W Is this offer too good to be true? Are we offering a value too great to be credible? Do people E recently mailed several thousand circulars to booklovers. We described and pictured these thirty volumes of the Little Leather Library honestly, sincerely, accurately. But we received relatively few orders. Then we mailed several thousand additional circulars to booklovers, this time enclosing a sample cover of one of the volumes illustrated below. Orders came in by the hundred! The reason, we believe, is that most people cannot believe we can really offer so great a value unless they see a sample! In this advertisement, naturally, it is impossible for us to show you a sample volume. We must depend on your faith in the adver tisements appearing in The Outlook; and we are hoping you will believe what we say, instead of thinking this offer is "teo good to be true." What this offer is Here, then, is our offer. The illustration below shows thirty of the world's greatest masterpieces of literature. These include the finest works of such immortal authors as Shakespeare, Kipling, Stevenson, Emerson, Poe, Coleridge, Burns, Omar Khayyam, Macaulay, Lincoln, Washington, Oscar Wilde, Gilbert, Longfellow, Drummond, Conan Doyle, Edward Everett Hale, Thoreau, Tennyson, Browning and others. These are books which no one cares to confess he has not read and re-read; books which bear reading a score of times. Each of these volumes is complete-this is not that abomination, a collection of extracts; the 30 volumes, pocket size, contain over 3,000 pages; the paper is a high-grade white wove antique, equal to that used in books selling at $1.50 to $2.00; the type is clear and easy to read; the binding, while NOT leather, is a beautiful limp material, tinted in antique copper and green, and so handsomely embossed as to give it the appearance of hand tooled leather; it is five times more durable than leather! What about the price How can we do it? That is the question most often asked of us. Yet the answer is simple. These books are produced in editions of a million at a time! Quantity productionthat is the secret. FREE! 4 Volumes of Kipling If you will order at once instead of waiting To those of us who have been forced to lead drab, workaday lives, Kipling opens up a new world-the vivid, colorful world of the Fast. His stories, every one of them, are steeped in realisin, but it is a realism more fascinating than the wildest imaginings of a romanticist. These four volumes include his best work. Among them are the following: The Vampire, and Other Verses; The Man Who Was; The Phantom Rickshaw: A Conference of the Powers; The Recrudescence of Imray; At the End of the Passage; The Mutiny of the Mavericks; My Own True Ghost Story. 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For three years he was associate editor of the "Christian Science Journal" and the "Christian Science Sentinel" and for one year editor of the "Jerusalem News." E know of no WE one better fit ted to discuss the English system of debating than Ralph M. Carson, author of "The World's Greatest Debating Society." Mr. Carson is a graduate of the University of Michigan who enjoyed the honor of being a Rhodes Scholar at Oriel College, Oxford, and the more distinctive honor of being elected President of the Oxford Union. He was also President of the British-American Club and of the Oxford International Assembly, a miniature League of Nations. Before going to England he was an instructor in Eng lish at the University of Michigan. At present he is a senior at the Michigan Law School. How Ten Minutes' Fun Every Day Keeps Me Fit By Walter Camp Famous Yale Coach's "Daily Dozen" Exercises Now on Phonograph Records NE night during the war I was sitting in the smoking compartment of a Pullman sleeping-car when a man came in and said, "Mr. Camp ?" I told him I was, and he continued, "Well, there is a man in the car here who is in very bad shape, and we wondered if you could not do something for him." "What is the matter?" I asked. "This fellow is running up and down the aisle in his pajamas," the man said, "trying to get them to stop the train to let him get some dope because he hasn't slept for four nights." I went back in the car and found a man about 38 years old, white as a sheet, with a pulse of 110, and twitching all over. I learned that he had been managing a munitions plant and had broken down under the work because he had transgressed all the laws of nature, and given up all exercise, and had been working day and night. "For God's sake," he said to me, "can't you put me to sleep? If somebody can only put me to sleep!" He was standing all bent over. Don't stand that way, stand this way!" I said, and I straightened him up and started putting him through a few exercises to stretch his body muscles. Pretty soon the color gradually began to come back into his face, and the twitching stopped. Then I said to him, "I am going to put you through the whole set of Daily Dozen' exercises once. Then I am going to send you back to your berth." So I did that and didn't hear any more from him, but the next morning he came to me in the dining car and said: You don't leave this train until you've taught me those exercises. I slept last night for the first time in five nights." I taught him the "Daily Dozen" and two months later I got a letter from him, saying: My dear good Samaritan, I am back on the job all right again, and I am teaching everybody those exercises.' The "Daily Dozen" was originally devised as a setting-up drill for picked young men-the boys who were in training during the war. But its greatest value is for those men and women who are hemmed in between four walls most of the time and are beginning to realize that their bodies aren't as fit as their minds. I applied it to middle-aged men, and men past middle-age too, during the war-including members of the cabinet in Washington-who simply had to do much more work than they were used to doing, without breaking down. In the "Daily Dozen" I soon found I had something that would actually increase their reserve power. They grew progressively more fit as we went along. That tires We do not People think that they can take an orgy of exercise and make up for a long period of neglect when they do not take any exercise at all. You cannot do that. Do not go to a gymnasium. you to death. That is old-fashioned. have to do that any more. A man or woman can keep himself or herself fit with six or seven minutes a day. There is no reason why a man at 50 or 60 or 70 should not be supple; and if he is supple, then he grows old very slowly-but the place where he must look after himself is in his body muscles.Walter Camp. Mr. Camp is famous as a great Yale football coach and athletic authority, but few people know that he is also a successful business man. Although sixty years old he is stronger and more supple than most younger men, and he uses his own Daily Dozen" Exercises regularly in order to