School Information FREE Catalogs of ail Boarding Schools (or camps) in U. S. Expert advice free. Want for girls or boys? Maintained for all schools. AMERICAN SCHOOLS' ASSOCIATION 1012 Times Building, New York. or 1515 Masonic Temple, Chicago Training for Authorship How to write, what to write, and where to sell. There is no other institution or agency doing so much We publish The Writer's Library. We also publish The 150-page illustrated catalogue free Please address By the Way (Continued) Cut." Another reads "Golf Ball Kills Seagull." Some German papers object strongly to the reported marriages between American soldiers and German girls in the occupied zone. One such paper says: "You, German people, are to become a mixed people, made up of the interbreedings of the whole world menagerie of the enemy bearers of culture! There is no form of contempt strong enough to make these defilers of their own race realize their moral depravity." Another German paper effectively answers this tirade thus: "Very well! But do you know who must take first place among these shameless ones? That large number of German princesses who have married foreign princes! And why only the women? How about Kaiser Friedrich, who married an English princess? The Hohenzollerns, then, also belong to the 'defilers of their own race"!" Bits of talk overheard on the subway: "I says to the Chairman, says I, We want a forty-hour week and no night work. Why, the men on the night gangs sometimes find a new member of the family arrives and they never have a chance to get acquainted with him."" "You want to get paid for it? Why, you might get into jail and be put to making little ones out of big ones and you'd get no pay for that." [A cryptic reference, apparently, to breaking stone.] "Eight hours for a working day! That means a job for another man, as well as less work for you." The Rockefeller Foundation Review for 1918 introduces a novelty in a serious medical report. It prints several amusing pictures by French artists, who drew them for the Foundation's Tuberculosis Commission. One shows a child, with fingers smeared with jam, saying remorsefully, "Oh! I forgot! it is forbidden to put one's fingers in one's mouth!" Another shows three babies in a cradle, one saying, "Listen, Nini! Throw your doll out! It is unhealthy to have a place overpopulated!" A third pictures a little girl taking her dolls into her bathtub and saying, "They say everybody must have a bath, and I forgot my dolls!" The Rockefeller Foundation is, among "Green its many activities, building a City" in Peking for a medical college. Shown in His Own Letters This name has been given by the Chinese themselves to the extensive group of buildings, from the glazed green tiles used on the roofs. The Board is sensibly following the Chinese style of architecture, particularly in the roofs and cornices; but the building operations are conducted on the American plan. "The turning out of uniform sash, doors, window frames, etc., was a new idea to a people accustomed to hand-work whose nearest synonym for identical is not so very different,' says the Review. 5 99 Exaggeration is said to be a salient quality of "Yankee humor," but the following dialogue is from an English comic journal: First Dentist: "The fact is, I've got gentleness down to such a fine point that all my patients go to sleep while I'm pulling their teeth." Second Dentist: "That's nothing! Mine are beginning to have their photographs taken while I operate, because they always have such pleasant expressions on their faces." Perhaps, however, the English editor scissored this from a Yankee humorist without credit. This most important magazine SEPTEMBER Don't Miss it. Mail this Coupon Now SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, 597 Fifth Ave., New York City Gentlemen: I enclose $4.00. Send SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE for twelve months, beginning with the..... issue, to Name.. Address MASSACHUSETTS Teachers and Covernesses WANTED-Competent teachers for public In the Heart of the Berkshires and private schools. Calls coming every day. Send for circulars. Albany Teachers' Agency, Albany, N. Y. Beside a well-stocked trout stream, charming bungalow, 6 rooms and bath. Eight miles from Lee. Alice Carson Howe, Tyringham, Mass. NEW YORK Gentleman's Farm Of 50 Acres RAMAPO HILLS, N. Y. 30 miles out from New York City, 50 minutes express service. 10 acres tillable land; 10 acres producing orchard, apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries. 30 acres woodland. Asparagus. gooseberries, currants, blackberries, raspberries; 60 foot grape arbor-10 varieties. Artistic and most livable small brown shingled house with very large rooms. Large sun-room, sleeping-porch, open fire. Best water and plumbing. Well-shaded grounds; old-fashioned garden; tennis court; good barns; garage for 3 cars, rooms overhead for help. Chicken house with run; workshop; farm tools included in sale. $20,000. 