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WOMEN ARE NOT SLACKERS

as conductors, or conductorettes, as
they are called; as booking clerks.
ticket collectors and examiners, lift"
attendants, station porters and car
rage cleaners, and many are employed
in mechanical work in the shops and
in the performance of clerical work
heretofore done by men.
Women are doing outdoor work in
mems jobs and are doing it well. A
commentator on this situation said:
For the first time in the history of our
land thousands of women are actually
enjoying their days toll Work is no
longer merely a means OF making
money or a stopgap before marriage.
1t Is work for the sheer joy Of work
ing, work for the joy of responsibility
that it brings. War has developed
wonderful sense of comradeship and
unity among these women. few
weeks back they were domestic serv-
ants. factory hands, governesses. badly
paid clerks or laundry workers. To-
day they are simply conductors, fnte-
grail parts Of the work that enables
thousands to go about their business
daily"
In England, where certain positions
have always been held as belonging nat
urally and of right to men, it has been
commonly said that women could not
be trusted with such positions as rail-
road or transit jobs because they
would lose their heads in an emergency.
A sudden rush y and they would be
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HTHE woman in war time Is not a
Stacker; that Is. the percentage
of slackers among the women of
a nation when their country is at war
is SO small as to be negligible. and an
examination into even that small per-
centage would probably show that
there>is no Stacking" there. but just
inability to find a place to fit into that
her labor might help the cause of her
country. A great deal has been writ
ten of the practical patriotism and I'M
faltering loyalty Of the German and
French women. but perhaps not enough
Of the limelight of publicity has been
turned on the women of England.
That these women are laboring In
the munition plants has been printed.
and evidence going to show that they
are replacing men in all lines Of work
where the men have been called to the
colors Is coming from many sources
More than 1000 women are now en-
ployed on the railways, trains and
buses in London controlled by the Lon
don General Omnibus Company. the I'M
railways. the London and
Suburban Traffic Company. the Metro
politan electric tramways, the London
United tramways and the South Metro
politan tramways. They are employed
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and elder daughter have had their Gift
courses at universities, and Chloe, the
younger. has returned from q trip to
Europe ''as the guest Of friends"
The story opens with Sabra's plat
form call to proclaim all she doesn't
know about eugenics-a public duty
which necessitates her giving up her
work in an uncle's ONCE and, with 1t,
the house. This decision terrifes the
younger sister. Chloe. who has to pay
the family bills, but-just to show how
a statue may influence a girl who loves
knew-when the work is offered to her
she refuses-at first. They will get
along some way-"It is because we are
Serene Cages children that people have
been glad to do things for US"
But the reader knows better. 1t is
the mother who secures each favor by
using the statue to prod memories that
otherwise had comfortably forgotten
that Serene Gage had ever lived. And
after while Fate comes along and
carts the statue to the dump.
The mother royalty mendicant for
her children's sake, gives her life for
children not her own. and in the doing
wins from a grateful city sculptured
his lesser share
1t is beautifully told story in which
romance has It's complications, humor
ITS filings and-throughout the book
frolics OF Serene Cages grandson, who
is to inherit his blessed friendliness,
but who, thankfully. Is named Billy.
TRAVELS IN THE AMERICAN COL
ONES. Edited under the auspices
OF the National Society Of the Co
lon1al Danes Of America, by Newton
d. Mereness. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
In compiling the documents which
embody this work the author has done
very real service to readers Interested
in the childhood days of this nation.
Most of the papers are personal Jour
nails written by men intrusted with
special commissions during the period
OF 169o-17s3, and have been selected
with a judgment which will appeal
alike to the student and to the casual
reader whose only motive is to be en-
tertained.
