Tea Cloths, 36x36 inches, 45x45 inches, and 54x54 inches. $8.50 to 47.50 each. Tea Napkins, $17.50 to 42.50 dozen.

Luncheon Sets, square and oblong; 13 and 25 pieces. $25.00 to 57.50 set. Several styles in the above sizes Embroidered in Tan and Blue at same price. Sideboard Scarfs, Table Runners, Chiffonier, Dressing-table, Bureau Scarfs. $8.50 to 35.00 each.

Library Table Covers. Ecru Embroidery. $20.00 to 25.00 each.

Refectory Table Covers, 54x90 inches, and 54x108 inches. $35.00, 40.00, 47.50, 57.50 to 90.00 each.

Freedom and Teaching (Continued) uate from 1855-60, I can bear testimony that "to do our own thinking" was the constant exhortation of such men as Wayland, Lincoln, Harkness, Chace, Gammell, Hill, and others, and as a member of the Corporation I have the best of reasons to believe that the remarkably liberal spirit of 1764 still pervades both Faculty and students. W. W. KEEN.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

NOT TO BE HELPLESS

BY LEWIS E. THEISS

When Johnny comes marching home again, he may have to ride in the ambulance. The Surgeon-General, the Red Cross, and other agencies are preparing to take care of Johnny if he does come that way. The Federal Board for Vocational Training has recently reported to the Senate and asked for $10,000,000 for its work.

In rehabilitating our crippled soldiers curative treatment will first be given. Next each subject will be fitted out with those wonderful new artificial legs, or arms, or fingers, which enable their possessors to accomplish such remarkable things. Then, if an injured man cannot follow his pre-war. calling, he will be re-educated, fitted for something he can do. And, finally, he will be given a job.

And there is the crucial point in the entire plan-the job. What can a cripple do in industry, and who will employ him?

Those are questions that must be answered before Johnny comes home. And that means that American business and industry must be combed to find the answer. But who is going to do the combing?

The Pennsylvania State Department of Labor and Industry, with a spirit as fine as that of ancient Isaiah's, has answered, "Here am I. Send me." And has led the way for other commonwealths. For it has already begun a systematic canvass of the State's employers.

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Two questionnaires have been sent out. The first asks Pennsylvania employers to indicate the number and kinds of positions in their plants where crippled men be advantageously employed. Thirty-eight types of disability are specified in this questionnaire, covering practically every conceivable type of disfigurement. The answers to this questionnaire will provide the Pennsylvania authorities with a complete card index of the State's industries, showing how crippled men can be successfully employed. The second questionnaire requests employers to indicate positions in their plants now held by disabled workers. That will provide a practical census of the disabled at work in the State.

The letter explaining the questionnaire and the questionnaire itself are printed on one form, which can be easily handled. When returned, these forms can be filed as a card index. They will be classified by the State Bureau of Employment, which will thus be in position immediately to place any rehabilitated cripple seeking work.

As Samson secured honey from the carcass of the lion after his struggle with the beast, so we shall derive many benefits from the awful war we are now engaged in. Not the least of these benefits will be the altered situation of the cripple. Never again will crippling entail relegation to the scrapheap. And just as the Johnny who dies to save democracy shall not have lived in vain, so the man who comes home in the ambulance will have served all cripples for the time.

The steel ship Westgrove, launched at Portland, Oregon, March 27, was built in sixty-one days. This is said to be a record; the previous record, sixty-four days for a steel ship, was held by a Seattle firm. That firm was a good record-loser, for it sent to the builders of the Westgrove this friendly despatch: "We wish you the best of luck in launching the Westgrove. This kind of successful rivalry is the spirit that should be shown to meet the Nation's crisis. Hearty congratulations on your great achievement.

The Army camp papers form the subject of an article in the "American Printer." Every camp, it has at least one of says, these papers, and some camps have three or four. Some are published monthly, a large number appear weekly, a few appear

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now and then," and at least one, the "Sheridan Reveille," is published daily, at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama. The article specially commends the "Camp Dodger," of Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, as "a model, comparing very favorably with the most efficient metropolitan papers."

