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-Four Books ON Food

ECONOMICAL COOKERY By Marion Harris Neil.
illustrated. l2mo, pp 7. 3i6 Little. Brown &
wsn fAHM rss Fo2R 9srasa anasAiyApl9y isAo pe
27e The Macmillan Company.
The II. . RooM or Of cHEEsE By {hares rhom snd
The Macmillan Company.
THE LIBERTY COOK BOON By Bertha Stock
bridge Svo. PIP. 49S d. Appleton & Go.
Miss Neil, who is one of the fore
most authorities in domestic science,
has prepared most attractive and
compendious cook boook. which is suf-
fciently "economicap to serve the
wartime needs of the most mod
est household purse and which is
yet sufficiently appetizing to crafty
even the most fastiolous palate, 1t
should prove a prize to innumerable
housewives.
Mr. Cruess gives descriptions. direc-
tions and recipes calculated to equip
any intelligent person with the ability
successfully TO preserve meats, fruits,
vegetables and. in brief, all food prod
ucts. in any of the various ways in
which it can be done. It is volume
of immense and timely value. which
cannot be too hlShiN recommended.
The volume by Mess:s. Thorn and
Fisk is the latest OF the admirable
Rural Textbook Series," edited by l..
H. Bailey. Technical enough to be
scientific, it is al the same
time simple enough to be readily un-
derstood by the n-scientiic layman,
and is to be esteemed as one of the
most complete and useful treatises on
all the varied aspects and tasks of
chesse making that have ever been put
forth.
Mrs. Stockbridge has prepared com.
pendious cook book. filled with excel
lent recipes Of ali sorts of dishes d.
rections for canning and drying fruit.
Jelly making. etc. and in brief pretty
much all that the housewife needs or
wishes to know about preparing and
preserving food
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Miss Widdener, Miss Hall,
Other Writers of Fine Fiction

'Sonncts from the Portueucse,' but
cant have any Of those things, "ex-
cept the sonnets." adopts an adorable
boy, whom she calls Pat. but speaks of
as "all of her family" They live "fifty
miles from nowhere, if YOU take the
short cut" in the middle of the Oregon
hills. Perch-edifce is their home and
as Phyllis said, "the perch is for fun
and the editice for dignity" Then, of
course, there are the neighbors, and
mighty interesting they prove to be.
First, there is Mr.. Miser, "who was
not intended to be mser, not being
cut from the right pattern, the pattern
from which typical misers are made.
All of my family and have decided
that he caught his mserliness some
where, just as he is everlastinely
catching cold, and has not been able to
~ himself Of it," Then there is
NEARLY neighbor." who was not at all
neig ghborly, and the mice young man.
and-well, some more interesting peo-
pie who add to the irresistible charm
of the book. and whom only Phyllis
can tell about, in her quaint and orgi-
nal WaV
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
From Oxford to the Trenches

DRUMS AFAR. BY John Murray Gibbon. l2mo.
pp; 352. The John Lane Company.
Mr.. Gibbon plans his story better
than he tells it. The scheme, of an
Oxford undergraduate falling in love
with Chicago girl and finding sue
cessive settings for the romance in
Germany, England. America, Canada,
and finally the war front, is admirable.
and the development of character and
the awakening to a realization of the
meaning of the war, in many minds, are
excellently we'll cone. But we cannot
regard the author as happy in the talk
OF his people. 1t was said Of Samuel
Johnson that if he wrote fables of
little fishes he would make them talk
IKE great whales. We are quite sure
that neither young Englshmen nor
young Americans at Oxford talk as Mr..
Glbbon makes his undergraduates talk;
and indeed all through the book there
is certain f.ormality of speech which
gives an artificial and unreal air to
what would otherwise be a thorouchlv
human and delightful tale.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Real Girls
Also Real Men, and Real Love
Making Galore

YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG ONCE. Ry Msrsare
Wfddcmer. Emo. pp. 33. Henry Holt & Co.
There arc five Of them, all introduce
in the first chapter; each of them diff
ferent from all the others, and-we' d
say each more charming than any of
the others if it were not that that
would be, as Euclid says. absurd. But
they are all genuine girls, natural
spontaneous, believing in good old
fashioned love and not bit ashamed
of it. Then there are the 10ung men,
too, since this is no Auamless Eden,
and they are decent, manly fellows
with not the slightest use Tor Sigmund
Freud. And nature takes it's course.
They fall in love, and get married, and
live happily ever after. Unless Emer-
son was quite wrong about all man
kind loving a lover, and we don't think
he was, everybody must like this book.
We profoundly pity the foresaken mis-
anthrope who doesn't.
Miss Widdomer's aunt was therefore
right in insisting that she could write
prose if she tried. We ourselves might
have doubted it, or at least have seen
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Words About Ireland
But Not Very Much More Than
Words and Rhetoric

