Evening star., 1915-04-04

Cleveland in respect to TINS SUBJECT
From the standpoint of opportunity TO"
girls and women, the study is an eN-
animation of the city's various COM
mercial schools public. private. paro-
chial and philanthropic In passing.
the investigation touches. also, upon
the work of the public school system
itself in its bearing upon guidance to-
ward vocation and preparation for u.
operative Employment Bureau for
Girls, the study itself Is bronght to-
Eether here by trained and experienced
women who stand in close and constant
contact with the point at which bust
ness training merSes into business
practice. This point of juncture Is.
undeniably. one from which the WORK
of training may be fairly judged And
it is here that these writers give sus-
sestive body of constructive criticism
upon the present status of commercial
training. The second part of the study
has to do with the business office. %
which women. through the agency OF
something like three thousand differ
ent positions, have made a pretty COM
plete conquest 1t describes the de-
velopment Of office work for women, its
scope, its trend. and discusses the
physical. economic and social aspects
of this innovation. The study. closing
With a summary of the just demands OF
the average employer, turns again tu
the schools, with the suggestion for
minimum degree of qualification in
personality. age and training, without
which pupils will not be passed over
to the rightful eXactions of the busl-
ness world. Practical information.
reasonable standard and useful sugSes-
tion mark this study. It is. moreover,
a book of business attitude coupled
with an interested human outlook for
girls and women in pursuit of bust
ness career.
THE DIARY OF \ BEAUTY. BY Molly
Elliot Seawell. author Of 'Betty's
Virginia Christmas" etc. illustrate
ed by Frederick Dorr Steele. Phila-
delphia: j. B. Lippincott Company.
This diary covers the record of what
befel a poor and homeless girl through
the sovereign power of her own sur
passing beauty. One day rich and
whimsical old woman, seeing the girl
on the village stree, took her into her
carriage and. like u fairy Godmother.
bore her away to her fine home. There
she dressed her up and played with her
and worked up the foolish notion th3t
the girls beauty was some sort OF hie
elixir for herself. Admirers and Woo
ers flocked about the girl and life WAS
a beautiful playtime. Then on another
dav the tickle old woman turned
against the girl and life for her became
something other than a holiday. bue
even in her misfortune one gets no
very considerable sense of reality. Tor
the girl in this account of herself Keeps
her great beauty so much to the front
| that Is not quite sure u "iAsst -
happening to her in there alone be
hind herself. so to speak. Upon the
whole, however. this diarist deserves
some credit. 1t must be prodigiously
trying for a writer TO nave 70 ~ ~
things about her own charms for a
matter of two hundred pages 1t surrey
is trying to the reader.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD; Be-
ing the story of the Australasfnn
Antarctic Expedition, 19l1-le14. BY
Sir Douglas Mawson, Il. Sc, b. J.
illustrated in color and biack-a
white, with maps. Phiiadelphia =
b. Lippincott Company
This work represents nearly seven
hundred pages of text, photographic re-
productions, colored plates, glossaries
and maps. The author has made his
tory and written it; and he has done
both so well that the reader, by some
subconscious process, separates him
self from the printed account and De-
comes a member of the Mawson party
This sense of the book being an eNpe-
dition asserts itself on board the
ship Aurora and remains with realis-
tic insistence throughout every expert
ence, good, bad, but never inditetent'
which made up the adventures OF the
Mawson explorers in their sleee WIZ tha
the south polar SHOWS Life al tne
bottom of the world where the party
encountered the lowest mean teinpera
ture and the highest wind Feiocity oi
any land existing. was tnaot "a :,
by a home which had attaIned 10
stage of complex perfection 10 pen
etrate to the inside OF the nut 'he
stranger reverentl: steps through
hole in the snow to the Nerahda, g
rendezvous where the latest GOSSIP
was exchanged and the weather invt-
ria bly, discussed in forcioie terms.
our hearth and home was the lNins
H,.
Kitchen and stove were lndiss.1u"'s
linked and beyond their pale was a
wilderness of clothes. The wilderness
was always inhabited, 50 mnch SO M
Ii often became bear garden, IN VIM II
raucous good humor pieN'Ilteu eM'
everything There was a gramophunf'
a newspaper. the Adele Bltzzard, edi.,
ed by DR.. Mclean OF the partS,, p,,,ii...'t a.'t
many choice performances, pr"du'e@
an a scale of forInalitY represent
ed by stage and typed programs
included an opera, more or less EI1..'..
entitled THE Washerwonlan secret.
with its playbili note: Adh'lSSio''' ''''
children half price
In the chapter descriptive of domestic
ups and downs and of aH-rouha COM
ra,lesbip there is a laugh in every lhe
tbe laughter which knows that
tragedy stands alertly waltihs-put
there are other chapters. ''ns te9
with diary brief polEnancy OF tht ae
ciden.al death OF Lieut.. MINIS. ana o,
Dr Nertz. who died shortly afterwaId a
from exposure when accompanying sir
Douglas Mawson ON sledSe lou.he
across King George Land. ana OF
The desolateness OF the leaders return
-alone After the loss OF the Two
comrades who made up his party sir
pou..las continued the journey TOR
thirty-one days and nights through Tue
antarctic solitUdes, in faliing SHOWS
and driving blizZards. How ne res
cued himself from crevasses; no" ne
came upon a cache of food when at tho
last stage of starvation, and how he
reached base just as the ship ne was
to take rode seaward out of her Ice
pack, closes an account of one of the
most heroically pathetic experiences
which science has ever been called on
to endure Other thrilling chapters of
other explorations by other members or
the party are contributed by Capt. J.
X Davis of the Aurora. F. Wild ana
C. F. Ainsworth. with medical reports
by S. f. Jones, NJ. Bch NJ, and A J.
Mclean, NJ b. The author is generous
in his recognition of the assistance
given him by DR.. Mclean, to whom he
credits 'any literary style the book
may possess He is equally loyal In his
tribute to the special work done by
each man of the party, and expresses
affectionate regard for the body as q
splendid whole. Hundreds of photo
graphs of scientific and scenic value.
taken by Frank Hurley. and number
of "the first set color photographs
taken in the antarctic regions direct
from natural Objects, combine TO
make the two volumes as attractive,
pictorially. as any work of travel one