Evening star., 1918-08-11

called me in.
"oh." he said. II believe that you're
overworked and need rest. Evident
ly you've had your mind set on
something serious during the last
two weeks and you ought to go.G
away until you get ut on"
**
1t struck me later that there was
something subtle in that remark
about until you get 1t or" But
am no guy 10 be browbeaten into
anything. left the office all right.
but I took my pet along.
Safe on my vacation. great idea
occurred to me. Why not take my
mustache to distant and more
friendly atmosphere? New York, for
instance. To be sure. took the next
train there. In New York, | thought,
l could stand in front OF shop win
doWs and gaze at VIII AT my new
upperlip possession.
AS usual, l was wrong.
During the first half day in New
York l enjoyed myself fairly well.
but that was all. After had gazed
into all OF the shop windows on
my new toy almost to my hearts
content, I ran into an old friend.
and he 'bedeviled me almost beyond
endurance.
what you trying to do--look like
the cough sirup king?" he asked.
i answered that had no such inten-
tion.
well, maybe you think you'll be tho
logical successor to Ezra Meeker or
Buffalo Bill?" he continued.
l did not like that mans company.
SO l came home to train my offspring
In the DrOner atmOSDhCre.
On the train, for the first time In
weeks, l found some one VINO ap-
peared to love me. 1t was little
baby. A cute little golden-halred
child, just old enough to walk little
and talk little more.
For an hour or more we played
peek a. boo. she looking over the top
of the seat on which she stood. and
gazing. nose high, over the seat at
her.
Then, suddenly. she raised up high
to look at me, and l, like a big boob
stuck my chin over the back OF her
seat 80 that my whole face was ex-
posed.
The baby took one look at me and
turned to her mother. screaming:
"Oh, mamma, the man has dirty
lip"
I'm glad it's shaved Off:
In their common occupations, in the
sum Of their outlook and habits. Here
are pictures of the landscape, ranged
on each side Of the open road. or hid
den among the windings of aint
trails. Here are river ways and the
population squatted beside it. or
floating upon 1t. Bits of social life,
glimpses of traditional custom. seiz-
ures upon politically disturbed
AV,xJ RaAA Ian L. Hsx@ rAtn
fair view Of the women Of China in
this book. One meets with the mis-
sionares in a work that savors
healthily of this life as. well as of
the one to come. One celebrates holl-
days with the natives and then goes
tigers to monkeys and peacocks. I'm
explored parts OF the empire came
under the eye-and the camera-of
this pair of enthusiasts. Natives far
from the common routes of travel
appear here. and large areas Of inter-
this animated and energetic story of
travel. The zest of the writer's them
selves warns this book into a COM
municable medium for the salient and
characteristice features of Chinese
life ,,nd and Of the . country itself; An &c sd-
made by Mrs. Andrews objectify the
text on many important and charac-
teristic aspects of China and the life
Of its people.
THE PERIL OF HIFALUTIN. By
Huntington Wilson, author OF
''Stultitia," etc. New York: Duff1eld
4 Co.
This is a volume Of essays which
come together here by virtue Of their
common patriotism and their practical
outlook upon those elements of Amer
ican life that stand in critical rela-
tion to the present upheaval Of the
world. Their purpose is--as this
title implies-to combat the dangers
Of any unsound idealism, of any peril
Gus self-deception. of any erratic
radicalism. or any deadening con-
servatism. that may affiict any part Of
the people. thereby threatening the
safety OF the country as whole.
The purpose OF the book Is, too. to
arouse the Indifferent, to stir the
sluggish. who. while having a voice in
the policy Of the nation, take no meas
ures to inform that voice. take no
care to direct 1t into the ways of wise
and influential speaking. An inform
ed thinking directed toward the real
tiles OF the national situation is, ac-
cording to Mr.. Wilson. an urgent and
vital need. To direct readers toward
this. both through a setting up of the
salient realities of our national life,