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of Europe; the diplomatic Carnegie who thought it disgrace to die dip lomatically rich.'
 If MT. Wilson approves" says the author. twas the D. V. of Colonel House religion, yet his loyalty to MT Wilson did not make him hate the men at Paris, for Colonel Houses heart was too, catholic for that he Liked what e'er he looked on -v--- And his eyes went everywhere"
 Colonel House liked Clemenceaui he liked Orlando; he liked Lloyd George; his kindness of heart his desire for pleasant personal relation his incapacity to think in terms of principles. whether of the League of Nations, or not, betrayed him in the matter of Shantung and during this time the question of social affairs turning his head was given as the excuse for MT. Wilson's break with him; the poor .Coloners head being turned right straight round on his shoulders, and MT. Wilson didn't ap- prove of that.
 All during this time. the author of "The Mirrors of Washington" de- clares Colonel House, went right on pronouncing Italian, Eye taiian," in the comic paper way, and Plume, with the accent on the first syllable as if he were exclaiming; Fie. for shams,"
 Poor Colonel House. according to the author of "The Mirrors of Wash ington," was just "second fid- dler." seeing the world through other peoples eyes-yet happy, per fectly content, with what the world has giver him; he has realized his ambition to the fullest
 T hope to see him some fine day playing Santa Claus to children iChristmas celebration at village church." says the author of The Mir TOTS of Washington"
 Nowadays it is always una
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the sharks who prey upon people oi
 small means.
 He pays up a few old scores and
 proceeds to build up a new circle of friends. lie is besieged by
 .sharpers" whom he outwits, and is
 in turn outwitted by them, but Lady
 Felixstowe and her capable brother
 take hand, in true Oppenheim
 fashion, and the game is ultimately
 Jacobs. His adventures range from
 purely mental encounters with sharp witted cheats to situations where his very life is in danger; they take him to Scotland and then to Amer ica. where he is led into exacting and puzzlfng enterprises.
 In Jacobs Ladder" MT. Oppen- helm has forsaken his favorite motif of interna donal intrigue. but these interruptions men and women. deter mined to get possession of some DOT ton of Jacobs gold, keep things
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1 Hoover" says the author of The Mirrors of Washington" Hughes and Hoover, Mellon and Hoover,' Davis and Hoover or Wallace and Hoover"
 Tt is always and Hoover,'" he continues. What Mir. Hughes does not know about international affairs (and that is considerable.) MT. Hoov- CT does; what MT. Mellon doesn't know about foreign finance (and that is less), MT. Hoover does what MT Davis does not know about labor tand that is everything), MT. Hoover does; what MT. Wallace does not know about farm marketing (and that is nothing), Mir. Hoover does"
 ITO describe briefly what has han pehed to MT. Hoover is this: Two years ago it was Hoover now it is and Hoover!'
 Why the connective? Because to put it bluntly, while he is the most 1 useful supplement of the administra- tion, however, great his other gifts are and they are remarkable; he lacks political intelligence"
 "The war spoiled life for many men-for Wilson. Baruch. Hoover" says the writer. and added to this, the guilelessness of MT. Hoover in politics will prevent him from ever realizing his larger ambitions"
 He is diffident, has little to say in the society of "society folk" and it is told of him that when he went to Washington as food administra- tor" he took along an old associate professor from California. The pro- fessor's wife arrived few days aft erwards and, meeting MT Hoover, shook hands with him cordially; he saying;
 Well" and then hesitated--
 T know you are busy man. prattled the professors wife, "and you don't have to stand trv- ing to say something to me. Mr. Hoover; I know you well enough not
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@. WORLD TO MEND"

By Margaret Sherwood. httle bfown
 X Company, Publishers, Boston.
 "A World to Mend is described by the author as 'the journal of work ingman." It is an informal record from day to day of the experiences and reflections of symbolic cob bler." man who, stung by the war to an intense consciousness of his own failure as citizen. begins a new life of active, homely relation ship with humanity, in an endeavor to discover finer citizenship for himself and for others
 The character of the "cobbler" is a notable achievement; he grows and expands under the stress of the tragedy of war and the problems of peace Through this mans keen eyes the reader sees the residents of the little ea-coast town. and shares his increasing absorption in the story of Jack Sands, American youth, and Of Katherine. her father, and her irresti- ble grandmother.
 In the book there IS romance, there is realism, there is a constant play of humor. now gentle, now chaIleng- ing. and here is a steadily develop ing philosophy OF the higher meaning of democracy. The possible part, in shaping the future of the republic. of those who have served in yicery suggestive fashion. Very qulet1y. very searchingly the author discusses social problems confronting us: es- peciaily the problem: how to keep alive in America in days of peace.
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By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