rr,ANp, A STUDY IN NATloNALISM. Ry
rrsncis Hscket,- $40. PIP. 4o4. Il. W. Huebsch.
The causes. the consequences and the
,smedies of the proverbial woes of "the
INST distressful country" form gem
.ral theme st once vast and varied.
Great in general and multitudnous in
detail. duplicating considerations of
history, geography. ethnology. religion,
sociology, political economy and con-
s.;.utional law; fascinating as a ro-
nance, practical as school arithmetic
and ;rcessant and iNsistent in its ap-
real to human sympathy. The call sor
Mr. Nackett 70 essay discussion CT it
wss clear and strong, partly because
No is himself ot Irish blood and partly
his gifts Of thought. snS speech pc
ru,arly 1T him for it. The result is
readable volume; Yet we must confess
tia. az contribution to the practical
settlement OF The Irish question" it
"sets US nc forrarder."
The trouble is that Mr. Hackett
writes too we'll or TOO sclf-consciouslv
vel. His book is 4 tour de force Of
triniancy from beginning to end. such
ss leaves US wondering whether he
wrote il rs Al attempt to solve the
Irish problem or simply as an exhibi-
tion OF nimhleness of wit and fuency
al speech, with, We must confess, a
strong inclination toward the latter
theory. Indeed, in his love of epigram
the author row and then falls into
what we cannot help regarding as in
diseretions, as when ne speaks of cat
tie manners as being almost as bad as
imperialists. and as when he brackets
together as social institutions the
priesthood and prostitution. 1t is easy
to find fault with Sir Horace Plunkett
and to picture Daniel O'Connell as a
moor, weak. cowardly creature, and to
spotheosize Padraic Pearse and the
Irish Rebellion Of 1915, but we must
doubt the profit of it. Words, words,
words" said Hamlet. They are we'll
chosen and deity used words. but they
ore chiefly words and nothing more.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
The Newspaper Man Abroad

A REPORTER AT ARMAGEDDoN Rv VIII
Irwin. l2mo. Up. 355. D. Appleton Co.
Mr.. Irwin has reprinted in this vol
ume numerous letters from the West
crn front, Switzerland and Italy of per-
sonal observation of the way; some
from the Allied and some from the
German side of the line. His keenness
Of vision, clarity of thought, sense of
humor and copious fuency of speech
give the book distinction even among
the many excellent books of the kind
which have appeared. What he writes
is Of timely interest, and it is suffi-
GENTLY authoritative and we'll written
to be worthy Of preservation for fut-
ure reference and rereading by those
who then wish to refresh their memo
ries as to how the great war was
Waged.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
When the War Is Done

BRITAIN AFTER TIE rEACE. BY Brousham
yilliers. s7o. pp. s49. +. p. Dutton & Co.
Finance, industry, the land, and in
deed, all material interests will be
much concerned in the settlement after
the war, to such an extent that prob
ably nothing will ever be again the
same that it was before the war. But
are the changes to be evolutionary or
revolutionary Nh Nilers thinks they
will be or should be the latter, though
rot necessarily marked with violence
and abrogaton of law. His plans for
swift but peaceful revolution are
intended, as the title of the book in
dicates, for application to Great Brit
ain. But it will be profitable for Amer
leans to acouaint themselves with them,
partly because OF the possible applica-
ton or attempt al application Of them
to this country. and partly because it
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Romancing in OREGON
THAT BEGINS WITH "1 >.

SOMETHING TiAT BEGINS WITH IT" bv
nay Ceaver S'rahsn. Illustrated l3mo nn
3l- Small, Maynard d CO. w.
Here is book that Is delightfully."-
refreshing in its originality and in the
attractiveness with which the charac-
ters are drawn The author does not
for the fraction of second permit
Phyllis and call of her family" to re-
llnqulsh their hold upon our sympa-
thies, and we love them for their hu-
manness and their etfervescent humor.
We find Phyllis and all of her family
at Perch editice" altogether lovable
and conspicuously real 1t is book
that Will bring great deal of pleasure
to young people as well as to the older
readers, and it is book that will be
read many times.
Phyllis Winfree. who Cloves silk
stockings, and crepe de chine. and ruff
fed parasols, and tippy high heels and
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
A Man Of Vision.

