New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1917, Page 8

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[Former President Willlam Howard , speaking last night in Pitts- rgh at a dinner of the League to pforce Pesce, replied to orfticlsms the organization jede by Theodore posevelt. - 'Among other things, the nial Mr. Tagt smld: acked the league with both hands d:both feet. ~ He has approached ,enemy's fortifications with his al strategy. ‘But he would have en more- useful in. testing the pro- 5 of the league if he had found Wwhat it was first.” well ‘ag: or- President Taft ows Theodore Roosevelt he does seem to possess the intimate owisdge of the Colonel enjoyed by inbrédge Colby, the erstwhile leu- ant of the Colonel's Progressive ‘ces. Mr. Colby knows that Theo- e seldom malkes an attack on any- ng he knows everything about. aking at the Russwin Lyoeum in s city on the second day of last ‘emaber, Bainbridge Colby gave his prera’ en insight into the Colonels racter. He then said:—“The one! requives, for the mastery of nowel or intMoate problem, only enogzapher. Then the Colonel is tient to have his notes tran- lbed, presented In typewritten m, and, when he has read the re- d proof he has then exhausted known source of imformation.” Inbridge Colby Xknows the jonel. He is the man who placed name of Theodore Roosevelt in pinetion at the Progressive oon- at Chicago. For four long Mr. Colby followed the Colonel Hl the Colonel headed up & blind . 'Then Colby left the ranks and red a new leader, Woodrow on. Mr. Taft and Mr. Colby have pething in common when the onel is considered. They have e to know how the Colonel'’s mind rates. They know he is the last d on &ny subject he might tackle, matter what the subject is. If he g it is wrong, then it 1s wrong. re is no more to be said. INFANT WELFARE WORK. or five years infant welfare work been- conducted i1 Nt ' Britain; not until last: March was the en- ivor sywtematimed - and brought the direction of an association. p first annuoal report of this new nization was published in the d yesterday and 1s of extreme in- to every one in the sity. Since Britain has the highest birth L of any city in the United States, brding to the Bureau of Census,.it <be readily seén there is need here wotentific study and cave of infants, the members of the milk station bolation have set out to accom- h. was pointed out at the first an- meeting of the assoclation that ‘Milk Station is not-merely & place s clean and nourishing foodstuff pportioned to mothers for their pring. It is more than that. It is ace where ths care of infants is ught to a high . medical plane, e mothers may seek advice on all vartous intricate problems at- nt upon the rearing of. children. he of the best'physicians in the city enlisted In the service and com- bnt nurses are always on hand to advice and help those seeking in- ction. Also, the milk station is _in the strict sense of the word, a Bio charity. 'The milk supplied ke is purchased when the patrons financially able to do so. pburing the present year the women b have taken such an active interest his work intend to make the milk lion one of the greatest institutions ew Britain. The president of the peiation, Mrs. Ira E. Hicks, has ted out that last year almost 150 ies were constantly under the care he nurses at the station. The hry, Mrs. Margaret J. Martin, ined the work done and has shown some seventeen nationalities are ng those registered for treatment he station. The financial report by s Mary S. Whittlesey, volumes of praisc has treasurer, for the men women of the city who have con- uted toward the of the ion. Clubs, churches,’| other organizations have not been v to respond to any call. This is as jhould be. Then, too, there is high Y tion for the devoted services l up-keep societics, A . of the two nurses, Miss O’Dell and Miss Kinlry, \ The importance of infant welfare work cannot be overestimated. The future welfare of the city itself de- pends in no small measure upon the health of the little ones of the present time. Children well cared for now insure to the city of the future good healthy men and women. THe foun- dation has been laid for a brilliant achlevement. The five years gone by are as nothing to what the years will bring after this; but they spell the establishment of a permanent assocla- tion that has for ita object the great- est good for the rece,—the welfare of the little ones. New Britain can