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THE MARRYERS. By Irving: Bacheller. .
author of "Keeping Up "With Lizzie,"
etc. New York: Harper & Bros.
twenty-five years and more j
now the humorist,- as well aa j ,
the moralist, has had the Chance !
JL of his life in the case of the
foreign market for American
lieiresses. Again and again the jest,
no less than the sermon, has fallen down
in its own ^acks from sheer overwork. !
And many a time, if not every time, some
clever quip has set it on its feet again
for another run. Irving Bacheller's ,
method of putting new life into the old
Btory is to turn the matter bodily over
into the capable hands of our old friend, <
?ocrates Potter, attorney-at-law of the
town of Pointview, Conn. Making no
attempt to avoid the issue. Socrates ,
^bears the golden girl with her family
straight to the center of the international
market-place, where Italian counts
land dukes swarm about her like bees
around a honey-pot But being a stanch
.American, it is not part of the plan of
SSor rates to make concessions to these
noble "marryers." Rather is he bent
upon circumventing them. So, for the
pake of practical contrasts, he induces
the occasional presence of a fine, upstanding
United States man. Socrates
in Rome is an unalloyed delight,
whether he is busy with sight-seeing and
society doings or is definitely engaged in
making dents in the matrimonial and
financial hopes of the noble aspirants
.that surround the girl.
Under this clever comcdv of breaking
%ip the matrimonial exchange of Europe
.and the United States there runs &
fresh and enjoyable story that Is supported
by a sturdy plot sustained by sterling
characters and most interesting action.
Socrates Potter is worth any
mans creation, and Mr. Bacheller is
sure not to go wrong so long as he permits
this droll compound of New England
wit and wisdom to manage the matters
f which he is the mere chronicler. J
<THF. ( H \\f.I\G ORDER) E?,r> OB
I'Overnment, Monopoly and Education,
Written during a Period of Readjustment.
By George W. Wickersham.
sometime Attorney General
of the United States. New York: G.
P. Putnam's Sons.
Written when the author was Attorney
<5eneral of the United States, these essays
stand as a clear and immediate summary
of the important problems of the
Taft administration. These problems
were vital and imperious ones, such as
wait upon the change of peoples and nations
from the old order to a new one.
It was at this time that the new conception
of the relation of government to industry
took on positive shape and resolved
itself into a program of definite
action. Great litigation between the government
and the trusts was carried on at
this time. Important decisions of the Supreme
Court were handed down In connection
with this, decisions that estab- ?
lis'ned sectirelv the suoremacv of law over
monopoly. Then. too. laws regulating
tho operations of common carriers in intestate
commerce were radically amended.
calling for Supreme Court construct
-n and exposition on more than one farreaohing
question. The admissions of
?w Mexico and Arizona to the Union
i:* this administration led to the exposure
o? pew views as to the character of state
V-' tntions in their relation to demo4
ti government. These are some of the
v.-? mestions with which the essays of
* olune have to do. Because of the
a? isc importance of these questions f
? ?oKtems. as well as by reason of the
and official standing of the author.
1 -dame has a direct usefulness whose i*
II value cannot be overestimated. tl
f>l r DISHONEST CONSTITUTION. By e:
Mian I.-. Benson, author of "The M
T nth about Socialism," etc. New
York: C. W. Huebsch. p
Mr. Benson is a picturesque writer, t
!H** handles facts as if they were con- c
crcte things?much as if they were c
bricks. The persons of his summoning c
tetand bodily before one. His imagery t
is varied and telling. His sentences are D
little hammers, tapping out. or more *
often pounding out. short, sharp blows ?
that ring with accusation and vituper- o
ation. Slang, and all the other ver- t
nacuiar means of carrying ideas straight 0
Across so that even the man who is on
the run may read, jingles in his mind
like a handful of nickels in one's "
pocket. Thus armed, Mr. Benson here 0
literally pitches into the Constitution of n
the United States and into those re- *
sponsible for it. The document itself. v
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ma mnaiij iiv? r,uuu. no iiia&cio were ail
rich men. conniving to work out a su- *
preine law of the land that should pro- ?
tect them and other rich men. The P
jyealth of the "fathers" is the first count ^
against them. And it turns out that
in other respects they were no better *
than they should have been-a bad lot,
the whole caboodle of them. Some were e
grafters." Some were "crooks." All n
of them were meager in mind, scant in
judgment and utterly naked in morals. ?