tNaLE ABNER BY Melville Dawson Post
i2m" pp 34S. ID. Appleton & Co
This is volume of detective stories
that are decidedly "different." The
stern old mountaineer, who unravels
mysteries and brings justice out of
chaos engages in none of the elaborate
investigations, scrutinies and deduc-
tlons OF the detectives of most ro-
mances. He addresses himself to his
Ceases" with nothing but common
sense and penetrating vision-spiritual,
not physical. The result is the solu
tion Of mysteries and the convictions
of criminals in scenes which are won
derfully lifelike and powerfully dra-
matte. The character of Uncle Abner
is distinctly and consistently drawn
and will compare not unfavorably with
those of the heroes Of the most famous
detective tales.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Militant Chautauqua

WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT THE WAR Edited by Mcntaville
Flowers s.o. pp. Ses. The George II Doran
Company
This is a compendious and authorita-
tive volume consisting of explanations
phases of the causes. origin and issues
Of the war, and Of the way in which it
is being waged, contributed by a large
number of men and women conspicu-
oussy competent to speak upon the sub
ject, and calculated to enable the read
er to be able TO give a reason for the
patriotic faith that is in him. 1t is a
sort of encyclopedia Chautauqua forum
in single volume
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Placid, but Pleasing
A Reposeful Study Of the Nat.
ure of a Fine Woman

MISS lNGALIS. BY Gertrude Hall With frontis
piece l2mo. PIP. 3o7. The Century Company
In one Of the odtime comedies Of
which we were fond there was an inter-
cstlng foreigner who frequently re-
marked, 81 do not understand these
Americans. They have no repose!"
He could not have made that complaint
had he been reading this delightful
book of Miss Halls, for it is marked
throughout with the very quality that
he desired. In that respect it affords
& grateful relief to many current works
of fiction, which are so incessantly
agitate6 and strenuous as to leave the
reader little short of breathless
Let it not be feared, however, that
for this reason the look is devoid of in
terest. People can be interesting with
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
An Idyl of Good Cheer

TIE GOLDEN BIRD By Maria Thompson
Daviess Illustrated by Edward L. Chase
l2mo. pp. 2s7. The Century Company
A pleasant tale Of a plucky girls
struggle to rehabilitate the fortunes of
her family by way OF the poultry yard.
Miss Daviess knows country life ac-
curately and sympsthetically, and
equally well knows literature. art and
metropolitan culture in its finest
phases; wherefore she is able to por-
tray both with d keen insight into their
real spirit, and without incongruity can
introduce woodsman who reads
Horace. There is delicious fragrance
of the open air all through the book,
which makes it a welcome change from
the hothouse and the cave-dwellers.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
A Cyclopedia of Hygiene

HOME AND COMMUNITY HYGIENE Ry
Jean Rroadhurst illustrated Svo pp 1iij
42s The J. B. Lippincott Company
This latest volume Of Lippincott's s
Home Manuals" series is of exception
al interest and practical value 1t is
described as a textbook of personal and
public health, and it answers that de-
scription. admirably, and more. 1t is
nothing less than cyclopeda Of hy-
giene, written in simple style which
makes it understandable and interest
ing to the most inexpert layman, and
yet so scholarly and authoritative as to
command the respect of the scientific
for family, for professional library
or for civic organization it is to be
commended in the heartiest and most
unheSitating terms
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

out throwing fits" and narrative can
hold absorbed attention even IL it is
devoid of q single spasm. Not often do
we meet with more wholly attractive
character than that of the titular
heroine of this book, in her fine COM
bination of sweetness and strength, of
sacrifice and struggle. The auxiliary
figures are good foils for her superb
womanhood, and though they are gen
orally pretty faulty and unpleasant
they also have some redeeming traits,
and they are thoroughly true to life
There is little melodrama in the book,
but a vast deal of the real comedy
which, Of course, also comprises the
pathos-of human life.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Some Strong Stories

MoRTMAIN. BY Arthur Train. Illustrated l2mo.
PIP. 3li Charles Scribner's Sons
This is compilation of eight of Mr.,
Trains best short stories, which means
some of the best short stories in con-
temporary literature. In them the
author displays imagination, invention.
humor dramatic power and a keen in
sight into human nature. They are all
worthy minor seouels to the almost
epocha war romance from Mr. Trains
pen which we recently had the pleas
ure of reviewing.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Z BEST-SELLING BOOKS A
"Locke's Best NoveF"
THE
ROUGH ROAD

