- ods of Teaching Arithmetic. LC- Ov-27p. Faltner, C.1,and Leigh, G We Plana Allen, E. LB- BAI5. LED- Werremey: BY NANNIE OW that we are back from out Summer outings and have had our little gusts of brag over seashores, mountains and country farms, we will have to take one stay-at-home's dic- tum that the Capitol grounds can offer more free attrac- tions than are to be had at any pay resort—bar none. Scenically Washington truly village green 1s a fairyland of Jsnowy marble, far- “reaching greenery and big, leaf; trees. All Sum- mer there has been silk soft grass to lounge on, or if that be unfitting one’s dig- nity of station, or, stiff- choice of stone coping bleachers where. surrounded by beauty-breezes and Aladdin-jeweled lights, you can view the pageant of the people. On they come—tourists, families, with babies in tow: flappers and more flappers, and countless men and women, in singles, twosomes and bunches—all glad for the silver-gray twilight that refreshes souls -and :odles after the glare and grind of the ay. Out in the vastness of asphalt that grays up to the Capitol steps, auto- mobiles sizzle multitudinously, like the fireflies you see darting over a coun- try pond in the twilight: and though automobiles are a nuisance unless you own one, the flame of their glass- lidded eves adds a razzle-dazzle glamour to the show. For a side trip, thera is the Library of Congress across, the green. and when you have taken in the splendor of this granite stronghold of the lit- erature of ‘the ages, have descended the snowy downrush of steps and vi- sioned the names of its architects, fm- mortalized in gold on the marble of a pillared arch, you might pause long enough to consider the inscrutability of circumstances that has placed the | greatest of these three in a nameless grave somewhere in the green silepce of Mount Olivet If your city-fagged brain calls for | meadowland and quiet trail, thers is a countrylike read that leads to the Union Station, with daisies and seed- grasses growing along the way. . Also, there {8 the lure of the sea- shore for thirsty eves—the Columbus fountain—brimful of water that looks clear and cool and deep. Under the figurehead of the vessel, a flock of bathing-trunked' youngsters splash around in the twilight — at least they did until the city fathers had to take back permission—their callow bodies of a pearly tenderness not yet tanned to the budding muscles of ado- lescenca. And, as they shake them- selves like dripping spanfels. it comes to you somehow, that the in those tiny tads the compensation of that voyage he made long and long ago to find a nameless country across an uncharted sea. There is more, much more, for the eyes of imagina- tion to feast on, but—enough is al- ways enough. o ox o F your home is 'way down South in Dixie, and you get lonesome spells for the land where milk and honey flow, just take a turn into Fifteenth atreet and walk and walk and walk until you come to a little slice of front vard, green with bushes that are brown with pods topped with ice cream Cotton! And in the neat bit of a house back of the yard you know theré lives some other Southerner, white or col- ored, man or woman—what difference does it make’—who gets lonesome spells for the land of milk and honey, hoecakes and mocking birds— And it helps. L . HIS I8 to notify the man who sees nothing extra in a primrose that he has a sister living in this town. She has just returned from Atlantic City and was bubbling out her expe- and Spherical Trigonometry. LF- P183p. Porter. M. B., and Ettlinger, H. Elementary Calculus. LG-P833e. Putnam. T. M. Mathematical Theory of Finance. LCC-P3%6m. J. 0. Plane Geometry. . P993p. Reeve. W D. the Teaching Problems in Hign School Mathematics. LB-R258d. Roantree, W. F.. and Taylor. M. An_Arithmetic for Teachers. R53. Robbins, E. R., and Somerville. F. H. Exercises in Algebra. 1904. LD- R533e. Smail, L. L. Mathematics of Finance. LCC-Sm14m. Sm:(l.]l;. L. Plane Trigometry. LFP- Sml. Smith, D. E., and others. High School Mathematics, LB-Smb3g. Smith. O. S. Arithmetic of Business. LCC-SmST. Stone, J. C. The New Mathematics. v. 1. LB-St73n. Sullivan, J."W. N. The History of Mathematics in Europe. LB-8u53. Sutton. C. W. Business Arithmetic. LCC-Su8sbu. Sutton, C. W., and Lennes, N. J. Brief Business Arithmetic. LCC- Sussb. Taylor, M. D. Problems in Elementary Algebr: LD-T216p. Wells, Webster, and Hart, W. W Modern Plane Geometry. LED W46Tm, J. LED- s. L General e D. ». Cumulative Mathematics, v. 7. LB-W49T. White, C. G., and Colgrove, P. P. In dustrial Arithmetie. LCC-W5881. Young. J. W., and Schwartz. A. J Plane Geometry. 