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I'd In White and Gold Threads.
evolving n trnin for a simple evening
dress. Very effective are the results
achieved through these snsh trains.
a plain little frock Of orchid pink
chiffon nny DO made with the neck.
line ~ high m those worn on street
fr0cks and cut In tho strnight .ncr0ss
shallow line. The waist mny be low
and blousing, with the skirt short and
straight. Then, 20 make II tho Inst
word In nnartncss. u snsh Of two
tones Of pink. ono very bright
shade. In tied about the low wnistIins
and several inches Of one Of the gayly
colored ends trail on the ground.
A model Of this kind In M adapt.
able NJ II r,n be. because the sash
ends may be shortened. or the saMi
rc'no,"d n''"'"ii,cr and any sort Of
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-12-09
Candy Gasss Hunger.

Beilefontaine. O.-IOcked In 4 box
car at Buffalo and not released for
more than ~ hours. Paul Harris ar.
Rived In Bellefontaine Tuesday. lie
pleaded extenuatIon for having
broken into . box Of candy In the
car. ut was all ! had to eat" hs
told Mayor Bowel. who dned him SO
and costs for larceny.
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000 would no required-was passed 10
the drst week Of the campaign.
Cow ssts New Record.

Seattle. Wnsh.-Carnaflon sexts
Prospect. owned BY the Carnation
Stock Farm near here. established q
new worlds record for milk produc.
ton with Q total Of 81, 40 pounds Of
milk In 81S days. The former record
was 8S.425 pounds In 385 days, made
BY q California COW.
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Heavy Training.

"Why does Cholly insist on taking
the stairs to the billiard ro0mf He
won't use the elevator any more"
"Hs thinks he ought 10 do q little
climbing. He's Joined an Alpine club"
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A 0ass oeeeptsen,

a 8100 Deception.
THAT pretty waitress u abeut 70
run her feet on for you. How dM
you arouse her interestf'
why" replied the unprincipled ~.
tron. n told her ] was . motion.picture
scout before ordered my ham and
eggs. AGe-Herald.
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GETTING Wis.

0otttn0 Wooo.
"Mamma. will heaven be ~ beauti.
ful as they say In the Sunday school
books?"
Certainly. my dear. Why do you
ask"
"Places we go to in the summer are
never Us nice a. the circulars. "-Bee.
ton Transcript.
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Freshsn a Heavy Skin

Freshsn 4 Heavy Skin
With the antiseptic, fascinating CUT.
cura Talcum Powder. an exQuisitely
scented convenient. economical face,
skin. baby and busting powder and
perfume. Renders other perfumes SD
perfluous. One Of the Cuticura Toilet
Trio (Soap, Ointment, Talcum).-Adv.
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Oroesdss ssv Osss.

Brocades Of great bYilliancy nre WOW.
en- by the great fabric houses. est,s-.
cialiy for LN1s
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.LIt&,e p,epe Of Wats,.~

SNSIO OSVp0 " WuSWs
Beiiaire. O.-Each pupil In tho pub
lie schools was asked to bring one
potato to donate to the city hospital.
Thirty bushels were brought y.
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Elihu Root once said of him that He
dearly loved little boyish mischief" And
he went on with the illuminating idea, thus:
"It befell me to sit near him at a famous
ST. Patrick's day dinner. and he stopped at
my chair and made remark which in
dicated that he was having huge enjoyment
over something he was going to say. When
he suggested that the Irish in America
should redeem poor, unhappy Ireland by
going home, he was following the same
kind of boyish impulse for mischief which
leads schoolboys sometimes to carry their
disconcerting pranks to the limit of au-
dacity.'
The last two decades in Mr. Choate's life
were a period Of less assduous devotion to
practice. though there is one letter written
when he was past sixty in which he remarks
to his wife that he expects to be up pretty
much all night in preparing his argument
But from the date of his appointment as
Ambassador TO England the record is full
of illusions to such "relaxations' as form
part Of dlplomatist's responsibilities, and
he continued skilfully to keep the Ambas-
sador and the American lawyer in separate
rooms-notably in the matter OF the Alaska
boundary. The unfailing tact OF the man
served him as we'll at a Kings court as in
a court of law
The closing years, during the war laid
a heavy strain upon his failing strength.
but he carried his burden with his own
natural gayety, and found his spirit re-
built and his heart lightened when the
United States assumed its share in the re-
sponsibility. All this is conveyed with
such skill and sympathy that Mr.. Choates
biographer deserves unstinted praise for
the unusual quality OF his achievement.
And the publishers also have done very well
by
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The Youth of Joseph ChOate
BOOK REVIEWS
Lawyer Statesman Wrote First Chapters;
His Letters Tell of the Later Years

