The garment business in New York City is of such magnitude that a daily paper, the "Daily Garment News," bas been started to advance its interests. Its price is two cents, and it is full of trade news. An interesting article in one issue discusses the question whether Paris is again to be the arbiter of fashions. Mr. Frederick Bode, "President of the Millinery Chamber of Commerce," is quoted: "We are not dependent upon Paris styles. While Paris excels in certain styles, we excel in others. Hats, as hats go, are better made in this country than any other." Another importer holds a contrary view: "As evidence of how absolutely necessary to our fashions are the ideas of Paris, one has only to look back over the period of the war. During those years American fashions slumped disgracefully. Every nation of Europe looks to Paris for guid ance in style."

An example of the humorous element in the "Daily Garment News" is found in the following despatch from Atlantic City:

This place was taken by storm yesterday when two "bathing widows" in regulation black crepe veils, which flowed backward from their tight-fitting caps, appeared on the beach. The suits of dull material were abbreviated enough to show that the widows " were of the proverbial merry type. Did they bathe? What a foolish question!

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France's soldiers and politicians have of course overshadowed her litterateurs of late years, but perhaps now the latter will be coming to the fore. The thought is suggested by a chance reading of Alphonse Karr's witticism, "The politicians and the litterateurs will increase indefinitely in numbers, because they are men following the only two trades that any one ventures to adopt without having learned them."

The humor of the Scandinavian countries is unfamiliar to most Americans. Here are some examples of that humor taken from recent issues of Scandinavian papers:

Lars Stranna and Elias Vasbotn were caught on a fiord by a storm. It dark grew and the boat was dangerously tossed about by the elements. Finally Lars said, "Kneel on the tiller and say the 'Our Father' for both of us, Elias." Elias complied, but had not got more than halfway through when Lars cried out, "Stop! Stop! That's enough! We don't need any more! I can see land!"

Corporal (to dull-witted recruit): "Have you a brother?" Recruit: "Yes." Corporal: "Is he as silly as you?" Recruit: Yes." Corporal: "What is he?" Reeruit: "A corporal."

It was in the Spanish 'flu period and old Oppigar lay at death's door. The priest came and told him he must forgive his enemies. Oppigar promised to do so with the single exception of Peter Svingen, against whom he had a very special grudge. But the priest insisted that even Peter must also be forgiven. "All right, then," said Oppigar, "I will forgive Peter also-but if I get well I'll have it out with the old scoundrel!"

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"Tell the doctor to come at once! A mouse has run down my sister's throat!" "Well, why do you want the doctor? Can't you send the cat after it?"

A correspondent of an English paper recently indulged in this bull: "Lest a whisper of the hidden hand be heard-." Was it an English clergyman who said to

A subscriber writes: "Your note in By the Way of August 6 about a centenarian brings to mind my neighbor. She was born in May, 1817, and is therefore 102 years 3 months old. Two years ago she recited to me a poem, printed in The Outlook ten years previously, on The Death of Lincoln,' which she had committed to memory when she was 90 years old and recited when she was 100. She is in possession of all her faculties, but cannot read much now, so occupies much of her time in playing solitaire or seeing her friends."

An English weekly contains this example of an ambiguous sentence: "From Llandindrod you proceed along the lovely valley of the Ithon, growing more beautiful as you proceed."

The "Journal of the American Medical
Association" prints in its humorous column
this grind on the medical profession :
"... Doctors of these modern days
Are trained and skilled in diff'rent ways;
Each knows the illness of some part;
One knows the nose, one hears the heart;
One using an ophthalmoscope

With naught but optics tries to cope;
Jones feels the arms, Briggs pulls the legs,
While Brown taps chests that sound like kegs.
The patient anxiously must bleat:

'Say, Doc, which nostril do you treat ?" "

A correspondent of the Topeka "Capital" tells "how hot it is in Kansas," as follows: "With the sun making the air almost as hot as an oven a young blackbird spied a crock of water setting in the sun, and, making a dart for it, plunged in. The bird gave a sharp squawk of pain as it touched the water, then turned a couple of flips in the air, and beating it like the wind for the shade of a tree, shook itself vigorously, dislodging a handful of feathers. Mr. Boyle found the water so hot he could not bear his hand in it."

The cafeteria system, according to "Popular Mechanics," is being applied to young pigs in the Corn Belt section. These pig cafeterias," it says, are based on the discovery that small pigs are competent to select the menu best suited for them; they "consist of little houses with feed hoppers supplied with corn, meat, meal, wheat byproducts, salt, and other delicacies. A bar fence keeps the big pigs out of the cafeteria."