3,958, Outlook. FOR SALE 14-room house at Nyack, N. Y. Corner plot, 105x165. Gas, electricity, open plumbing, hot-water heat, garage, Howers, fruit, vegetables. $6,000. Inquire P. W. BABCOCK, 11 Broadway, New York. TO RENT, FURNISHED 6-roomed house in Scarsdale, N. Y. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, sleeping porch. Hot water furnace, electric lights; 10 minutes' walk from railroad station, 200 feet from trolley. References. M. M. W., Scarsdale, N. Y. Sanford Hall, est. 1841 October to May inclusive, possibly longer. Private Hospital For Mental and Nervous Diseases Comfortable, homelike surroundings; modern methods of treatment; competent nurses. 15 acres of lawn, park, flower and vegetable gardens. Food the best. Write for booklet. Sanford Hall Flushing New York Autumn in the EYRIE INN Highlands Tompkins Cove, N. Y. the Hudson H. QUAIFE. 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) Apartments of LONDON-Charming Flat in best part of Westminster. 2 reception, 3 bedrooms (one double), bathroom, kitchen, etc. Gas fires. Telephone Victoria 7344. Entrance floor. Ten guineas per week. Mrs. Neal Hayes, 3 Ashley Gardens, London, S. W. N Country Board urse's Private Home accommodates few incurables, paralytic or slightly snb-normal cases. Constant attendance, home comforts. 65 Halsted St., East Orange, N. J. COUNTRY BOARD During Septem ber and October Colonial home on hilltop. Delightful view of country and Lake Ontario. Electric lights, bathroom, excellent table. On State road, three miles from Oswego. Miss ALICE E. PERRY, Fruit Valley R. F. D., Oswego, N. Y. WANTED-In Hartford, Conn. One person as permanent paying guest in quiet private home. $15 terms. 905. Outlook. Real Estate ARIZONA Money-making farms. 17 States. $10 to $100 acre. Stock, tools, crops often included to settle quickly. Write for big illustrated catalogue. E. A. Strout Farm Agency, 2026 B. M., Sun Bldg., New York. BOARD AND ROOMS REFINED family of three desires by October 1 five or more unfurnished housekeeping rooms in nice home within 45 minutes from New York. References. 7,332, Outlook. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES : WANTED-A party to buy a half interest in a blueberry tract in Washington County, Maine. $6,000 required. Good interest on investment. Best of references given and references required. Inquire of Hillard C. Schoppe, 41 Fifth St., Bangor, Maine. 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 MARMALADE. Looks and tastes like orange, but much cheaper. Recipe for ten cents. Box 556, Albany, N. Y. HELP WANTED Business Situations WANTED-Young, educated, unmarried woman, not nurse or matron, to help entertain and do shopping for women patients at small private hospital for mild mental and nervous affections. Wages $40 monthly and maintenance. State age, education, and give references. Address George H. Torney, M.D., 300 South St., Brookline, Mass. Companions and Domestic Helpers DIETITIANS, cafeteria managers, governesses, matrons, housekeepers. Miss Richards, Box 5, East Side Station, Providence, R. I. WANTED-Young woman (Protestant) as attendant for little girls in boarding school. Sewing required. References. Address Box 305, Brattleboro, Vt. YOUNG or middle-aged woman for care of two children. Must have reference and must be good needlewoman. State 'salary. 7,283, Outlook. WANTED-Couple, active, industrious, intelligent, to run small particular inn located in desirable Vermont village. Woman dainty manent home. Only A1 people considered. 7,301, Outlook. Brooks Mansion For Rent for the Winter Months cook, man good gardener and helper. Per WANTED-Mother's helper. A young woman, good education, pleasant personality, experienced in care of child eighteen months. References exchanged. Address by letter, 24 Gramercy Park, New York City, Mrs. Robert Brooke. WANTED, for six months, assistant, children's home. Miss Fry, Prospect St., Summit, N. J. CLERGYMAN'S FAMILY. Lady to accept invitation share household duties several weeks. Eastern Shore, Maryland. Auto, motor launch. References. 7,313, 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. MOTHER'S helper or nursery governess for three small boys. Write Mrs. H. Dunn, Great Barrington, Mass. 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. LONELY person, fond of housekeeping, can have pleasant home with teacher in return for care of first floor, including cooking. A. M. Grahame, 7001 Cresheim Road, Philadelphia, Pa. WANTED, August 24, governess for child four years old. American, Protestant. One who can speak French preferred. Permanent position if satisfactory. 