1923. LED..$% 5 Astronomy. . ‘The Earth and the Stars LR-Ab27e. Abbot, C. G. Provisional Selar Con stant Values. LW-Ab27p. Amateur Telescope Making. LRL-Ami Dingle, Herbert. Modern Astrophy sics. 1924. LR-Df14m. Fabre, J. H. C. The Heavens. LR-F 112E. Fath, E. A. The Elements of Astron omy. LR-F26. Payne, C. H. Stellar LT-P296s. Shapley, Harlow. and Payne. C. H. eds. Radio Talks From the Har. vard Observatory. LR-Sh26. Stetson, H. T.. and Duncan. J. C. A Manual of Laboratory Astronomy. LR-St47m. Atmospheres. Miscellaneous. Association of British Chambers ot Commerce. The Chamber of Com- merce Atlas. Ref. HKG-As7. Bean, W. J. Shrubs for Amateurs. RISL-B37 Bennett, §. K. Your Horoscope. LRB- B43. Howden. F. P. The Dyeing of Leather TQL-H83. Jacob, Joseph. Hardy Bulbs for Ama- teurs. RISB-J136. Morse, Perley, & Co.. New York. terest Tables. HKD-M83. Ritter, A. H. Transportation Econom- fca’ of the Great LakesSt. Law rence Ship Channel. HJW.-R517t Roberts. & C. Manual Arts. TLN R34Tm. Schreiner. G. A. Cables and Wirelese. 1924, HJTW-Sch. United States Engineer Department. Waterway From the Great Lak n L great | mariner at the vessel's prow Is seeing | A Diagnostic Study of | LANCASTER. riences to a casual acquaintance she met at a five-and-ten: “T had a perfectly rambunctious old time; danced the livelong nights on the piér and spent every minute of the day on the Boardwalk except when T had to rush back to the hotel for my meals. You just ought to run down before the big crowd gets away—jazz bands and everything' The casual acquaintance wedged in a reminder of the ocean, which the bubbling one had seemed to omits “Well, of course, the ocean is fine and all that, but after you have seen it a few times it sort of dies out, if you get me—and the way the dam ness messes up your hair! As I say, to come right down to it, what is the ocean, anvhow, but so much running water that never gets anywhere? Be- tween you and me, the ocean is the only thing that keeps Atlantic City from being Absolutely Perfect. And the casual acquaintance won- dered what the seven seas would hav to say of this criticism—provided wa- ters could talk as they flow. Y. W. C. A. NEWS Reglstration for all educational classes of the association, general health and religious, may be made in the education office, 614 I3 street, dur- ing the week of September 2 sses | begin October The council of the voung business and professional women's department will holl iis first regular meeting to- morrow at 7 o'clock at 614 E street. Plans for the ensuing vear will be discussed and formulated and depart- ment committees will be announ-ed. The clubs in the department will meet for the first time Tuesday night at 614 E street. Dinnec will be served at 6:30 o'clock, and the forum hour will begin at i o'clock. The Fall setting-up conference of the Y. W. C. A. for voung business and professional women of Washing- ton, Saltimore and Annapolis will be held October 2 and 3 at the camp of the Baltimore association on South River. Miss Harrfet A. Cunningham of New York will be the principal eaker, and Miss Imogene B. Ireland, ormerly of New York, now of Wash- ington, will be the director of music. Twenty-five young women will attend as delegates from the Washington as. soclation. Officers of the Girl Reserve clubs in the five senior high schools and of, the young employed group are meet- ing with Miss Anderson, general secre- Miss Marian E. Casey and Miss Mahel R. Cook. Girl Reserve secre- taries, and Miss Mary Richardson, chairman of the Young Emploved Club, in a conference over the week end at Holiday house. Miss Peterson, chairman of the Girl Reserve depart- ment. is unable to attend the confer- ence because of unavoidable absence from the city. At this time reports from the dele- gates to the conference held in July at Arcola, Pa. and to the Newton Hamilton 'conference in August will be given and plans for the year's pro- | gram of the department will be set up. The meeting will close this eve- ning with a ceremonial. “Rivers” is the conference theme, and Miss An- derson, general secretary, will apeak on “Tributaries.” ‘The adult guidance council for ad visors and secretarles of Girl Reserve | work in this section of the country will be held at Arcola, Pa.. October 2, 3 and 4. Arcola