Culver City, California, now claims the largest motion-picture studio in the world. It cost a million dollars, has two complete theaters and six huge production stages, single scene of Geraldine Farrar's new and covers forty acres of ground. In a play, "The World and its Woman," produced in this studio, 2,800 people appeared before the camera.

The recipes that are given on the woman's page of the daily papers are often wonderful concoctions; with the aid of the linotype artist they are sometimes positively funny. Here is one that has apparently been "cooked up" in the Mergenthaler melting-pot. It is printed in the New York "Evening Telegram :"

To a cup of stewed, strained tomatoes add one-half teaspoonful of sale, one teaspoonful of sugar, grated lemon skin, the juice of half a lemon and a tablespoonful of olive oil. Cook this till well mixed and serve hot. add oneshrdlu uetaoin un un un ununun

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CONNECTICUT Interlaken Inn, Lakeville, Conn. two lakes; fishing, boating, bathing, tennis and golf. Excellent table. Automobile parties.

A quiet, cozy little house by the sea PRIVATE BATHS. Descriptive booklet.

NEW JERSEY

THE PALMER At LAKEWOOD

among-the-Pines of New Jersey. Miss T. T. DOLBEY. Also CASTLE INN, Delaware Water Gap, Pa., in the Pocono Mts. of Penna.

NEW YORK CITY

HOTEL JUDSON 53 Washing

ton Square adjoining Judson Memorial Church. Rooms with and without bath. Rates $2.50 per day, including meals. Special rates for two weeks or more. Location very central. Convenient to all elevated and street car lines. NEW YORK

ADIRONDACKS INTERBROOK LODGE and COTTAGES Keene Valley, N. Y.

On direct trail to Mt. Marcy, very heart of Mts. Illustrated booklet giving description of Keene Valley and the Lodge sent on request. $15 and $18 a week. M. E. LUCK.

WYOMING

BOARD AND ROOMS WANTED-Permanent suburban home within hour New York. Simple comfort in refined adult family. 1-2 rooms, bath, board or near by. Elderly (active) lady, girl 5. 7,363, Outlook.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

THE writer is absolute owner of large farming estate in northeastern Wisconsin, in district notable for the canning of peas, string beans, beets, and corn. Unusual natural and shipping facilities. Choice of two factory sites. Mostly fox fine sandy loam. Charted and mapped by State experts. Would like to interest Eastern capitalists in the establishment of a canning plant. 7,308, Outlook.

FOR THE HOME Looks and tastes like MARMALADE. orange, but much cheaper. Recipe for ten cents. Box 556, Albany, N. Y. SECKEL pear sweet pickle in heavy syrup.

Ranch Home for Young Men Alma Hibbard, Gansevoort, N. Y.

to Spend Fall and Winter

Horseback riding and sunshine in Wyoming. WYMAN & SNS, Trapper Lodge, Shell, Wyo.

Health Resorts

THE WAYSIDE INN Crest View Sanatorium

New Milford, Litchfield Co., Conn. In the foothills of the Berkshires. Open all the year. An ideal place for your summer's rest. hours from New York. Write for booklet. Mrs. J. E. Castle, Proprietor. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

THE HAMILTON

14th and K Sts. N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.

A select family and transient hotel. Ideal location. Modern appointments and homelike. Good table. American plan. $3.50 up per day. Special rates by week or month. Booklet. IRVING T. BALL, Proprietor. MAINE

YORK CAMPS LOON LAKE,

MAINE

In famous Rangeley region in heart of mountains facing lake. Private log cabins with open fires and baths. Central diningroom. Golf within easy reach; garage. Boating, bathing, fishing, mountain climbing. grote tile from camp furnishes fresh vegetables, eggs, poultry, certified milk. Booklet. J. LEWIS YORK, Prop.

MASSACHUSETTS

Greenwich, Ct. First-class in all respects, home couforts. H. M. HITCHCOCK. M.D.

"INTERPINES"

Beautiful, quiet, restful and homelike. Over 26 years of successful work. Thorough, reliable, dependable and ethical. Every comfort and convenience. Accommodations of Disorder of the nervous syssuperior quality. tein a specialty. Fred. W. Seward, Sr., M.D., Fred. W. Seward. Jr., M.D.. Goshen, N. Y.

