The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-03-04

iHG beuSIuldl MaSaIlHS 7lui7 mdl VI
has two special articles that are
unusually bright and interesting, = !. =
are entitled, THE Country Editor, by
Don Cameron Shafer, and Some Pro,
fessors at Columbia University" Both,
are amusingly illustrated from car
toons.
The Red Book Magazine for March
contains. several features of more than
ordinary Importance. First of them
perhaps, is an extremely frank article
by Professor Frederick Starr Of the
University of Chicago on "Woman's
Morality Savage and Civilized
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Better and better grows The Ladies'
World, judging by the Marcn number
Just received. 1t has an unusual num-
bar Of fine stories, among the authors
being Hugh Pendexter, Alice Mac
Gowan, Clara Morris, Shirley CARSON
MACEDONIAN Cooke, Bessie R. Hoover,
Caroline w. Cain and Albert Bigelow
Paine. There is timely article on
Washington Social Life and another
on the dangerous side OF the New
Thought and similar moFements.
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The March Wenan's Home Com
panion carries out the publishers
promise of a. bigger and better maya
zine in 1909 1t is a large, handsome
issue, ful4 of human interest and at
tractive in every way. A discussion
OF what the Emmanuel Movement
Really Is" begins in this issue.
In the March American Magazine,
Samuel Hopkins Adams relates the
adventures of a somnambulist. In the
same number Ida M. Tarbell writing
under the title Where Every Penny
Counts" SHOWS how the tariff oper
ates to increase the cost of living.
Interest in public school affairs
which has been so evident during the
past few months makes the special re-
ports published in The Housekeeper
of timely interest.
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Lippincott's for March is as fresh
and vigorous as the mouths bracine
winds More than half its substantial
bulk is given up to the complete novel,
"a knight .Errant in Broadway" by
Rupert Sargent Holland, whose book,
THE Count at Harvard" was well re-
ceived couple of,years ago.
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There is a suggestive editorial re.
garding Poe in the March issue of IL
Story Book. IL appears to be a fore
runner of further comments on the
great master, of American literature
As suggestion, 1t is worth while
The list Of stories n this issue Is par
ticularly pleasing, M
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LET the buyer beware! John Part
says is the watchword of the Wall
Street manipulation. His article in tn
March Eeerybody's is called THE
Stock Yards of New YORK." and is the
second shot fired against the ,ruinous
practice of margin gambling.
The air of the Jungle, tue breathless
mystery of the haunt of lion and
rhinoceros, are in c. Bryson Taylor's
article, THE Africa That Roosevelt
Will See"
Edith Wharton contributes the most
striking feature to the March number
Of Scribner's Magazine. 1t is the frs
complete short story in series to be
called Tales of Men"
Those who read Coal as CONNER
ciaI Factor" an article which ha:
! been treated in a masterful way by
Darlington Phelpslfor1 the readers d
the March Metropolitan Magazine viii
acknowledge how fortunate we are t
have secured such an able and en-
Iightened article on this vital subject
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Many interesting articles have beer
written of late about the spirit.world
but assuredly Vance Thompson, in hi;
vivid contribution, "On the Trail O
the Ghost" has found some things
new and startling, which surpass al
previous magazine contributions. This
remarkable work appears in the Marcel
issue OF Hampton's Magazine.
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In the March st. Nicholas are sev
eraI articles OF more than usual inter
est. Mrs. E. II. Baynes contribute:
'"The Frolics of Ny Black Bear Cub
which gives entertaining facts of thu
life and antics of pet baby bear who
wandered untethered about the fara
as would a Newfoundland dog.
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The family physician of the neal
future can be pictured In the minds
eye making out work sheet for the
guidance Of the surgeons. to accom-
pany a hypothetical patient TO the
hospital, which might read something
Ike this: ss
~Ampntate rheumatic right leg AND
graft on a new one.
"Cut out kidneys. which are develop
ing Bright's disease, and transplant
sound ones, preferably from a healthy
young hog. etc. From .MaYvels Of