is the local camp of the Philadelphia Y. W. C. A The membership committee will be “at_home” October 14 at E _street. There will be continuous entertal ment during the evening for membe) and their friends. Commencing tomorrow, a course of lessons in chorus directing for the Y. W. C. A. staff will be inaugurated. Miss Imogene Ireland. director of music, will give the course, which will cover a perfod of six weeks. The season for house parties at Kamp Kahlert opened this week. when 25 members of the Cheero Club went down for the week end. The return late this evening. The last vesper service of the sea- son at Vacation Lodge will be in charge of Miss Astrid Langborg, host- ess at the lodge, and Miss Minnie V. Sandberg. The speaker will be Miss Hettle P. Anderson, general secretary. “Food, Fellowship and Fun" proved to be the right slogan for the Fall rally of the young business and pro- fessional women's department, held at the Blue Triangle Tuesday. After dinner 125 voung women joined in songs and games that made the whole crowd one. Every one accorded it “a big time.” During the course of the dinner greetings were extended by M5 Thomas E. Brown, president of the board of directors of the associa- tion, and by Miss Hettie P. Anderson, general secretary. Miss Mildred Bartholow, chairman of the depar ment, introduced Miss Imogene B. Ire- land,’ formerly of New York. as the music director of the assoclation for the coming vear. and Miss Bertha Pabst and Miss Edith L. Dawson as the secretaries of the department DICTIONARY isfaction of having in your authority party left Saturday evening, and will | Keen Interest Felt in W. C. T. U. Convention Opening Tomor- row in Los Angeles — Woman Voters Inaugurate Fall Activitieg—Woman's Party Renovates Headquarters. BY CORINNE FRAZIER. ATCHFUL eyes from all corners of the political | world —both _here and | abroad—will bé turned to-| ward the seven-day session of the National Convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, opening in Los Angeies torgor- row, to ohserve what further action | will' be taken bearing upon the pro | hibition situation. America’s political eves will be fo- cused upon the Los Angeles gather ing because prohibition has become a paramount issue in this country. Foreign eves will be watchful hecause other countries are viewing with interess our struggle for prohibition enforcement, speculating upon its ulti- | mate success or failure. ! While the W. C. T. U. does not by |any means devote its entire time to urging enforcement of liquor laws. still, the outstanding issue before that body is the prohibition 'movement And, as such, all activities hearing upon it are given a prominent place on the national program Among the fmportant resolutions to be introduced at an early session of the conventions will be one offered by Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, national legislative representative, extending a vote of confidence and appreciation to the United States Coast Guard in recog- nition of its efforts in the perform. ance of patrol duties upon the sea and along the coast line This. resolution. given in full below, is significant in that it promisea con- tinuance of the mutual support and cooperation now existing between the Government ‘and this body of women, whose power and fnfluence are recognized in hoth the social and poliltical world. The resolution as it will he pre. sented by Mrs. Yost urges that it he “Resolved by the Woman's Christian | Temperance Unfon in congress assem bled, That a vote of comfidence and 1ppreciation be extended to the United States Coast Guard in recognition of | the untiring efforts and conspicuous | service rendered by that organization | in the face of great difficulties and under trying conditions in its dutles | of law enforcement upon the sea and | along our vast coast lines. The W. . T. U. views with great sat isfaction the attendant success of the Coast Guard iIn fts campalgn of | law enforcement, as witnessed by the | decreasing number of law-violating | craft off our coast and the suppres. sion of smuggling to a most gratifying | extent, and lends its hearty support and encouragement to the United States Coast Guard in the undertak ing of its assigned duties.” Departing from the customary or- | der. the president's address will be delfvered on Sunday instead of Mon day. the opening dax of the business sessions. Mrs. Ella A. Boole. national president, will welcome the