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New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
School Life
Ian Hay Recalls Only the
Lighter Side

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF SCHOOL LIFE
BY Ian Hay. Published by Houghtor
Mfflin Company
TNEW writers escape the common
urge to set down at some time OF
other in their career an account
of their school days. Usually they
POSTPONE it until they have reached the
point where they can look, back and
say: "Ah, there! those were the
happy days!" And consequently they
write-as Ian Hay has done-of the
lighter side of school life.
But what of the darker side? How
can we have any truth about the mat
ter until some one does the CHASTITY
dull, dreary side as we'll?
Major Ian Hay Leith wrote of his
school days before the war, before The
First Hundred Thousand. The volume
had an obscure publication N this
country obscure because before Major
Beth began to write of training camp
life he had few American readers.
He dissects the schoolboy rather toe
coldly to catch all the hunor, but he is
pretty human about it and always
readable. We liked best his descrip-
tion of the tortures experienced by the
boy with his people up for the exer-
cises.
"A schoolboy with his people in
town neither expects nor. desires the
society Of his friends" he writes. "His
father may be genial, his mother
charming, his sister pretty; but in the
jaundiced eyes of their youthful host
they are nothing more or less than a
gang Of lepers-to be segregated from
all communication with the outer
world; to be conveyed from one point
to another as stealthily as possible;
and above all to be kept out of the
way of masters"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
te II Literary Family Described by the Author of Dodc
delightful in the light it throws ON both

delightful in the light it throws on both
fnaa.
ihere are nodes in ehe histories of
all families. One came to f. Rem
SON. the first snomentous pause in the
story OF his own little group, with the
death Of his father. His father and
mother had gone to Hawarden to visit
the Gladstones. In his own words. the
book closes thus:
They had all gone to early COM
munian on Sunday morning, and walked
again to church for the II O'Clock
service. MRS. Gladstone and they were
n pew together, and during the con-
fcsslon my father sank back from his
upright kneeling, and did no more than
sigh. He bowed himself before his
LORD, as he met Him face to face
Much as we wish that this simple.
faithful and yet eliminating story of
a remarkable family might have been
continued at least down to the years
of the war, we feel that e. F. Benson
was right in closing, in laying down
his pen when he did. For we finish
Our Family Affairs with the feeling
that here is book from the heart of
one who loves and has loved greatly.
reyelatory document properly sealed
at the coming of moment when dark
ness descended fer an hour.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
The Sixth Sense
Novel of London Pictures
Life Before the Late War
Kenna- George II. Doran Company.
THE novels 0f Stephen McKenna

THE SIXTH SENSE BY Stephen Nc
KennA- George II. Doran Company.
"HE novels Df Stephen McKenna
have appeared in 3 queer, rather
disorderly sequence. He got the
attention of huge public with his
Sonia, one Of the FIVE or six real Brit
ish novels of the war, and then, hav-
ing stepped cut of his study to . high
way of faMe, he gave US stories that
carried Sonia and her friends on to
new and at times disturbing relations
and experiences. Then he switched
back to period that, definitely charted,
hes In one or two ante-belIum years,
and wrote, or dug up, revamped and
published, Sheiia fnterrenes and The
Sixth Sense, both highly coiorsd and
tense novels of life in circles of ths
elect Of London in 1912 and 1913.
The true, unmistakable hero OF
The Sixth Sense is Lambert Aintree.
the "Seraph," young man with a
strange ability to forsteH events and
to catch on the mirror of his mind acts
of his intimates who are distant at the
times of this capturing The story is
told By one Merivale, who returas to
London after twenty years absence
to find himself head over heels in the
chaos of the suffrage movement The
girl Aintree loves and the young WON
an Merivale learns to love are caught
in the eddying whirl of the physical
violence phase of the feminist cam
paign, and the stormy roment--it is
tempestuous one-arriyes when one OF
the two women has the other abducted
for political purposes. The "Seraph's"
sixth sense gets to work instanter anG
we have chapter that stands right up
on its feet and dares Sherlock Holmes
to do his worst or his best. As study
of the uneasy London of 1913 this
novel has value as critique Of con-
temporary manners, modes and moods.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Family Affairs Of the Bensons
a Charming Biographical Sketch of an Intel
lectual Preside