remain so. Since the war, the "Daily Dozen" has been making busy men and women fit and keeping them so-and the exercises are now proving more efficient than ever-due to a great improvement in the system. This is it: With Mr. Camp's special permission all the twelve exercises have been set to music-on phonograph records that can be played on any disc machine. In addition, a chart is furnished for each exercise-showing by actual photographs the exact movements to make for every one of the "com WALTER CAMP Originator of the Famous "Daily Dozen" System mands"-which are given by a voice speaking on the record. So now you can make your phonograph keep you fit. With these records and charts a man or woman can keep himself or herself fit with only a few minutes' exercise a day-and it is so much fun that some of the "Daily Dozen" fans go through the whole twelve exercises to the spirited music twice every morning-just as a matter of sheer enjoyment. Mr. Camp says that the place where we must look after ourselves is in the body or the trunk muscles. This is so because we are all in reality "caged animals." When a man stops hunting and fishing for food and earns it sitting at a desk he becomes a captive animal-just as much as a lion or a tiger in the Zoo and his trunk muscles deteriorate because they cease to be used. Then comes constipation and other troubles which savage men never have. The remedy is to imitate the "exercises" of caged animals. They know how to keep themselves fitand they do it too. How? Simply by constantly stretching and turning and twisting the trunk or body muscles! When Mr. Camp discovered that men and women can imitate the caged animal with enormous profit to their health, he devised the "Daily Dozen to provide this indispensable exercise-the only exercise people really need to keep in proper condition. Many people have written to the Health Builders telling them of the benefits they have received. Here is part of one letter: "We wish to express our satisfaction and delight with our set of records and exercises. Our entire family of eight, including the maid, are taking them. The children are fascinated with them and bring the neighbors' children to do them."-MRS. CHARLES C. HICKISCH, 828 Vine St., La Crosse, Wis. The Health Builders' improved system now includes the entire "Daily Dozen" exercises, set to specially selected music, on large 10-inch double disc phonograph records; twelve handsome charts, printed in two colors, with over 60 actual photographs illustrating each movement of each exercise; and a little book by Walter Camp explaining the new principles of his famous system. Any man or woman who exercises with this system regularly, even if it is only six or seven minutes a day, will feel better and have more endurance and "pep" than they have had since they were in their 'teensand they will find those few minutes the best fun of their day. Try the Complete System You cannot fully appreciate the real joy of doing the " Daily Dozen" to music until you try it. So we want to send you, absolutely free for five days, the "Daily Dozen" on phonograph records and charts illustrating the movements. These full-size, teninch, double-disc records playable on any disc machine contain the complete "Daily Dozen" Exercises, and the 60 actual photographs accompanying the records show clearly every movement that will put renewed vigor and glowing health into your body-with only ten minutes' fun a day. A beautiful record-album comes free with the set. No need to send any money. Simply mail the coupon below and get Walter Camp's "Daily Dozen" on phonograph records. Enjoy the records for five days, and if for any reason you are not satisfied, return them and you owe nothing. But if you decide to keep the records, you can pay for them at the easy rate of only $2.50 down and $2 a month for four months until the sum of $10.50 is paid. Thousands of people have paid $15 for the same system but you can now get it for only $10.50 if you act at once. Simply mail the coupon and see for yourself at our expense, the new, easy, pleasant way to keep fit. You'll feel better, look better, and have more endurance and "pep" than you ever had in yearsand you'll find it's fun to exercise to music! Don't put off getting this remarkable System that will add years to your life and make you happier by keeping you in glowing health. Mail the coupon today. Address Health Builders, Inc., Dept. 610, Garden City, N. Y. FIVE-DAY TRIAL COUPON HEALTH BUILDERS, Inc., Dept. 610, Garden City, N. Y. Please send me for five days' Free Trial at your expense the Complete Health Builder Series containing Walter Camp's entire "Daily Dozen" on five double-disc ten-inch records, the 60 actual photographs, and the beautiful recordalbum. If for any reason I am not satisfied with the system, I may return it to you and will owe you nothing. But if I decide to keep it, I will send you $2.50 in five days (as the first payment) and agree to pay $2 a month for four months until the total of $10.50 is paid. MY YEARS ON THE STAGE By JOHN DREW With a Prefatory Appreciation by BOOTH TARKINGTON Here the distinguished actor, just entering his fiftieth year on the American stage, paints vivid pictures of a brilliant career. His story of the rôles he played, the people he met, both on and off the stage, is rich in entertainment. Booth Tarkington writes in his Foreword: "John Drew has been a feature of American life ever since his youth-indeed he is one of its institutions. . . . We may be sure that we shall hear of many an old familiar figure besides himself, for John Drew has known 'pretty much everybody' of his generation." Price, $5.00, postage extra. A powerful story of the captain of a whaler in the South Seas; Red Pawl, his son, Ruth, the daughter and storm centre, Dan, the Mate, and the deck hand who precipitates the final tragedy. 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If, then, Dr. Emerson's rule be applied and all children rating as much as seven per cent below American averages are selected as requiring especial attention, it is obvious that such selection, besides including any that may be seriously undernourished, will also include all those who, if measured by standards appropriate to their racial structure, are entirely normal and aver age even some who stand a good one per cent above normal average. Since no Hawaiian measurements of school-children had been recorded previously to my tabulations, begun in 1916, and since measurements of Chinese and Japanese are not generally accessible, it will be of interest if you will publish the following table. The table is based on 4,336 weighings and measurings made at Kalihi-waena School, in Honolulu. The school enrollment has run between 600 and 1,000, the tabulations representing the ages of six to fourteen inclusive. Height is given in inches, weight is given in pounds read to nearest integer. 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