Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-02

aZlne Tor June. Myrtle Garrison
writes of THE Ruins of Stanford
with p%ictures), and Frank Putnam
of Loss and Gain at San Francisco.
Ethel Armes contributes a striking
study of modern Brazil under the ii
tie, "Portugal's Gigantic Daughter.
Charles Warren Stoddard's essay fol
the month is a very human sketch oil
"A Fin de Steele Friar." Stoddard ii
his National essays Is writing with al.
the rich charm that gave his "Soutl
Sea Idylls'' worldwide celebrity. His
strong, dramatic story of his narrow
escape from death in the California
earthquake will appear in the Ma
tional for July.
American politics and economics
are treated in this number by JohI
McGovern, who has a keenly ironit
article on Government by Injunc
tion," and by Frank Putnam, who
declares that representative govern
ment, tried in this country for ono
hundred and twenty years, is a prov
en- failure and can never succeed. He
declares we must now go forward to
genuine democracy, and outlines ?
program for a new political party
which he believes will shortly sup
plant the two old parties as the re-
publican party supplanted the old
line democracy and the whig party in
abolition days.
Gibson Willet's Adventures of 2
Special Correspondent" is concluded
In this number, with half a dozen
bright sketches, illustrated, ranging
from Denmark to Burmah. Joe Nit
chell Chapple's affairs at Washing
tom is, as usual, a breezy budget of
personal chat, freely illustrated.
There are fiction stories by Miriam
Sheffey, VIM. Forster Brown, l.. H
Hammond and Judge c. w Tyler and
poems of high grade by A. A. B. Cav
aness, Harriet Whitney Durbin, Cur
It's Putnam and Ernest McGaffey.
The Home department is running
over with timely hints and sugges
tions for housekeepers.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
Recreation is the keynote of the
June Good Housekeeping, which is g
Recreation number, bringing to home
people u Whit of sea and mountain
breezes and hundreds of valuable
suggestions for the summer outing,
along with the usual wealth OF prac-
tical household lore. How women
may travel safely and comfortably
without male escort, as proved by ex-
~perienca, is set forth in Tales OF Fem
mime Travellers, by Isabel Gordon
Curtis. An illustrated story of sum
mer vacation in a barn, by Anna Page
Scott, is entitled Berkshire Barn
acles, and the Lure of the Road Is
the true narrative of a young couples
Journey on foot and by freight car
from Columbus, o., to Boston. Mary
Heaton worse writes pointedly OF
Tourist Manners, saying some needed
things. Summer Tours Is the title OF
a group of illustrated articles upon
the wonders of our own country and
the way to reach them. Simeon
Ford, boniface and humorist, is the
subject of an illustrated interview by
George Wharton James. H.. w. Hill
man tells the story of "An Electric
Day. a typical day IN his W home,
where The cooking and many other
processes are accomplished by cleo
tricity. Tom Mason contributes a
charmingly humorous little essay,
eBing a Bride. Father to the Rescue
is the title of a. bright story with a
moral for girls. The usual depart
ments, along with the special mat
ter, round out an excellent issue OF
this favorite home magazine.
McCLURE'S.
D1.auO q, oo teat.oh I'm tNnrtonf mud
entertaining reading in McClure's for
June as one would expect to find in
a volume let alone a single number of
a magazine. The leading story is
Buried Treasui " by Stewart Ed
ance and reality most ~suggestively
and which goes with a swing remin-
iscent of Stevenson. Mr.. Ray Stan
nard Baker contributes the sixth of
his series 1.-The Railroads on Trial.
telling the astonishing story of how
Danville, Virginia, has wavered be-
tween prosperity and ruin because of
it's struggle with the Southern Rail-
way. Mr.. Burton j. Hendrick con-
tinues the story of Life-Insurance
with a resume of the work of Elizur
Wright, the Pioneer, who made the
loAluiC III q Aho IN iAPa
a mathematical impossibility, and
who gave the Equitable, the New
York Life and the Mutual, the
strength to withstand the awful test
of the last twelve months. yellow
Fever: A Problem Solved" by Sam
uel Hopkins Adams, is a most en-
crossing story of last summers Bat
tie of New Orleans. Mr.. Adams tells
of the discovery of the mosquito the
DRY and how by its working out last
year this country has probably been
saved from another great epidemic
of yellow fever. Carl Schurz con
tinues his "Reminiscences of a Long
Life" with an account of Paris on
the eve of the Second Empire. The
second instalment of the Kipling SER
les is even more e%ngrossing than the
first. ION the Great Wall Is the
story Of how a British-born Roman
took a hopeless task from his emper-
or and sacrificed his youth to its per-
Torrance.
Other fiction of this remarkable
numhar 10 ttTTncIa GammiQ - a prnat