Book Reviews: Wilson Portrait and World Affairs
A. Maurice Low’s Woodrow Wilson interpretation draws praise for insight into Wilson’s mind and policy, while other timely works cover Vienna diplomacy, wartime aphorisms, and peace prospects. Notable titles include A Peace Congress of Intrigue, World War Issues and Ideals, Democracy and World Relations, America Save the Near East, and Understanding South America.
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Woodrow Wilson
Little, Brown
A. Maurice Low
Congress
Wilson
Europe
Mr. Low
Mr. Wilson
Frederick Freksa
Harry Hansen
Vienna
Versailles
Bernstorff
Count de la Grade
Baron von Nostitz
Lulu Thurheim
von Humboldt
John of
Austria
Talleyrand
Baron von Stein
Paris
David Starr Jordan
World Book Company
Jordan
Books Reviewed Show Travel, North to South America
A review praises a travelogue on Latin America’s peoples, cities, and trade while noting Verrill’s enthusiasm can oversimplify. It also highlights Four Years in the White North recounting Crocker Land fantasies and the Twenty Five Years in the Black Belt detailing Tuskegee founder efforts and a growing Normal Institute.
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Dutton
A. Hyatt Verrill
Verrill
South America
White North
Harper
Donald B. MacMillan
Crocker Land
Peary
Far North
Black Belt
Cornhill
William J. Edwards
South
Tuskegee
Snow Hill
Editor to pay for best Sewing Circle contributions
The editor of the Sewing Circle offers five dollars weekly for the editor’s chosen best contributions. Women readers may send new problems or comments, sign with a pen name if desired, and the writer of the week’s best letter will be announced on the editorial page each Sunday.
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Germany
Public Letters On Women Fashion And Work
Readers discuss modesty across eras noting hoopskirts long trains and today s shorter skirts as changes in custom. Others argue men and women differ less in style impact and urge practical aid for widows and war veterans while favoring German language teaching and postwar charity.
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England
Germany
Joan D'Arc
Recipes from New England Housewives Featured in Sunday Post
Readable excerpts from SUNDAY POST by S W Dennison present a collection of old fashioned dishes. It includes squash and tapioca desserts plus baked apples with sugar and lemon juice and a corn meal porridge variation. Also shown are steamed carrot pudding and stewed green sweet peppers to accompany meat dishes.
Cadum Ointment Advertisement Promises Soothing Sleep
An advertisement touts Cadum Ointment as a remedy for skin troubles. It claims rapid relief from irritation and inflammation, easing agony and promoting peaceful sleep. It also lists uses for eczema pimples blotches chafings piles rash and other skin afflictions.
Etiquette Answers on Cake Cutting and Processions
A bride cuts the cake and shares the first slice with her chief attendant then with other attendants the best man and ushers. At a formal dinner the hostess husband leads the way with the principal lady guest and she ends the line. Applause should not be by rapping a cane. such stamping is for circuses or ball games.
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Mary Lovering
Madge Crane
Mary
John Dinsmore
Cupid
John
Miss Lovering
Songs of Sunshine by the Bentztown Bard
A 1919 verse, crediting the Bentztown Bard from Southern Press Syndicate, reflects on saving old papers and tokens, noting that memories of hatreds and scars fade, while trifles and sentiments decay into rubbish and vanity.
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Bentztown Bard
Southern Press Syndicate
Newark Cruiser to Join Hospital Service in New York
Naval authorities announce the cruiser Newark now at Newport Rhode Island will be sent to New York to continue hospital service there. The ship arrived here during the war for use as a hospital ship in connection with the Naval Hospital.
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Newport
R. I
Newark
Naval Hospital
New York
Love and Deception in a City Firm
Mary Lovering, a modest stenographer at N- and D-, Inc., falls for John Dinsmore. After a secret engagement, a mistaken call from John’s wife reveals the truth. Mary resigns briefly before reconciliation and a double-dating dinner with John, his wife, and cousins.
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Mary
John
Mra
John Dinsmore
Ohio
Chaperon Cecelia Plans Palm Beach Trip
Cecelia asks to visit and proposes joining a winter trip south to Palm Beach. The narrator teases the idea, noting Cecelia’s charm and a fashionable black and rose taffeta hat she wears, while considering the plan.
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Cecelia
Palm Beach
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