A Romance of Youth and the
Great War
BY WILLIAM J. LOCKE
-iuthor Of The Red Plonet," "The
Belored Fogabond," etc.
Second Edition. Cloth 81. so net
The story of fight within a
nght; OF a man who sets out in the
world war to win self-respect. 1t
has been years since Mr.. Locke has
written more. entertaining book.
ana he has never written one of 50
much depth; real novel as well as
a truly Lockean. story
Los -ingefes Times.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

ton to fifty copies bought by the
American Library Association for the
various camps in America Out of the
forty poems in the volume more
than half relate directly TO the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
The War Seen in Various Books
Volumes of Current Interest
By-Willis Fletcher Johnson

is we'll for each country to be acquaint-
ed with the trend<of thought in the
others. And If we do not agree with
the proposals, 1t is still we'll to know
them. so rs to guard against them.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
| lAmericu's Job
OUT
TO WIN
The Story of America IN France
BY IT. CONINGSBY DAWSON

Author Of "Thc Glory of the
Trenches, Garry On etc.
Second Edition. Cloth 1925 net
"A splendid revelation os the con-
structive work which America is do
ing in France, as well as the destruc-
tive work which she is doing against
the Hun, and the reading of it vii,
inspire America with fiercer
hatred of the Blond Beast. a deeper
pity for its victims, and a truer CON
ception of the noble work which this
country is doing in and for its sister
republic. .'-Nezu York Tribune.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
THE:
WAR EAGLE

BY W. ]. DAWSON
-fnthor Of "Robert 'Shenstone,9 "Tne
Father Of a Soldier," etc.
Cloth, Sl.50 net
\ dramatic story of the first year
of the war, of the attitude OF
America and her growing sense OF
the challenge, eliminating in the
emotions reused by the sinking of
the 'Lusitania." =
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
DRUMS
AFFAIR

By J. MURRAY GIBBON
-Author Of "Hearts and Faces"
CIoth, Sl5O nes
AN international Romance
with war tingc." 1t deals with the
love affairs of an Oxford man and
a Chicago girl in Germany. England,
the United States, Canada, and
then England again, later, under the
stress of war.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Gertrude Hall

Miss Ingalls," THO Century Company }
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

A1Rr nl3ni LANDlNG "A 60 on THE FRENCH FRONT BY
@ 1.mo PIP. 245. The Brtton Publishing Com
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PERSONALS

Mrs. Leona Remington, Of Balti-
more, IS here visiting her/mother
Airs. Minnie Hieghman, who has been
seriously i'll of influenza
Mrs. Thomas McCray has returned
home after. a visit with relatives in
Brooklyn, y. Y.
Miss Edna Miller, supervisor OF
cooking in the city schools, is i'll at
her home in Locust avenue.
Jos. II. Hawkins, of the y. s. navy,
who sepnt several days here has re-
turned TO the Great Lakes training
John Talbot, James and German
Soan who are Students at Mt. Mary's
college, Emmettsburg, Nd, arrived
home today to spend the Christmas
Master Billy Sands is recovering
from an illness with influenza at his
home in Fairmont avenue
W. G. Eanlon, chief engineer for the
Bethlehem Coal company, Is very i'll
with influenza.
Lieutenant Charles n Shinn, who
had been an instructor in the officers
training school at Fortress Monroe,
as received >en honorably discharge
and has returned to his home in this
city.
Mrs. F. P. Tavis, Of Edgemont, has
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Delightful Evening.

An evening with English composers
was highly enjoyed by members OF
the Music department OF the Women s
club last evening at the hcme OF the
department. chairman, Mrs. NJ. A.
Fletcher, in Beao1i avenue. An ex.
ceIIent program was carried out con
sisting OF sketches by members OF the
club and instrumental and vocal selec-
tons from English composers.
A resume Of the recent -orks Of
English composers by Mrs. Mary Old
ham, a sketch of the development OF
English music by Mrs. Jeanette Ar
nett Leeper and brief talk on Christ
mas calo-;= of English composers by
Miss lisa NJ Neal were interesting fea-
lures Of te evenings entertainment,
while Miss Bertha Dilgarde SAM beau
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M.E NeRESE
A THE NEEDED
oducers Responded No5Iy
When Demand Was Shown
TO Them ii
BATTLE AND HOG FIGURES.
Government Justified in Pork Policy
\ Which Now, Provide Chief SEP
ply to Meet Three Billion
Pound Fat Shortage. <!
It'll ANp zoo FIeUREs.
n line vih
Pound Fat Shortage.