The first diary records a hazardous
and, for its climax, a humiliating Jour-
ney made by Me. Cuthbert Potter"
from Virginia to New England, and
closes with two chapters from Col,
William Fleming's travels in Kentucky
"a contribution breezy with adventure
and narrative charm. Dime novel thrills
are outmatched by such diaries as that
of Antoine Bonnefoy. Containing the
circumstances of his captivity among
the Cherokee Indians; by Capt Tobias
Fitch,s journal. descriptive of his mis-
sion to the Creeks, and by the pow
vows, peace talks and warfares noted
infinitely by intrepid delegates to the
various tribes of the wilderness in be-
half of the English and French Spe-
cially enjoyable among the eighteen
papers is the Journal Of Capt. Phineas
Stevens Journey from Chariestown, N,
H. to Canada, 1852" and the DIARY
or Journey of Moravians from Beth
lehem. Pa, to Bethabara, N. G.. 1753,"
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DEMOCRACY OR DEsPOTIsM. BY
Walter Thomas Mills. NJ A., author
Of The Struggle for Existence"
Berkeley: International School Of
Social Economy.
HUNTING THE TANGO, A Novel. BY
Burr s. Stottle. Illustrated by Harry
Wood. Kansas City: Burton Pub
fishing Company.
TALES FROM A BOYS FANCY, A Vol
ume of Stories and Poems. By Har-
vey Shawmeker. Kansas City:> Bur-
ton Publishing Company.
MIsREPREsENTATI IN RAILROAD
AFFAIRS. By George KEENAN,. New
York: Country Life Press.
PLANTATION SONGS, And Other Verse.
By Ruth McEnery Stuart. author of
sonny" etc. Illustrated by E. w.
Kemble. New York: D. Appleton &
Co.
NAPOLEON, In His Own Words. From
the French of Jules Bertaut. Trans
lated by Herbert Edward Law and
Charles Lincoln Rhodes Authorized
edition. Chicago: A. C. McClurg &
Co.
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Brown in 1893: a Baltimore oriole,
from William V. Cox. 1915: king bird
from Jesse D. Higgins. 1899; grackles.
taken in the Smithsonian grounds by
G. B. Turner. 1911; indigo bird. from
DIR. Elliott Coues 1861: blue grosbeak,
taken at Laurel by Henry Marshall.
1878; female blue grosbeak, collected
by Commodore David Porter, U. S. NJ,
1859. probably killed In his home
grounds on Meridian Hill: American
goldf1nches. In their summer plumage,
1888; cardinals. taken on Quarry road
by Oscar Baker; rose-breasted gros-
beaks. taken near Laurel in 1889. and
hundred other species of birds. In
the collection is even a fine specimen
Of the English sparrow, IAN intro
duced resident" collected by Miss A. E.
Quisenberry, June 5. 1911.
One case contains salamanders,
strange little animals which are COM
mon enough about Washington. but
when seen are usually dismissed as be-
ing lizards. One is a yellow spotted
salamander 1t is a jet black fellow
about eight inches long. thickly
sprinkled with vivid yellow spots
which are generally about the size of
a lady's little finger nail. This speci-
men was captured in Rock Creek Park
and presented to the museum by Dr. E.
A. Mearns. The descriptive card says
Of the species that 1t is seldom seen
and not very common; that 1t frequents
low, damp woods and lives mainly
under logs and leaves. 1t is quite harm
less and, like other species of the sala-
mander. moves about and feeds at
night.
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REVIEWS OF BOOKS
OF MIDSUMMER

WHAT Is CoMINGs European Fore.
(, cast. BY H. G. Wells. author OF
: New Worlds for Old" etc. New
! York: The Macmillan Company.
CCORDING to Mr.. Wells, it is
~ not a difficult feat to extend
A the present, or any essential
part of the present. into the
logic and form of its own
future. Provided one is possessed Of q
broadly generalized- knowledge. coupled
with the scientific imagination and
habit, he may, at will. turn prophet, as
Mr. Wells himself has already done In
respect to certain large social and po-
litical movements of the future. In
this volume the writer deals with the
period Immediately following the war,
, recasting in the light of this event
some of the stablest of European fnsti-
buttons and restating for the future
some of the most important of interna-
tionaI problems and relationships. In
this war crisis the government of Eng
land has taken over and operated for
Its own Immediate use many private
Observation-Disclosures, mines. railways.
