NURSES TO THE FRON.

Young women desiring to enlist in United States Student Nurse Reserve,. scribed in The Outlook for July 17, sh enroll at the nearest recruiting sta established by the Woman's Committe the Council of National Defense. Tj Committee has a State Division in

State and a great number of local units expects to have at least twelve those recruiting stations all over the cou Young women who desire further infor tion or who wish to make any partic inquiries are referred to their State vision of the Woman's Committee.

BRING OUR WAR PRISONER TO AMERICA

Now, for the first time, we are tak prisoners in large numbers. What dispe tion will be made of them? Doubtless can be used to advantage as laborers bel the lines. But there are many reasons v it would be well to bring them to Amer. In the first place, we have the retur transports, on which they could be bro with little or no exper.se. Secondly, th labor in America would be almost as rectly tributary to the success of our Ar as it would if expended there on the grow! Thirdly, it would greatly hearten the ple of America to know that such and s consignments of prisoners had actua been received over here. The Germans a making much of their exhibits of unend lines of prisoners; they even move about from one prison to another to let people see them, throw stones at them, spit upon them.

It would be a good thing to bring dire home to us the question of how we s treat our prisoners, assuming, of cous that we have enough of the grace of (to determine the question aright-to tre them kindly and well, regardless of manner in which prisoners taken from are treated. We might do a little mission work among them-teach them the id of Christianity and of democracy. Fina there is another and far greater good th would result: it would very material increase the number of prisoners taken.

It is always difficult to view the other fellow's problems through his eyes; e cially is it difficult for the well-nurture free American so to view the problems the oppressed of Austria. The results overwork and underfeeding, illiteracy,me tal stagnation, and fear sink them benes our ken. Their psychology is that whic ours would be a couple of hundred years hence were Germany to win this wa There is just one bright hope that th future holds out to these people, and the is America. The mobilization order e short the flood tide of their greatest en gration; almost two per cent of the entr population of the dual Kingdom came ove in the three years preceding the war. A they who were so fortunate as to be a to come were but a small fraction of those who were dreaming, planning, and savin to follow.

Many a time I have been told by Ans trian immigrants that there is no Austria: there is a Bohemia, a Hungary, a Slavonia. a Croatia, and so on, but no Austria-"No, meester, Austria only a name." And these people of diverse races, forced into unnat ural relations, hate one another intensely. The dual Kingdom is bound together, not by ties of cohesion, but by the sum of mutual repulsions. As sojourners in a con

ing Our War Prisoners to America (Continued) ered land, they despise the home of toy and idealize the home of to-morrow. ae immigrant's idealism of America is aditional, but seldom do we trouble to alyze that emotion. It is not a spontane18 growth in the heart of the immigrant, it a sentiment indigenous to the community hence he came. And that emotion is none her than the purest patriotism. Often in e old thoughtless ante-bellum days I was amed by the intensity of the love that I eard expressed by some raw immigrant for y native land. I recall one, a great brawny Tungarian, who, lacking words to express is emotion, called me out of doors, and, ointing to earth, sky, water, and horizon, ith streaming eyes, knelt and reverently issed the ground. Yet of such as he are he soldiers of Austria. Of course the war Las afforded hope to some of these. Some, isualizing a free native land, have already aken strong action to give it expression. That heroic army now battling in a thin ine across Siberia reminds us of the vast numbers of prisoners easily taken by Russia in the early days of the war. But the hope of America has been far more general, more bright, more practicable, to the great majority of these people than the hope of a regenerated homeland. Let us therefore bring our prisoners over here, for by so doing we will have many more to bring. ALBERT L. WILLIAMS.

Major George Haven Putnam, of New York, a veteran of the Civil War, and one of the leaders in crystallizing public opinion in this country in favor of our entry into the great European war, has recently visited England to make some addresses on America's relation to the present struggle. The growing friendly understanding between Great Britain and the United States is marked by many public tokens, not one of the least interesting of which is the following sonnet written by Canon Rawnsley, a well-known clergyman of the Church of England. In writing to us Major Putnam says Canon Rawnsley was moved to write these lines by hearing a talk by him on Lincoln at a public school where they met. It is not out of place to recall here the fact that one of the most beautiful poems on the death of Lincoln was written by an Englishman, Tom Taylor, of "Punch," and that the best recent onevolume biography of Lincoln was written by an Englishman, Lord Charnwood.

Well I remember on that morn of dread,

When huddled in the street the "darkies" lay Groaning that harm-how heard they could not

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Here is a tale, says John Van Ess in "Asia," that exhibits a choice bit of Turkish acumen. "I happened to be on a Turkish river steamer. There were four Europeans in the first saloon. The cook had prepared a roast for our dinner and placed it in the scullery window. Shortly before dinner he came frantically to the pasha (who commanded the three hundred soldiers on board) exclaiming that the roast had been stolen. The pasha, unperturbed,

detailed an aide to hunt out the thief.

Line up the soldiers on deck,' said he, 'and smell every man's breath. He whose breath does not smell of onions is the thief. Bring him quick!' In an incredibly short time the aide returned, leading a gaunt soldier who meekly admitted his guilt." Presumably all the other soldiers. had dined on onion stew, while the guilty man was redolent of choice roast beef.

