The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-11-05

do without on account Of the war and
also shows the opportunities now opened
to American manufacturers and de-
signers. Other articles are contributed
by Charles E. jefferson, pastor of
Broadway Tabernacle, New York City;
Alice Brady. daughter of the well-known
theatrical manager; q minister who
anonymously describes his pastoral ex-
periences with women; DR.. Roger H.
bennett, q New York specialist in chill
dren's diseases, who tells how to
take care of the baby; and many other
features. Kathleen Norris begins a
new serial story entitled ''Uneducating
Mary" and more fiction is contributed
by iona Gale, Fannie Heaslip Lea,
Temple Bailey, Mary Heaton worse, and
Grace S Richmond. The regular FASH
ion, Cooking, Young..People's, Handicraft
and Housek eping departments are filled
with practical ideas that make for taste
and economy.
Uniforms for Women" is the start
ling suggestion in an article in the No
vember Atlantic by w. L. George, the
English feminist. Calling the fashions
of the day a NEW hysteria" and charg-
ing that women are "undoing the social
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poverty, envy, discomfort, frivolity,
! starvation, prostitution, to general Soc
| iai degradation, ne claims that moth
ing can mitigate these evils until woman
| is induced to view clothing as men do,
until, namely, she decides to wear uni
form. Mr.. George proves the POSSIBLE
Ity of this revolutionary step, and even
ventures a tentative description of the
uniform. His brilliant argument on a
subject near to the hearts of one sex
and the pocketbooks of the other, may
we'll cause revulsion of feeling against
the tyranny of Poiret. Equally lively is
the first of the AtIantic's war articles.
Under the title of 1.-The Mailed Fist and
its Prophet" H. l.. Mencken represents
the militarlsts of Germany as the active
disciples of Nietzsche, the anti Christian
philosopher who has turned university
professors into field marshals of militant
thought. 1.-The weak and the botched,
said NietZsche, Unjust perish they
should be helped to perish! You say
that good cause hallows even war? I'D.
tell you that good war hallows every
causep' Other war articles are "The
European Tragedy" broad treatment
of fundamental aspects, by Guglielmo
Ferrero, the Italian historical authority;
british Liberalism and the War;" by
J. O. P. Bland, thoughtful statement
of the present position and future policy
of the pacificist forces in England; de-
Tense of the Mikado's action at Kiao-
Chau, by Kiyoshi X. Kawakami, entitled
Japan and the European War;" and
brief article from the pen of John Jay
Chapman, revealing Americas oppor-
tunity for intellectual leadership during
the present crisis. Of especially timely
interest is also Kuno Francke's German
Lii erature and the American Temper"
Professor Francke skilfully depicts those
qualities in the Teuton which are unap-
preciated or misunderstood in the United
States. But the Atlantic is not wholly
concerned with the war. The first in
stallment of ''Rab and Dab," the story
of woman rice-planter's adoption of
two pickanlnnies, contains the very quail
tiles which gave the Letters of Wo-
man Homesteader" their wide appeal.
Raymond Bellamy throws light on the
joys and sacrifices of IA Professor IN a
Small College" Howard c. Warren
makes a strong plea for Academic
Freedom" In 1.-THE Reading of Books
Nowadays" GEORGE P. Brett of the
Macmillan Company argues that litera-
ture is losing ground in this country.
"The Impulse to Futurism,' by Henry
W. Nevinson, tells of the Futurists' de-
spairing conviction that modern art is
conventional and meaningless. Other
important articles are mind in Plants"
by Ada w. Yerkes, and Morality as an
Art" by Havelock Ellis. Charming
stories are contributed by Mary Heaton
Worse and Elizabeth Ashe; while au
tumnal poetry from Edith Wyatt AID M.
A. DeWolfe Howe, and two genial skits
in the Contributors Club, complete a
notable number.