It has compelled service and defined
service Mr.. Wells speculates on the
natural effect of this socializing in
nuence upon the ultimate structure of
the state itself. pointing here to the
lesson that both England and France
have learned from Germany in the
policy of socializing forces that have
hitherto been purely fndividualistfc. He
discusses in practical and stimulating
manner the opportunity that education
in England now has to step out from
its medieval habit into the new arena
where the only tolerable aims of edu-
cation shall be character, capacity and
knowledge. There is an interesting
chapter here, too. on what the war is
doing for women-a chapter that from
its beginning in economics fares on in
q logical sequence from this beginning
to the relations of the sexes and to
marriage However startling may be
the change wrought in the tradition of
-womanhood by the great war. as Mr..
.WellS presents it, no one can cavil at
the logic and reasonableness of his
Treatment. With many another seer,
Nr. Wells here takes a hand in making
b new map of Europe. His boundary
ifion and reprisal, but flow, instead.
Along the ways of natural affinity and
voluntary combination. One chapter,
Md this most Illuminating one, traces
that would naturally unite England,
France. Russia and the United States. |
using the United States the center |
of this combination. Historic friend |
ship and political brotherhood tend to |
unite France and this country, both |
successful modern republics. England J
and the United States are in the bond
: OF common language, a strain of the |
same blood and the tradition of per-
sonal freedom. The United States and |
Russia are both new countries, both |
drawn to an unprecedented scale, both |
organized from the beginning on mod |
ern lines. In addition to this common |
modernity Of outlook they are parallel |
In size. climate and position. |
As to Germany. 1.-The future of Ger
many lies with Germany" a statement |
which the writer Celebrates in a spirit |
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS RE.
GENTLY ADDED.

The following list, arranged by sub
jects. includes some of the latest addi-
lions to the Public Library.
The lists which appear in this column
each Sunday are reprinted at the end OF
the month in the Library's monthly bull
letin. Copies Of this may be obtained
free at the Library or will be sent by
mail for Is cents a year.
European War.
Adam, George. Behind the Scenes at the
Front F3O79-Ad14.
Boudin. L. B. Socialism and War. F3o79-
BesSs.
Gator; DO nsre s,ss In French Military Hos
Davis. R. h. With the French in France and
Hale, Walter. By Motor to the Firing Line.
F3079- HISS.
Hail. J. n. Kitchener Mob Fso7e- H14k.
How Diplomats Make War. F3079-H83.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes Of the Fleet.
1918. F3079-K626fr.
Hummer. F. A.. and James. n. P. The Second
Lee, G. s. We; a Confession Of Faith for the
American People During and After the War.
Robinson. W. J. Ny Fourteen Months at the
Washburn, stanley. Victory in Defeat. Fso7s.
w273v.
Literature-History and Biography.
Bates. X. L. American Literature. 1907.
ZYs3-Bs14.
Doumic Rene. Portraits d'Ecrivains. 2v.
19O9-1911. ZY39-D747p.
Gardner, NJ. NJ. Poland, Study in National
Idealism. ZY55-G173p.
Hopkins. R. T. Rudyard Kipling. ZYA-
Jusserand. J. J. Ronsard. 1913. zYssA-
Ro88j.
Kittredge, c. L. Chaucer and His Poetry.
ZYA-C394k.
Kittredge, G. L. Study Of Gawain and the
Green Knight. ZY-K657s.
Palmer, J. L. Rudyard Kipling. ZYA-K628p.
Payne. W. NJ. Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson. 1910.
51A-B555p.
Phelps. w. L. Robert Browning. ZYA-Bs2ph.
saintsbury. G. E. B. The Peace Of the Au-
gustans. ZY-Sa26p.
Waugh, Arthur. Reticence In Literature. ~
W354r.