justly be proud of the work thus far ao- complished. The future pramises even better things along the same line. ANOTHER SPLIT. “Standpatism” in the Republican party is the cause for all the rumpus that is now taking place in New York where George W. Perkins, cheok- book in hand, is challenging the Qld Guard to a “showdown”. Colonel Roosevelt is back of Mr. Perkins in everything that has taken place thus far and to some it looks as if the nom- ination of. the Colonel will again be projected on the screen in 1920. At any rate, Perkins and his followers have tbreatened to blow up the Re- publican party between now and then. They profess to be chagrined at the manner in which the Old Guard op- erates. It is strange that Perkins & Co. are Just getting onto the wiles of Penrose, Smooth, Crane & Co., representatives of the Old Guard and all that it means. It seems almost impossible that men of such high intelligence have not fathomed the character of the acoused long before this. But then the leaders of the Progressives were “fooled” at Chicago last Summer. It wes there that Perking and his eelect orew attempted to hand over the en- tire party into the hands of the Re- publican Old Guard. The rank and file of the Bull Moose party did not fall into the trap, as proven on No- vember 7, 1816. The leaders them- selves now fail to agree. What does it all mean? To an outsider, these peregrinations of Perkins and his chosen few must be very amusing. They are now in revolt against the Old Guard because the Old Guard will not allow them to govern the Republican party. These same revolutionists, strange as it may seem, are the very same men who sur- rendered, bag and baggage, to the Old Guard last Summer and who then asked for nothing better than to be guided by the inspiring light of the Old Guard. They betrayed some part of their following; but there were the faithful few who remained true to their trust and voted with the Demoorath. These latter have not been hood-winked, and never will be. Probably that accounts for the change of front manisfested by Perkins and his outfit. Paraphrasing what David ‘Warfleld says, in the Music Master, “If you don’t want 'em, we want 'em’’. The life story of Prank J. Rice, four times mayor of New Haven, who died yesterday, should be a source of inspiration to every American youth. Mr. Rice started In life at the extreme bottom of the ladder and by dint (:lf~ perseverance climbed to the top. In a city that harbors one of the great- est eduocational institutions in the na- tlon it 1s no mean feat for a man of limited learning to stand as head of the government. Yet Rice did this and succeeded in giving the people a good, clean, honest reign. He was ad- mired even by his political enemies. The lesson of his life is that there is nothing the American boy cannot do if he sets out to do it in the proper way and with the right spirit. It is the duty of Congress to make the laws, and the United States Su- preme Court to Interpret them. If, as in the case of the Mann White Slave Act, there is cause for com- plant, it is for Congress, and not the Supreme Court, to remedy condi- tions. It is estimated that there are 150- 000 persons and firms in Japan await- ing the installation of telephones on their premises, the government being unable to keep abreast of the demand for appliances. The physiclan’s bulletin on Thaw’s like a weather re- port:—*His mind is a Ittle cloudy but gradually clearing.” condition reads a ‘What has become of the old-timers who used to wear ear-laps? FACTS AND FANCIES. Every little while or so there are indications that running the British government peaceably is no easy job. —Manchester Union. Americans have formed a big cor- poration to promote trade with China, apparently without any thought that they may get us into trouble with Japan.—Boston Globe. Anyway, the national thrift cam- paign has enabled a great many peo- ple to meet the onslaught of high prices.—Atlanta Constitution. They call it a ‘“‘cabinet crisis” over there when the cabinet resigns; here we give it the same name when it doesn’t.—Boston Evening Transcript. Germany protecting Poland is even- ing up on Belgium, while the allies are offsetting the invasion of the lat- ter country by their grip on Greece.— San Franolsco Chronicle. ‘William Hohenzollern is the em- peror of all the Germans. Charles Hapsburg is his pro-consul.—S8yracuse Post-Standard. . Buccess is the art of making your mistakes when no one is looking?