New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-27
p2oIo By
oOOVo Percy Hammond

The popular magazines Of numerous
ure, but still they may, as one Of the
leading New York theatrical pro-
ducers once said Of art, deserve some
consideration. Hence the appended
paragraphs. While buying your Book
man" or atlantic Monthly" from the
newsstand you will note, If You
arc interested in statistics, that upon
the cover Of "The American Magazine'
it is said that it is purchased each
month by more than 100000 persons
Those purchasers, you will learn from
perusal of one of its leading articles
are 100000 fewer than those who ride
in the subway every day; yet, despite
that, It is an impressive multitude, in
ducing you to join.
"The Americana" program, like that
Of the varieties. is composed of short
songs and dancing, sentimental things
and jokes, leavened by added items of
graver import, showing you how to he
successful in almost everything from
sending q telegram to vending paint
brushes or interviewing Lloyd George
AS Arnold Bennett once observed of
"Harper's Magazine" it is a monthly
reinsurance that all is we'll with the
world. Be game and you will be happy
is the text Of its more serious essays
and it contains inference that, as Miss
Lola Fisher says in "Honors Are Even =
"it's a great life if you don't weekend"
The September issue is particularly in
the let-us-t then be-up- doing mood.
1--WE Can Be Prosperous Without the
Aid of Europe" asserts Theodore Price.
and we learn from Miss Pearl White,
who is proficient in hazardous feats
upon the cinema, that The Danger is
Always Over Before You Have Time to
Lose Your Nerve. The September pro-
gram, in part:
"a Friend and Protector of Frogs
Being an account of how Newt Spoor.
Of Berlin, Wis. preserved, by legisla-
ton, that inscrutable rand, to fill its
belly with evil insects, and 80 to en-
nance agriculture in the Middle West.
Game to Colorado to Die" = Nine
teen years ago D. V. Burrell, of Wood
ward, Iowa, went to Rocky Ford, COL
pooh-poohed because Of tuberculosis
by all the life insurance agents.
Now he is cosmic scotsman with a
truck farm Of $4,000 acres and list
of 100000 gardeners to whom he can
send his catalogues.
practically Engaged"-A. love story
by Dorothy S. Phillips, for the little
people when. at going-to-bed time tn az
cluster around mamas knee and ask
her for a sentimental tale.
Perhaps You Think You Know How
to Send Telegram Hughey Full
lerton proves to you that probably YOU
do not, and he suggests more legibility
in the penmanship of your messages. +
New Yorker, hunting in the Adiron.
dacks, once sent an assuring wire &c
his wife, saying. Gam having the time
Of my life Mahoney is with me-" and
it reached her thus: "Am having the
time of life, honey is with me-"
''Do You Run Motor Car or . Nov.
able Madhouse?"-Ther Mr.. George
AIDE deplores with comic irony the
practice, while in an automobile OF
whirling past the landscapes, a Limr
Something. riding on the winds of
Chance. Most people think, says Mr.
AIDE, that the first purpose of motoring
is not to travel but to arrive, and that
for them the undertaken is more
probable destination than the Hicks.
vile, Mo-, at which they may be aimed