7,179, Outlook. HOPKINS' Educational Agency, 507 Fifth Ave. Governesses, nurses, housekeepers, ma trons, dietitians, housemothers, practical nurses, secretaries, companions. All highclass positions. Call. EXPERIENCED governess, English or American, for two girls, 11 and 8 years, about September 10. Elementary music required. New York City after October 1. Permanent position. 7,312, Outlook. WANTED-Experienced teacher for four children, ages 10 to 14. Winter months spent in South Carolina. One who can speak French preferred. 7,333, Outlook. SITUATIONS WANTED Professional Situations GRADUATE nurse, experienced institutional work, desires position superintendent nurses' tuberculosis sanatorium, an estate, semi-invalid, or managing housekeeper. Would travel. 7,331, Outlook. Business Situations SECRETARY for minister, professional man, or school. Correspondence, with or without dictation. Methodical, efficient, executive ability. Business experience. $22. 7,307, Outlook. EXPERIENCED secretary and bookkeeper desires position in school or institution. 7,323, Outlook. 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 excep tional executive ability and economical manager, desires high-class position, institutional, commercial, or private. 7,304, Outlook. WANTED, by expert mender and darner, care of linen in hospital or school. Will also do some office work for reasonable salary and maintenance. 7,816, Outlook. CULTURED young woman desires position as companion or teacher. Experienced. English, music. Good personality. References. 7,314, Outlook. HOUSEKEEPER or companion. Position wanted by woman of experience, scientifically trained. Willing to travel. Exceptional references. 7,310, Outlook. A Detroit, Mich., lady, experienced traveler, would like to chaperon one or two young ladies on an Oriental tour with a relia ble travel company leaving America in Octo ber. Excellent references. Compensationtravel expenses. 7,311, Outlook. POSITION of companion. Best references. 7,318, Outlook. A couple desire position. First-class Danish lady's maid, 30, very fine seamstress, embroiderer, etc. Chauffeur, 35, thorough, very careful, repairs, polite, etc. Exceptional reference. Go anywhere. 7,321, Outlook. MANAGING housekeeper for widower. Conscientious, careful expenditure. Intelligent, reliable. 7,322, Outlook. WOMAN of refinement would like position as managing housekeeper or chaperon for young girl. 7,328, Outlook. POSITION as managing housekeeper or companion in refined home where mother's care is needed in New York City. Best reference. E. A. S., 866 Ostrom Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. HOUSE-MOTHER. Thoroughly competent Christian lady, resourceful, kind, well educated, reared in home of unusual charin, would serve in first-class boarding school, or COMPANION-nurse wealthy lady (not helpless) desiring excellent care, supervision. 7,330, Outlook. HOUSEMOTHER, exclusive credentials, disengaged September 10. 7,337, Outlook, WOMAN with home economics training and with teaching and supervising experience desires position of responsibility other than teaching. 7,334, Outlook. Teachers and Covernesses FRENCH woman, Ph.D., long experience in best colleges of U. S. and France, would assume whole responsibility of children's education and home. Adequate salary expected. 7,269, Outlook. COMPANION governess, efficient in management of children, educated young woman. 7,329, Outlook. SPECIALIST in training of backward chil dren and correction of speech defects, with Master's degree in psychology, desires pri vate pupils in or near New York. 7,336, Outlook. 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-EDUCATIONAL opportunity for bright 22 year old wounded, gassed war veteran. What more fitting memorial to the boy who didn't" come back" than giving this boy his chance? References. 7,326, Outlook. WANTED-Defective persons to board. Address W., Pawling, N. Y. WOMAN of refinement and intelligence would give loving care to child, taking it to her cottage in Florida for winter. Terms reasonable. 