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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-24

THE WELCOME STRANGER
 The Nurse: A little boy has just arrived.
 The Father (who is an absent minded office manager): Take his name and address and put him to work at once. We need help badly.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-24
THE TRADE
ALAR M ED

ALARMED Miss Passe: You're just the kind of man to take advantage of the n,istietoe, ! knowl Young: Great heavensi Are we near any of the stuff?
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RecouIY's Life Of Eoch

Captain Recouly. author of the book
"Foch the Winner Of tho War" which
Charles Scribncr's Sons are publishing
shortly. has frequently written under
the name of CaptGin Y. This book OF
his reflects his knowledge gained from
long and close contact with the great
general and is an extraordinarily vivid
presentation Of Foch's character and
leadership.
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POETRY FICTION ECONOMICS AND BOOKS ABOUT THE VAR
Lure Of the Saipdust Ring

Her Elephant Man." by Pearl Dolcs
Bell, is a romance of the sentiment and
excitement of the "big tops" Joan
kennerly, the heroine, is the tiny star of
"thc greatest show on earth" She is
depicted by the author with feeling for
the psychology of a growing lass under
unusual conditions of environment and
her story is told with an understanding
of the various phases of circus life
Philip. 1.-THE elephant man." is the hero
in sense, the man whom Joan learned
to love because he was so different from
so many of the sawdust personnel And
she almost lost him, too. Then there is
Uncle Jcrimy, a quaint, grufT, lovabc
old chap who is mentor and chapcrone
aud guide and friend to Joan Others.
too. appear, riders, clowns, barkcrs and
all the varied crew of the circus arena.
For those for whom circus life has
the lure of fascination. "Hpr Elephant
Man will prove 4 very cnjoyab'c book.
HER ELEPHANT MAN. BY Pearl Doles
Bell. New York: Robert NJ. Mcbride. 1.75.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
TWO BUSINESS BOOKS
Commercial Research, Collec-
tionS and Mercantile Cred
its Discussed

The inauguration and DEVELOPMENT
OF business schools. such as the pioneer
Wharton School at the University of
pennsylvania, have been marked and
growing feature of our educational in
Stitutions over the last three decades.
Businessmen no longer sneer at the
college bred youth. but are anxious to
try him out if he comes with a diploma
showing theoretical training for a com
mercial or banking career. And the
wise business men. those whose vim
speeds them to new successes, by no
means scorn but rather study the new
books on commercial subjects written
by the academic authorities. Two new
books of this type will repay perusal.
Commercial Research" is by Prof.
G; $. Duncan, of the University of
Chicago. lie was a special eXpert for
the shipping board during the war and
its statistician at the Paris Peace Con-
ference. His book. drawn from the ex-
pcriences of his classes in commercial
organization, contains an outline of
working principles for the solution of
commercial problems. He shows how
to visualize the problem. and how to
adjust it through scientific investigation
of the factors. Collection and analysis
OF business facts arc also discussed and
explained.
Mercantile Credits and Collections.
by Charles A. Meyer, is moro spe-
cialized work in its topics and its hand
ling. 1t traverses the theory of the
subjects of credits and collections and
clucidates it with much practical ma
tcrial. 1t is book for both the student
and the experienced credit man.
COMMERCIAL RESEARCH. BY C. S. Dun
can. New York: The Macmillan Co.
MEKGAsNTi TS,ssS @ CREDITS AND COL1.EC-
York: The Macmillan Co.
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HOW WAR SEEMS TO
THE MAN WHO FIGHTS
TtOo Remarkable Books Deal
ing With the Human Equa-
tion in the Soldier