Ancient History" touching his forebears-
among them John Choate, from whom all
the people of the name in America are
descended, who appears to have arrived in
Ipswich from the old country in or about the
year 1643"- is filled with quaint details set
down with the clear simplicity Of which he
was master. He goes on:
"And now 1 come to my own birth, which
took place at Salem on the oath Of January,
1882. 1 have never had my horoscope cast.
but it must have been propitious to account
for the cheerful temperament which has
marked my whole life, always looking on
the bright side and making the best of every
thing as it came, which has been in itself a
great fortune worth more than many mill
ions,
THE earliest record Of my appearance in
the world is contained in a letter written on
the following Sunday by one of my aunts
to another, in which she says:
Margaret was confined last Tuesday with
the largest boy she ever had She continued
comfortable for three days. Since I have not
heard, but presume she remained so. She
has put her child out to nurse
"As 1 was the fifth child and the fourth
boy the oldest not yet five, my size spoke
we'll for me at the start, and the reason I was
put away so summarily was that all the
other children at the time had the whoopng
cough"
At the age of two and a half years IT was
taken by the hand and led to the Danes
School, which I attended until I was seven
years old. Mr.. William NJ. Evarts with
whom I long afterward became associated,
is recorded in the life of his father to have
read the Bible perfectly we'll at three years
old. 1 do not think that was quite equal to
that, but certainly had begun 10 read at
that age"
After some account of the primitive
schools of his early childhood, he writes of
his birthplace:
Salem which continued to be my home
for the first twenty y-tbree years Of my life,
was a most unique and delightful place. 1t
was so old, so queer, SO different. The
natives of the place were a little older to
the cubic inch than men born at exactly the
same moment in any other part of America.
1t could not possibly be otherwise with
human beings born and bred in those old
barks, which have Graded many of our
race for upward of two centuries. =.
Life in those days was steady round Of
work, even for the young people, with very
little play and still less decoration. The
clothes of all classes and both sexes were
The New York herald., 1920-11-21
Reviewed by
ELEANOR HAYDEN.