— Life. Acocording to President Butler, Columbia University needs $80,000,- 000. Columbia University must be at war with someone.—Detroit Free Press. Negro Melodies, (Meriden Record.) The Atlanta Constitution is indig- nant at the attempt made by New York music teachers to reform the dlalect of the negro melodies in the school books. It has been urged that in learning songs, as in other branches of instruction, the ohildren should be taught ‘“‘pure Emslish, not a dialect.” To this the Constitution replies: “True, our southern melodies may not be grammatically perfect as ta Bnglish—but they know no north, no soutH, no east, no west in their popu- larity. They are sung by the girls and boys in school houses out in Ore- gon, sung round the camp fires in the heart of the Rockies, by the timber folk of New England, by prima don- nas in the metropolis—and every- where enjoyed with the same true, downright American spirit. “ ‘Go to Sleep, My Little Pickanin- ny,’ has lulled as many little babes in the Great Lakes states Into the Land of Nod, comparatively, as in the Cot- ton Belt. It is known and sung and loved everywhere on the ‘continent. Some consider ‘Yankee Doodle’—be- cause of the wording of it—sectional; ‘Dixie’ 18 universal. Yet these pre- cise- New York teacher-folk propose, in ‘Dixie’, to change the words ‘de’ and ‘nebber’ to ‘the’ and ‘never’! +Good Bnglish? Who ever clalmed those good old southern songs—or any of the old favorites, for that matter— are pure English? Of course they're net. They wouldn’t be characteristic, they wouldn't be half so sweet, half so popular, if they were.” Burrs’ songs are not ‘“good English,” and yet we love them, “not for their rhetoric, but for their sentiment, their melody and themselves.” The Atlanta paper is everlastingly right about it. We might as well ad- mit that the only really native music we have that amounts to anything is ‘“‘negro music.” The fact that negroes have written little of it makes no dif- ference. It is due none. the less to the American negro. This wonder- fully musical race has furnished the one type of music which Americans all love and which is thus far our only distinctive musical gift to the world. It is absurd to iron out the dialect, starch the grammar and rhetoric and make over our lovely old darkey songs into prim “literature” that will please nobody but bloodless pedagogues. Identifying the Sparrow. (Indianapolis News) There is still a great deal of talk about ridding the country of the Eng- lish sparrow. It has been proposed at one time or another to shoot him, poison him and trap him. Pfforts have been made to organize the en- tire country in a campaign of exter- mination. And some very enthusias- tlc sparrow opponents have even ad- vocated an abandonment of all public and private efforts to feed the birds In the hope that starvation would put an end to them. Something of that sort, possibly, might be achieved by any of the plans suggested. Incidentally, however—a fact that seems to have escaped the observation of the spar- row enemies—other birds, not regard- ed as pests, would suffer also. The “appeals” thus far made to the public have met with very little re- sponse. Most of us are not at all sure that the PBmnglish sparrow is the vil- Han he is sald to be. Indeed, there is some very good evidence in his fa- vor. In two or three places in Eu- rope, for instance, the English spar- row was driven out completely, only to be imported again when farmers found that with his exit there entered an insect pest that almost devoured their crops. And most of us are still aware that birds held only a few years ago to be without a quallty in thelir favor have since been included in the list of man’s best friends and allies. However, putting aside considera- tion of the possibility that the Eng- lish sparrow has been misjudged, how many persons really know this spe- cies of sparrow from the other nu- merous species? How many, ready to shoot, or poison or trap, can distin- guish between the English sparrow and say, the song sparrow, the tree sparrow, the fleld sparrow and the chipping sparrow? The points of dif- ference, except to the trained orni- thologist, are not by any means ob- vious. Says an authority on the sub- ject: “Many species of sparrows will at first appear exactly alike to a be- ginner.” So, until all of us are able to iden- tify the various species, the advocates of extermination should be held in check. An attempt to eliminate the TEnglish sparrow, even if he is the pest he is said to be—a premise that still remains to be established—would re- sult, under the circumstances, in more harm than good. If anyone doubts this let him spread a few crumbs on the snow, winter mornings and observe the sparrows that feed on them. He will be surprised to observe that the birds he has ordinarily been classifying as English sparrows hear ] markings that identify them as spar- rows of another species. Italy’s Destiny Shaped By Geographical Site Washington, D. C., Jan. 19.