"With them the national sin of capital- m
ism began. By name and circumstance *
Mr. Benson points out these various t
malefactors. Washington was a tax I
dodger. Hamilton was a social aristo- *
crat. a political monarchist. "That we
still honor the name of Hamilton is
because to this day we know almost
nothing of Hamilton." Having laid low
the "fathers" and their supreme achieve- 1
ment. Mr. Benson modestly proceeds to
create the right sort of constitution to J
be used in case we are still so besotted
with tradition as to desire so useless
an instrument. Out of whole cloth he
produces a congress of his own. This
is a congress that is "worth while." It
is needless to say that it bears not the
faintest resemblance to the one with
which we have managed to scrub along
through a century and a quarter of
pretty wonderful growth and development.
Tn this hlt-or-miss diatribe the writer
pays his particular brand of respect
to one and another prominent figure in
both the past and the present. Among
those of the present he gives a lean
tribute to Mr. Henry Ford, a tribute
that would have plumped out like a
wa?**r-soaked oyster if only Mr. Ford
had turned the whole of his profits, instead
of an unrighteous and miserly
jnillion of them, over to his workmen,
under the pressure of the old half-truth
that these workmen were the sole
Creators of the wealth appropriated by
3Ir. Ford.
Mr. Benson is the pride of his political
school. What he says drives. The thing
that he does is called fearless. But it
takes no courage nowadays to revile existing
institutions. It is a very popular
thing to do. And Mr. Benson is out for
popularity. Some time, we hope, when
this hurly-burly of half-baked reform
has subsided, there will come the real
popular education of the people in the
great questions of Industrial efficiency,
of political wisdom and of the proper
relations of these to each other. But
when that desired day dawns Mr. Benson
and his class will have given over
the pedagogue's rod of castigation. will
have stepped down to make way for
those of wiser counsels.
ON OLD-WORLD HIGHWAYS. By
Thomas D. Murphy, author of "In
I nfamillar England with a Motor
ar." etc. Illustrated. Boston: L C.
Page & Co.
Yes. it !s true?as this writer says?in
half apology?that of the making of travel
books there appears to be no end. And
for this fact the stay-at-home, at least,
is glad and grateful. In particular Is he
glad when by means of a traveler so appreciative
and communicative as Mr. Murphy
proves himself to be he Is allowed
to go along?motorwise?through both
the hidden and open ways of France, and
Germany, and Britain. From Boulogne to
pBouen. and through the outlying chateau
country the car takes its independent
way. over into Bavaria, along the Rhine,
then back and over to England and Scotland?up
one side and down the other? :
gathering in many a spot about which
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the reader knows enough to wish to know
vastly more. Mr. Murphy is the kind of
good traveler who tells not only what he
sees, but he in the kind thnt ovnlroa aUn?
much of the past in which many of these
immemorial places of Europe lie steeped.
Splendid pictures?fine in choice and notably
good in production?go along with this
travel story, and maps help one to reconstruct
the journey for himself. A delightful
book for summer travel at home.
SHALLOW SOU,. By Knut Hamsun.
Translated from the Norwegian by
t'arl Christian Hyllested. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
Knut Hamsun is one of the great
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nters the government's immense pubshing
house.
The infinite detail of the government
rinting office?for that is the official
Itle of the publishing establishment?
omes afterward. It Is only after the
onfusion of first impressions has
leared away that the complexity of
he public printer's problems are aparent.
Perfect system, a knowledge
f arrangement so tflat the minimum
f time may be lost in transportaion.
and individual efficiency are some
f the requirements.
What publishing house, putting out
undreds of new editions In all sorts
f elaborate bindings, and running a
ewspaper on the side, would not feel
hat it was straining itself? That is
rhat the government's printery is dorig.
An insight into the immensity of
he work is gleaned from the figures
f the post office showinar -that
roximately 95 per cent of the total
reight of mail disposed of in Washrigtoi?
is mailed .under a government
rank.
Perhaps the rush work of the printry
is the most spectacular. Congress
iust have its Congressional Record
very morning as regularly as the
uburbanite must have his newspaper,
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THE LIBIA?