TIME appearance of this book, following
so closely upon the publication OF
Joseph Conrad's The Rescue" forces
a comparison that nobody writing sea stories
in English to-day would choose to endure.
Comparison and contrast are inevitable. how
ever, in this case. for both tales are concerned
with the lives, fortunes. emotional reactions
and adventures Of seafaring men when
suddenly precpltated by a capricious fate
into an unexpected and entangling alliance
with beautiful woman. Also inevitably
slips into ones mind n comparison of this
recent book with Ibanez's Mare Nostrum."
so much OF which is written around the
selfsame sea that Mr.. McF'ees story
centres on. The three women who domi-
nate the three seafaring mems lives, the
well-bred English woman I'm "The Rescue:
the rather uncivilzed beauty in Mare
Nostrum" and Captain Macedoine's daugh-
ter. the alluring 'Artemisa, half courtesan,
half child form an interesting trilogy
Fortunately both Mr. McFee and Mr..
Conrad can convey subteties OF emotion
and stark realities Of passion without any
Of the garish detail that makes some Of
Tbanez rather hard sleddins.
Captain Macedoine's Daughter" is the re-
INSTALLATION by one man during a long
was, for him n temporary lifting Of the veil
of mystery surrounding the ultimate mean
ing OF life and then the sudden descent
Of the veil again shroudng the world in
darkness
In that one evenings narrative to a
group Of ahpmates sitting in deck chairs
under an awning their ship swung at
anchor at Epsilon. an island IN the Aegean,
Lieut. Spenlove recreated for his hearers
tho characters Of Capt Macedoine. that
master Of Illusion; Of good old skipper
Capt Jack Evans, he whose lack Of powc.'
OF assembling and illusion was devastat-
ing" and who had no more "nuance than
foghorn". Of Mrs. Evans, the respectable
married woman" upon whose slick rigid
and prim soul even the realities Of life" as
experienced by marriage 70 a sea captain
failed to make any impression. And above
all spenlove recreated that charming crea-
ture Artemisia p living, breathing being,
with all her subtcty and inherited flair for
the dramatic and for playing an intriguing
part in the comedie humane
Capt Nracrloinc's daughter \rtemisia,
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once made n trip out from England with
Mrs Evans, wife Of the obvious Jack. as
nurse for the Evans's angel child to Ipsilon,
where her father was living. Spenlove. the
engineer of the craft. and most OF the other
men on board fell in love with the girl,
whose potent personality is felt rather than
described N Upon tho arrival of the ship
Cant. Matrdoinc was found i'm the throes Of
inaugurating an Anglo Hellenic develop
ment bubble that is 60 make fortunes for
all Of them or course the ship sailed away.
The rainbow bubble burst.
This was in the period just before the Bal
kan war. i'm 1912. The situation in south
eastern Europe was already smouldering
Capt Macedones bubble burst And the
girl next turned up In London az a smart
hotel with a pacha-like person with much
money and ottoman ideals who was buying
her gorgeous clothes and providing her with
a background against which her dramatic
effects could be staged.
Spenlove drifts into her life for "a moment.
out again and then whom the tale shifts back
to the Mediterranean he is swept back into
her scheme Of things by n tide stronger than
anything he had reckoned upon. Just az his
own little chosen role as super at the play
was nearly swamped the curtain was rung
DOWN on Artemisia az her big moment by
stray bullet fred by some apostle Of liberty
who Is revolving from tyranny by killing
innocent people.
Against the blue southern sky. and the
green blue sea and the silent. mysterious
half forgotten island that fronts the sea with
a wall Of marble--against this background
Of romance are projected these characters in
q strange tangle OF adventure planned by an
enigmatica stage manager. To those who
ike rafting good snappy" stories. Mr.. Nc
Fees new book will not appeal, but TO those
who enjoy "A speculative recapitulation Of
-ome very human human beings az their
sind struggle to work out their salvation
mi. book ie hIghlN rocnmmnndcd.
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What the Animals Have to Say
About the Latest Nature Book

through. He can travel with ease where
Reddy Fox, not half his size and weight,
would break through at every step. Tufty's
ways are much like those of his cousin
Yowler. save that he is a dweller in the
deep woods. Anything he can catch Is food for
Tufty, but his principal food is the North
ern Hare. The color of his coat blends with
the shadows. so that he seems like a living
shadow himself. In summer food is plentiful
and Tufty lives well, but In winter Tufty has
hard work to get enough Rarely does he
know what full stomach means then. Like
Yowler he can go a surprising length Of time
without food and still retain his strength"
AS he reads this the Lynx sweled up and
remarked to himself. How true! How just!"
But at the moment his sharp eye caught
word further down on the page that did not
please him so we'll. He began to turn the
pages rapidly. Evidently the word giant"
caught his eye, for animals, like children,
have a natural liking for giants and fairies.
So he began to read about Bigfoot the Alaska
or Great Brown Bear:
HE is a giant. the largest flesh eating
animal in all the world. His coat is dark
brown. When he stands up on his hind
legs he is almost half again as tall as a tall
man. He stands very high at the shoulders
and his head is very large. Like the other
members of the bear family. he eats all sorts
The New York herald., 1920-11-21
Period of the Garage Occupation
Modern Swiss Family Robinson