taose children Of Archbishop Benson!
How they loved and emuisted one an,
other!
NsDiy fne was the literary compan.
ionship Of the three brothers. Arthu,
e, T. r. and Hugh. The first became
writer Of scholarly essays, limpid II
novement, not deep in their searchinps
nto the meanings Of conscious thinrs
and unconscious appearances Of being
out ever nicely worded and satisfying
IN their simple moods of cultured con-
tentment or gentle acceptance of the
untoward and the inscrutable.
The second, from the days of Dodo
I'd The Image in the Sand. the second
TRANCE and unexpected, won and held
J family of interested and at times en-
aussastic readers. He touched life at
nany points. His tender satire, his
easy dialogue, his questionings into
re mysteries Of the unseen worlds Of
telepathy and Of manifestations of
psychic phenomena, all these were and
are evidences of mind not actually
restless, but vitally interested in life.
Hugh taking 9 step beyond the re-
served mysticism of Z. f., went over
body and soul to the Catholic Church,
and his writings were tinted with the
rich hues of his faith.
Our Family Affairs makes a comrade.
or rather foil, for Margot Asquith's
two volumes of autobiography and fire.
works in script. Benson, equable and
wholly just in his dealings with men
and women, is an anodyne for his
eaustic, at times splenatic, country
woman In fact, she slips into his book
on page for a line or two.
However, we are not interested in
comparisons. We merely suggest a
study in contrasts. The two writers
moved in circles, social and literary,
that must have touched orbits fire.
quently. Benson'ss "reminiscences of
Tennyson, faint, and of Browning.
strong, show this to have been so. The
latter's taciturnity when under FIRE of
question and praise is remarked upon
by Benson and bit of fash of pho
tographic value gets through in Chap
ter XI.
Robert Browning says Benson,
preserved cheerful silence' (they
were at dinner and Austin Dobson had
been referred toy "till some direct ques-
ton was put to him. Then drinking
off his port he made notable phrase:
Well, some people like carved cherry
stones.'"
We read of Benson at Eton and vt
Cambridge, of his awakening to the
beauties of classical literature, of his
researches along archaeological lines.
But we are, all the time, watching the
development to maturity of his mind,
the growth of his desire and power to
write. His own rather naive account
OF his sending his hastily pen-written
manuscript of Dodo to Henry James
for the latter's perusal and criticism,
with amusing results in matters of
elderly kindness and youthful asser-
tion and succeeding uncertainties. is
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New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
lnumphs Of Golf Champion
Chick" Evans Records Thrilling Moments on
the Links
the Links

CHICK" EVANS GOLF BOOK. By
Charles {"Chick') Evans 5r. Published
for Thomas e. Wilson & Co. by the
Reilly g. Lee Company
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arr FAMILY AFFAIRS: 1ss7-Ises. Is.
r. Benson Published by the Goorgs
"a u nnran Company.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
A Survey Of American Literature
Wide Field Covered by Experts in Concluding
Volumes of Cambridge History

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERI-
CAN LITERATURE. Vols. III and Nv.
Edited by William Peterfieid Trent.
John Erskine, Stuart p. Sherman and
Carl Van Doren. Published by G. P.
Putuams Sons.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

Charles fChick') Evans jr. Published
for Thomas q. Wilson & Co. by the
Reilly e. Lee Company.
~ HARLEs ("CHICK") EVANS
G JR., national amateur gol1
~ champion, has written full
account of his golfing career
from the cradle, which he first occupied
at Indianapolis, July 1s, 1890, to the
peak Of his fortunes, reached last Sep
temPer, when he defeated Francis
Ouimet in the finals at Roslyn, l.. l.
In the golfng world Mr.. Evans holds
an enviable position. In 1915 he won
the double crown; that is, he gained
both the national amateur and pro-
fessional titles, a feat never accom-
plished before by any other golfer in
this country. Almost continuously
since 1909 he has held the Western
amateur title, besides many other
lesser honors which have come to him.
He tells the story of it all, as his pub
fishers suggest, without permitting
false modesty to rob the narrative Of
the thrills" In fact he does more
than this. He tells not only what
actually happened and how he felt
himself, but he quotes what the papers
had to say about it.
For example, when he sank the final
putt that gave him the title at the
Merton Cricket Club in 1916, he writes
that ne received what one of the papers
called s'the greatest ovation ever given
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