IN line With the general plan Of con-
seEyation formulated by the Q. s. Food
ADMINISTRATION Immediately following
the entrance OF the United States into
the war the contribution made by the
meat producers Of this country to the
war program Is Of particular signih-
canoe, as It demonstrates the hearty
cooperation accorded the Food Adj
ADMINISTRATION by the mat producers OF
the country.
According to reports Of the Q. 6
Department of Agriculture, there was
an Increase IN cattle OF &c, 23S, GOO head
and 12s4A0oo hogs, these figures COM
piled to january last In the same
period there was decrease Of $4,000
head OF sheep. but Indications are this
decrease will show an increase follow
ing the latest reports.
Since January 1 unofficial informo-
ton indicates IN increase in hogs OF
not less than eight per cent. and not
more than fifteen per cent. compared
with one year ago, With an increase In
average weight.
Following the request OF the Food
Administration for Increase in hog
production for the fall OF 1918 and the
spring Of 1919 the increase may yield
mot less than 1,60o0oo,o 900 pounds
more OF pork products than were
available last year. Without this In
crease the shipping program arranged
by M. Hoover regarding animal food
pr6ducts would have been impossible
The dressed hog products during the
three months ending September 30.
1917, amounted to 903,172, 600 pounds,
While for the same months of 1913 the
production was 1,2T.5S9. 600 pounds.
IN increase Of over $4,000, 900 pounds
for the quarter.
1 During the same period In 1917 Tn
spected slaughter records OF dressed
lbeef showed 1,263, 100000 pounds as
against 1851. 100000 POUNDS for the
three month period ending September
d this year.
We must increase our meat ship
ments, especially our pork products,
TO meet the added demands OF the MIL
Hons liberated from German oppres-
sion. And at the same time we must
look Forward to the rehabilitation OF
the European meat herds. The policy
which guided our meat program IN the
past year has been fully justified. for
only the heavy pork production which
81 has brought about Will enable US
even partly to satisfy the increased
demands on rs for the coming year.
There VIII be world shortage in fats,
and Il Is to the United States that Eu-
rope must look to supply its dehcien-
S. At the same time there Will con-
tinue to be heavy demands for beef.
Owing to the limited refrigerator ship
ping capacity European imports OF
beef for some time win be limited.
The United States, Australia ana
Argentine win be able to maintain a
supply that VIII keep all available
:freezer vessels operating at capacity.
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TRlENE

3fr. and lEIs. Waller Stevens q
Grafton we're visiting the former par
ents, Nj. and MS. 6. ". Stevens, here
the past week
Mrs. Polly Haun Is sim at Eafrmont.
where sao was called some time ago
on account OF the Illness OF her daugh-
terra. MS, Lille Halterman-
Larney Garlaw was calling on LIZ
Their F1etcner last Sunday.
Ms. Doe keener vas calling on her
daughter, Nrs. Tray Stevens, one day
last week.
Miss 3ciJ Summers spent several
dasy las: wees visiting her sister. Mrs
s. D. SmytF.
Arthur Keener and Mac Mechanics
returned TO Iaeir homes here last week
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1
us. amy
S. 81 DFemer, chief yeoman IN the
Naval service OF the United States
government who arrived IN New York
few days ago from overseas service,
arrived IN Fairmont this morning and
VIII spend ten days furlough with
Mrs. Diemer at the home OF her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs a ]. Stone In Quin-
cy street
william Fraley arrived here this
morning from Washington, D. C., on
visit with his wife at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
Jamfson, in Maple avenue.
Sylvanus Watson arrived here this
morning from LawrenceyiIle, \. Y,
where he is student in the Lawrence
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Meeting Fostponed.-Beeause Of the
Illness oI Hon e ~ showalter. the
comi4tee appointed 10 arrange a ban
quet for the Four Minute Men. did not
hold a meeting last night H. S.
Lively, another member OF the COM
m.ttee. was out Of the city,
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To Have EXCHANGE.

The Ladies Aid society of the High
land avenue NJ. E. church will hold a
bazaar and exchange in the Sunday
school room of the church Thursday
and Friday of this week Sandwiches
and coffee will also be served during
the evening, beginning at five o'clock
The bazaar opens Thursds. afternoon
and the exchange on Friday.
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q Have go.

The BAPTIST Young Peoples Union
of the First Baptist church will have
a social at the church on Thursday
evening TO which the members and
their friends are invited. A delightful
evenings entertainment is planned
and refreshments will be served.
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Our voluntary food-savIng not only
saved the Allies and made vital contri-
button to the winning of the war, but
saved to ourselves in administration
@penses the outlay out OF our own
pockets that any effective system OF
rattonIng would have extracted. It
would have cost us about $4,000. 600
to have poIiced ourselves as against
the 2 cents per capita for cooperating.