LINDEN The Ideal Place for Sick People to Get Well Doylestown, Pa. An institution devoted to the personal study and specialized treatment of the invalid. Massage, Electricity, Hydrotherapy. Apply for circular to ROBERT LIPPINCOTT WALTER, M.D. (late of The Walter Sanitarium)

Country Board

urse's Private Home accommo

Nuates e curables, paralytic or slightly

snb-normal cases. Constant attendance, home comforts. 65 Halsted St., East Orange, N. J.

HELP WANTED

Business Situations RAILWAY traffic inspector, $110 a month to start and expenses. Travel if desired. Unlimited advancement. No age limit. Three months' home study. Situation arranged. Prepare for permanent position. Write for booklet CM27 Standard Business Training Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.

Companions and Domestic Helpers DIETITIANS, cafeteria managers, governesses, matrons, housekeepers. Miss Richards, Box 5, East Side Station, Providence, R. I.

WANTED-Couple, active, industrious, intelligent, to run small particular inn located in desirable Vermont village. Woman dainty cook, man good gardener and helper. Permanent home. Only A1 people considered. 7,301, Outlook.

WANTED-Mother's helper, middle September. Refined, educated Protestant, aged 30-35, for two children ages 4 and 2 years. Excellent wages. Winter suburb Philadelphia or New York. Highest references essential. 7,319, Outlook.

WANTED-Competent woman for massage, hydrotherapeutic, and gymnastic work. Also dietitian to take charge of diet kitchen in hospital for nervous diseases. 7,324, Outlook. WANTED-A Christian woman as household manager and housekeeper for a small school for boys. Good salary and home. 7,356, Outlook.

WANTED- Capable, refined, Protestant young woman for mother's helper. Family of four; two children; modern home. Small, pleasant town. References desired. 7,362, Outlook.

WANTED-Working housekeeper, not over 45, for two persons in small New York apart

WANTED In Hartford, Conn. ment. 7,370, Outlook.

One person as permanent paying guest in quiet private home. $15 terms. 905, Outlook.

Real Estate

ARIZONA

For Rent for the Winter Months An Up-to-date Ideal Ranch for well people to have good time on. Fie climate and riding. W. R. LADD, Oracle, Ariz. FLORIDA

FOR RENT

With option to buy, two completely furnished cottages, modern improvements. 8 rooms, bath, $450 season; 4 rooms, bath, $175. Garage, dock, boat house, small grove. Facing Indian River. Secure now. Blair, Box 32, Cocoa, Fla.

Well-equipped stock farm, with groves of Pecans near bearing. Attractive price and terms. Particulars and photographs by Owner, Box 357, Tallahassee, Fla.

Tallahassee, Fla.

NEW JERSEY

FOR RENT Ready, with French

chef and French housekeeper maintained by owner, large tenbedroom home, either furnished or unfurnished, on private estate in Caldwell, New Jersey. Beautiful grounds. extensive view. References required with application. Apply Tenth Floor, 64 Wall St., New York City.

ock Ridge Hall, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Fine Highly Productive Farms, Salem

location. Large, breezy, screened piazza. Running water in bedrooms. Private baths. Eggs, berries,cream, chicken. Rates moderate.

County, New Jersey. Fruit, truck, potatoes, grain, poultry farms, known as the best in America. 20-acre stocked farm $5,500. 49acre $3,000. Frank Rothman, Vineland, N. J.

MOTHER'S helper or working housekeeper. Two children, small convenient house, fifteen minutes from New York. Write, stating age, references, and salary desired, 7,369, Outlook.

Teachers and Governesses WANTED-Competent teachers for public and private schools. Calls coming every day. Send for circulars. Albany Teachers' Agency,

Albany, N. Y.

FRENCH teacher and governess wanted for two girls 12 and 13 years of age. No physical care required. Good pay and good home for an experienced and refined teacher. Address with full particulars, references, and salary expected, W. E. Leffingwell, Watkins, N. Y.

WANTED, governess for child four years old. American, Protestant. One who can speak French preferred. Permanent position if satisfactory. 7,179, Outlook.

INQUIRIES already coming in for teachers in all subjects for 1919. International Musical and Educational Agency, Carnegie Hall, N. Y.

SITUATIONS WANTED

refined

SITUATIONS WANTED

Business Situations EXPERIENCED secretary and bookkeeper desires position in school or institution. 7,323, Outlook.