FUMIGATBD books, books that have 1
gone through the process of being |
starched, Ironed and mended, with '
heir stiffened old backs rubbed and masaged
into a semblance of the elasticity
f their youth and a fraction of the
trength of their prime are the kinds of
>ooks that occupy honored places on
he shelves of the Library of Congress
is a part of its many gift collections.
The books given to the library come
rom various quarters of the world, some
>f them, indeed, have been disinterred
rom the very bowels of the earth itself,
''or example, take the Schiff collection,
>r that part of it which was gathered
hrough the efforts of Ephriam Deinard
n the Holy L?and. an unusually fine colection
of Hebralca. rare parchments,
nanuscripts and religious works. Some
if them have been resurrected from
graves where centuries before they had
>een ceremoniously burled. Other works
n the collection rnmo von1*? I
lynogogues of Jerusalem and adjacent
ities, and their plight was such that in
lome cases heroic treatment was necesiary
to restore them to a condition where
hey could be handled.
First of all, such a collection must necessarily
be fumigated. Damp tombs and
misty walls leave their marks. When
i collection is being fumigated, the books
ire set on end in rows on shelves and
eft partly opened, so that the fumes
nay penetrate to the binding. After they
ire subjected to sulphurous odors for a
'ew days they 'are ready for a more
Intimate process of cleansing and repairing.
The enemies of books are time, dust,
stains, mildew, rough handling, finger
marks and bookworms. To put a manuscript
into condition for use by the pub- !
ic the marks of the enemy of the vollme
must -be obliterated, and sometimes
t is necessary to make a book over almost
in its entirety. An old tome can
never be said to be actually rejuvenated,
mat it can be washed, mended and rebound,
so that Its usefulness to the reader
is just as potent as in the days of
;ts youth.
The Library of Congress has a well
equipped bindery under the direction of
Arthur R. Kimball; but *the actual process
of laundering literature is the work
of private individuals and firms, rather
than of fastidious Uncle Samuel, who
refuses to conduct a laundry for any
paper commodity other than United
States currency.
When a book in a collection needs to
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realistic writers of Scandinavia, a novel-!
ist who rounds into drama the common
things, the big and revealing common
things, that pass before his searching and I
divining eyes. This story is a circum-1
stantial picture of the social life of
Christianla. By way of a little group of
friends?artists of one sort or another?;
the life of the city, in Its meanings and
implications as well as in its appearances.
is set out with vividness and vigor.
The atmosphere of this story is. to be
sure, local; an atmosphere of Norwegian
simplicity and austerity. But the human
element. In its nature and in its idiosyncrasies.
In its intertwined consistencies
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and there must be no errors in the
Record. When an error crops out in the
Record a member of Congress promptly
arises next day and has it changed. So,
as far as is possible, the government
printing office must prevent them. While
the mills of Congress grind, the government
printing office is going ahead with
a speed worthy of an eleven edition
newspaper plant.
Straight from the stenographers* rooms
in the Capitol, the "copy" of the proceedings,
typewritten on long sheets of
highly polished paper, are rushed to the
"Doesn't this eternal crashing throw
you off?" was asked of one of the
operators who was pausing for a drink
of water.
"Couldn't get along without it," he
replied. "If they stopped the noise it
would break up the nerves of half the
men in the place. You get used to
linotypes."
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After the first typing, proofs are
struck and sent to the room where
the editors sit in judgment. Now,
there is no Job like that of the
ordinary editor. They may not alter
the expressions of congressmen. They
must see that everything the congressman
said appears. And they must also
catch. every typographical error and
see that every word is correctly
spelled.
During the tariff debate words crept
into the Record the like of which had
never been heard of by the laity of
the nation. Strange names for various
metals were frequently found in
debate, long and complicated words
that puzzled the stenographers and reporters
alike. But they say that the
editors didn't miss one of them. Every
one of the men who corrects Congressional
Record proofs is a veritable
storehouse of knowledge, and he has at
his command the combined facilities
of a college professor, a lawyer, a
doctor and a master of current slang.