" HlLE reading E. F. Benson's
" Across the Stream, We were
conscious of an inner voice
that said "This is in part
autobiography Our secret mentor was
right. Benson. in those really bewitch-
s;ng chapters at the beginning of Our
Family Affairs, gives the story Of
eAhracadabra, that cabalistic word,
and the mas squerade of winters night,
memory of childhood that dehed
Years and gray hairs; and the accoun :.
as stated in this book of 1924, parable
closely the tictional narrative of a yea
sor Two ago.
Instinetivcly, we link E. F. Beaso
ard Hugh Walpole in the ability t.
ssuEle OF .he mantle of Time and 6,
back to the early teens and beyond, anc
he in glorious accord with the pageant
~ and the romance of the golden
hours Of youth. We know of no book
N the rank and file Of modern British
memoirs there's nothing American to
be even mentioned-that contains pas
sages of happy Interpretation, speaking
through memory, equal TO the chapters
o. Our Family Affairs that deal with
the spr;ngtime of the modern genera
ton Of the clan. What tots they were,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-14
ALL HAVE SOME PROTECTOR
Mother Nature Abandons None of Her
Progeny, in Helpless State,
to Their Enemies.

Nature has provided for everything,
down to frogs and little sticklebacks.
All the little animals that seem SO
helpless have their own ways Of pro.
tecting themselves, says London An
SWerS.
If he suspects that some larger and
stronger animal is out to eat him, the
toad is able to swell himself out until
he looks very ferocious and is far too
large to be swallowed.
The frog has longer legs than the
toad and therefore can jump better.
His eyes are at the top of his head,
to enable him to see all round, for
having no neck, he cannot turn his
head. He can change the color Of his
coat If it should prove necessary. 1t
takes him about quarter Of an hour
to do this thoroughly and after 1t is
accomplished it is extremely difficult
to distinguish him from his surround
fngs.
People sometimes try to catch the
lizard, but meet with no success, for
the only part Of its body one can get
at is it's tail, and it can drop this al
moments notice. The little sickle.
back, beloved Of all small boys, has
little spiky spines sticking out to pro-
tect it from the other inhabitants
Of ponds and streams. But these lit.
tie spines are of no avail when the
stickleback ends its days In the jam
jar of some little fisherman.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-14
Decorative Church Windows.

The art of glass decorating is not
a modern Bohemian accomplishment.
The Roman Cathedral Of Prague con-
tanned, in 1916, two windows which
were decorated with Old and New
Testament scenes. Decorative win
dows soon became q fav0rite form or
church ornamentation. Asnaes Sylv1-
US, who subsequently became Pope
Plus the Second and incidentally was
q very close student of contemporary
affairs of Bohemia, records that the
churches of the CZechs possessed
many high and wide windows which
were brightly and artistically decor
ated and such style of decorating was
not confined to the churches in the
large cities and towns, but even the
distant hamlets prided themselves on
churches containing windows orna-
mented in a similar fashion" The
curriculum of the division CT techni-
cal arts of the University Of Prague
included courses in painting, wood
carving, and glass ornamentation. No
degree was ever conferred on student
unless he could exhibit sufficient apti-
tude as a "glass man" or qualify In
"glassery," a practical demonstration
of the high esteem in which this
branch of the arts was held.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-14
SAW STEAMBOAT AS ENEMY
Power of Which They Had No
Comprehension.

