The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-02

Lippi9lcOttS Magazine for February. The
complete novel in the February issue of
Lippinc0t's is under the Pacific" by
Clarence Herbert New. 1t takes the
reader to part of the world he probably
never heard of before, where two ex-
tremely enterprising Americans conduct
a search for long-lost treasure under the
most unusual circumstances
The two "Old Friends" of whom Edith
Brewer writes were far apart in age, and
one of them was musical; in fact, music
and friendship are the key-notes, of the
tale
"Old Tom of Nsntucket," celebrated by
Joseph A. Altsheler, was an old man-o'-
war's-man in the hands of Algerine pi-
rates, on whom he played a judicious
and most Christian trick. M. s. Paden, in
"a Forestry Idyl." gives a reminiscence
of the great Chicago Fair.
South Florida since the Freeze" is an
other of r. G. Robnson's eminently fair
minded and instructive articles. Albert
6. Evans handles topic of vital impor-
lance to our great West, Irrigation"
Frances Albert Doughty writes on "The
Southern Side of the Industrial Question"
Emily Baily Stone supplies second
amusing paper on Marrying in the Fiji
teenth Century "a Vanished Civila-
zatIon"-that of the Jesuits in South
Americas described by Henry Gran
vile.
"The Dignity and Humor of Signs" are
discussed by Agnes Carr Sage, and
"Gloves' by Elizabeth Ferguson Seat.
DIR Charles e. Abbott has quaint essay
on "Overdoing the Past"
The poetry of the number is by Jean
Wright, Julian Hawthorne. Charles G.
d. Roberts, Clarence Urmy, and Clinton
Scollard.
Senator David B. Hill has written an
able paper for the February number of
The Forum on the Future of the Demo-
cratic Organization" "The Present and
Future of Cuba" ID the title of an interest
ing and important article that will appear
from the pen of Mr.. Fidel D. Pierra, chair
man of the Cuban Press Delegation. 1t is
an able and impartial account of the pro-
gressive and present condition of the
Cuban revolution. The Hon. William
Woodville Rockhill, Assistant Secretary
of State, has contributed a timely article
reviewing the steps that have been taken
toward reforming our Consular System,
and pointing out many evils yet to be
remedied before the service can reach its
highest efficiency. "The Result of Car
dinal Satoli's Mission is the title of an
interesting paper by Rev. DIR. Edward
McGlynn. Miss Alice Zimmern will con-
tribute an article describing the aims and
objects of the leading Ladies' Clubs OF
London. DIR. Rice's third article in his
series on the Problem of Elementary
Education will appear IN the February
number. In this article he directs atten-
ton to three fundamental points in the
time elemented in teaching: The limits
of incidental instruction the influence of
fatigue; and the question of mental ma
turity THE FORUM, Ill Fifth Avenue,
New York.
Mrs. S. T. Rorer, the famous instructor
in the science of cooking and domestic
economy generally, in the Ladies' Home
Journal (for February, for which maya
zine she will hereafter write exclusively,
gives the advice concerning mixed diet,
ETC.: "As all things have been given us
by Nature for some good purpose | have
always advocated a mixed diet If Ma
ture had intended US for meat eaters only
we would have had meat teeth alone. but
we have grinders for the masticating and
grinding of grain, which teaches US at
once that a mixed diet Is necessary.
"People are rather conservative in mat
ters of change, especially regarding food,
looking back upon what their grandmoth-
ers did and upon what they lived, forget
ting that their grandmothers were much
more active in domestic duties than they
are, and were obliged to take such food as
they had at hand. Bread was then the
staff of life, and rightly, too. 1t was made
from Natures wheat, containing all the
phosphate, the muscle-forming food, and
heat and force food necessary for feeding.
Now, this wonderful grain, in our man
ner of preparation, has been robbed of
the phosphates and portion of its mus
Gle food, and as the poorer classes depend
more upon bread than the middle or up
per classes, they have suffered most"