George Herbert's familiar couplet about "drudgery divine," which has been an inspiration to generations of housekeepers,

"Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine,” has an exemplar in a correspondent of a household magazine who writes:

As a housekeeper and home-maker I have not found anything more restful than a nice, clean home. I do have to work very hard to get it so. I start at one end and sweep and clean and put everything in place. When I get through I am very tired, but when I go through my house and see the rooms all in order and clean, it certainly does give me a restful feeling-it makes me feel I have something to show for being tired.

A New York City department store, Wanamaker's, announces that henceforth it will be open only from ten in the morning till half-past four in the afternoon. In this way it will conserve coal and light, and also help to lessen the congestion of travel on the subways. Shoppers, it is assumed, can easily adapt themselves to these shorter hours, with resulting benefit to the workers who must use the transportation systems during the "rush" periods of the day.

Even the "stars" in the movies sometimes get hurt in doing a strenuous stunt. A despatch says that. Geraldine Farrar was seriously injured recently during a movie battle in Wyoming while she was trying to ward off an attack from the villain of the piece. The play's title "The Hell-Cat"-suggests that there is plenty of dangerous action in it.

Why is the ordinary white potato often called the "Irish" potato, when, as is well known, it is a native of America? A pamphlet issued by the National Agricultural Department indicates the answer. It says that the potato is a native of tropical South America, whence it was introduced to Europe by the Spaniards. It was brought to North America from Ireland, it is stated, by a colony of Presbyterian Irish who settled in New Hampshire in 1719. It would thus appear that the potato's roundabout journey to us fairly entitles it to be called Irish.

This must surely be the year of jubilee for the workingman. A New York City labor agency has this sign in its window: CARPENTERS WANTED-$50 WEEKLY

China is fast attaining all the marks of Western civilization. A correspondent of the "Railway Age" says that a hold-up on one of the railways recently took place -the first in the history of China. It was accompanied with all the appurtenances of

WAY

the traditional Wild West affair of the sort, with some added Celestial improvements. Besides taking all valuables from the passengers and the express car, the bandits removed about a dozen well-to-do passengers from the train to be held for ransom. A young Kansas farm hand, "who is surely destined to climb high," as "The Writer" satirically remarks, sent a story to the editor of a magazine and accompanied it with this proposition:

If you accept the story, send me $75, and then go to work and advertise that you paid me $5,000 for the manuscript. This the papers will take up as a news item and it will go like wildfire. I will keep all this strictly secret. You do the same. Have a short story of my life, with my photo. Under photo say: "The handsome young Kansas author who has made himself famous and received $5,000 for a few strokes of his pen."

A Washington subscriber writes: "Today's Latest News,' a one-sheet news bulletin printed here, contains this item: 'Chicago.-Alexander Karensky is in the United States, having arrived in Cognito on a recent steamer." The 'News' editor probably didn't have time to look up Cognito in the atlas; but in any case he needn't have been so precise-he might have said, 'at an Atlantic port.'

A letter from a German prisoner in France, published in a book called "The Good Soldier," says: "At the military hospital at Bourges, as also at Bar-le-Duc, we were the object of the most assiduous and eager attention. I know your heart, my dear mamma, I know how good you are. Go then also to relieve the misery of the poor French wounded, and do for them as much good as you can. Yes, do it, I beg you, in recognition of what in France they have done for your son."

In a recent address before the American Library Association, Mr. George H. Locke, chief librarian of the public library of Toronto, Canada, paid a tribute to the camp libraries of the United States. He said that in efficiency of organization he had never seen the work of these libraries equaled. He emphasized a work which the public libraries of all communities may do

that of informing and enlightening the public as to the causes and progress of the war. An intelligent librarian, he said, may also do much to help in co-ordinating the efforts of patriotic committees of every kind in their efforts to aid the men at the front. A good library may well become an organizing center for such work.

Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, whose human and civilizing work in Labrador is known internationally, has sent us the following stanza written by his brother and used during the war as an additional stanza to "God Save the King!" It is interesting to compare this with the stanza which is sometimes sung in this country as an additional stanza to "America," which is as follows:

"God save our splendid 'men,
Bring them safe home again,
God save our men!

Make them victorious,
Patient and chivalrous,
They are so dear to us-
God save our men !"

This Department will include descriptive or without brief comments, about books s by The Outlook. Many of the important bo have more extended and critical treatment HISTORY. POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND PUL Mexico's Dilemma. By Carl W. Acker Illustrated. The George H. Doran Co New York. $1.50.

Fresh from two years' experience the German character in Germany, well-known newspaper correspondent v

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a year ago to Mexico to estimate the nificance of the German activities t The pressing question has been: Mast United States intervene in Mexico be that country can take its place among great nations of the world? The ans according to this author, is, “Yes: there is more than one way of interve in Mexico." He does not believe tha should be justified to-day in interve there with armed forces to protect A. ican life or property, because he has fidence in the possibilities of a Mex Government if the leaders and the pe are given an opportunity to work out th own political destinies. But-and this big but-if German intrigue continues

stir

up

hatred for the United States, and

Rea the adv

the United States and her allies are tacked from Mexico, the situation migh: changed overnight.