The best books about the war arc be-
ginning TO make their appearance. No
reader who really wants to know what
went on In the hearts and minds of the
men can afford to neglect Stephen
Graham's. "a Private in the Guards. Z"
Mr.. Graham spent eighteen months in
the Scots Guards, went through their
famous training camp at Sparta Bar
racks and saw hard service in France in
the later days of the fighting, including
ton of Cologne. 1t is book written
with fine and courageous spiritual in
sight--the kind of book that is greatly
needed and the kind of book that has
been almost wholly lacking in American
testimonies of war experience. Mr..
Graham, while making plain the horror
and disgust felt by every sensitive spirit
in the rack of the struggle, also finds
in the outcome of those dreadful days
Of sacrifice the hope that the nations
may draw nearer together in spirit of
human pity. If all men were of the
same fine fiber as he. there would be
more hope of this. Particularly inter
esting to American readers is the ac-
count of the Americans who enlisted
with the Scots Guards. One would like
to know who was the policeman from
PHILADELPHIA, nicknamed -"Bigsey," and
Mrs. Wiggs,' who got "blighty
one at the Canal du Nord.
Another book of stirring quality is
The Secret Battle" q novel by A. p.
Herbert. u young English writer hither-
to known chiefly for his witty poems in
Punch. 1t deals with the gradual
sapping of the morale of brave and
ambitious young officer under the con-
slant and brutal strain of war. In the
end he is shot for "cowardice," due to
momcntary loss of self control under
heavy shelltire. Mr.. Herbert's descrip-
ton OF the Gallipoli campaign is one of
the most vivid and moving passages of
writing that the war has inspired. The
dust. the heat, the sullen drone of the
untiriDg locusts. the unutterable weari :
ness and ghastly futility of it all, car
ried on under a blazing eastern sky and
in the flushes of gold and crimson Medi l.
terranean sunsets. makes an indelible
picture on the readers mind. Mr.. Her
bert's delightful style shows the value
of the English classical training in
forming lusty sense of prose expires
sion. 1t is simple, logical informal
and terse; rich in the telling epithet,
giving the reader a curious sense OF
reading 4 translation of pure and vigor
Gus Latin. A fine and noble book,
showing the heavy workings of the mill =
tary machine on the clear spirits of men.
The story ends: 'That is the gist of it ;
| that my friend Harry was shot for COW :
ardice-and he was one of the bravest
men / ever knew"
PRIVATE IN THE GUARDS BY Stephen
$3.50. w.
THE SECRET BATTLE. By A. p. Herbert
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. sl.5O.
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RUDYARD KZPLLNG REZGNS
AS THE KING OF THEM ALI
The Icusire Edition. OF His Verse Contains His Title The
Throne Chief Poet OF His Generation

Those who expect to find the "In-
elusive Edition" of Rudyard Kipling's
verse complete edition will be disap
pointed. 1t is called Inclusive" ad-
viscdly. for it includes the verse writ
ten between 1885 and 1918. The
earlier verse. produced between 1879
and 1855, is omitted. The latter is
boyish stuff or frankly initiative of
older poets. Mr.. Kipling evidently now
regards it as prentice work. The new
volume thus contains all that he has
written from the time when he began
to find himself down to the beginning
in the book is the tribute to Roose-
welt after his death last January.
1t is impossible to give even slight
study to the mass of verse in the more
than 100 pages of the volume without
a new and more vivid impression Of the
power of the man. The first concu
sion that obtrudes itself upon the con
sciousness is that here is a great mas
culinc force manifestng itself. There
are persons who say that poetry is all
very well for women, but men have more
important things to do than to bother
themselves with it. And this is true of
much poetry characterized by nothing
hut skill in vcrSilication and pretty
imagination. But prettiness is the last
thing that Kipling seeks. He has. been
for the most part commentator on the
great events of his time. especially the
great events in the British empire. He
has been called the poet of British i'm
pcrialiSm. and there IS justification for
the title. He has also been called a
great writer of political editorials in
verse. and many poems in this volume
can be found to give warrant to this
description OF him.
So much of his verse deals with the
events and the problems of his time that
one cannot help wondering whether,
when it has lost its significance, save to
the student of history. it will be read at
all. But eliminating all the transient
contemporary comment there remains a
body of verse that will not depend for
it's lease of life on anything but its
treatment of those things which arc as
old as the human heart and as varied
as human pcrvCrsity.
Unlike Keats and Swiubhrnc and
Tennyson this man did not resort to
the classical myths or the Arthurian
legends for his material. He takes his
imagery from the Bible and addresses
the Lord God of Hosts rather than
the MUSES.. lie finds the sufferings of
the moderps sufficiently moving without
having to write about the tragedies of
past centuries. Indeed. his contcmpo
rariness marks him apart from all his
contemporaries and from his immediate
predecessors. But there is in much of
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SOME PROBLEMS
OF EMPLOYMENT
Books on Shop Management,
Industrial Psychology and
the Economics OF Labor