When Fulton's steamboat, the Cler-
mont, made her maiden trip on the
Hudson river in 1907, it frightened
more persons than it interested. Fish
ermen and small boatmen to man
believed it to be some horrible mon
ster, and headed for shore as fast as
they could go, and once on land ran
at top speed into woods and fields
to hide. Crews of larger sailing ships
were no better, and many a schooner
was deserted and left to drift down
stream as the snorting, clankipg.
smoke-tossing Clermont appeared.
Later it was made known along the
river what the thing was, and there
at once arose a great wave of hate
instigated by boatmen who saw their
business ruined, and by fishermen who
were sure the noise of the steamboat
would drive the fish to sea. Added to
them were hundreds of religious IA
natics who declared the boat was tho
work Of the devil and a flying in tbs
face of God" So acute did this dis
like grow that attempt after attempt
was made by large sailing ships to
run the Clermont down. The state
legislature had to pass a special law
making it a criminal offense to at
tempt to injure the boat.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-14

work, is suggested by the dairy divi.
sion of the United States Department
of Agriculture. Why not take freezer
full of ice cream along. or a frozen
fruit pudding, since the work of freeZ-
ing it is usually done by the children
and not by Mother?
Elaborate baking should not be at
tempted in advance. When the or
binary supply of bread is being made,
few raisins can be added to one loaf
for change at the picnic. Good buns"
can be quickly made of ordinary bis
cult dough rolled out in a sheet sprin-
Killed. with raisinS or dates, cinnamon,
and sugar, then rolled up like a jelly
roll and cut into pieces a quarter of
an inch thick. busting them with
sugar and brushing with milk helps
to brown them nicely while baking.
Frozen Fruit Pudding.
Any preferred fruit pulp and juice
may be used in the following easy
recipe, which makes a quantity suf-
ticient to serve about five persons.
1 cup fruit pulp and I cup milk
juice strawberry, l cup sugar
raspberry, black A little salt
berry, peach. etc. A few drops Of
l cup cream lemon juice
Heat the milk, add the sugar, and
when the sugar is dissolved and the
mixture cooled add the other ingredi-
ents.
Picnic dishes, cups, and tableware
can hardly be dispensed with, though
the mother of the family should not
be permitted to wash up a single
utensil. Paper will do wonders at a
picnic. If everybody bears in mind
that outings like this constitute moth
er's vacation" there will be an affec-
tlonate competition as to who shall
attend to the few details Of prepare.
ton and clearing up connected with
the trip.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-14
SOME LOGIC; LITTLE REASON
Examination Papers Turned in by
Youngsters Proved They Gave
Thought to Questions.

TELL me all you know about GEN.
taurs"
The response of one boy to this
demand in a recent examination was
as follows:
"A centaur was ancient cavalry and
archery all in one piece. He could not
be knocked out of his saddle because
he didn't have any, being the same
person as his horse. If he needed g
stable he did not need q tent, I do
not know which, and if he needed for
age he did not need rasions, or If he
needed rations he did not need for
age"
Evidently the youngster who gave
that reply was of'e military inclination,
and had thought out for himself the
advantages of centaurs on the fighting
line. 1t was funny, but not unin-
telligent Less original, with only one
little slip indeed to mar its accuracy,
IS the version of the schoolboy of the
story of the Gorgons.
The Gorgons," he began confident
~, were three sisters that lived In
the islands Of the Hesperides, some
where in the Indian ocean. They had
long snakes for hair, tusks for teeth
and claws for nails, and they looked
like women, only more horrible"
1t was a little Boston girl whose
definition of the minotaur has long
been remembered by the elder pupils
In the school that she attended:
The minotaur was a large bull
which lived on tributes in iaby.
rinth. He was mythical, carnivoroua
and fond of young people,"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-14
RECORDS HUMIDITY IN AIR
Both Temperature and "Livabiity"
Shown by Twin Thermometer
Likely to Become Popular.

Sensations of heat or cold, as ex-
perienced by normally healthy per-
son, are caused almost entirely by
the condition of the surrounding
atmosphere If it is still, damp, and
about 10 degrees or more in temper
allure, a feeling of disagreeable heat
and oppression results; While If of
the same temperature, but dry and in
moderate motion. no discomfort is
felt. The reasons for this are that
dry, moving air takes away bodily
heat about as rapidly as it is gen.
Grated. while damp. still air does not,
explains writer in Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
Therefore in designing an instru-
ment to determine whether atmoS-
pheric conditions are conducive TO
bodily comfort, other factors than
temperature must be taken into
account. For this reason the ordinary
dry-bulb thermometer is unreliable
and has been supplemented by another
instrument of the so-called wet-bulb
type. in which the bulb is inclosed in
fabric mesh bag which keeps it
damp. To use both bulbs are i'm
mersed in hot water until they register
40 degrees. They are then removed,
and the time required for each to
drop to atmospheric temperature
noted. The wet bulb will always cool
more rapidly than the dry one. This
difference in cooling rates serves to
index the degree of comfort one should
be experiencing, as it roughly 1ndi-
Gates the moisture in the air and
whether or not air is in motion.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-14
HORSES ABLE TO TELL TIME
Steeds Hired by the Hour Good Judges
Of Distance, According to This
Stable Manager.