—In a communication to the National Geo- graphic society, Arthur Stanley Riggs ascribes to Italy’s peculiar geographic position one of the chief sources of the country’s remarkable individual- ity. In a war geography bulletin is- sued by the society, Mr. Riggs says: ‘“From the beginning Nature set Italy apart. Hvery boundary is per- fectly olear. The historic sea enfolds 1t to the south, east and west. On the nopth the terrific Alps sweep around it in & great semicircle from Mediter- ranean to Adriatic, closing the circuit. “To be sury, from the tme of Augustus the boundery of each side of northern Italy has been juggled, now to the east, now to the west, by Politics; but the physical boundary is still definitely there. So thoroughly 4id the ancient chroniclers recognize these natural limits that long before the name Italy had any political sig- nificance or entity the writers applied it to the country thus inclosed. The peninsula, with its tremendous Apen- nine backbone, makes a huge boot which thrusts out practically into the center of the great Midland Sea. “Necessarily, then, Italy was ex- posed to attack and invasion from three sides. Indeed, it was the invad- ing or rather colonizing Greek who combined with the aborigine to form the population that stocked the penin- sula. Taken in a smaller way, ge0- graphical site or position exercised no less distinct an effeot upon some of the foremost Italian cities; and in shaping their affairs and men it algo influenced the entire world. - Italy’s Destiny Shaped by Geography. “Italy is generaly regarded as lylng in three parts—northern, central and southern. Nature has set no boun- dary between central land southern Italy; but from the southernmost point of the Alps, at the French frontier, the Apennines swing across to the eastward, leaving in the arc they cut a huge U-shaped basin, drained by the river Po ' and its tributaries, open to the Adriatic. “After forming this basin—northern Italy—the Apennines sweep south- ward in a rugged backbone which de- termines the whole internal geograpy of the country as definitely as the Alps do its outline northward. The Apen- nines are not, however, merely a backbone, but a broad mass with sev- eral - minor ranges and groups of peaks, generally separated by high up- land valleys, one of whose plateaux, the Plano di Clnque Miglla, at a helght of 4,398 feet above the sea, Is the wintriest and bleakest spot in all Ttaly. “This upland reglon is bordered everywhere by lowlands of luxuriant- ly fertlle character, prolific in fruit and verdure and of a genially warm and sunny climate. In central Italy, West of the mountains, the valleys of the Arno and the Tiber—the only streams of importance—give the key- Rote to any geographic study of the region. Over on the castern coast no rivers of importance can exist, be- cause the mountains there approach too close to the sea, though the tor- tuous, mostly dry beds of the ‘tor- renti’ scar every height. “In this connection it is interesting to note that nowhere is the peninsula more than 150 miles wide, and gen- eflll:v not more than 100, while down in Calabria the width dwindles in two places to 35 and 20 miles re- spectively. One of the most inspiring vlews In the whole length of the coun- try also displays this narrowness strikingly when, on a clear day, from the Gran Sasso, the highest point in the bleak Abruzzi Range, central, at nearly 10,000 feet one may look not only eastward over the Adriatic to far Dalmatia’s rocky shores; but also westward over the mountain and moor, city and sandy coast, to the dim and misty blue of the Tyrrhenian Sea. In volcanioc southern Italy, like- wise barren of any great waterways, the Apennines break up into groups of hills and peaks, not usually so lofty as farther northward. “Italy is fairly provided with deep- water seaports—Naples, Genoa, Spe- zia, the