Both capital and labor arc astir with
realization and recognition of their
separating and their mutual problems.
Politically this has been shown by the
President two commissions to relate
and accommodate the crises that have
arisen since the war. by the prOmulCa
tion of the Plumb plan and other
schemes for new controls of industry.
and. of course, by the steel and coal
strikes. Partly antcccdent to the keen
interest displayed among economists
capitalists and labor leaders and partly,
of course, as reflex of definite move.
ments arc numerous books dealing with
shop psychology and industrial psy-
chology.
Management aud Men" by Meyer
Bloomfield, an authority in the field,
is one of the most important. Mr..
Bloomfield writes from first hand and
intensive study Of conditions in this
country and abroad. His book is main
ly an analysis and Interpretation of the
momentous industrial developments in
Great Britain, where shop stewards
shop management, etc. have progressed
very far. Both labor chiefs and cxecu .
tive managers co operated in furnish
ing material and criticism. The appen p
dices furnish a comprehensive exhibit
of the joint industrial management
which is prevailing more and more in
the British Isles.
Employment Psychology by Henry
g. Link, is a guide to practice rather
than a theoretical exposition. 1t sets
forth the practical application of the
new psychology TO the selection, train
ing, grading and retention of employees.
Doctor Link makes strong case out
against the usual hit or miss way of
employing men and not only urges but
shows how system may be beneficial
to the employees and profitable to the
plant
"Organizing for Work Is by II. J..
CAN'T, remembered for his Work,
Wages aud Prsft-' 1t stresses the
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point that our civilization depends upon
the effectiveness with which our indus
trial and business systems combine in
practical adjustment and co operation.
Mr.. Can't makes the following basic
suggestions: Make industry democratic
by placing authority in the hands of
those who know what to do and how
to do it. irrespective of whether they
are the owners of the tools of prod,ic-
ton or not. Second. Seek the solution
of all industrial problems by present
ing all the facts available or obtainablc
in manner readily comprehended by
all. This chart system would be educa
tive for both employers and employees,
in the authors opinion,
Creative Impulse in Industry" dis
cusses the question of how the indus
trial efficiency of America necessary for
and developed without Prussianizing
the workers. Miss Marot wrote this
book after survey of conditions for
the Bureau of Educational, Expert
ments, and it is substantial and stim-
ulating contribution to the subject
The Girl and the job" by Helen
Hocrle and Florence Saltaberg, is di-
rpcted TO the girl who isn't sure what
kind of work She wants to do. who
doesn't know what sort of work she
can get, and who isn't happy where
she is, and who wants a better job.
1t has much sage counsel and is but
tressed by statistics and illuminated by
examples.
MANAGEMENT AND MEN. BY Meyer
Bloomfield New York; The Century Co.
CRtRSXT'IvE IMPULSE IN INDUSTRY. BY
IIelen Marot New York: f.. p. DutlOn &
oRGANfHING FOR WORK. BY II, w. Can't.
New York: HarGourti =, BrsGe &C. 4 Howe -.
AGE. BY W. II, Bassett. New York; The
Century Co. -
EMPLOYMENT Psychology, BY, Henry
&. Link. New York: The Macmillan Co.
THE CiIRI. AND THE JOB. BY Helen
HoerIe and Florence SaltZberg. New York
Hcnrv Hnll & Co. LEO.
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1t contemporaries which has an
eternal quality. for he measures the
doings of the men of the present by the
MelchiSedeckian standards which have
neither beginning nor end of days.
Justice and truth and loyalty and ten
derness and compassion are the themes
that recur again and again in varying
form, and they are handled with such
skill and versatility and insight as to
justify those who Insist that he is head
and shoulders above all other men who
have written verse in his time.
Those who know him only by his
"Barrack Room Ballads" or his De
partmental Ditties," or through ''If'
and the "Recessional. or through his
ballads of the sea. such as MEAN
knowledge of him. Of" notwithstand-
ing its great popularity. is not a great
poem. 1t is preachment and frank
didacticism has never vet characterized
the finest verse. And the Recession
al is religious outgiving in meter
which served as a rebuke to British
pride at time when it was preening
itself and strutting about vainglori :
ously. Kipling has put the same idea
into a really great poem that will be
read when the "Recessionar' is for
gotten. AS it is short we give it here
and venture the opinion that it will
appear in the anthologes for centuries
to come:
Cities and Thrones and Powers.
Stand in Times eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die
But. as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
out of the spent and unconsideIed Earth,
The Cities rise again.
This seasons Daffodil,
She never hears,
What change. what chance, what chill,
Cut down last years;
But with bold countenance,
And knowledge small
Esteems her seven days continuance,
To be perpetual.
So Time that is oer-kind.
To all that be,
Ordains us cen as blind,
AS bold as She
That in our very death,
And burial sure.
Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith,
See how our works endure ~
The volume is attractively printed and
bound and has an index of titles and an
index of first lines. Brief explanatory
notes are added to such of the poems
as need them in order to make their
significance apparent.
RUDYARD KIRPLINGS VERSE. Inclusive
day, Page 4 Co. IS.
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The VarIorum "KIna John"

