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the anxious disputant knows no more peace
but succumbs to a constant fear and dread
of fevers and diseases, to say nothing of an
untimely end
"Pearsons" appears this month In at
Htractive colors of yellow and red and is
holding its own a clever magazine for
cents. Part second appears on 1.-The New
Art of Self-Defence" which with it's varied
Illustrations is of great interest to the
sterner sex who may be haunted by the
possibilities of nightly hold-ups. Read this
article and learn how to gracefully and
easily handle all such disturbers and then
proceed on your way rejoicing.
w. l.. Alden contributes further humor-
Gus reflections upon "Life's Little Myster-
les Surely we ought to forgive Alden if
in writing his delightful and altogether
charming literary letters from London he
will occasionally essay to acknowledge that
ne cannot read Jane Austen or that he
VIII not like Mrs. Browning, in view of
the fact that he gives us so much gratif-
cation and pleasure What a pity austere
and infiexible readers" of the New York
Times will not overlook these little eccen-
tricities and they read of ''Life's Little
Mysteries" try to forgive and forget
Is 1t betraying the Eternal Feminine
to confess to having read 1.-THE Ladies'
Home Journal?" Well then to escape the
certainty of the detection just one article
shall be mentioned and not a word shall
follow about Easter bonnets and menus
On page Is is found a very Interesting
illustrated account of the Journals ar
lists in their studios" We know too little
and really care too little of the studous,
patient and deeply thoughtful men and
women who evolve and execute for the eve
the inner meaning of the text we read
Here are number of the men and women
we nave grown to appreciate. Some of
them perhaps, by the constancy with which
we see their names or Illustrations, rather
than because we appreciate the endless eff
Tort, study and application that the work
of the artist demands. Mrs. Alice Barber
Stephens Is woman whose work we should
appreciate and honor, for she is a southern
woman. She is pictured in her Philadelphia
studio making sketch for the Journal
The immortal Charles Dana Gibson is
drawn in his New York studio where his
no less immortal american Grip Is pro-
duced.
In 1.-THE Strand Magazine" is an amusing
article entitled Biggest on Record"
Written by George Dollar it treats of the
biggest from a mans beard to pair
of oxen. A quaint idea surely for maya
zine story and yet competition is the watch
word of the hour and we read with gen.
uine interest about everything that eXces.
Those with a mechanical turn of mind
will read with interest an article in The
Strand on "a Single Line Railway" by
William Shorts. The line which runs be-
tween LiStowell and Ballybunion in the
county of Kerry, Is ten miles long. The
, article is fully illustrated and shows the
most pecuiar-shaped engine and carriages
which run on this "single" track. The sys-
tenn is known as the Lartigue Single Rail
Railway, and is the invention of promi-
nent French engineer, NJ. Lartigue.
Another article, full of interest is MAX
ing Life Mask" by Harry Turner Henis.
Most readers have vague idea of how a
death mask is taken-at least they
know that the dead face is covered with
plaster of paris, but here the idea ends
In the taking of life masks ii seems to
be a very difficult affair, for the life of
the subject as the writer states hangs ON
two small quilts" and he adds that it re-
quires a good deal of nerve and patience
to undergo, the sensation being most disa-
greeable. The description of the operation
is about as narrowing as any story you
ever read. However, it gives one new
point of view,' and we all adore that OPP
portunity.
The initial article III the Atlantic Month
ly is a scholarly and comprehensive one
entitled 1.-THE Mystery of Evil" by John
Fiske. The able and thoughtful philoso-
pher and historian of Cambridge has
treated the subject in perfectly frank
and fearless. He summarizes in few sem
fences the doctrines ind beliefs of men
and systems which has, no doubt taken
years of close, hard study to appreciate
and apprehend. Yet Mr.. Fiske writes in a
style so clear and lucid that the article is
interesting to the casual magazine reader
After careful summary of the leading
points of his subject he says in conclusion
I'VE can at least begin to realize distinctly
that unless our eyes had been opened at
some time, so that we might come to know
the good and the evil, we should never have
become fashioned in Gods image The
mystery Of evil remains a mystery still
but 1t Is no longer harsh dissonanee, such
as greeted the poets ear when the doors
of hell were thrown open, for we see this
mystery belongs among the profound har-
monies in Gods creation. Many are the
pains of life, and the struggle with wicked
ness is hard; its course is marked with
sorrow and tears But assuredly its deep
impress upon the human soul is the indis-
pensable background against which shall be
set hereafter the eternal joys of heaven"
There is story entitled "A March Wind"
which is rather a surprise to find in the
contents of the Atlantic Monthly; by a
woman. too, Alice Brown, a Boston writer
on the staff of the Youths Companion, also
a writer of novels.
The Century for April is an unusually
attractive and interesting number
1.-The Many-Sided Franklin" by Paul
Leicester Ford, is the initial article that
will appeal to large number of readers
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Professor of
Greek at Cornell university, writes in a
most comprehensive and able way of 1.-The