Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-19

soldering, cruising adventuring themes.
The greater number of them, however,
center about some homely happening
that the unwaywise see no story in at all,
until Miss Brown, with feeling and dis
cernment and fine picturing, spreads it
out in the full length and breadth of its
appearance and meaning. A group OF
virile and serious stories, we'll worth, in
every case, more than single reading.
THE WHAT-SHALL-I-DO GIRL. BY
Isabel Woodman Watt. illustrated
by Jessie Gillespie. Boston: L. c.
Page & Co.
joys father lived "up to the last cent
of his income And now that he is
dead, his helplessly impractical young
daughter must fight the world, as David
fought Goliath-with no saving stone in
her sling. She is pretty and lovable, OF
course, as a heroine is expected to be,
and she can sing quite nicely, but she
doesn't know how to earn money. and
she refuses to be a Sponge" She has
a number of old schoolmates who have
made good in the business world, and
to each she writes: How did you start
out?" How long before you really began
to earn money % do you know of any
thing I could do?' There is a postscript
reference to one Tad Sears. who wants
to marry her. but JOY thinks she prefers
to make her own way out in the wonder
full. beautiful world" The friends answer.
And the answers make the story. Each
tells of the struggles, failures and sue
cesses of her profession or trade. and
all Of them let Joy know, with the GER
tainty of knowledge only to be attained
by homeless women, that there is no
place like home. The heroine takes her
composite advice to> heart, accepts her
Tad, and with the unintentional ar
rogance of most happy people, notably
heroines-writes to each girl: II can't
bear to think of your working so hard
out there in that dreadful world. Can't
you scare up nice young man like
Tad!'
Added to the charm of the text and its
while information for the girl whose life
problems are not limited to the covers of
a book
Hutchinson, A. NJ, M. D., author of
Studies in Human and Comparative
Pathology" etc. Boston: Houghton
Miff1in Company.
The author combines with his medical
knowledge spontaneous humor which
gives sugar-coated flavor to the evils
he records That Mother Nature takes
on the militancy of British suffra-
gette in her dealings with man is made
evident in a chapter on Heart Dis
ease" in which the author states that
natures fights in the great prize ring
of life are not only to a finish, but of
the most remorseless character, and
not even under rules of such modified
brutality as those of the Marquis of
Queensberry. Disease has, anfortu-
nately, not the slightest corIpunction
about hitting man when he is down."
Science now enables the man to fight
back with some satisfactory show of
resistance. 1t teaches him the why of
his body and its needs. and unshackles
his mind of foolish theories which bear
no seed of fact. For instance, govt
is not rich mans disease. 1.-THE poor
have 1t, but cannot afford to stay
home from work on account of a sore
toe"
That du1led ears and clouded vision
are due to years has been embalmed
in the literature of all the ages, but
the moment we insist upon finding out
the facts. a totally different condition