naval base, and Leghorn, on the western coast, and Venice An- cona, and Brindisi, on the east. The rivers—except the Pos—as may have been inferred already, are of little or no importance for navigation—a fact that Romans cleverly disposed of by building those beautiful and endur- ing military roads which to this day vein the whole length and breadth of the country—though the rapldity of their currents and the flashing, dash- ing cascades and ‘torrentt’ that come swirling into them make them high- 1y picturesque and delightful as a feature of the landscape. “What human being with a single spark of soul could fail to expand under the magic of that wonderful chaln of lakes along her northern border—Garda, Idro, Iseo, Como, Lu- gano, Maggiore, Orta? These remark- able and exquisite sheets of water, formed by the tributaries of one single stream—the Po—sprawl about in tremenduously deep valleps among towering hills of solid rock, while scattered among them are shallow little lakes entirely different in both character and aspect. “Besldes dofining the limits of the country so clearly, nature also bul- warked the long and tortuous Italian peninsula on the west with a host of rocky defenses in the sapphire wa- ters of the storied Tyrrhenian sea— Gorgona, of the suggestive * name; rocky Capraia; Elba, of Napoleonic fame; the stony fleet of the little ‘Ponzas; bold and rugged Ischia, with its castle. on a big boulder; Procida likewise; humpbacked Capri, where ‘that hairy old goat’ as Suetonius called ‘the Emperor Toberius, held his revels; the 'Aeollan or Lapari Isles, black monsters that spout fire and sing weird music to terrify the superstitious argonaut; magnificent Sardinia, with its ‘little sister Cor- sica clinging to Its coat-tails a step behind. Both belong to Italy by evary right of nature—as a bright lad in a Sicillan school told me: ‘Sardegna, «i! But Corsica—no! She belongs to Italy geographically, but politically to France. And the greatest of all these outworks is Sicily. “As in the case of Japan, the sur- rounding sea makes a vast difference in the Itallan climate. Judged by its position alone, the peninsula should —1t s only 90 miles from the south- ern shore of Sicily to Africa. But the twin "seas and the ever snow- capped mountains temper the heat, and the reglonal peculiarities are such that we find Turin, for instance, cold- er in winter than Copenhagen, and Milan as warm in summer as Naples. These same striking differences char- acterizes the vegetation also. North of the Apennines nothing will grow that cannot withstand sharp frosts, yet in virtually the same latitude the strip of coast called the Riviera di Genova ports luxuriant palms and cactus and olives, while oranges and lemons are the, most important crops.” — A Dignified Rebuke, (New York World.) It is occastonally possible for a man of recognized dignity and fine bublic service to accomplish quietly what an indignant protest is incap- able of accomplishing. Judge Gray, of Delaware, who was announced to speak at a meeting held at Philadel- phia, Sunday evening, declined to do 80 because the speaker who had pre- ceded him took advantage of the op- portunity to assail viclously the fed- eral rdministration for its handling of tke international problems. The offending speaker was James M. Beck, a former cabinet minister; the sub- ject of the evening the deportation of Belglan citizens to Germany. The only excuse given by Judge Gray for his refusal to speak was this: “I did lnot come to attend a partisan meet- ng.” The benefit derived from the scath- ing rebuke thus given Mr. Beck con- sists in the influence it will have upon public speakers who, in response to an invitation to speak at meetings of this character, take advantage of their audience to vent their partisan spleen. Judge Gray is as deeply touched by the deportation of Bel- glans as Mr. Beck. He is as ready to 1ift his voice in protest as Mr. Beck. He 1s ,however, too well mannered a person to miX political convictions in with international practices. There was nothing whatever gained by a condemnation of the federal admin- istration; nothing hut conjecture in Mr. Beck’s contention, that had the course he would have followed had he been president been followed, there would have been no deporta- tions. The mass meeting was called to enter a sharp protest against the act of which the German government is guilty. Similar meetings have been held