Some idea of the mass of material
surrounding the plays of Shakespeare
is given in the announcement that three
and half years were required to com
plctc the manuscript of "King John"
the new volume in the variorum edition
of Shakespeare, edited by Horace How
and Furness, Jr., Just published by the
Lippincott Co. More versions and
comments demanding attention were en-
countered on this play than on any
other of the eighteen now comprising
the variorum set.
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Just FOOHng

Oliver Herford's This Giddy Globe"
is burlesque geography, with questions
at the end OF each chapter to be asked
of the diligent student. 1t is an amia =
Bile piece of fooing. The best part of
the book, however, is the dedication "To
President Wilson with all his faults
he quotes me stilD,"
THIS aIDDY GLOBE. BY Oliver Herford
Kew York George II. Doran Co.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01

basket hung easily on the faucet
and as easily swung aside for rms
ing will add cleanliness and etfec
tiveness to such hasty handling.
One often has a few dishes 70
wash that do not call for the for
malty of a dishpan and yet soap
is always needed, and scraps of soap
may be conveniently consigned -
this little "two-by-two" bas}set made
Of galvanized screening. Tie mex
eled steel handles hold the basse.
we'll in place
While not heavy, it is substantial
enough 70 give months Of service,
and anything that costs less than
a quarter and is useful deserves "A
place in the sun" in these days Il
not place in a museum.
The "Suds" Soap Basket.
Made by Windsor Stephen. & Co.
Waithan., Mass.
for prices ana further infornc-
ton apply to The Tribune Institute
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
By VIRGINIA CARTER LEE

n CATERING for children or adults
suffering from anama those foods
winch are rich in iron are desirable,
and each menu, while nourishing in
character, should also be of a nature
to be easily assmilated.
AS a rule, women suffer more from
anemia than men, and for systemic
reasons they also require a larger per-
centage Of iron even in normal diet.
The table shows the leaders among
iron-bcaring foods. One must also re-
member that the amount of these foods
that can be tolerated is important A
high percentage does not give you so
much total iron in food of which only
small amounts can be eaten, such as
ralsins, olives, nuts, etc, as would
smaller percentage in foods eaten in
large quantities, such as bread and meat.
Beef juice (made from fresh beef is
nearly always ordered by a physician
for an anamic patient, and as every one
does not know just how to prepare it
the following directions are given: Pur-
chase half a pound of round steak and
brol! it just enough to scar it lightly
on both sides, then remove from the
lire, cut in pieces and dust lightly with
salt (thls starts the juices). Place each
piece in the meat press and screw down
the handle as tightly as possible. Let
stand for three or four minutes and
turn the handle two or three times
more; then pour off the juice that forms
in the cup, and continue with the meat
until all is used. BY letting it stand in
this way considerable more of the Juice
will be extracted. Set the juice aside
and remove the fat that will form in
cake on top. The meat may be scraped
and put through a meat chopper, no
heat being used.
When ready to use the juice set the
vessel containing it in larger vessel
of very hot water. Never heat in
saucepan by contact with direct heat, as
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
BY ANNA STANLEY

Domestic Scientist, Tribune rrstitute
4 MILLIGRAM is not much
n of most commodities - but
when it comes to iron in the
body economy very small amounts
are valuable, even if it be only a few
thousandths of a gram land t takes
twenty eight grams to make one
ounce .. Egg yolks, whole wheat
and spinach lead as iron carriers and
they can boast only O.00S5 per cent
o.oo53 per cent and 0oO32 per cent
respectively. And what child ever
Searned for spinach It generally
has to be administered Ike a dose @,
medicine. So it behooves us to 500
tnat the Whole wheat and egg volks
are not lacking. Dates and figs have
rs much IRON as the spinach Nhougb.
OF course, they cannot he tolerated
N such large quaasitles) and VIII
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01