young. quit Wall street with fer tune, seeking new occupations sor his energies"
 why not the Disraeff pg Amer fca?" asks the author. which is q phrase MT. Baruch has rather oonfi- dently employed concerning himself. which seems not yet to have been achieved, however.
 Mir. Baruch Is declared by the s,u~ thor of "The Mirrors of Washington" to be mentally incommunicado; as the author of "The Mirrors of Down ing Street" said of Lord Northcliffss mind: Tt is discontinuous.' So Mir. BaTuoh might alGo answer this ade- soription, according to the anony- .mous writer of The Mirrors of Washington"
 ITO sum Mir. Baruci1 up In a single sentence says the author, "he has an extraordinary sense of wonder and an unequalled sense of reality; himself; the sense of reality direcSed largely. but not exclusively---elss- wherem
 ''He who believes In luck should study the career of Robert Lansing" is the way the author of The Mirrors of Washington" introduces this dis tlnguished gentleman, and then pro- ceeds to say that the real misfortuns is MT. Lansing's career Is that ks didn't know how to play his luck"
 Accident made MT. Lansing a law yer" he continues, but he should have been an artist Until he be- came Secretary of State in Mir. Will sons cabinet, he never had known re- sponsibilfty, and then he wasn't equal to the emergency Is the sum and substance of the Mirrors" reflection of MT. Lansing's ability.
 Ignored by MT. Wilson all during the affairs at Paris; ignored by prac- tically everybody else, MT. Lansing wasn't clever enough to resign, and then MT. Wilson resigned for him, and thereby hangs a tale, for MT. Lansing must needs write a book.
 The author of "The Mirrors of Washington" regards MT. Lansing's book as the biggest mistake he ever made: the world sympsthized with him when he received his "conse@- but the world does not now regard him as hero, since reading his book
 'It does, however, answer the ques- tion," says the author of The Mir TOTS of Washington" the curious asked at>the time of his appointment: Why did the President make Mr. Lansing secretary"
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.IAcnRs, LADDER"