in different parts of the coun- try and have awakened widespread sympathy. The audiences have in- variably been composed of sober- minded. serfous men and women, who feel deeply upon the subject of Belgium'’s invasions and the deporta- tion of her citizens. Their minds were concentratd upon that subjct. Tt was, then, to that subject that Mr. Beck, an eloquent speaker, should have addressed himself, not to a vul- gar and gratuitous assault upon the government for failing to do what Mr. Beck is sure it ought to have done. Residence of National Bank Directors. (New York Sun). The Federal law now prohibits fto the same person membership in the directorate of more than one national bank, if either institution has de- posits and capital and surplus aggre- gating $5,000,000, the requirement further being that at least three- fourths of the directors must reside within the state. Some of the na- tional banks in New York city are finding it difficult to keep their direct- orates up to the desired number of legally qualified men. In this situation an amendment of the national bank act as to residential qualification of directors would seem desirable. Nearly twenty years ago the Supreme Court of the United States declared that the reason for this requirement as to residence was “to confine the management of each bank to persons who live in the neighborhood, and who may for that reason be supposed to know the trust- worthiness of those who are to be appointed officers of the bank, and the character and financial ability of those who seek to borrow.” Under the letter of the statute a resident of New Jersey or Conmecti- cut doing business in New York may not be counted to make up the req- uisite three-fourths of resident di- rectors, although by reason of his | business connections in New York | city, and intimate knowledge of New York conditions, he may be quite ! within the spirit of the provision re- ferred to. The wording of the statute now is that at least three-fourths of the di- Tectors “must have resided” in the state for at least one year preceding their election to office, and must con- tinue to reside therein during their respective terms. If this were changed to read “must have resided or have had a place ot ! business” it would satisfy the spirit | of the statute, and in New York city at least render available for the di- | rectorates of national banks many {men now disqualified by residence, 1 but in respect ‘of character, experi- j ence, standing and knowledge of local | conditions admirably fitted for the ) efficient administration of the affairs | of these institutions, be about the hottest part of Europe. .. The Buffalo Coming Back. (New York Sun) The American bison, or buffalo, is inoreasing in number, according' to the annual reort of the biological sur- vey, and the danger of complete ex- tinction, that once threatened, appar- ently no longer exists. The rescue of the buffalo from the slaughterers is one of the most in- teresting of our attempts at conserva- tion. It is estimated that at one time wihin the past century there were as many as 75,000,000 of these great, un- wieldly oreatures on the North Amer- ican continent; early travellers tell of herds that were days in pasing, that halted steamboats on the upper Mis- sourj and stopped wagon and rallway trains on the western plains. The number killed by the Indians in their hunts was not equal to the natural in- crease of the herds. The slaughter began when the rail- roads crossed the prairies and opened | up unexplored tracts to the hide hunt- ers. Thousands were killed merely for a slce of their hump or tongue. For years hunters sold an average of 2,000,000 hides annually. In 1889 the nuiber of American bison, wild and captive, was only 1,091. There are now, perhaps, in North America as many as 4,000. The largest herd is in the national park at Wainwright, Al- berta. This city, with about fifty in its two largest parks, has as large a herd as there is in some of the western reservations. The buffalo was the most numerous and valuable animal of this country. Its flesh was sun dried in great quan- titles and made excellent beef; the bones, horns and sinews were all util- ized, and the hide was made into lodges, harness, canoes and winter clothing. Buffalo meat cannot be bought, and a hide, which once sold for a few dollars, would cost $100. Had the buffalo been conserved in time instead of being so ruthlessiy slaughtered it would today have had an economic value to the country diffi- cult to overestimate. G0OD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE'S LIST THIS WEEK More Wanderings in London, V. Lucas. by E. Problem of the Old Testament, con- sidered with reference to recent criticism, by James Orr. ... Recollections: the reminiscences of the busy life of one who has played the varied parts of sailor, au- thor and lecturer, by Frank Thomas Bullen. ... Truth About the Theater. “It is an important book, and jus- tifies its title. It ought to be read everywhere in America.”"