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Of perfect friendliness for the German
people and in a full appreciation of
their peculiar and SURPRISING genius.
The Hohenzollern is the only trouble
with Germany. That eliminated and a
great people remains. one that could
easily find its place in the association
of nations.
This book is eminently worth ones
careful study. Mr.. Wells stands in a
high place where the outlook is broad.
tons free from prejudice and other en-
tanglements. Whatever he writes de-
serves consideration. This study. in
particular, gives back big return for
reader.
PARIS REBORN. A Study in Civic
Psychology. By Herbert Adams
Gibbons. author of The New Map
OF Europe" etc. Illustrations by
Lester G. Horribly. New York: The
Century Company.
Reading this book, one can imagine
Mr.. Gibbons. in those first months of
the war. spending his days and nights
in the streets of Paris. His chief use
for a domici1e at that time appears to
have been to make a place where he
could, with certainty, come upon his
hardly won type machine and turn over
to it. while they were still hot from the
streets. the multitudinous Impressions
that Paris was then crowding upon
him. First, the city was shaken fully
awake by the rumor of mobilization.
Then came the mobilization itself, and
a general pandemonium of excitement
from a thousand trifiing centers of
panic-the spy panic, creating a mo-
mentary mob around some innocent
person with a German twist to his mus
fHy~ 70 Ht
and the tourist panic in which travellers
rioted for money that was warranted
to behave as money ordinarily does.
and always should. behave. Every
breeze that blew in those troubled days
famed up local whirlwinds of excite
ment and stirred the city to outbursts
of uncontrol. Mr.. Gibbons appears to
miss little of this. A glimpse here, a
half-word there, an encounter over yon-
der. the soldiery on the march through
them standing out with "Alsatians
bound for homev'-all these and a
thousand other bits of this strange
mosaic of interrupted life are given
reality and appeal. Then, soon, Mr..
Gibbons in an equal lifelikeness of eff
feet, shows the real Paris emerging
from this false dawn of the city at the
beginning, of the war. Here is the
great and serious Paris, COMFORTING
itself in its most humble affairs with
the grave grandeur that the time and
the event demand. Day by day-diary-
wfse-the picture grows under the
hand of this seeing and feeling writer.
And going along beside him is Lester
Horribly making pictures that illumi-
nate this text in exactly the spirit of the
text itself. One does not merely read
this book. 1t Is of character to make
one live through its scenes and ex-
periences.
DiA MoDE' The Epic OF the French
Marines. BY Charles LIE Goffic.
Translated by Florence Simmonds.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Com
pany.
1t was in the retreat of the autumn
Of 1914. Try to hold out for at least
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wyre. L. J. Social Studies in English Atera--
Essays ON the Drama.
Fitx-Gerald. g. J. A. Dickens and the Drama.
1910. 5YA-D55n.
Muensterbers. Hugo. The Photoplay. zYD-
Peers e. A. Eli.abethan Drama and Its Mad
Folk 1914. ZYD-P34se.
wynne. Arnold: The Growth e English
Drama. 1914. ZYD-wsoeg.
Plays.
Boyd. Jackson. The dwelling. YD-B695u.
Carus. Paul. K'ung Flu TIE. YD-C25sk.
Cowan. Sada. The State Forbids. YD-Cssss.
Dresser. Theodore: Plays of the Natural and
the Heart Of Youth. YpHii2ss. ' anu
Lord. Katharine. The '' Greatest GIFT. I'd.
Lss7g.
MacK.ye. P. W. caliban by the Yellow Sands.
M1s2.
Manners. J. H. wreckase. Yp-Mslswr.
Robinson. E. A. Van Zorn. 1914 YD-R56Sv.
Vaehell. H. A. Searchlights. YD-v185s.
William Shakespeare.
Beeehins. H. c. William Shakespeare. 1909.
Buckley, R. R. The Shakespeare Revival.
Coll August. Criminal Types in Shakespeare.
