The Republican journal., 1910-03-31


tributors in theNew IdeaWoman S Maya
zine for April with an photographed
article entitled "MyTwenty-fv Years of
Opera 1t is written in delightful vein,
and is full of the many funny incidents
that overtake grand-opera star in her
professional life. 1.-The Business Girl and
Her Mother" by Mabel Herbert Urner,
author of THE Journal of Neglected
Wife" gives some sound advice to the
working girl. fUnusual Occupations for
Women shows the startlingly large
number of new fields of activity women
have invaded-and made good. The fic-
ton is by Anna Steese Richardson, Adele
Marie Shaw and Honore Willsie, with a
captivating serial by Florence Warden.
The fashions are pleasing and tell all
that's new this spring. The number is
all that woman could ask.
The Strand Magazine for April is in
creased in size from one hundred and
twenty pages to one hundred and forty
four. The change will be welcomed by
every reader of this cosmopolitan and
interesting magazine. The current issue
contains ten stories by we'll known writer's
and number of interesting articles.
Smart Sets in History is an account of
fashion in the olden days, and being writ
ten by Miss Braddon, the well-known
novelist, it is full of charm. Ponzone,
the art dealer, recounts his adventures in
securing ''Old Masters" and Joseph
leighton writes of "Actors as Artists.
A series of '1ife-sized" portraits is a
novel and striking experiment in maya
zine portraiture, showing the eminent
persons represented exactly as if the
reader stood face to face with them in
real life.
Jane Adams, the founder of Hull
House, in Chicago, the most extensive
and important social settlement in the
United States, begins her life story in
the April American Magazine. 1t is
great human story of a great woman; in
its course Miss Adams unfolds the evo-
luton of her ideas on social questions and
gives the practical reasons for the beliefs
which she holds and which have had so
large an influence upon the social workers
of the country. In ''The Spring Train
ing" Hugh S. Fullerton, the noted
baseball expert, describes how the nat
ional heroes of the diamond get into con-
dition at the beginning of the baseball
season. Mr.. Fullerton's article will in
terest everyone, whether a baseball en-
thusiast or not. Excellent fiction is con-
tributed byLincoln Colcord, Barton Wood
Currie, Octavia Roberts and Harris Dick
son, while THE Pilgrim Scrip and Mr..
Worldly Wiseman in the Interpreters
House - are unusually good.
An excellent pen picture of the Duke
of the Abruzzi, modern prince with an
amazingly romantic career, has the lead
ing position in the April number of Nc
Chre's Magazine. Other articles of no
less interest are: Some Modern Ideas on
Food" by Burton j. Hendrick, showing
the baneful effects of meat diet; Pre-
ventable of Blindness, by Marion Hamil-
ton Garter, who takes up the cause of the
needlessly blind, and shows that one
fourth of the children in the blind asyl-
ums are unnecessarily Blind 'Follies in.
Criminal Procedure by Charles B.
Brewer, and What Whiskey ls," by H.
Parker Willis. Among the short stories
are '"The Purple Stockings" by Edwin
Salisbury Field; For the Sake of Her
Children,' by Octavia Roberts; "At
Brady's," by Mary Heaton Worse; "The
Curse of the Hereto" by Seumas Nc
Manus; and 1.-The Kite" another war
story by the author Of ''The Joint in the
Harness. There are drawings by Andre
Castaigne, Frederic Dorr Steele, Thomas
Fogarty, Rollin G. Kirby, and Robert
Edwards.