When columns of figures are brought
in uui 111(5 ucuaio *mu a certain result
is obtained, it is necessary that the
"ERATimE FOE
!Y OF CONGRESS
be laundered it is turned over to one of
these Arms or individuals who make a
business of such work, and the process
is more or less a secret one. The leaves
are removed from the binding: and each
is washed and treated separtely. Soap
and water are the prime elements used
in cleaning: books and manuscripts. The
finish to the paper upon which books
are printed is given an application of
"size." or, to use a more familiar term,
it is starched to make it stiff. Repeated
handling wears off the finish Just as the
wearing of a garment that is crisply
ironed causes it to become rumpled.
When the smooth surface is rubbed up
the paper gets soft and porous and absorbs
dirt and grease readily.
Ink stains are usually removed by hot
size or hot water with a little alum in
it; but the process is a delicate one and
frequently requires the application of
chemicals, permanganate of potash being
used in a solution. For the removal of
grease, the book laundress pours ether
over the spot and applies a warm iron
to it over a piece of blotting paper,
j When the volume is thoroughly cleansed
| it is given a coat of size which serves
the purpose of starch and restores the
leaves to their original crispness, after
j which it is ironed, thus completing the
laundering of the volume. It is at this
; mai nir uudk is reaay ror ine
I bindery.
A part of the repair work of the book
laundress comes In obliterating holes
made by bookworms. This is done by
boiling old paper into pulp in hot size
and applying the plaster to the punctured
leaves. It is a most difficult and
unsatisfactory operation, and one that
is seldom attempted excepting in the
case of books printed on heavy paper.
Rare and valuable books which have
been acquired by gifts or purchased by
the library frequently have pages or
parts of pages missing. When It is
possible to do so the missing parts are
copied from perfect volumes obtained
by loan from other libraries. Sometimes
in the case of inconabula, books and
manuscripts printed prior to the sixteenth
century, and in some later volumes
it is impossible to match the old
type exactly, but an effort is made to
have the supplied portion as nearly
Identical with the original volume as is
possible. When a leaf Is simply torn It
is mended by the application of transparent
tissue.
Occasionally an old book is so priceless
that it is taken apart and each
sheet mounted separately on leaves of
heavy paper much larger than that of
the original volume, and where a corner
or part of a leaf is torn away the
passage is printed on the mount of the
page preceding that of the missing
part.
Most of the old books have been
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and Inconsistencies, is of every place?at
home wherever common human nature
may be. It is a fine novel, sincere and
dramatic, without an artificial or makebelieve
feature about it.
A DAUGHTER OF LOVE. By Mrs. K. J.
Key. New York: Duffleld & Co.
That which sets this clear love story
off from the average of its kind is the
fact that its heroine?an almost inconceivably
beautiful and accomplished girl?
] came into the world without a father, as
her mother before her did. And. unbelievable
as It may appear, too. this sinister
bend was no bar to the girl's marryj
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total figure out correctly when the
Record makes its appearance next
morning. All of this must be done
quickly, too. During the long night
sessions the copy keeps coming in
steadily, and sometimes the sun rises
before the last page is reached. Then
the pages are rushed to the bindery,
where they are put together. At noon (
the next day the congressman has his
copy.
Some of the members make their own
changes, either in the stenographic reproduction
of their efforts or after the
proofs have been struck. In such
cases nothing Is changed, not even
when they write in phrases like "Loud
applause," "Continued applause," "Pro- J
longed applause" after some of their
best beloved sayings.
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This is the speed of the government <
printing office. There are other parts
of the building where the most delicate
work in bookbinding is accomplished,
where complex machines are
devised to insure absolute accuracy
such as is required by scientific bureaus.
One room on the sixth floor Is
set aside for the work of correcting
copy, and it is reminiscent of the bygone
days, before the linotype superseded
the human typesetter. Here are
the old-fashioned boxes, slanting toward
a peak and corftaining the alphabet
in a variety of styles. Most of
the employes are veterans of the printing
art?men who can set type with i
their eyes shut.
There are several woman printers, too.
The nestor of all the printers is an old
man with long white whiskers, and theBe '
he ties up with a string In order that :
they may not wander through the type.
The workmen in the room are Inordinately
proud of their reputations of accuracy.