Hatcher. Q. L a Book for Shakespeare Plays
", Lord. Katharine. The Day WIN Shakespeare
Went to kenilworth. YD:se5 10.
shskes ,pea william. The Shakespeare Apoe-
Slopes; Mrs. e; G; Burbsse and sh.kesDe.re's
Thorndife. 4. D = Shakespeare. rh....r. I'd
Sseth.
Poetry.
Bates; X. L. America the Beautiful. 1911.
Bradley. Berton. Songs of the workaday
Burnet. Dana POEMS YP-Bs27.
,ois armsp. Bliss and King, N. P Earth Deities.
YP-C7s5a. VI Ap'"
r FLETCHER y J. G. I.r.Siatien: Yr.rsssi.
Herschell. William. Songs Of the streets and
Byways. YP-H43ss.
Hyslop. j. n. Poems. YP-HB9s
Iris. schsrmel. Lyrics of Lad. 1914. Up
Johnson Johnson. Fenton. Songs of the Soil. Up
Johnson, L. p. PoeticaI Works. YP-Jsee5..
Johnson. w. s. Prayer for Peace. YP-Jssep
y r hinnieutt' L. N. To Your Dog and to Ny Dog
YP-L273a. 'e'.
cy asei TPMi MS; c. H. OBJ. Elorsntine
YP-M3s5h. A''e'
Masters. E. L. Songs and satires. Maaaso
Neihardt. J. G. The Song of Hugh Glass YP-
N313so~
O'shsei. shaemas. The Light Feet of Goats
YP-Os4Sl. " "'a'''
Percy. W. A. sappho in Levkas. YP-P4las.
Rand Kenneth. The Rainbow Chaser 1914
Richards. G. NJ, comp. High Tide YP-9R3ah.
Scotland. Clinton. Italy in Arms. YP-Sco4ssi
scollard. Clinton. The Vale of Shadows YP-
Sco468v.
Smith. NJ. R. Sometime 1898. Yp-smsss
stephens, James. The Rocky Road to Dublin.
YP-St45sr
Sterling, George. Beyond the Breakers. Yp-
St465b.
Swinburne. A. C. Poems. 1910. YP-swssea4
Teasdale Sara. Rivers to the Sea. YP-T227r
Watts. b. NJ. The Faith Of Princes. Up
W346f.
Humor.
Bangs, J. K. From Pillar to Post Yw-B2ef
Cobb. 1. s. Speaking of Operations" wv
cess.
Graves. c. L. Humours Of Irish Life. wv
9G7s3h.
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It's Present Color.

From the indianapolis Star.
Say" said the landlord to the ten
ant who was two months shy with his
rent. when am I going to see the color
Of your money!
Cant say" replied the party OF tho
second part. The color just now is
an invisible green"
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these muskrats, ciuri, beavers, foxes.
martens and weevils (weasels), which
do not destroy hens and eggs. as ours
do. Among the birds are to be found
a very ravenous eagle. various kinds
of birds of prey, which live for the
most part on fishes, and partridges no
larger than quails, but in almost end
less numbers"
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To the Roof

boring people use for food. The near
est woods are full of horses and wild
bulls and cows. Five or six hundred
thousand of the skins of these ami
mails are carried every year to Seville
from that part of the country which
lies westward toward Mexico. Any
number of wild goats can be procured
from the neighboring people. Add to
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

ACTION FRONT. By Boyd Cable, au-
thor of Between the Lines" New
York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
THE NEUTRALs' PORTION; A Ro-
nance of the Middle West. By Ell
win Lorraine. New York: The Jack
son Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16

common garter snake taken in Fair
fax county by DR.. ]. B. Green in 1877;
one Is a red snake or milk snake taken
at Ballston, Va. by William Palmer in
1879. and one is chain or king snake
taken at Sandy Spring. Montgomery
county, Md, and presented to the mu-
scum by J. P. Stab1er in 1877.