1t is Mr.. CobbS firm adherence to playing
loose" that got him the house. however. (By
this time it is surely clear to you that the ex-
preston has no evil significance) l know
a number of other humorists but none with
such large house, and it ought to be les
son to me have no house and so smallsa
fiat that perhaps l was cut out for tragedy
after all. Not that am bitter over the size
of this Westchester estate. It's proportions
are comforting to all friends with limited
domiciles-and humor In abandoned Farm
crs" (Doran) the author sighs a bit because
a wren and brood moved in before he and his
family did but moved in very shortly after
the wren. Indeed / was a guest during the
Period of the Garage Occupation. I take
pride in this. Had our acquaintanceship not
been welded into visiting friendship before
that field OF slate roof went on, should con-
slider myself nothing more than nouveau
richie.
AS a matter of fact living over the garage
was quite sufficient for my tastes AS the
keeper of the garage admits 1t was once an
old barn, its men now sicklied DER by the
pale hue of rough cement. recall one won
derful night when a first class wind was
blowing off the very best red leaves in West
chester county, recall stretching luxurious
ly in my exquisite. lacquered bed in a corner
OF the hay NOW and hoping that all this stuff
/ was getting about cheap old brickyards,
and homemade stone. ancient rafters right 20
hand, and tame field slate coming up to the
bars and begging to get on the roof was
just a Swiss Family Robinson tale evolved
from the writer's agile mind.
But no! Mr.. Cobb could very well have
titled his book How TO BE Funny Tho
Truthful" I stand and all his friends stand
as visiting witnesses Of the complete verify
of his statements. To be sure there are
some details of the house which he has
touched gently in his pages. When he first
began 10 show us about he dwelt modestly on
his delightful rooms and hurried us on 20
view his closets. We were asked to step
inside observe the floor space admire the
shelf room. watch the electric lights work
automatically. II was rash in our host TO
show those empty spaces to one who has
so small a fiat The idea has occurred 70
others. Personally have only few crystal
chandeliers there and n rare collection of
piano stools. but some of the visitors have
taken advantage of his pride in closets.
understand the parking spaces of the house
are no longer shown and that good old
Southern Hospitality is going through its
setting up exercises every morning to keep
itself from sealing up few guest chambers.
"And where does this door lead to?" tho
The New York herald., 1920-11-21

THE LIFE OF JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE,
as Gathered Chiefly from His Letters. BY
Edward Sanford Martin. In two volumes.
Charles Scribner's Sons
THIS well arranged and ample biog-
raphy-91O broad pages Of detailed
II history of the remarkable American
advocate and diplomatist-has been put to-
gether with diligence and devotion by Mr.. E.
s. Martin. himself master of the polished
phrase and a stanch advocate of higher
American methods in life, politics and litera-
ture. In brief Introduction" he remarks
that his book is principally compilation,
and "the chief contributor by far is Mr.
Choate himself, whose writings, public and
private, make up four-fifths or more of the
book. His recolections of his boyhood and
youth with which the book begins, were
dictated by him during his convalescence
from a long illness in the early months OF
1914. They stand very much as they came
from his own lips, for when the war came
he neither went on with them nor re-
vised what had been written" Mr.. Martin
says the book can only afford glimpses of
Mr.. Choates career, but he hopes it may
make clear the extraordinary discipline and
training and the power Of intense applica-
ton, as we'll as the brilliant gifts and charm
ing nature that made possible the remarkable
public services that distinguished Mr..
years of it." And he adds:
"Mr. Choates courage was often remarked.
Part of lit was consciousness of power, but
the better one knows him and follows the
details of his walk and conversation the
deeper is the assurance that back of all there
was the condition that Horace found in his
friend described as Integer Uite, scelertsque
purus, and afraid of nothing
The reader of this painstaking record will
not fail to recognize Mr.. Martins assiduous
-effacement, for he makes every effort to
let Mr.. Choates life story be told in his own
words and his interpretations have more the
tone of the editor than the biographer.
His graceful modesty is in exact key with
his subject. for though Mr.. Choate made
no more pretensions to diffidence than to
anything else, the punctious quality and
tenacious dignity of the great lawyer and
fine example of American citizenship OF
the older school all are reflected silently
in the method of the biographer
That section of this engaging record which
Mr. Choate wrote tor dictated) himself car
ries so much of the mans individual charm
that it may well speak for itself if only in
a fragmentary way. chapter or two OF
The New York herald., 1920-11-21

ME appearance Of this book, following
so closely upon the publication OF
Joseph Conrad's THE Rescue" forces
The New York herald., 1920-11-21

THE BURGESS ANIMAL BOOK FOR chill
DREN BY Thornton w. Burgess With
Illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes Lit
tie. Brown & Co.
,,THE trouble with the human race.
began the Jack Rabbit, "is Its in
excusable ignorance about its
superiors, the animals"
How do you know that men are all equally
ignorant?" demanded the Beaver. You
Rabbits have a way of jumping to con-
clusion that is most illogical"
"Now don't try to defend man. protested
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"Tufty," the Canada lynx.