JACOBS LADDER
 By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Frontis-
 piece by F. Vaux Wilson. Little.
 Brown & Co.,, Publishers, Boston.
 Jacob Pratt, middle-class Eng lishman. finds himself bankrupt be- cause of his brothers failure to re- turn some money Jacob has loaned him. As a consequence, for several years he leads miserably unhappy existence as leather salesman. Suddenly the brother in America makes ? fortune in oil, and Jacob finds himself one of the wealthy men of England and correspondingiy famous Having keen sense of the responsibility his money brings and of his own past wretch edness, he de- cides to devote himself to helping the under dog" and to outwitting
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and Senator Borah, of whom he says. Life to him is little moro than a troublesome pilgrimage to the grave" and Hiram Johnson and the others but I pass on to MT. Baruch and Mir. Lansing.
 The chapter on MT. Baruch is won derfully interesting, and 1t couldn't be otherwise with the distinguished Mir. Baruch as the subject,
 It opens with a most insouciant statement made by a woman masa- zine writer, who declared that once she asked MT. Baruch for some infor- ing on the peace treaty.
 Tt took him just one sentence to say that he could not tell me what wanted to know" says the woman, and then he talked to me for two hours about-himselfw
 We'll, that's human enough, 1t seems to me; aren't we all a bit like that? Secretary Hughes has such a regard for publicity and what he does that he makes his foreign relations stories hold front pages with the Stillman divorce case.
 "Is it vanity with MT, Baruch?'
 asks the author of The Mirrors ,
 and then he answers: "No for to MT
 Baruch, the great romance is MT Baruch, the astonishing plaything cf | fate, who started life as a three dol lar r-a-week brokers clerk, made mil lions, lost millions, made millions again, lost millions again, finally still
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the spirit of self-sacrifioe manifest in the war.
 Miss Sherwood has mirrowed the thought of the times in a subtle man ner. The artistic presentation of the subject is such as to catch the imagi- nations and move the minds of old and young alike. A
 THE FIRST YEAR OF THE
 LEAGUS OF NATIONS" By George Grafton Wilson. Little
 Brown and Company, Publishers
 Boston
 Professor Wilson of Harvard has concisely and impartially set forth the procedure and outlined the achievements of the League of Ma tions during the first year of its existence. From. the mass of material in the form of council and commit- tee reports and assembly proceed ings. he has digested the essential facts so that the citizen or student may obtain clear and adequate ac- count of the accomplishments of this new international body.
 Professor Wilson explains the va riety of business chat came before the council meetings previous to the sessions of the assembly and he then follows with a comprehensive sum mary of the work of the assembly which met in Geneva from November 15 to December IS, where Al nations were represented at the opening, and 4S were members when the session closed.
 This volume will be invaluable to all who wish to acquaint themselves with the results of the first year of the great experiment.
 The full text of the covenant of the League of Nations is printed as an appendix. .
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| "The Golden Island" the volume of poems" by Emma Kenyon Parrish, containing a number of very tuneful rhythmic verses.
 Among the most readable of the poems" Is the one entitled:
 TIDES The seaweed. slack and flaccld, weak and spent, Lets trail her salty ropes against
 the rock; The tide is out: no moro its thun- These shelving shores. The lately i'm minent
 Inspiring waves have rushed away and blent With ocean's gray and glaucous
 flock.
 Far off, the racing waters seem to mock These wasted sands, where now all
 life Is quent.
 Watch: creeping toward this littoral
 of death
 There comes stealthy Tapping of
 the brine;
 See how each fluent wave still
 nearer slides. Those barnacled, welk- beaded ropes
 take breath,
 They drink; anew in jeweled
 wreaths they shine!
 So shine mems souls whenas they
 taste new tides. THE WAYS OF THE GODS By Elgernon Sidney Crapsey. Ths
 International Press, Publishers, New York City.
 Tn reading this book one is read ing of the religious experiences of the western world"
 Nathaniel Schmidt.
 The Ways of the Gods" Is not primarily theological nor a philo- sophical treatise; 1t Is the story of the lives of the various gods that have been worshipped in the western world from the days of the house. hold gods down to the present time. Each god is placed in it's historical setting and the reason for his life and hts death is found in the eco- homie and olitical conditions of the time of his reign. It shows how the war god of the Sons of Israel was transformed into the god of the moral order. It also tells of the transformation of Jesus, the son of Joseph. into the gods of the Greek dialect and of the Roman lawyer. It is in reality the romance of the gods. It is written in simple, English.
 "yITALIC BREATHING" By Thomas R. Gaines. The Reilly & Lee Company. Publishers. Chicago. The publishers present this book. which the author has dedicated to humanity, confident that it is an i'm portant contribution 90 the health, building literature of an age that is eager to learn how, to live.
 Vitalic Breathing is given to the world as an absolutely safe and uni- versally applicable way to health. It costs nothing to take: requires cnpo- paratively little time and will return dividends an hundred fold in reneweu youth. increased vitality and im- munity from disease.
 An adequate supply of oxygen. taken Into the system through the lungs and pumped through our ar teries by the heart. is vital to life Hence Vitalic breathing. Oxygen in the blood consumes-or oxydizes-the poisons that harass mankind. Proper food stokes the human furnace, and sane exercise keeps the body fit But oxygen is the vital spark.
 The method of "ung-cell packing" devised by Mir. Gaines is physiologi- cal. It is solidly. founded upon princi- pies accurately and conclusively es- tablished. Except in grave pathologi- cal heart conditions fortunately very rare-vitalic breathing cannot condition it must accomplish great
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Caesare coons" of the IA prominent jects of "The Mirrors Washington by book recently published the political we'll the literary world Top Mir Root Senator Lodge Colonel Harvey Knox,
  Hiram Borah. Lowe MT
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"rHE GOLDEN ISLAND.

