Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-01

DunStan'S scheme of re- e0ucatlon-a
purpose whose keynote is practical
efficiency. Upon this general ground
work the author builds the daily me !
of st. Dunstan's. Here is set out a
system Of admirably co-ordinated
parts whose single object is, hrst, to
waken these blinded men to the su-
preme fact that opportunity has not
completely passed them by. that many !
avenues of success are still open to
their advance. Upon this essential
basis of revived hope and welcoming
spirit the work of re-education moves |
rapidly forward. Its steps are given |
here-from the first slow and labori- |
Gus ones to the final emergence of
these men upon the solid ground OF
trained competency in one or another
line of industrial demand. The whole.
both in its spirit and in its achieve
ment. forms thrilling chapter in the
epic story of restoration and reha bill
tation that the humane men and wom-
en- OF the civilized world are building
around the devastation wrought by
war.
HOW THESE FARMERS SUCCEED
ED. Edited by John r. McMahon.
illustrated from photographs. New
York: Henry Holt & Co.
Many returning soldiers are just
now looking farmward. Certain gov
eminent agencies, with Mr.. Franklin
Lane at their head, are projecting sys-
tematic plans in support of this
movement. The book in hand may be
counted as an intelligent and persua-
sive propaganda in the same direc-
ton. Sixteen of the leading agri-
cultural states are represented in
these stories of practical farming
enough states to cover every branch
of farming interest What the editor
RI raI trnr no
Country Gentleman sixteen of its
BEST Farmer" stories in order to put
into compact book form an actual
record of what, with Intelligence and
thrift and love of the business, may
be done with the soil in the way of
creating an independent and attrac-
tive mode of life. These stories deal
not only with the particular ways and
means of farming itself-with the
constituent elements of the various
soils, with their special affinities for
certain crops, with crop culture and
harvesting and markets. with stock
breeding and stock raising. They
cover, as we'll, the human side of the
adventure in a2riou1t;urel y! the
midst of the farm is set the modern
farmhouse, linked up with the outside
by means of telephone and motor and
r. F. D. There is college for the boys
and girls. books and music. travel
and sports. Under this treatment the |
occupa ton has an unmfstakable and |
inviting atmosphere. And the point |
is that with the same degree of in |
telligent business method that is ap-
piled to any other successful enter
prise this life of enjoyable indepen-
dence may be realized by the average
man and woman in a direct business !
ratio of effort and effect. A timely !
book of pointed fact and powerful |
incentive.
THE HILLS OF DESIRE. BY Rich |
ard Aumerle Maher, author of THE |
Shepherd Of the North" etc. New /!
York: The Macmillan Company.
He married her-well, because she |
asked him to. She married him be-
cause, in an effort to rescue her moth
er from the custody to which the sud-
denly lost senses of that lady had
consigned her, husband turned out |
to be an essential point of law. Not
a promising outlook for the content
ment that is said to lie in the state of |
However. this is only a
device to give the couple
a little respectable freedom together.
and to point, incidentally, to the SUI
periority of the woman side of the
house in ready decision and prompt
action. The story really begins when
the two take to the open road. Hav-
ing purchased Donahue. the horse
who, by the way, is quite as much of
a person as either of the two others
and an old cart. they betake them
northern New York. 1t is this adven-
ture in the open that constitutes the
charm Of the story. So much of plot
as it carries is sustained by the
doubts and fears that naturally lurh
in the unconventional beginning of this
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such proportions as to lead to the |
girls f1ight-after nearly a whole book
Of delightful camp life; but the war
that has saved about ten out OF ten
OF their own plots. saves this one also, |
and brings very acceptable ending to
q story that has many interesting and
refreshing claims upon ones attention.
ORANGES AND LEMONS. BY Mary
c. E. Wemyss. author of The Pro-
fessional Aunt" etc. Boston:
Houghton Mifiin Company.
A couple Of wards play the mischief
in this exceedingly active story. The
guardian of one of the two is bach
elor uncle; that of the other one is a /
maiden aunt. Certain criss-cross
claims to these two charges
on the part Of their guardians COM
plicate matters greatly and work up
a proper amount of hostility between
the two grown folks. whom it is the
business of the author to bring to-
gether in marriage. Amusing Incl
dents growing out OF the hayward
ness of the two children move the
story along against it's background
of English country life. The belated
love story possesses charm by virtue
of the agreeable qualities of the two
people engaged in its vicissitous de-
velopment. 1t Is an enjoyable story.
with fund of good humor as its chief
IN WARTIME. BY;
Anna 3. Patten. Washington: Pub
lished by the author.
This little brochure of poems and
verse was written by Washington
woman, employed in the Office of
yards and docks of the Navy Depart
ment. Her intimate poetical sketches
of wartime Washington have their
founda ton in her actual experience
as a war worker. The volume con-
tains sixteen poems treating in hu-
morous and serious vein many phases
of the war as seen from the stand
point of Washington.
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