delegates | at a special mass meeting this eve ning, her annual address being pre- ceded fn the afterrioon by a children’s and_pageant arranged by Mrs. | Ellen A. Dayton Rialr | Tomorrow the program will be fea- | tured by a membership demonstra tion, which. according to advance re ports. will he the most impressive in the history of the organization. Mrs rances P. Parks, national cor responding secretary. will announce the results of the unique membership | campaign suggested last vear by the | National Council, through which more {new members have heen gained than through any similar campaign in the past. In brief, the plan is this: Volun teer captains were appointed in each State, ranging anywhere from 1 to 500 per State, each captain to be responsi ble for 10 new members, over a period of 10 month: | New York alone has reported 554 volunteers—which means a total of 5.540 recruits. Ohio, thought to have the second largest report, claims 500 captains and 5000 new members. From these figures can be gained some fdea of the really big thing that this simple plan has accom. plished. Small wonder National Coun- cil is elated over the experiment! Other features of the convention which will be of specfal interest in clude the World's Night Session. over which Miss Anna A. Gordon. World's | W. C. T. U. president, will preside. Tuesday evening. September 28, Miss Ernestina_Alvarado, president of t W. C. T. U. of Mexico. will he among the speakers at this session. State presidents will make their reports be- | err G. i tensfon of the period. fore the general sesslons. presenting from day to day a serles of “Best Things of the Year.” which will con atitute a review of the accomplish ments of thelr respective grou Mrs. Rebecca Naomi Rhoads. na tional director of the department of soldiers and sallors, was among those who left Washington this past week Only ‘\:v.i'th Mt.hm trade-mark do you Best. It appears on!ym_-n Merriam-Webster Dic- tionaries. Give yourself the sat- home and office the one great and uled‘ universally in the courts, . rity recognized libraries, and schools of America. 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G. & C. MERRIAM COMPANY SPRINGFIELD, to attend the Los Angeles conclave. Mrs. Rhoads will ba sent by the Gov- ment to Hawali shortly after the on a special mission. - w NAUGURATING the Fall and Win- ter activitles of the League of Women Voters,” Mies Belle Sherwin. president. met with the hoard of di rectors at the home of Mrs. William Hibbard. in Winnetka. Tll.. last Following the session Miss continued her journey to retarning _after a 2 month absence, part of which was passed on her farm. near Cleveland An announcement of primary in terest emanating from the hoard meeting was to the effect that the! league will continue to carry on a vigorous fight for the retention of the direct primary szstem Despite congressional investigations of candidates’ expenditures in connec- tion with primary elections in Penn- svlvania and Illinois. which prompted attacks_on the primary svstem: de- spite State convention pronounce ments against the primary by Repub- lican and Democratic parties in In diana, and the placing of the repeal of the primary up to Ohio voters by inftiative petition at the November election, and “many other efforts against the primar: the league “remains undaunted. Reports reaching national headquar- ters from State after State indicate that woman voteras “‘do not proposeé to relinquish the direct primary.” The national leaders point out that the primary is “not a perfect device and may need much improvement as it exists in many States,” but that the league is prepared to work for these improvements. They also declare that “no polftical device amounts to much unless it is operated by an alert and informed and a conscientious electo rate.” Evidence of the league's readiness for a busy legislative vear ia seen in the announcement that it will make a militant campaign to secure continu ance of the Sheppard-Towner materni tv and infancy act for at least five vears more. The first five-vear period of the operation of the act is now drawing to a close. and the present Congress will he urged to approve ex convention week Sherwin Washington, | | Another measure which will have active support from the league is the Cramton hill which would place pro- hibition enforcement officers under the civil service. with a dignity worthy of its histeric background. The three large rooms