Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-24

cover is very graphically portrayed.
Those boys disporting themselves like
mermaids in the water-plunging, div
ing, spouting like whales, with real
kidlike obliviousness Of care-would
win a smile from Niobe herself. That
cover is the very spirit of July, and
suggests the rollicking cheeriness of
every page of the July National. be-
ginning with a prelude regarding the
old and new Fourth, which pay a warm
tribute to Uncle Sans birthday
In the Washington department is a
vivid description of the closing days of
the great tariff fight, which Joe Chap
pies pen pictures in way that brings
that Titanic mental struggle before the
eye of the reader, who sympathizes with
the idea that there ought to be a bell
at the capitol to ring with exultation
at the close of a matter so important
to the nation.
There are six snappy. summery en-
thralling stories, not too severe a tax
on the brain of the reader during the
hot days One feels that this is just
the magazine to take off for an after
moons holiday because 1t will be sure
to suit the tastes of every member of
the party.
The continuation of the series. "The
Story of a Great Nation" gives a re-
markable contribution by Huntington
Wilson, former assistant secretary OF
state. and now envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to the Argen-
tine Republic Assistant Postma ster
Ge.,. Joseph Stewart tells the history
of transportation of the mails B. j.
Price, deputy auditor of the navy de-
partment, gives fine description OF
how Uncle Sans accounts are audited.
Every one is remarking that this series
furnishes the first articles that have
ever given a realistic peep into the
working of the governmental depart
ments, as seen by those who really do
the work.
Louis Grant enlivens the whole mag
azine with his lifelike sketches. which
touch every phase of American life.
There is a description of the Church
of the Open Door" conducted by John
Wesley HILL who is one of the most
active workers in New York city.
"Fow Bluejackets Make Money" is
told in a style as easy and flowing as
the waves on which the Jackies float.
The onward march of Saratoga is a
timely story. in view of the prominence
assumed by that we'll known and pop
ular resort.
Altogether, the reader feels as though
he had many times redeemed the price
of his admission into the front seats"
of the audience that hearken monthly
to what the National company has to
say.
daylight and Clock Time" is another
progressive article in the July issue
it shows how to add two hours of sun
light to every mans day and give him
daylight in which to amuse himself
read and see how the miracle IS per-
formed. Don't forget the invitation to
discuss the subject, and send in your
opinions early. The bill is pending and
may seen be enacted.
The Theater Magazine for July con-
tains many features of interest to the
atergoers. 1t is a splendid number pic
torially as we'll as from a literary
standpoint Conspicuous among the
contributions is an article profusely
illustrated, dealing with Maude Adams
elaborate production of SChiller's
Joan of Arc" given in the stadium of
Harvard university. Another import
ant article describes the personality Of
Rene Fauchois young French poet Of
27, whose play Beethoven" has set all
Europe talking. There is an interview
with Katherine Kaelred, who is play
ing the Vampire woman in "A Fool
There Was" and an interesting article
describes the growth of the colossal
open-air amusement parks, which is
profusely illustrated with photographs.
The Well-knOWn character actor, J. Z.
Dodson tells the secret of mis- many
wonderful stage make-ups, and an
amateur super gives an amusing &C
count of his experience when carrying
a spear in the service of Olga Neither
sole There are interviews with Leona
Watson and bingham Pinto, two
clever youngsters who have charged
Broadway in THE Climax" and in an
article entitled Some odd Supersti-
tions of the Stage" writer gives a
list of the things an actor breads be-
fore the footlights. There is also an
interesting article on the workings of
a summer stock company, and the
usual departments make up most in
teresting number The pictures in
clude, besides the cover portrait, in
colors, Of Maude Adams as Maggie
Wylie in what Every Woman
Knows" full-page plates of e. H.
Sothern and Julia Marlowe in their re-
vival of Hamlet" Maude Adams as
the Maid of Orleans, Marie Dressler in
1.-The Boy and the Girl" Isabel Irving,
and scenes from 1.-THE Family" THE
Follies of 1909" and "The Midnight
Sons" The other portraits and scenes
include Sir Charles Wyndham, Lotta
Faust, Emmy Destinn, Rene FauChois,
Charles Stevenson, Milton Sills, Eugene
O'Brien, Maclyn Arbuckle, Edward
Emery, Fritz Lieber, Lorraine Frost,
S. K. Walker, Emily Wurst, RATHER
Hoyt, Josephine Branded, Frederico
Carasa, j. f. DOdson, Laurette Taylor,
Beatrice Mckay, Isabelle Diamond,
Alice Hegeman, Eva Francis, Nancy
AVril, LeOna Watson, EffinEham Pinto,
Anna Held and her daughter, Blanche
Ring, William j. HurIbut, Porter
Emerson Browne. Thompson Buchan-
an, Maurice Hegeman and Mile,
Leonora.
The August Everybodys presents an
other of those remarkable scientific
articles by DR.. William Hanna ThOm-
son which in book form have placed
him among the popular noveists as q
"best seller" This time DR.. Thomson
talks of indispensable Bacteria" and
tells of the bottle of germs that can
be ordered by mail, and will do the
work of WagOnloads Of Old-fashiOned
fertilizer. The article teens with start
ling truths, and is so simply written
that to understand it requires no pre-
Vious scientific experience, William
Hard dissects the High School Frater-
nifty" and resolves it into an absurdity.
Franklin Clarkin gives some fascinat-
ing stories of great diamonds and their
vicissitudes, and incidentally destroys
some of the legends surrounding Mrs.
Waldorf Astor's famous jewel John !.
Mathews in Handmade Forests" shows
how several European countries have
turned disasters of defOreStation into
triumphs of scientific forestry that pay
large incomes into national treasures
Chinese pictures, Isaac Taylor Head
land shows how children of the orient
play, and how wonderfully like their
games are to our own.
In fiction Lloyd Osbourne heads the
list with the unusual and amusing love