the Porcupine. "iust because he has made
an exception of you and a few others. 1t
is true he fiatters you by saying as busy as
a beaver You know in your heart that the
rest of us work just as hard as you do.
though we don't try to show off by doing
circus tricks like chopping down trees and
building dams"
What has man done to your" growled the
Great Brown Bear.
He calls me the fretful porcupine,' and
YOU oughtnt to say word in his favor,
because he slaps you in the face every time
he calls anybody as cross as a bear: Yet
you and / know-and all the forest knows
that we both have really beautiful natures" 4"
IF you only had hard shell like me you
wouldn't care what they said about u.s. re-
marked the Armadilo At this point the
Flying Squirrel sailed into the crowd.
Here comes the latest airplane post!"
they all cried whats the news?'
Burgess has put us in a book" said the
Squirrel as he sailed gracefully to the
ground "And he's got us right He tells
how troublesome my cousin the Red Squirrel
gentle and lovable.'"
Easy TO see why you say he's got us
right" yapped the Coyote.
well. think we ought TO admit the truth
even when It's about ourselves" urged the
Flying Squirrel. I'm broadmnded about it,
even If he gives away the fact that don't
fly at all but sail down through the air.
Anyhow 1 didn't Judge the book by that
Any falrminded animal must admit that Mr..
Burgess has a true sense of proportion and
values. lie gives Just as much space to the
smaller citizens as TO the larger, showing
It's character not size, that counts"
SO much interest was excited by this first
report that the animals got n copy Of the
hook itself. A deputation of rats and mice
gnawed one out of a packing case in the
express Office. Then they called a general
meeting and engaged the Lynx TO look IL
over. Nothing escaped his eyes. though 1t
must be confessed he read the longest selec-
ton about himself, under the name Of '"Tufty
and His Cousin Yowler, the Bob Cat" This
is part Of what he read:
"Yowler's feet are large, but Tuftys are
immense for his size. This is because Tufty
lives where the snow lies deep for many
months. and these big, broad feet enable him
70 travel about on the snow without breaking
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Dig lOOl, lIlS EldShdIl DIOWH DCdi {.
of things. He hunts for mice and other
small animals, digs up roots. .stuffs himself
with berries and at times grazes on a kind
of wild grass. just as cattle might do He
is great fish eater. for fish are very plenti-
full in the streams i'm the country where he
lives. Big as he is, he has learned - fear
man just as Silvertip has. Occasionally
when surprised he has been known to at
tack man and kill him, but as a rule he
will run at the first hint OF a mans APP
proach."
Naturally there was more or less dissatis
faction on the part Of creatures about which
or whom Mr.. Burgess had not found much
good to write But the animals are lovers
of the truth, so they finally agreed TO submit
the matter to vote Female suffrage has
always existed in the forest and the wives
knew and voted as to the facts about their
mates. So Burgess was elected by an over
whelmng majority a member Of that select
circle of human beings who have won tho
respect of the free children Of Mother Nature
And with such books for the men cubs"
agreed the animals, there is hope even for
the poor, ignorant human race
The New York herald., 1920-11-21
A Review-Interview by
LOUISE CLOSER HALE.

Copyright. 1920, by THE New YORK HERALD
r DON'T know why Irwin Cobb and 1 are
friends considering how inauspiciously
the acquaintance began. 1t was at
tea-and that may have been one of the
reasons for the inauspicuity (an i'll favored
word, but mine own) for we were both In
misery. Misery, it seemed, was about the
only quality we had in common. Yet 1t was
not a shut-in tea, the kind held in a house
with hostess at the only door. 1t was in
a garden containing a number of bushes
that one could hide behind. l could have
hidden completely behind any of them and
irwin in portions. What prevented us may
have been the fear that we would meet
again behind the same bush. so intent were
we upon escaping from each other But
that is one of the fine attributes of this dis
tinguished author; while he might find
humor in abandoned Farmers" he would
never in abandoned-well never mind; any
way he stuck. Paducah blood will tell
The fault was mine. Whenever l try to
be something l am not-cultured or musical
OF interesting or a bonde--I shortly find
myself in a corner being any Of these things
as much as L please but being them all
alone. Now with Irwin Cobb l was trying
to be funny Curious-isn't it?-but there
is nothing we can't be in life if we try hard
enough except being funny. The more we
try the more .unfunny are. You of the
audience don't give half enough credit to a
comedian a first night He's being funny
in spite of every anxious nerve in his body
as tight as n fiddle string. He knows his
one chance is to play loose and not give a
hang-but therei 1 have been advised not
to talk much of my profession and little
more of the subject in hand, the which is
Irwin Cobb and House.