CHAUFFEUR- American, courteous, a private position. References. 7,374, Outlook. careful driver and good mechanic, wishes Companions and Domestic Helpers

AVAILABLE October 1 as traveling or home companion, lady, 28, of ability and personality; refined, adaptable, good reader and vocalist. Can drive automobile, typewrite, keep accounts, file, correct manuscripts. Understands management of house and garden. Minimum salary, $1,500. References exchanged. 7,298, Outlook.

DIETITIAN housekeeper, with exceptional executive ability and economical manager, desires high-class position, institutional, commercial, or private. 7,304, Outlook.

HOUSE-MOTHER. Thoroughly compe tent Christian lady, resourceful, kind, well educated, reared in home of unusual charm, would serve in first-class boarding school, or COMPANION-nurse wealthy lady (not helpless) desiring excellent care, supervision. 7,330, Outlook.

LADY of refinement with 14-year-old son desires position as matron, housemother, or housekeeper. 7,373, Outlook.

RE-ENGAGEMENT wanted by English lady of several years' experience as companion to girl of 18 or younger or as social secretary in resident position. Good musician. Knowledge of French. Excellent references. 7,361, Outlook.

CULTURED young woman as social secretary or companion during father's absence abroad. References exchanged. 7,359, Outlook.

POSITION wanted by experienced supervising housekeeper. Private family, small hotel or select sanatarium. Will travel. Firstclass recommendations. 7,358, Outlook.

SECRETARY- companion-housekeeper. Middle-aged, cultured, D. A. R., experienced management of household and children. Good traveler. References exchanged. Minimum salary $75 with full maintenance. 7,360, Outlook.

EDUCATED, experienced woman desires position as housemother in children's home or industrial school. Fond of children. Good disciplinarian. 7,352, Outlook.

REFINED, middle-aged American woman desires position as companion or assistant in a home. Cheerful disposition; good reader; accustomed to directing servants, keeping accounts. References exchanged. Mrs. F. L. Hinman, 350 Willow St., New Haven, Conn.

WANTED, near New York, by a graduate nurse, middle age, charge of invalid or eldersy person. References. 7,357, Outlook.

CULTURED young woman as companion. Will travel. References. 7,372, Outlook.

DOCTOR'S widow would like position as assistant or practical nurse in physician's office or as companion for lady going South for winter. 7,371, Outlook.

NURSE practical,, experienced, desires position. 7,340, Outlook.

LADY, at present manager of exclusive country club closing middle of September, would undertake similar position. Could bring staff. Or would undertake position in private house or management of bachelors' apartments. Salary $125 monthly. 7,346, Outlook.

PROTESTANT woman of forty-six, experienced as practical dietitian, managing housekeeper, and matron, wishes executive position in institution. Minimum salary $75 monthly. References. 7,349, Outlook.

WANTED, by a college woman, a position managing housekeeper. Experienced. 7,348, Outlook.

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Teachers and Governesses GENTLEWOMAN desires position as governess. French, German, English, kindergarten and trained nurse experience. Entire charge children 5 up. Country preferred. Best references. 7,368, Outlook.

FRENCH governess desires position. One or two children 6-9 years old. Excellent references. J. B., 7,355, Outlook.

GRADUATE of Savage School for Physical Training desires position as gymnasium teacher or assistant in private school, city or country. Please address Miss E. Litchfield, 46 Willow St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED-Young women to take nine months' course in nursing. Frances Parker Memorial Home, New Brunswick, N. J.

MISS Guthman, New York shopper, will send anything on approval. Services free. References required. 309 West 99th St.

WANTED-Defective persons to board. Address W., Pawling, N. Y.

M. W. Wightman & Co. Shopping Agency, established 1895. No charge; prompt delivery. 44 West 22d St., New York.

LITERARY material prepared for speakers, debaters, writers. Authors' Research Bureau, 500 Fifth Ave., New York.

REFINED widow will care for infant or small child in her country home, thirty miles from Cleveland, Ohio. $15 week. References. 7,353, Outlook.

LADY, former teacher, Florida seashore home, will care for and teach one or two children. Also experienced as practical nurse and dietitian. Magnificent beaches, outdoor life, happy home. 7,354, Outlook.

WOMAN novelist (in "Who's Who"), member of New York's best artistic circles, will share home with and socially chaperon congenial young woman. $85 week. Highest credentials required and given. 7,341, Outlook. INSTRUCTION by mail-over 100 courses. For "Free Tuition Plan" apply Carnegie College, Rogers, Ohio.

A clergyman's wife, graduate of the Boston Children's Hospital, will give scientific and loving care to infant or child in her beautiful New England country home. 7,364, Outlook.