Just before serving add stiffly
beaten egg whites.
This is very good for ananic
children. The outer leaves of the
lettuce can be used, if on hand The
iron in this soup amounts to about
y milligrams.
Two lron-Rich Sandwiches
No.
Between two slices Of whole whea.
bread put crisp lettuce leaves and
hard cooked egg yolks mashed and
seasoned with salt and lemon Juice
If made with one and one-half
ounces Of bread, three ounces of le1-
tuce and two egg yolks, this contains
four milligrams of iron.
Never allow sandwiches made with
lettuce to stand, as when lett,,ce
loses its crispness it is very indi-
gcstible.
On slice Of whole wheat bread
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Efficiency: These Devices
Tighten HouseW0rk

motion, particularly when ironing
tucks, gathers, sleeves, etc, or any
garment as distinguished from flat
pieces,
The five-inch wooden handle is
held in place by bolt running all
the way through it, and the metal
frame Of the handle is raised bv
washers one-quarter inch above the
top or cover Of the iron so that It
can not get hot The metal holde,
at the back for receiving the plug
can, however, get hot and does. thus
making it more difficult to break
the connection at the iron, as should
De done, especially as the sliding
pug does not extend SO far above
the metal rs it might. A 1850
switch on the cord would eliminate
this trouble and promote economy
IN the use Of electricity.
There are six feet Of electric
cord with a separable plug which
may be screwed into any lamp
socket. In the picture the iron is be-
lns tried out in corner o. the In
stltute Office, attached to fan cord
as the kitchen was getting a coat
OF paint. & real example this of
the convenience of a "travel;n,-
IRON that can do its work in hotel
room, laundry. office or sewing
room with equal grace and ease. A
four-legged nickel plated cast-iron
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01

the Juice will coaguate, turn dark
brown and be practically ruined. I have
seen trained nurse ruin a whole cup
full of beef juice, most carefully and
patiently prepared by member Of the
family, by reheating in saucepan as
though it were broth.
When egg yolks are used alone, as
IN the scrambled eggs with spinach and
the bouilon with egg yolks, use the
whipped whites in the whole wheat
mullins and the apple corn mullins, SO
that none of the eggs at their present
high price need be wasted.
Beets and carrots are also classed
among foods for the anamic, although
not very rich in iron, and as they both
lend themselves to a variety Of dishes,
use them whenever possible.
To prepare the puree of spinach with
eggs cook the spinach in as little water
as possible. When tender chop and
press through a coarse sieve. Add salt,
paprika and little bacon dripping, re-
heat and to each quart of the uncooked
boiled egg. Mix we'll before serving
Salads made from leftover spinach
are delicious. One variety is made from
the cooked Vegetable, seasoned with a
French dressing ard nodded in small
cups, with slices Of hard boiled eggs; or
a bed Of the spinach can be laid on the
salad platter, large tips of canned as
paragus laid over the top and the whole
moistened with vinaigrette dressing
If for any cause the appetite is not
good and q sufficient quantity of food
cannot be taken at meal times, light
lunch at L a. m. and another before re-
tl9ng may be necessary. A glass of
whole milk with beaten egg yolk. a
cupful of hot broth with the same ad
dtion, or half an after-dinncr coffee cun
of beef juice with slice of toasted
whole wheat bread are all excellent for
these "between meal lunches" which
help to increase the quantity and quail
ity of the blood suppl y. 'N'
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
lron-K1ch Dishes for Children Who Are Too Farv1;ke

doubtless be more popular with the
young.
Iron-Rich Meat Cakes
pound of beef teaspoonful salt
egg yolks and onion iuice
Mix we'll, shape in cakes and broil
IN a hot oven. There are about 20
mllllSrams of iron in this dish.
lron-Rich Ice Cream
Z teaspoonful Of teaspoonful salt
Gates ]s cupful orange
l = cupsfUl water juice
4 egg yolAs
Cook dates and water for so min
utes in a double boiler. Beat the
yolks of the eggs and pour the
cooked dates over them. Return to
the double boiler and cook until
.hicNened Cool. flavor and freeze
An Iron-Rich Sweet
Chop and mix eousl xe!gAs Of