The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-29
THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.

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Beginning with its June issue, the
Worlds Work contains a department
devoted exclusively TO health matters
Important phases of the health prob
lem will be treated by such authorities
on sanitation and hygiene as Prof
Irving Fisher Of Yale, and Prof. viii
liam T. Sedgwick OF the Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology. The
cooperation of the committee OF 100
on National Health has been prom
ised.
An attractive array OF illustrated
special articles and short stories may
be found in the July Bohemian Mag
azine. THE Comic Journals Of
Europe by Lenore Van de veer, is
an interesting study of English,
French, German, Spanish anc italian
humor, as exemplified by the funny
papers" of those countries Repro.
auctions OF representative jokes sup
plement the text. 1.-THE Science Of the
Dip" by John 8. Lopez, tells of pick
pockets and their methods.
There are three short stories in
July Outing: "The Test of Code
by James Oliver Curwood; "Blount's
Patrol" by R. D. Keefer; and Their
Household Vacation" by George Eth
ebert Walsh. Mr.. Curwood's story
has its scenes in. Northern Canada,
region where he has travelled and In
which he has had many real adven-
lures. The men of Hudson's Bay
post, who are guided by the honor OF
the big Shows" the womanly young
wife of the Factor, and white man,
direct from civilization are the
chief characters in a gripping piece OF
fiction. "Blount's Patrol is a story
of a missed reward of day dream and
of chance stranger by the way.
Our National Ash-Heap" Is the
title Of one of the most engaging art
icles in the July Technical World
Magazine. The author, Architect F.
w. Fitzpatrick Of Washington, D. c.,
an officer Of the Building Commits
sioners' Society, and the highest
authority on prevention, says that
our fires, CONGREGATIONS and individual
burnings, with their attendant ex-
penses of fire-departments, etc., cost
us just about $6oO,0OoO0O year and
that all the building we do, in our
busiest boom-time, building years
amounts to only little over that fig
ure. He tells us OF one month last
year, month In which there was no
great confagration, when our build
/ ing and repairs amounted to $16,00o,-
600 and fires consumed $24,0o0,0oo
worth OF property! The article will
arouse attention.
William Archer, the great English
critic, in an article in the July Nc
4 Clure's tells the truth for the first
time about the negro problem in the
South; Mrs. Fremont Older in 1.-THE
Story of Reformer's Wife" has writ
ten a fact story about San Francisco's
graft prosecutions, which Is fully as
absorbing as many notable pieces OF
fiction; Burton ]. Hendrick shows
that more has been learned about
cancer in the last six years than In
the proceeding six thousand: Albertus
McCreary describes the Battle OF
Gettysburg as he saw 1t when a boy
and George F. Parker concludes his
Cleveland papers with the story OF
the events leading up to the Presi
dents famous Venezuela message The
fiction includes "Outposts of Empire,
by Eleanor Stuart. the story of a re
ligious war. full OF the lure of savage
Africa; brutality" strong sea story
by Lincoln Colcord; lille" by Har
ris Merton Lyon, and 1.-The Little Har
monizer Of His Threefold Nature
by Marion Hamilton Carter.