The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-06
THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.

The editors of Everybody's seem to
have set out to cover, in their April
number about every phase of life, and
for every member of the family. In
Sanity and Democracy which opens
the magazine, they furnish some re-
markable facts about the success of
American cities under commission gov
eminent From this start, they talk
about wild animal photographing in
Africa; athletics. straight and tainted,
the production of gold. its romance,
and its effect on high prices: the
makeup of an orchestra. and all the
complicated machinery that goes into
the pleasant sounds to which we dance
and sing; the trials of Judge Lindser
in his fight with machine politics and
corporation greed: the theater and its
people: the new books of the month,
and some talk on what literature real
Is is: a bunch of jokes, mostly old
and mostly laugh producing: talk by
Ridgeway on imagination and its appli-
cation to business. letters on all sub
jects from everywhere: poetry; Eu-
NOR in verse and story; marriage as
a vocation; the methods adopted by
plagiarist play writer: the effect
OF the mother spirit on a boy who is
up against it,: the homely Flickinger
I family and the Wanderlust of the
butchers boy; and. laughable. ridicul-
Gus. the story of the absent-n minded
4 professor who knows all about what's
+ in YOUR COCO and his friend VINO for
4 got that he was married and that his
rich aunt was dead The cover is an
sbsurdiy attractive collection of East
er eggs. with fuzzy yellow chickens
just coming through the shells. They
were photographed from life. and nave
at least the merit of infinite pains.
Important timely interest is charac
teristic of many of the articles of tht
April Century. In the spirit of the
Easter season is Robert Hichen's &C
count Of his journey From Damascus
TO Nazareth with reproductions il
color of Mr.. Guerin's paintings OF ths
Garden Of Gethsemane, the Mount o
Olives, and Tiberias and the Sea 0
Galilee. George won Skals ''If Ger
many Were Called TO War is a yiy1'
presentation of the wonderful organi
! cation BY which million soldier
could be placed in the field within
veek. Charles r. Miller, editor of tn
New York Times, who has made
gpecial study Of socialism, present
some OF his conclusions. giving cogen
reasons why socialism Is undesirabl
and impracticable. and considering tn
latest program of the Socialist part,
" chiefly as 1t would affect the manage
Tnent of finance. An article OF cor
structiye social interest in the nun
her II. Jacob A. Riis's "The Peoples Il
I stitute Of New York a remarkabl
2 organization which has brought abor
2 the. censorship Of moving picture film
: for the entire country, the SUPERVISE
81 theaters for the people, and whic
2 conducts an open forum at Coope
Union, where important questions
the day are discussed Dr. Howai
Lflienthal's Current Progress in Su
Z. gerry is # is promised the first
g q group Of similar. papers on the VOL
~ u the 0orld n important fields. The
le Is also q popular article en- THE R
IS turn Of Haiisg's Comet" with inform
~ ton on comets In general by Pr
81 William n Pickering Of Harvard.
X the ADr1i Century Walter Cam
~ series Of articles on American spoI
lie reaches -The American Nation
'er Game treating, with characteris
80 authority and interest profession
ise AID college base ball in the sevs