7,335, Outlook. I How One Evening's Study A Simple Method of Mind Training That Any One By a Man Who Made Formerly No More Than a Decent Living HOPE you won't think I'm conceited or egotistical in trying to tell others how I suddenly changed from a comparative failure to what my friends term a phenomenal success. In reality I do not take the credit to myself at all. It was all so simple that I believe any man can accomplish practically the same thing if he learns the secret, which he can do in a single evening. In fact I know others who have done much better than I by following the same method. It all came about in a rather odd manner. I had been worrying along in about the same way as the average man, thinking that I was doing my bit for the family by providing them with three square meals a day, when an old chum of mine, Frank Powers, whom I had always thought was about the same kind of a chap as I, suddenly blossomed out with every evidence of great prosperity. He moved into a fine new house, bought a good car and began living in the style of a man of ample means. Naturally the first thing I did when I noticed these things-for he had said nothing to me about his udden good fortune-v o congratulate him and ask him what had brought the evident change in his finances. "Bill," he said, "it's all come so quickly I can hardly account for it myself. But the thing that has made such difference in my life, lately began with an article I read a short time ago about training the mind. "It compared the average person's mind to a leaky pail, losing its contents as it went along, which if carried any distance would arrive at its destination practically empty. "And it showed that instead of making the pail leak-proof most of us kept filling it up and then losing all we put into it before we ever reached the place where the contents would be of real people in the United States whom Mr. Roth has met at different times -most of them only once -whom he can instantly name on sight. names. Mr. Roth can and has hundreds of times at dinners and lectures asked fifty or sixty men he has never met to tell him their businesses and telephone numbers and then after turning his back while they changed seats, has picked each one ont by name, told him his telephone number and business connection. These are only a few of the scores of equally "impossible" things that Mr. Roth can do, and yet a few years ago he couldn't remember a man's name twenty seconds. Why go around with a mind like a use. "The leak in the pail, the writer demonstrated, was forgetfulness. He showed that when memory fails, experience, the thing we all value most whatever progress a "Farther on in the mistake and forget about it, we are apt to "Well, I was convinced. My mind was a Powers' story set me thinking. What kind of a memory did I have? It was much the same as that of other people I supposed. I had never worried about my memory one way or another, but it had always seemed to me that I remem bered important things pretty well. Certainly it never occurred to me that it was possible or even desirable to improve it, as I assumed that a good memory was a sort of natural gift. Like most of us, when I wanted to remember something particularly I wrote it down on a memorandum pad or in a pocket notebook. Even then I would sometimes forget to look at my reminder. I had been embarrassed-as who has not been?-by being obliged to ask some man whom I had previously met what his name was, after vainly groping through my mind for it, so as to be able to introduce him to others. And I had had my name requested apologetically for the same purpose, so that I knew I was no different than most men in that way. I began to observe myself more closely in my daily work. The frequency with which I had to refer to records or business papers concerning things that at some previous time had come under my particular notice amazed me. The men around me who were doing about the same work as myself were no different than I in this regard. And this thought gave new significance to the fact that I had been performing practically the same subordinate duties at exactly the same salary for some three years. I couldn't dodge the fact that my mind, as well as most other people's, literally limped along on crutches, because it could not retain names, faces, facts, and figures. Could I expect to progress if even a small proportion of the important things I learned from day to day slipped away from me? The only value of most of my hard-won experience was being canceled-obliterated-by my constantly forgetting things that my experience had taught me. The whole thing hit me pretty hard. I began to think about the subject from all angles as it affected our business. I realized that probably, hundreds of sales had been lost because the 37 profits. There are no greater words in the Engfish language descriptive of business inefficiency than the two little words "I forgot." Course I had reached my decision. On the recommendation of Powers. I got in touch at once with the Independent Corporation, which shortly before had published the David M. Roth Method of Memory Training. And then came the surprise of my life. In the very first lesson of the I found the key to a