By Emma Kenyon Parrish. James T. White and Company. Publishers, New York City.
 A garland of posies' describes
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THE NEXT CORNER"


 By Kate Jordan. Frontispiece by
 Wilson V. Chambers. Little,
 Brown & Co, Publishers, Boston.
 Elsie Maury, young American of appealing loveliness, has spent in Paris the three years which her hus- band, mining engineer, has de- voted to his promession in Burmah. Here she has become one of a fash cnable, cynically, pleasure mad crowd; an experience which super ficially damages her standards. She falls madly in love with the Marquis de Burgos, young Spaniard with an obsessing pride of race, and whose one vocation is the pursuit of love in which he is ably aided by Serafin, his valet, who is also his foster brother
 Elsie goes on a farewell visit to this marquis, having been deceived into supposing that she will be one of a house party in his mountain home in Spain When, instead, she finds herself alone with him in the high isolation, she decides. after temptation, to renounce her husband and remain forever with her lover. On the heels of this decision unex- pccted tragedy stalks in and con- 
 fronts her. She stands aghast at the ruin of the frail house of love she had tried to build. By dawn the in- suit and disgrace heaped upon her make her taste the horrible sad ness of one thrust beyond the pale. Her position becomes the most hid eously humiliating that could fall to the lot of a woman, and one fresh in fiction and drama.
 Though Elsie escapes from this web of dire circumstance and goes back to her, own world, it Is as wrath among unfamiliars. The story continues with the results or that one cataclysmic night in the mountains, her experience with that evil genius, Serafin, her disillusion- ment in regard to the marquis, and her future relations with her nus band when she finds that the one bit of evidence of her mistake, afloat in the world, has not come to him.
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to be offended if you don't talk to me"
 And MT. Hoover laughed. and took her at her word.
 ''He has the habit of too great rele- vancy to be human," says the author of "The Mirrors of Washington If he could only have said more than just that we'll to that woman, he might have been-President. I'm sorry I haven't the space to go into the chapters devoted to Sena- tor Lodge, of whom it has been said that his insane jealousy of MT. Will son was aroused because another scholar" had come into public life, thus wrestling from him the distinc- ton; and Senator Penrose, of whom the author of The Mirrors" says; "Wherever Penrose sits, that is the head of the table," and Senator Knox, moving at a lively pace and give Jacob plenty of employment in cir cumventing schemes, There is ann pie opportunity afforded for MT. Oppenheim to use his inimitable gift of story telling.
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THE HEAVIEST PIPE"

By A1hur w. Patterson' George w. Jacobs and Company, Publishers.
 Phila delphia.
 A young lawyer in Boston learns that he has inherited fortune from an uncle in a small seaport town in Maine, and the same day finds young woman in a hurry to catch a steamboat, who, for mysterious req sons of her own, asks him to pretend to be her husband and go with her on her journey. The man has no chance to decline, the steamboat sails, and the lawyers college chum turns up as a passenger. to complicate the difficult situation. Lawyer. lady and chum all land at the Maine town of Sanoset, where many surprising things at once begin to happen There is a treasure hidden by old Captain Baddon, an island. ghost. and the discovery of the heaviest pipe.
 This is an adventure story. full cf thrills and a great deal of humor.
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''OUEENIE'
''QU EENlE By Wilbur Finley Fauley The Ma cauley Company. Publishers, New York City

cauley Company, Publishers, New
 York City.
 A swift-moving,. entertaining story of New York, the city of countless thrills, with an ingenious plot and plenty of startling moments.
 Queenie, whimsical. lovable and venturesome. finds many exciting ac- ventures in an old house of mystery, the home of an eccentric, money crushed recluse, whose strange dis appearance forms the basis of real istic, audacious plot, reflecting tho dangers and restiessness of the world as we know it today.
 These are only few ingredients the author has used in this joyous book. with it's unfailing sense of humor. fearless satire. and brilliant portrayals of social life. It rides swift to the close, with big thrill at the end, new angle in fiction writing-the rapid continuation of a series of linking events that come like pistol shots and set the red blood stirring.
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T marvel that they could get along, for NJ. yiviani speaks no English, and President Harding speaks very little"
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Personally I am disappointed in the chapter devoted to Col George Harvey-our representative at the
 6'---=. ~< a< xAsH>a and passing over
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is IT HouGHroN?