—William Lyon Phelps. .. When the Prussians Came to Poland, by Marquise de Gozdawa. “By the American wife of a Polish noble. Von Hindenburg made his headquarters under her roof.” .. Education. \ Care and Training of Children, by L. G. Kerr. ..o Democracy and Education: an in- troduction to the philosophy of education, by John Dewey. ) FEducation of the Ne'er-do-well, ‘W. H. Dooley. “The problem of the child who leaves school to drift into ‘“blind al- ley occupations.”—A. L. A. Booklist. « .o by Essentials of Psychology, by W. B. Pillsburys. PP Fundamentals of Psychology, B. Pillsbury. / . by W. .. How Children Learn to Draw, by Walter Sargent and E. E. Miller. “Of interest to art teachers and of use to all elementary school teachers who have to teach some drawing.” —A. L. A. Booklist. .. How to Study and What to Study, by R. L. Sandwick. “The author believes that the ‘“‘coaching idea’” should be applied to studies as it is to athletics. These informal talks to young students give general principles.”—A. L. A. Book- list. .. How to Teach the Fundamental Sub- jects, by C. N. Kendall and G. A. Mirick. “Practical, definitely helpful book. . . Devotes half of the space to Eng- lish. . . considers also mathematics, geography, civics and hygiene.”—A. L. A. Booklist. . . Love and Law in Child Training, Emilie Poulsson. Making the Best of Our Children, by Mary Wood Allen. e Manual of Stories, by iWlliam Byron Forbush. by DR Mental Health of the School Child, by J. B. W. Wallin. I Natural Way in Moral Training, Patterson DuBois. .. s Playground Book, by Harry Sperling. e by Theory and Practice of the Kinder- garten, by Nora Atwood. “A simple interesting treatment.” —A. L. A, Booklist. . e Training of Children in George Hodges. . e Unfolding Life, by A. Lamoreaux. e Religion, by What Ts Education. P Wood. Wire and Cardboard, by J. G. Adams and C. A. Elliott, “Models for use in arithmetic, drawing, history. geography. nature and English."—DPublisher's hy E. C. lloore. » McMILLAN'S Mid- SATURDAY Will be one of the most im- portant days of our Clearanc Sale, so make it a point fo be | here. CREPE DE CHINE BLOUSES y Saturday $3.98 Each. Value $5.00 About sixty Blouses in this lot, &l % samples, in white, fiesh, peach apd fancy stripes. ¢ .EVENING AND PARTY GOWN| Saturday $9.98 Each. Values to $ Exquisite creations of Georget§, ] soft, rich taffetas, trimmed with s nets, gold and silver laces, rosebu pearls and furs. $15.00 SERGE DRESSES saturday $9.98 Each. Colors navy, brown, dark green a: black. Some with fanty collars al cuffs. Some embroidered, others silk and serges combined. Remai able values at the price. - ALL OUR FURS MARKED DOWN Fur Sets, Separate Scarfs and Mufts at a big saving, It will pay you to huy, them now. 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Child. e Further Side of Silence, by Sir Hugh Cliftord. “Interesting, dramatic, full of col- or, many grim and horrible, but alil possessing beauty in the settings and descriptions. . . They faithfully -y [ produce conditions of life as they existed in the Malayan peninsula be- { fore the white men took a hand in | the government.”—A. L. A. Booklist. . . Our Natupski Neighbors, by Mrs. E. | M. Miniter. “Polish peasants buy a New Eng- land farmhouse and make a remark- able contrast to their typical New England neighbors. . . . The charac- terizations are really inimitable.”—A. | L. A. Booklist. .. Private Gaspard, by Rene Benjamin. . “France has found its Kipling. Rene Benjamin has sprung from a field of rather meager literary ac- complishment into the proud position §§ of creating the one literary master- { i plece of the war. This is the sum of ' the French verdict.”—Literary Di- gest. .. Proud Peter, by W. E. Norris. oo Whirlpool, by Victaria Morton. L& “One of the reéally artistic novels of the year, in spite of being a thrill- ing mystery story.,”—Book News.