good memory. Within thirty minutes after I had opened the book the secret that I had been in need of all my life was mine. Mr. Roth has boiled down the principles perfecting the memory so that the method can almost be grasped at a glance. And the farther you follow the method the more accurate and reliable your memory becomes. Within an hour I found that I could easily memorize a list of 100 words and call them off backward and forward without a mistake. I was thunderstruck with the ease of it all. Instead of study the whole thing seemed like a fascinating game. I discovered that the art of remembering had been reduced by Mr. Roth to the simplest method imaginable-it required almost nothing but to read the lessons! Every one of those seven simple lessons gave me new powers of memory, and I enjoyed the course so much that I look back on it now as a distinct pleasure. The rest of my story is not an unusual one among American business men who have realized the value of a reliable trained memory. My income today is close to $30,000. It will reach that figure at the beginning of our next fiscal year. And two years ago I scarcely made what I now think of as a decent living. In my progress I have found my improved memory to be priceless. Every experience, every business decision, every important name and face is easily and definitely recorded in my mind, and each remembered experience was of immense value in my rapid strides from one post to another. Of course I can never be thankful enough that I mended that "leaky pail" and discovered the enormous possibilities of a really good memory. SEND NO MONEY Mr. Roth's fee for personal instruction to classes limited to fifty members is $1,000. But in order to secure nationwide distribution for the Roth Memory Course in a single season the publishers have put the price at only five dollars, a lower figure than any course of its kind has ever been sold before, and it contains the very same material in permanent form as is given in the personal $1,000 course. So confident is the Independent Corporation, the publishers of the Roth Memory Course, that once you have an opportunity to see in your own home how easy it is to double, yes triple the powers of your memory, and how easily you can acquire the secret of a good memory in one evening, that they are willing to send the Course on free examination. Don't send any money. Merely mail the coupon or write a letter and the complete course will be sent, all charges prepaid, at once. If you are not entirely satisfied send it. back any time within five days after you receive it and you will owe nothing. On the other hand, if you are as pleased as are the thousands of other men and women who have used the course, send only $5 in full payment. You take no risk and you have everything to gain, so mail the coupon now before this remarkable offer is withdrawn. FREE EXAMINATION COUPON salesman forgot some selling point that would Independent Corporation have closed the order. Many of our men whom Publishers of The Independent Weekly Dept. R229 119 West 40th St., New York Please send me the Roth Memory Course of seven lessons. I will either remail the Course to you within five days after its receipt or send you $5 in full payment of the Course. Name.. Address THE OUTLOOK. September 10, 1919. Volume 123, Number 2. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 381 Fourth Avenue, New York. N. Y. Subscription pric Outlook 56-19 THE GREAT NOVELS BY BLASCO IBÁÑEZ "GREATEST OF LIVING NOVELISTS" Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) Translated by CHARLOTTE B. JORDAN This powerful, richly colored novel of the Mediterranean is the first to appear in English of what Blasco Ibáñez has written since. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Translated by CHARLOTTE B. JORDAN The greatest novel the war has produced, to remain still unrivalled, tremendous in its scope and power. The Shadow of the Cathedral Translated by Mrs. W. A. 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By Arthur Constantine The Book Table: Devoted to Books and Their Makers.... 53 56 Weekly Outline Study of Current History 60 By J. Madison Gathany, A.M. Making Over the Army: A Reader's View 63 Financial Department.. 64 1 Autumn Street, Boston, Mass. Normal Training Prepares young women with high school Many requests for trained teachers. 