downatairs. in one of which the Senate sat from 1815 to 1819, carry an atmosphers of stately dignity, with their huge open fireplaces lending cheerfulness. and lovely rugs and hangings to enhancs their beauty and comfort. One of them has heen furnished as a dining room by the District of Columbia branch. the furniture being of t early American period. which suits the high-ceilinged chamber perfectly A second of these rooms, the rena vation of which Is not vet complets will be furnished by Willlam Ran dolph Hearst in memory of his moth er. Phoebe Apperson Hearst. and the third will be finished as a memorial to the spirlt of the founders of the National Woman's Party. Rooms upstairs furnished by State branches from Ohfo. Uelaware. Vir ginla, New Hampshire, Michigan Wisconsin, Tennessee, Missouri. Mary land. Connecticut, Georgla, New York. Seneca Falls. lowa. Minnesota, New Mexico, Cuba and South Carolina are all either completed or under way. The feature of the Tennesses room is the huge four-poster, handsomel carved, in which President Polk slept This bed was presented to_headquar ters by the Southern FPresident's family Among the other Interesting 'an tiques are chairs which belonged t~ Mrs. William McKinley, the Adame family and Tobias Lear, secretary to George Washington; a bed in which Abraham Lincoln is said to have slept; a desk used by the House of Repre sentatives during its first sessfon: and irons belonging to Senator Jacob H Gallinger and a table from the home of Thomas Balley Aldrich. Many valuable busts which have been presented to headquarters are placed to good advantage in thé vari ous reception rooms. Notabla among them are those of Susan B. Anthon) Lucretia Mott and. Elizabeth Cad: Stanton, all sculptured by FElizabeth Adelaide Johnson; the hust of Mrs O H. P. Belmont and a figure, “The Thinking Woman,” by Edith Ogden Heidel, a student of Saint-Gaudens. The extensive gardens in the rear of the building are planted in artistic floral designs, carrying out the colore of the party—purple, white and gold This garden is the scene of manv prominent gatherings, as it ia the can ter of all organization activities dur ing the Summer months. League officers made it very plain at the recent hoard meeting that the get-out-the-vote campalign. initiated by the league in 19: permanent job.” They found much encouragement in the large vote cast in some of the recent primaries. be. lleving that this record augurs well for a large woman's vote in the No vember electlons. A conference of considerable impor tance to the development of that part of the league's program which relates to public welfare in Government was conducted in Washington last by the fifth vice president, Miss Mollie Ray Carroll of Goucher College. Miss Carroll's office carrles with it the re sponsibility of directing the work of the department of public welfare Government. which embraces the committees on living costs, education soclal hygiene. child welfare and wom en in industry conference were Mrs. Percy . Walden of New Haven. Conn.. chairman o child welfare: Miss Cornelia Adair of Richmond, chairman on education Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin of Washing ton. chairman on living costs, and Miss Julia Margaret Hicks. the new cretary of the public welfare depart ment. who is a former executive sec retary of the Connecticut League of Women Voters. Miss Adele Clark of Richmond. sec ond vice president, stopped in national headquarters on her wav to Eagles mere Park. Pa.. wher the league at the Interracial Confer ence of Church Women. which took place Tuesday and Wednesdax il e OVING vans depositing rare old pieces of furniture, the smell of fresh paint and the noise of busy workmen at the Capitol Hill headquar- ters of the National Woman's Party indicate that the husiness of restoring the historic “Brick Capitol” 1o some thing of its original beauty and spl dor is progressing rapidly under direction of Mre. Florence Bayard Hilles, national chafrman of the house. furnishing committee. Much already has heen done and much more remains to be done before the Woman's Party's national home amsumes the aspect desired by its leaders. Members of the organization, as well as interested citizans through out the country, have done much to refurnish the magnificent old mansion See It for Yourself it Is On Display at Wm. Ballantyne & Sons Brentano'’s S. Kann Sons Co. 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