A snappy response to a somewhat hackneyed question was given by a big Oregonian recruit in a training camp, as reported in "Collier's." A civilian visitor asked him, "And are you willing to die for your country?" "I am not," was the quick response; "I want to make some German die for his."

How did the Roman audiences at gladiatorial combats indicate their wish that the prostrate loser of a fight should be slain by the victor? The popular impression is that they turned their thumbs down. This is the gesture of the cruel-looking spectators pictured in Gérôme's famous painting. A recent novel, however, dealing with Roman life, uses "thumbs down" as a sign of mercy; and the authorities seem to sustain the view. One encyclopædia says: "The defeat of one of the combatants was marked by a cry of Habet' from the spectators, who then decided his fate, turning up their thumbs if they wished that he should be killed by the victor."

In stories about experiences in a Soldiers' Home in Paris Miss C. K. Corey tells in the "National Geographic Magazine "how one of the men on leave from the front brought her a bunch of violets because she "was so good to him yesterday." He had had to search for it, and said, "Why didn't somebody tell me just to walk till I smelled the perfume? I found it all right, and it cost me a pretty penny, too. Say, I'll bet a guy could spend a thousand francs a day in this town and lead a righteous life. And if he lived the other kind

Another man just from the trenches found that he couldn't sleep in a quiet place like Paris. The strange feeling of a mattress under him and four walls around him had chased away all thought of sleep, and he turned and twisted from 9 o'clock till 11:25. At that moment came an air raid by the Boches. "Then," he said, "it was just like Home, Sweet Home' in my pill-box, and I didn't wake up till next morning at 8."

"There are air tricks that save a pilot and tricks that kill him. The latter are tricks like the tail slide,' in which the machine is really misused." So says Lientenant Pollock in " Flying." The "tricks that save" are taught in their perfection by Lieutenant Simon, in the famous school of acrobatic flying at Pau, in the south of France. Some of these are the vrille (the gimlet), the renversement (reversing in direction), the "barrel roll," etc. "Looping," it is said, is not encouraged by Lieutenant Simon, as it is of little value in a fight and is extremely hard on a finely adjusted machine.

Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington are placed by a new book, "The Negro in Literature and Art," as foremost among the educated orators of their race, while "two unusual individuals, untutored but highly gifted in their own spheres," Sojourner Truth and John Jasper, are mentioned as among the foremost natural orators. "Douglass swayed his audience, and even himself," is the comment, "by the sweep of his passion and rhetoric; Washington studied every detail and weighed every word, always keeping in mind the final impression to be made." Sojourner Truth, "tall, majestic, but quite uneducated, dazzled her audiences by her sudden turns of expression." Jasper made himself famous by his " sun do move sermon, a characteristic effort. J. C. Price, for years President of Livingstone College in North Carolina, is pronounced "one of the truest orators the Negro race ever had," while many who heard him will insist that he was foremost."

The "Book of Job" series of drawings by William Blake, the famous English artist-poet, was sold in London recently for 3,800 guineas (about $19,000). It is said that Blake once offered these drawings for 21⁄2 guineas ($12.50)!

A check recently sent to The Outlook by an appreciative subscriber for the renewal of his subscription was made out simply to "The Best Magazine in the World." In indorsing it the Treasurer of The Outlook was obliged to supplement these words on the reverse side of the check with the name intended- "The Best Magazine in the World-THE OUTLOOK." Little amenities of this sort on the part of our readers, while thus placing some embarrassment upon "modest merit," none the less bring joy to both publishing and editorial departments.

Our Puritan foremothers developed three delectable dishes from unpromising materials, according to the teacher of a New England cooking class-pumpkin pie, brown bread, and baked beans. To these two might be added good things specially associated with Rhode Island-johnny-cake and the clam bake. And were not mince pies a New England invention?

Out-of-Doors

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issued June 12th
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