33 Central Park West, New York City Union Theological Seminary Broadway at 120th Street The charter requires that "Equal privileges of admission and instruction, with all the advantages of the Institution, shall be allowed to Students of every denomination of Christians." Eighty-fourth year begins September 24, 1919. For Catalogue address The Dean of Students. NEW YORK St. John's Riverside Hospital Training School for Nurses YONKERS. NEW YORK Registered in New York State, offers a 3 years' course-a general training to refined, educated women. Require ments one year high school or its equivalent. Apply to the Directress of Nurses, Yonkers, New York. IS THERE AN EXPLANATION? At this time, when there was never a greater need for good feeling between the races, and when there was never so fine an opportunity to show the Negroes that their service in the world war is not to be overlooked nor forgotten, how has it happened that the United States was represented only by white men in the great Victory Parade in Paris on July 14? Is it not a fact that two hundred thousand Negroes were sent from this country to bear their share of hardships and sacrifices in France? Is it not a fact that several thousand Negroes gave their lives, and are not the lives of the Negroes of America to be counted in the sum total of America's share in bringing peace to the world? It is well to see the other man's point of view, and at this crisis it would be better for whites and Negroes if each race knew the other better. I will quote from a letter just received from a Negro Y. M. C. A. worker who has had an unusually wide experience with the Negro troops, both in the camps in the United States and in France. He represents thousands of his race (J. E. Blanton, of Penn School, St. Helena Island, South Carolina): 1-saw the great Victory Parade on July 14, and I want to tell you to stand in line and see some twenty-five thousand men, horses, and equipages go by is a wonderful experience. I was within twenty feet of General Pershing, Marshals Joffre, Foch, Pétain, and Sir Douglas Haig as they came down the Champs Elysées. We in America do not know how to yell! We need lessons, and had you been in the crowd of five million Frenchmen and one million other people on July 14 for six hours, as I was, you too would say that we really need lessons. England, France, Belgium, the United States, Serbia, Greece, Italy, China, Japan, Portugal, and one or two other nations had their representatives in line. England had Canadians, Australians, Scotch, Londoners, Indians, and Africans in line. France had Frenchmen, Sudanese, Senegalese, Madagascans, Moroccans, and every other race that fought under her flag in line. Every nation had all the races that fought in the war except the United States. Although there were over a thousand Negro troops here outside of Paris, the United States was represented only by white men. The French people were very much amazed and put out, for they have not forgotten that three regiments of American Negroes were decorated for bravery by the French Government. The French papers spoke of it, so I guess General Pershing felt as bad afterwards as I felt during the parade that they did not have at least one lot of fifty men with black faces in line under the Stars and Stripes. I had not long come from a place where I looked on the graves of several thousand colored men from America-and there were two hundred thousand of them over here. So you can see how we feel about it. Can we put ourselves in their places? Could we write a letter so restrained and with so little bitterness? Must the Negro race be ignored after the record made in this world war? Their country called for men, and they responded. The color of their skin was not questioned when they were asked to give their lives for the United States. Is it impossible to grant them a place in this country where loyal service as citizens is needed from all our resident races? Why were they ignored in the Victory Parade in Paris, July 14, when all other races seem to have had their place? ROSSA B. COOLEY, Nervous Americans By PAUL VON BOECKMANN For 25 years the leading authority in America on Psycho-physics We are the most "high strung" people on Earth. The average American is a bundle of nerves, ever ready to spring into action, mentally and physically. The restless energy of Americans is proverbial. We may well be proud of our alert, active and sensitive nerves, as it indicates the highest state of civilization, courage, ambition and force of character. The vast opportunities open to us in every field; our freedom of Government, which prevents no one from reaching the highest goal, economically, politically and socially, is the incentive that has led us to develop our nerves to super-keenness and alertness, for in the present day high tension life a dull and slow nerved person cannot succeed. Our high nerve tension has not been without its grave dangers and serious consequences. Neurologists agree that we are more subject to nervous disorders than any other nation. Our " Mile a