"1 BY THE WAY nove employment for vaseline is vetermarian in "Rider and ut shoeing your horses! "VasApplied to the horse's heels and Cic coroney stimulates the growth of the vadis to useful to rub into the frog." COE to the East is one to which some con Eumers apparently lend an ear. The a York State Department of Agriculture reis that it receives from 1,000 to 1,500 letters Lys a from Western farmers making inquiries derie listen tarm lands, Purser Thomas Kinsey of the American liner Laud is said to hold the record as a seagoer. He has crossed the Atlantic 1,057 times; he was die British service as long ago as the Indian Mamy, and has during his life traveled about 100 nautical miles. A proletariat theater" is planned for LonThere is to be no seat costing more than alling Something of this kind may perluq » also be introduced in this country to enable the theaters to compete with the "movies," if the extraordinary popularity of this latter form of entertainment continues, The varying judgment of two most successful American business men as to investments is Trought out by the recent statement that the estate of Mr. D O. Mills included worthless Securities "the face value of which aggregated many millions:" while the estate of the late John S. Kennedy amounted to several millions more than was estimated owing to appreciation. of certain holdings since Mr. Kennedy's death It must be a busy barber who can afford to pay $10,000 a year rent for his shop. That is the sam which a prosperous hotel barber in New York City has, it is stated, agreed to pay for new quarters in the Vanderbilt Building, corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and Forty-second Street. The Washington State Wage Commission has established $10 a week as a minimum wage for women employed in mercantile establishThis is said to be the highest amount yet fixed by any State for women so engaged. ments. Samuel Muncy, one of the oldest twins in the world, recently died at the age of ninety-five. The brothers, Samuel and William, were born at Babylon, Long Isiand, on Christmas Day, 1818, and had lived there ever since. Until recently they had devoted part of every working day to some sort of labor. A Hindu mathematical genius, Ramanujan, has been sent by the Indian Government to develop his powers at Cambridge University, England. His examiner at the University says that "he has very little knowledge of modern mathematics, . . . yet he is an infinitely finer mathematician than many men who have become senior wranglers." The American Exchange National Bank of New York City has succeeded in retaining its employees for long periods of faithful service. At a dinner held recently to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its assistant cashier, Mr. A. K. De Guiscard, as an employee of the bank, six other officers of the institution were present who had served for periods ranging from twentyone to forty-nine years. All had begun at the bottom and worked their way upward. "Disraeli's definition of critics," says William Archer, the well-known English dramatic writer, "as the men who have failed in literature and art, is frequently true. But that doesn't make them any less competent as critics. The analytic faculty is different from the constructive. I tried my hand at playwriting, and, finding I was not likely to make myself distinguished at it, gave it up. . . . In spite of lack of success, however, I think the critic who has failed in the writing game is all the better for having tried." The need of efficient oversight of the expenditures of municipal departments is strikingly emphasized by the discovery that employees of the thirty departments housed in the vast Municipal Building in New York City have been mailing letters to one another just as if they were miles apart. Commissioner Kracke, who made this discovery, expects to save the city thousands of dollars by providing an interior mail system for the building. Contents of The Outlook VOLUME 107 Copyright, 1914, by the Outlook Company MAY 16, 1914 NUMBER 3 BLISHED WEEKLY BY THE OUTLOOK TRAVERS D. YORK. HOYT. COMPANY, 287 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW BY SUBSCRIPTION, $3,0) a year. Single copies 10 cents. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS. For countries in the Postal Union, single subscriptions $4.56. THE OUTLOOK COMPANY, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York Alberta Farm Mortgages a good investment for you They are high interest-earning and safe, secured by productive real estate. 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And also it was how the last moments of Miss Winnington were made glad, for the news of the gift, to which Jacob H. Schiff added five thousand dollars within the hour, reached her the day before she died. There were, indeed, friends willing to help, but not many of them were able to give so large sums, and a quarter of a million is a good deal of money to collect. That was the amount needed to build a hospital big enough to house those in immediate need of treatment, judging from the pressure upon the old one. Mr. Schiff had coupled his gift with the condition that there should be no delay; the hospital must be built at once. It soon became apparent that if the promise were to be kept unusual measures must be taken. The President of the United States was enlisted in the service of the children. Mr. Roosevelt consented at once when it was explained that he was to be used for advertising their needs. Mrs. Roosevelt asked to be included. They came in the Mayflower to Coney Island on a summer day to visit with the little ones, whose chums they instantly became. The President's voice was a little shaky and he wiped his glasses vigorously as he sat in the afternoon and told the reporters what they had seen and learned about Sea Breeze-a story that was printed in every newspaper in the land. Thousands heard then for the first time of our neglect of the unfortunates who in every large city constitute ninety-five per cent of the child cripples. They are the underfed, badly housed ones, into whose soft bones the germ of tuberculosis makes its way, causing hip disease, ankle-joint disease, decay of the spinal column, and like ailments, wasting and painful beyond belief. Then there is no help for them except in the sea air, right on the ocean shore. where they must stay day and night, summer and winter, until they are cured. Many years ago they found that out in Europe. What it is in the sea air that brings healing for this trouble they do not seem to know any more than we do; but they made sure of it and then they built hospitalsa whole string of them-on the English coast |