Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
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MAKING BOTH ENDS MEET: The In
come and Outlay OF New York
Working Girls. BY Sue Ainslie
Clark and Edith Wyatt. New York:
The Macmillan Company. Washing
ton: Brentano'S.
A sociological study with the work
ing women of New York as it's subject.
Its point is to lay bare the relation be-
tween the income of wage and its outgo
among these women. Many investigators
engaged in this work. Several gathered
1t into its present form. This is a sub
stantial and compelling matter. In this
presentment it is also one full of dra-
matte appeal The case for working
women is here merely stated. No at
tempts at solution are made. Looking
toward this solution, the authors name
legislation and organization among the
women themselves. The difficulties sur
rounding both of these matters are fairly
and clearly stated. \ plan, yet untried,
known as scientific management. is
elaborated at the end of this volume.
with the obvious conviction that 1t is
worth an experiment. The whole con-
stitutes a fair and truthful record of an
existing condition. AS a basis for social
and economic action along a prescribed
line the study is of substantial value.
ARGENTINA AND HER PEOPLE OF
TODAY: An Account of the Gus
toms, Characteristics, Amusements.
History and Advancement Of the
Argentinians, and the Development
and Resources Of Their Country. BY
Nevin o. Winter, author of Mexico
and Her People of Today" etc. IL
Illustrated from original and selected
photographs by the author. Bos-
ton: L. c. Page & Co.
Argentina is basking in a spotlight on
the worlds stage of affairs. Just why
this country should have jumped from
its obscurity at the tail end of the map
of South America to stand lat the head
of all the republics south of the United
States makes a thrilling story of COM
merce-conquest, which the author knows
how to tell.
Argentina, 1.-The land of big things" he
explains, is about one-third the size of
the United States. twelve times as eX-
tenSive as the British isles and five times
the size of France. Its topography varies
from the dead level of pampas to the
highest mountain peak in the world out
side of the Himalayas; its climate runs
a gamut of temperatures in which one
may broil or shiver according to loca-
ton. Its Rio de la Plata is the second
largest river system in the world and 1t
has frontage on the Atlantic OF l,6oo
miles.
of area throughout centuries of CONNER
cial nonentity. outside influences were
needed to mint the countrys POSSIBLE
ties into financial fulfilment. The au-
thor, with convincing forcefulness, deals
with these influences. one by one, until
the final summing shows Argentina to be
today: The greatest flax-producing eoun-
try in the world: ranks third in wheat
and second in corn, has more horses tnan
any country except Russia and the
-v,i<n tot oh
try except Australia. and Is exceeded IN
the number of cattle only by this coun-
try. And 1t is the authors opinion that
we will he importing meat from Argen-
tina in the not distant future. She
probably exports more foodstuffs than
any other nation on the globe. if You
include both meat and grains-and yet
the real resources of the country have
only been scratched on the surface.
These facts represent but here-and-
there sprinkle of the information that
crowds every line of the 400 pages or
Mr.. Winters valuable and descriptiveiy
interesting work. Many photographs il
lustrate the scenic beauties. customs ana
general progress of Argentina. among
them 1.-THE Christ Of the An6es." erected
on the international boundary line be-
tween Argentina and Chile and placed
ION a gigantic column in a pass almost
13 600 feet above the level of the sea-.
THE HAUNTED PHOTOGRAPH: And
Other Stories. BY Ruth McEnery
Stuart illustrated by William l..
Jacobs. Peter Newell Ethel Penne-
will Brown and Wilson c. Dexter.
New York: The Century Company.
"A lonely, conflagrated widow owns a
photograph Of the summer hotel in which
her husband was burned to death. 1t
hangs over the mantel sumptuously franz
ed in plush and every now and then her
late IMAM" appears and waves at her
from one Of the windows. The dear or
binary neighbors misdoubt these vision
ings, but to the open-minded reader the
widows explanation that she is "a kind of
a. cross between a Sweden borgeian and
a Gates Ajar." puts the phenomenon on
an entirely satisfactory basis. When at
last the photograph is raffied-but that
would be telling the story.
Each of the four sketches that make
up the present volume are vibrant with