Houghton is really equivalent TO
Hilton, for ''hough' or how" was
a scandinavian word meaning hill
that found its way into many Eng
lish surnames. Houghton was first
a place name. applied to a settle
ment on a hill, and the first Hough-
ton was undoubtedly one who came
from Houghton.
The founder OF the family here
was John Houghton. who was born
IN Lancaster, England. and died .n
Lancaster, Massachusetts,. in 1855.
lie came to this country in 1885 and
married his wife Bcatr.x fourteen
years later. He was probably mere
ly a boy when he came.
Jacob Israel and Phineas are
names that have been popular in
the Houghton family since its es-
adjustment here. The two best
known OF the family are Douglas
Houghton, a naturalist, born IN
Troy. in. 1903, and Henry oscar
Houghton. born in 1928. who be-
came a world famous publisher.
Answers to Correspondents. ....
Mariner: This name simply
means what it seems to mean
sailor. IL is not an unusual name.
SMITH This is an occupationa
name. Perhaps a little verse writ.
ten two or three hundred years age
by Nerstegan best explains the
name.
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SUE PASTOR ON
ISLANDER CHARGE

WEST CHESTER, Pa. Nov. IL
A suit alleging libel and SANDER. was
filed in the Office OF Prothonotary
Talbut here yesterday afternoon by
Henry c. Bucher, a Honeybrook edi-
tor against Rev. C. +. salkold. pas
tor Of the Honeybrook Methodist
Church. The editor was a candidate
on the Republican ticket for Bur
CESS OF Honeyhrook, at the election
on Tuesday. but was defeated by
Chester a. Martin, a Citizens candi-
date, by a few votes. In the COM
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WOMAN Kills GROUND HoG

Special TO The Evening Journal.
RICHARDSON PARK. Nov. H.
Selling a large calibre revolver yes
terday morning when she discovered
a ground hog on the lawn at her
home Mrs. J. T. Thompson, OF Ash
ley biazed away at the animal Three
shots were fred before Mrs Thomp-
son hit the animal.
Mrs. Thompson IS proud OF her
nship and will have the pelt
n the animal stuffed as a memento.
The animal weighed close TO eight
pounds
The Five Points Civics Club will
meet at the Community Building to-
night
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YOUR LAST NAME
lion whenee eomes smIlh. AM b.
BY MARY MARS HALL DUFFEE
ut. 1920. by The NJ cclure Newspaper Syndicate.

From whence comes Smith, all be
he knight or Squire.
Bur from the Smith that forgeth at
the fire?"
That's the question and the an
swer in a nutshell. A smith was a
smith. and when occupations gave
men their names. the man that
forged at a smithy took the name
Smith for his own. Perhaps it is
because in days when horses were
mans only means Of fast travel
there were so many Smiths In Eng
land that there are today more men
Of that name than OF any other.
(copyright. 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
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A COMMUNITY MEETING
ON DISARMAMENT

will be held at Friends Meeting
House. Tenth and Harrison streets,
on First-day Sunday. the 18th inst.
at 2.30 =. NJ
Address on "The Hope for Disar-
mament and the Conference" by j.
Henry scattcrgood. Of Philadelphia.
Lantern slides shown.-Adv.
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plaint Bucher alleges that the min
lister made derogatory remarks about
him in a place OF business in the
presence OF a large number OF per-
sons a few days before election. and
that this contributed largely to his
defeat. The papers in the case were
given Sheriff pechin for service.
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Art Needle
Specials

Necktie Silk in a large as
sortment Of colors. one spool
makes a tie. Instruction
sheet and neck band free;
75c the spool.
Beads in round and bugle
to match, 25c and 30e value.
This sale 10c a bunch.
S2.25 Stamped Pillow
Cases. $1.50. Some wide
hem. others with embroid-
cred ends; assorted patterns
S1.50 Stamped Gowns,
S1.OO. Made up ready for
smbroidering.
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"Pape's Cold Compound" is Quickest Relief Known

Don't stay stuffed-upl Quit blow
ing and snufningl A dose Of "Pape's
Cold Compound" taken every two
hours until three doses are taken
usually breaks up a cold and ends all
grippe misery.
The first dose opens clogged-up
nostrils and air passages OF head;
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stops nose running; relieves head
ache. dullness, feverishness. sneez-
ing.
"Pape's Cold Compound Is the
quickest. surest relief known and
costs only few cents at drug stores.
II acts without assistance. Tastes
nice. Contains no qulnine. Insist
upon Pape's.