Minute Life" is tearing our nerves to shreds and we are deteriorating into a nation of Neurasthenics (Nerve Exhaustion). Since the Nervous System generates the mysterious power we term Nerve Force, that controls and gives life and energy to every muscle, every vital organ, every drop of blood and bodily cell, nerve exhaustion necessarily must result in a long train of ailments and weaknesses. The noted British authority on the nerves, Alfred T. Schofield, says, "It is my belief that the greatest single factor in the maintenance of health is that the nerves should be in order." How often do we hear of people running from doctor to doctor, seeking relief from a mysterious "something-thematter" with them, though repeated examinations fail to indicate that any particular organ is weak or diseased. In nearly every case it is Nerve Exhaustion -Lack of Nerve Force. The symptoms of nerve exhaustion vary according to individual characteristics, but the development is usually as fol lows: FIRST STAGE: Lack of energy and endurance; that "tired feeling,' cially in the back and knees. espe SECOND STAGE: Nervousness; sleeplessness; irritability; decline in sex force; loss of hair; nervous indigestion; sour stomach; gas in bowels; constipation; irregular heart; poor memory; lack of mental endurance; dizziness; headaches; backaches; neuritis; rheumatism, and other pains. THIRD STAGE: Serious mental discholia; dangerous organic disturbances; turbances; fear; undue worry; melan suicidal tendencies, and, in extreme cases, insanity. If only a few of the symptoms mentioned apply to you, especially those indicating mental instability, you may be sure your nerves are at fault-that you have exhausted your Nerve Force. 'Nerve Force is the most precious gift of Nature. It means everything-your happiness, your health, your success in life. You should know all there is to learn about your nerves; how to relax, calm and soothe your nerves, so that after a severe nerve strain you can rebuild your lost Nerve Force, and keep yourself physically and mentally fit. I have written a 64-page book which is pronounced by students of the subject. to be the most valuable and practical work ever written on nerve culture. The title of the book is "Nerve Force." It teaches how to soothe, calm, and care for the nerves. The cost is only 25 cents (coin or stamps). Bound in elegant cloth and gold cover, 50 cents. Address Paul von Boeckmann, Studio No. 331, 110 West 40th St., New York. The only way to judge the value of this book is to read it, which you may do at my risk. In other words, if after applying the advice given in this book it does not meet your fullest expectations, I shall return your money, plus the outlay of postage you may have incurred. I have advertised my various books on health, breathing and other subjects in this and other magazines for more than 20 years, which is ample evidence of my responsibility and integrity. Over a million copies have been sold. You should send for this book today. The following are extracts from people who have read the book and were greatly benefited by the teachings set forth therein. It is for you, whether you have had trouble with your nerves or not. Your nerves are the most precious possession you have. Through them you experience all that makes life worth living; for to be dull nerved, means to be dull brained, insensible to the higher phases of lifelove, moral courage, ambition and temperament. The finer your brain is, the finer and more delicate is your nervous system, and the more imperative it is that you care for your nerves. The book is especially important to those who have "high strung nerves, and those who must tax their nerves to the limit. "I have gained 12 pounds since reading your book, and I feel so energetic. I had about given up hope of ever finding the cause of my low weight." "Your book did more for me for indigestion than two courses in dieting." 64 My heart is now regular again and my nerves are fine. I thought I had heart trouble, but it was simply a case of abused nerves. I have reread your book at least ten times." A woman writes: "Your book has helped my nerves wonderfully. I am sleeping so well, and in the morning I feel so rested. "The advice given in your book on relaxation and calming of nerves has cleared my brain. Before I was half dizzy all the time." A physician says: "Your book shows you have a scientific and profound knowledge of the nerves and nervous people. I am recommending your book to my patients." A prominent lawyer in Ansonia, Conn., says: "Your book saved me from a nervous collapse. such as I had three years ago. I now sleep soundly and am gaining weight. 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