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She was nearly bayoneted by one Turkish soldier for her contumacy, but was complimented in this wise by another: "If there had been five American women stationed on the forts, mademoiselle," said the General, "my soldiers would not be in Kars to-day." was The gamut run by the emotions in war times is aptly illustrated by an incident at the fall of Kars related by Miss Anderson. Everybody seemed terror-stricken-even Miss Anderson "Just "thoroughly frightened." then," she says, "Mr. White came back. The Turks had stripped him, leaving him barefoot in his B. V. D.'s. Karakashian followed, clad only in a linen shirt reaching to his knees. They looked so utterly miserable and so entirely absurd that I laughed until the tears ran down my cheeks. As soon as I could stop laughing, I handed them each a blanket, which they draped around themselves like togas. They didn't think it was at all funny." Viscount Bryce, in an article on Siberia in the "National Geographic Magazine," tells of his difficulties in trying to make himself understood during one of his trips away from the railway. "Searching up and down through a Franco-Russian phrase book," he says, "I could find, as usually happens, no sentence that fitted the occasion, but many that seemed designed for occasions far less likely to occur, among which I recollect this: 'Have you seen the crocodile?' a question singularly inappropriate in an empire none of whose waters are warm enough for that animal." Apropos of our inquiry as to "going" businesses a century or more old, we are referred to two newspapers. One is the Newark, Ohio, "Advocate," which has been printed continuously since the year 1820. During the century it has had four publishers. It is celebrating its centenary by moving into a new fireproof building with modern equipment which would certainly astonish the printers of its first issue. The other newspaper referred to in the above paragraph is one which has had a wide influence as a journal of the WHITE MOUNTAIN Refrigerators highest class the Manchester (Eng New York land) "Guardian." Its first number was issued on the day of Napoleon's death, May 5, 1821. It was at first sold at the high price of sevenpence, and not until 1855 did it become a penny daily. For fifty years it has been under the editorship of one man, Charles P. Scott. Many able journalists have contributed to its success-among them a grandson of "Arnold of Rugby," William Thomas Arnold. The statement is made in the newspapers that the Ford automobile works at Detroit will soon again reach the high peak of production, 4,000 cars a day. This almost incredible number may perhaps be visualized to the imagination if we calculate that these cars arranged in a line, allowing fifteen feet to each car, would stretch away more than eleven miles! The problem of getting rid of them by the railways would seem to be almost as great as their production. Many of them, however, are sent away in parts, to be assembled in other plants. "Life" has this revision of a famous couplet: "The world is so full of a number of verses I'm sure we should all be as happy as hearses." A married wit who displays his gift of repartee at the expense of his wife is not to be admired, however telling his sally. This story of Lord Sherbrook is to the point: He remarked that it was absurd for a man to say, "With all my worldly goods I thee endow," whenVIV he had none. "For instance, when I married I had not a shilling with which to endow my wife." "But you had your brains, Bob," said his wife from across the table. "But nobody, my dear, could say that I endowed you with those," he retorted. A facsimile of the shorthand notes which form the original of Pepys's celebrated Diary is published in a current magazine. The notes bear a strange resemblance to the hieroglyphics of the present-day stenographer. Pepys, it seems, was an expert shorthand writer. He mentions in his Diary that in April, 1680, he attended the King, by command, and "took down in shorthand from his own mouth the narrative of his escape from the battle of Worcester." Chinese Marriage She was an American girl-daughter of a family of modest means in a middle-western college town. He was a Chinese-eldest son of of the life of their ancestral town in the pleasant a family of gentry for many centuries arbiters hills of South China. They met at college, fell in love and married. His family disowned him. They went to China to live, but far away from his people where he practiced international law. Shortly came their children; later followed reconciliation with his family. Another celebrated escape-this time from a prison cell-is described in a recent book, "A British Chaplain in Paris in 1801." The author interviewed, Latude, who was in prison in the Bastille for thirty-five years and escaped from it twice. He showed the visiting chaplain the ingenious contrivances with which he gained his liberty. The most important was a rope ladder 180 feet long, by the aid of which he descended from a tower of the Bastille. Latude also showed his visitor a flageolet which he had made from a piece of firewood to solace his days in prison, and-a human touch-"Latude played me an air on this. He seemed to think it most excellent nusic and went on longer than was neces sary to gratify me," says the author. The humorist of the "Journal" of the American Medical Association, under the guise of "Dr. Pepys," thus pokes fun at one of his contemporaries: April 5.-Did read this day somewhat in ye "Literary Digest" like to make worse ye indigestion. For ye lexicographer hath said that ye correct answer to ye question "Who is there?" shall be "It is I;" but to ye question "Who is it?" shall be said, "I am it." And mayhap cometh one to my door and answers "I am it." I will smite him and say "Thou wast it, but now thou art NIT." And then this American girl, tremendously in love with her husband, faced the ordeal of life as the daughter-in-law of his Chinese mother. "M. T. F. ", now a young widow, back again in her American home with her three children, is writing the story of how it turned out. Her devotion to her husband-her revelation of the inner life of a Chinese household, rarely open to a foreigner-her own vivid emotions as she lived the life of a Chinese daughter-in-law-make her story an outstanding human document. Read the first instalment in the June issue of ASIA The American MAGAZINE on the Orient A new Asiatic Continent is being born. All those fabled lands are struggling out of the mists of centuries. The cries of camel drivers are still heard, but across caravan routes and over mountain passes echo the sounds of locomotives, motor cars, airships. And yet the mystery of the East remains. Month by month this renaissance is recorded in ASIA, the only American magazine treating exclusively of the Orient, through authoritative articles, fiction and beautiful pictures. Contents of the June ASIA Long Shots from the Malekula Bush By Martin Johnson Moments that make your blood run cold and your spine creep! Going after big game in the jungle has nothing on going into the heart of cannibal land after big movies. Java and A Story By L. Adams Beck The Dutch have done their honest best to make Java over according to the Holland mould. But Java belongs to the enchanted East and she stays there. L. Adams Beck has caught the beauty of this island country in the glittering net of his article. Again the big question of how far we should impose our civilization upon China in her adjustment to modern ideals! Mr. Bland believes that neither American nor British institutions will "save" China, but that new Chinese ideals will be evolved by the Chinese themselves. Shoes of Asia By Roland Gorbold Here's a man with a fascinating hobby! Shoes from every Asiatic land! Through this collection, from the rawhide sandal of a Jibbur herdsman to the tiny embroidered slipper of a Persian Princess, one can follow the development of races. Taming the Yellow River By Charles K. Edmunds John Freeman wants to make the River itself dig a new channel-fertilize the millions of acres it flows through-be a friend to the people of China, instead of the monster it is today, bringing flood, famine, pestilence and death. On the Famine Front in Shantung By J. J. Heeren Read this article by Mr. Heeren and see what China is doing through Chinese and foreign organizations, not only to feed millions of famine sufferers, but to prevent pestilence from following on the heels of famine. Pilgrim-paths in the Lama Country By Will Thompson By Charles Mayer After reading this final installment of Mayer's experiences in the jungle, you will be satisfied to limit your acquaintance with seladangs to a quiet view of them stuffed in some museum. SPECIAL OFFER Five Months for One Dollar with the current number. the Orient, beginning-18 Name.... Address..... Business or Profession...... Canadian, $1.20 Foreign,$1.40 a trip to Asia ....................... On the "Irish Question" the Attitude of Most Intelligent Americans is In 1917 explained first to America through Metropolitan, the political situation and aims of the Cechoslovaks. At that time most people in America didn't know whether Cechoslovak meant a religious creed or nervous malady. 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