To go back to the neighborhood OF
the otter. there is a case containing
a wood ibis captured in Prince Georges
1851 by w. r. Young: bittern taken
on the Potomac river by w. Walker In
1850, a shoveler duck from the Poto-
mac. presented by A. Edwards in 1860,
and bald-pate duck, presented In 1893
by ]. X. Townsend In the neighbor-
hood of the ducks and the otter are
cases containing specimens of skunk,
opossum, weasel, muskrat, squirrels,
woodchuck chipmunk, moles, rats,
mice and bats. There is also a District
foxes are not necessarily scarce
around Washington
The presence of this otter should
serve as a reminder that at one time
offers and beavers and many other an
imals were numerous in the Potomac
country. In an account of the colony
Of Lord Baltimore published in 1888
1t Is written: There are notable riv-
ers. The chief of these theys call the
Attawomech (Potomac), a navigable
river running eastward for 40 miles.
where there is such a lucrative trade
with the Indians that a certain mer-
chant in the last year exported beaver
skins to the value of 10000 gold
crowns, and the profit of the traffic is
estimated at thirty fold. For the rest
there are such numbers Of swine ana
deer that they are rather an annoy
ance than an advantage. There are also
vast herds Of cows and wild oxen, fit
for beasts of burden and good to eat,
besides five other kinds of large ami
aals unknown to us which the neigh
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Next to the yellow spotted salamander
is black and white salamander about
five inches long. It was captured on
offuts Island. Montgomery county, Nd.
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eagle us resident species. nests near
the Potomac river; now quite rare"
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Bangs, J. X. From Pillar to Post. Yw-B22f
Cobb. 1. S. Speaking of Operations" wv
Cess.
Graves, C. L. Humours Of Irish Life. wv
9G7s3h.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

Lois Wilson, will be starred in 'Landon's Legacy" a five-part Uni versa1 drama from the pen of Mer- edith Nicholson at the Alcazar theatre today. In this feature Miss Wilson who only few short months ago was bookkeeper in one of the large wholesale houses of Birmingham is shown in dis tinctly leading role and one that will surely impress her friends and adherents in this city on her tai ent as a photoplayer.
 Miss Geraldine Farrar, the noted song bird, who broke into the picture game with a loud eclat some months ago with a Limitation of Carmen, came across with another winner Tn 'Temptation," which was shown at the Strand yesterday, and which Will appear at that popular theatre the remainder of the week. Temptation is a photoplay of the life of opera singers behind the scenes and in real life. It is an interesting and grip ping picture and Miss Farrar IS al- ways the accomplished artist
 "The Painted SouT' with Bessie Barriscale, will again be shown at the Colonial today. "The Painted Soup is the film story of young woman in the depths. It should pc seen to be appreciated.
 Jealous persons should really slVe ''The Green-Eyed Monster" the FOX feature at the Trianon theatre today the careful once over. ''The Green Eyed Monster as portrayed by ROD ert Mantell Genevieve Hamper ana Stuart Holmes presents a very forclple lessen.
 ''The Sorrows of Happiness dra- matic subject, and "A Mile a Min ute'' a farce comedy, will be the two pictures shown at the Princess the- etre today
 l.. c. Shumway is starred in Ihe Strange Unknown a Lubin dramatlc feature which will be shown at the Odeon Two today. '"The seventh Day with Sallie Crute and Raymond MIG Kee. an Edison comedy, will also ap- pear.
 Ah-theres a rift in the clouds on the select committee of pastors. ITS well, indeed!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, January 5.-Forecast for Alabama: Partly cloudy south, rain Thursday or Thursday night north DOT ton; colder Thursday night; Friday fair and colder.
 Tennessee: Rain Thursday, possibly snow northwest portion; much colder with a cold wave west portion and at night east portion; Friday fair, warmer west portion.
 Mississippi: Local rains Thursday north and Thursday night south portion; colder north and west portions with cold wave north portion; Friday fair, colder southeast portion.
 Georgia: Partly cloudy Thursday, rain northwest portion; Friday local rains and colder.