POETRY

Poems of Frank Dempster Sherm (The). Edited with an Introduction by Chr Scollard. Houghton Mifflin Company, Bos $5. Posthumous Poems. By Algernon Cha Swinburne. Edited by Edmund Gosse, C5 and Thomas James Wise. The John La Company, New York. $1.50.

Retinue (The), and Other Poems. Katharine Lee Bates. E. P. Dutton & ( New York. $1.50.

TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION

Small Place (The): Its Landscape Archi tecture. By Elsa Rehmann. Illustrated. G.F Putnam's Sons, New York. $2.50. Delightful studies of the landscape p sibilities of small places when treated inte ligently and with imagination. Every own! or prospective owner of a suburban re dence will find the book full of allurement and of helpful suggestion.

Village in Picardy (A). By Ruth Gaines. I troduction by William Allan Neilson. Ilin trated. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York $1.50. A vivid picture is here given of the work of the Smith College Relief unit in France so far as it relates to the inhabitants of a single village. The sketches are personal and intimate and full of charm and sympathy.

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American Railway Accounting. A Ce mentary. By Henry C. Adams, Ph.D., LLD Henry Holt & Co., New York. $3. How to Swim. By Annette Kellerman. Illus rated. The George H. Doran Company, Nev York. $2.

Liberty Cook Book (The). A Guide to Good Living Combined with Economy. By Bertha E. L. Stockbridge. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $2.

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Here is a war cook book. "Four tablespoonfuls of brown sugar," "Two table spoonfuls of syrup," Eggless cookies," "Inexpensive ice-cream," etc., show its up-to-dateness. There are chapters on the new methods of canning and on substitute foods, and many useful ideas on conserving food without making our tables unattractive.

Physical Beauty: How to Keep It. By Annette Kellerman. Illustrated. The George H Doran Company, New York. $2.

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WANTED-Companion for elderly lady living in old-fashioned farm-house thirteen miles from heart of Cleveland; hourly trolley service, beautiful country. Good pay, duties not onerous. Excellent references required. 6,176, Outlook.

MOTHER'S helper to care for little girl 3 years old and boy 14 months. Pleasant home. References exchanged. Mrs. A. L. Perry,. Westerly, R. I.

WANTED-Lady between 30 and 40, care & children. Country home. Treated member family. References required. 6,181, Outlook.

COMPANION for cultivated gentleman recovering from nervous breakdown. Must be strong, refined, healthy, cheery. Possibly travel. Pleasant work. Hours for study. 6,184, Outlook,

FAMILY of four adults wants mature woman for housework and plain cooking: washing put out. Residence near suburban station eighteen miles from New York. Address Postmaster, Great Notch, N. J.

WANTED-A pleasant, capable woman as working housekeeper in family of two. References. 414, Scarsdale, N. Y.

MOTHER'S helper wanted to assist in care of boy 5 years old and girl 15 months old at Summit, N. J. Permanent position, pleasant home and surroundings. Room 163, 40 Wall St., New York.

Teachers and Governesses WANTED-Competent teachers for public and private schools and colleges. Send for bulletin. Albany Teachers' Agency, Albany, NY. GOVERNESSES, matrons, mothers' helpers, cafeteria managers, dietitians. Miss Richards, 537 Howard Building, Providence. Boston, 16 Jackson Hall, Trinity Court, Thursdays, 11 to 1.

WANTED-To go West last of September, refined French speaking governess or mother's helper for little girl of ten and boy of six. Give full details and references. 6,185, Outlook.

SITUATIONS WANTED

Business Situation's SECRETARIAL position by young woman. TEN years' experience in city Y. W. C. A. STENOGRAPHIC knowledge. 6,161, Outlook.

POSITION, fruit raising or ranch, by clergyman, age 36, with capable wife, no children. 6,163, Outlook.

CHURCH director of young people's work. Trained and experienced woman. 6,188, Outlook.

Companions and Domestic Helpers

COMPANION, care of invalid, mother's helper. Hospital experience. Middle-aged.

LADY desires position as superintendent matron of institution, preferably children's private home. Experienced, refined, best. recommendations. At liberty September 1. 6,175, Outlook.

Teachers and Governesses WANTED-Position in October as governess for sub-normal child in private family. Experience. Capable full charge. 6,173, Outlook.

CAMP DIRECTOR and gentleman of boarding school experience-draft exemptdesires residential or traveling tutorship young boys or executive junior school connection. Reaches New York September 6. 6,178, Outlook.

GOVERNESS.-College graduate, experience in private teaching. References. 6,183, Outlook.

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OFFICER'S wife, college graduate, with children (husband abroad), wishes to take twogirls, 10 to 18, into her home in Westchester for winter. Healthful surroundings, personal tutoring. Special attention to voice, manners, and general information. Write Mrs. Raymond, East Blue Hill, Maine.