cursory view of TIME'S

I of events, the Generous points with pride to:

artful, eel-hipped dodger. (P.

golden key of the Capital in h case. (P. 1.)

Donahey, she's listened to banging since 1897. (P. 6.)

ongs of less burly males and es of highly agitated females. 3.)

Forts to make the patient feel he is not one of many. (P. 20.)

Keeping the Telephone Alive

Americans have learned to depend on the telephone, in fair weather or in foul, for the usual affairs of the day or for the dire emergency in the dead of night. Its continuous service is taken as a matter of course.

The marvel of it is that the millions of thread-like wires are kept alive and ready to vibrate at one's slightest breath. A few drops of water in a cable, a faulty connection in the wire maze of a switchboard, a violent sleet, rain or wind storm or the mere falling of a branch will often jeopardize the service.

Every channel for the speech currents must be kept electrically intact. The task is as endless as housekeeping. Inspection of apparatus, equipment and all parts of the plant is going on all the time. Wire chiefs at "test boards" locate trouble on the wires though miles away. Repairmen, the "trouble hunters," are at work constantly wherever they are needed in city streets, country roads or in the seldom-trodden trails of the wilderness.

Providing telephone service for this great nation is a huge undertaking. To keep this vast mechanism always electrically alive and dependable is the unending task of tens of thousands of skillful men and women in every state in the Union.

Uncle Freemantle Hopkins was a retired sea captain, with an anchor on the back of each hand and a lady circus performer tattooed on his left arm.

He had been almost shipwrecked in every quarter of the globe; he had fought pirates with and without earrings; he had met cannibals in their Sunday clothes, and monkeys in South Sea Islands had stunned him by dropping cocoanuts on his head.

Once there was a mutiny on Uncle Freemantle's ship, and when he got it quelled he had hardly a whisker left.

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A turbulent tale of chorus girls and stolen jewelry. (P. 15.)

Noisy, showy Tuchuns. (P. 12)

Are They Just Dolls To You?

ATHERINE THE GREAT, Genghis Khan, Muhammad, Charlotte Corday, Cromwell-are they spiritless ures of sawdust stored away in the attic of your mind? > you fully realize that the life-blood coursed gloriously ugh their veins? They lived recklessly: a bold word, an dicious kiss, and the flame was snuffed out. They loved rously: through their passions empires trembled - were or gained. Some dreamed impossibilities: their world ›ed doubted - accepted - and then defended their dreams. That was it that marked them for posterity, while their

brothers and sisters sank into oblivion? To outward appearances these men and women were ordinary mortals, helpless as leaves in a wind. They did not make themselves great. They were shaped by their time-swept along by the tremendous forces of circumstance-brought to the surface, to greatness, by destiny.

Wells recognizes them as the helpless human beings they were. He fits them in where they belong. They are bright splotches of color in his swift-moving, dramatic story of mankind. He has caught the spirit that makes for greatness. The souls of these great personalities leap into life in

H. G. WELLS'

"Outline of History"

A history that goes back 100,000,000 years-that traces man's rude beginnings 500,000 years ago
-that follows him down through the prehistoric ages
Athens of Pericles, the Egypt of Cleopatra, the Asia of Genghis Khan, the France of Napoleon, the
to the Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar, the
England of Gladstone, the America of today, through the Great War and on into the future United
States of the World-that gives ALL history as one story that is Wells'.

HE interesting thing about Wells'

"Outline of History" is that it gives you such a wonderful backbund for your daily news. It is one ntinuous story-the men of the Stone ge, the Egypt of the Pharaohs, the gions of Cæsar, the Middle Ages, Naleon's Grenadiers and the World War. Wells unifies the past. More-he veals that thread of human progress hich has forever bound man to man e world over and from one age to nother.

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