A rider needs strong hand and a
firm seat to ride the hired horses of a
certain suburban riding academy when
he attempts to go beyond an hours
distance from the stable, according to
the New York Sun. The rates are IS
for two hours, and the horses have be-
come so accustomed to going one hour
out and one back that when the first
hour is reached and the rider does not
turn back toward the stable his horse
insists upon doing it for him.
Beyond this first hour. if TIE rider
still wishes mistakenly or extrava
gantly to ride still farther away from
the stable, he VIII lave to fght his
horse every twenty-five or thirty yards
as the horse attempts to turn back,
and there will be no further joy in the
ride. If he complains to the manager
Of the stable, the manager will be
politely regretful if the rider is
truth if the rider is an old acquain-
lance.
81 get so many inexperienced
riders" the manager will tell you,
land they have no sense of direction
and keep no track of the time. and if
it were not for the good sense of the
horses the riders would either lose
themselves in the countryside or would
perhaps realize at some point that
their limit was nearly up and then
would come laundering in with winded
and steaming horses.
"These horses manage the ride them
selves and the riders have very little
to do with it," said the stable manager,
land in that way they protect the
riders, they protect themselves and
they protect me-"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-14
The Calm Level

have seen the sea dashed into fury
and tossed into spray, and its grand
eur moves the soul of the dullest man !:
but remember 1t is not the pillows
but the calm level of the sea, from
which all heights and depths are
measured. When the storm has passed,
and the hour Of calm settles on the
ocean. when the sunlight battles its
smooth surface, then the astronomer
and the surveyor take the level from
which to measure terrestrial heights
and depths. When the emotion of the
hour has subsidized, we shall find that
calm level Of public opinion below the
storm, from which the thoughts of a
mighty people are to be measured.
and by which their final action win be
observation-disclosures A. Garfield.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-14
--Syl-1


How many places there are whefu
the natural air circulation is made
quate! Restaurants, for instancei
How often one enters them with a
wee bit Of appetite, only to have that
wee bit reduced to none at all, by the
close and stuffy atmosphere Of the
place. Not only that, but the cook
ing odors are all too apparent. In
other words, the place is 50 smelly"
that appetite dwindles instead Of be-
Ing whetted, and even though the food
is good, the appetite is lacking. Is
there any remedy for the close and
stufy conditions Of 80 many restau-
rants?
There ID the electric air purifier
that costs no more to operate than
an electric fan, and It removes air Inn
purities and approximates outdoor con-
ditions, % there y 4 pleasant stimnlat-
Ing tang n the atmosphere. Il y valu-
able IN kitchan4 o1lcea baaomentA
elneking rouGA1 mi thsato hee,uylIrs
- gie iliiiIl r. I3l y.
I1k zaS AssSsss
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-10-14
Razor Strokes to Shave.

There is barber in London. Tne
land, with nice taste for figuring, and
ne has computed the number of razor
strokes that go to a clean shave. He
offers to prove the general correctness
OF his count on any customer. "You
shall keep the count yourself, sir.s
says he
The first man counted $50 strokes
made by the barber. Much too low.
sir" said the barber. But knowing
you We're counting I couldn't help tax.
ing longer strokes. 1t takes more. sir
usually"
His own computation is that, on an
average, 1t takes 200 strokes to shave
man. Now If he shaves so many per
sons day, so many days a week. how
many times does the barber use his
razor a week?"
Hundreds Of thousands, sir" saws
the barber. Pinned to something more
exact, he claimed 2Ss.OOO for one week.