"There Isn't a publishing house In the
country," declared one man, "that
wouldn't give almost anything to have the
compositors in this room In his office.
bound In leather and when the natural 1
oils have dried out disintegration sets 1
in. Many methods of treatment have i
been tried to restore dead bindings, the I
simplest being a hand massage of olive i
oil or vaseline, and it is in a measure 1
successful with the old tan-colored i
leather bindings known as "sheep-law." <
It darkens the leather, but its efficacy
is short lived, and the r nation must i
be repeated from time to time. r
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THE EVENING STORY. jji
HER CHILDREN. |
(Copyright, 1014, by W. Werner.)
Marcia had never really had much
time to spend rearing her children till
Fred got a legacy that enabled them
to buy a house and lawn in a suburb
so close that he could get in to work
every day, and yet having all the Intimacy
and sociablene8s of a small
town. And there, from the other
mothers, Marcia learned and was
ashamed.
She was only twenty-four then. The
children had come fast, and, as she
explained to herself?she didn't like
to tell any one else?they had rather
awed her. the first especially. The
first was six years old and named Lily.
Marcia hadn't been very old when she
and Fred got married. And Fred
wasn't making enough by one-sixth
for a sensible couple to marry on. And
so between paying the rent and buying
groceries and plenty of milk, and
the doctor's bills, and making rompers
and little waists and blouses, and
washing and ironing, there wasn't
much time to rear children properly.
And stockings wear out so fast, and '
shoes are so expensive?except the
paper soled cheap things, of which
you have to buy two pair to one of <
good, so really they are no economy. 1
Fred's work was hard. He was head j
shipping clerk in a wholesale grocery \
house, and he frequently had to work
at night. So that evenings, when he <
was at home, Marcia tried to keep the ]
house quiet for him. Quiet could only t
be had by putting the children to bed,
and though Fred said it was hard on
the poor youngsters, Marcia insisted. ]
Especially after there were four, and <
Fred's fine gray eyes took on a cob- i
webby frame of lines trying to figure i
how they could manage. Sometimes
Fred and Marcia figured all evening.
But that was before the legacy came. ^
An aunt of Fred's died and left him a <
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riage with the son of a proud English
lord, in whose noble family she became
an object of something like adoration
through her wholly irresistible graces of
mind and person. The discovery of her
father in the family physician, a man of
great professional distinction and social
power, and, finally, the belated union of
her father and mother in lawful wedlock.
create a situation so much at odds with
the common practice of a righteous world
toward this chiefest of all sins?the sin
of being an illegitimate child -that one's
enjoyment of this well-managed story is
shaded off a bit through his conviction
that under no circumstances in life would
this good world permit itself to love and
favor a child of such glaring indescrefF
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They not only know everything there Is
to know about printing, but they have
been reading eo many years?mechanically
reading the reports and statements
and things which come to their attention
?and they are Invaluable where any
'high brow' work is concerned."
This may be an exaggeration, but it
does not seem Improbable. It is interesting
to speculate on the number of words
that these old men must have perused
during the years of their employment.
They are quiet, courteous gentlemen to
whom printing is an art and not a trade.
Of course all the 'books used in auditing
accounts, keeping statistical information
and the like are prepared at the prlntery.
One of the most delicate of all the machines
is the apparatus by which the red
and blue lines are ruled on pages. The
bureau of statistics requires an unbelievable
number of these books in the
course of a year's research, and there
must be plenty of room on them for all
kinds of facts.
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The blank pages are put on a wide
belt, which carries them under innumerable
little needles with small glass cups
where the eye of an ordinary needle
would be. Ink is poured on felt strips
which feed it to the needles. Pressure is
varied for the light blue, the dark blue,
the light red and dark red lines. In all
of the pages which are turned out there
must not be a single blot. Uncle Sam is
a particular customer.
Much of the work done is of a routine
character. Under this head come the
LuiiBuior aim uauc icjiuiis ui uic nunc
Department, the Agricultural Department's
weekly news letters, the statements
of Internal trade conditions compiled
from the Department of Commerce
and the decisions and reports of snecial
commissions. But aside from this there
Is much special work which stands in the
forefront of the nation's printing: art.
!ew thousand dollars. As luck would
lave it at the same time his employers,
vho had been rather niggardly in the
>ast, gave him a big raise. The relief
ifter the hard years was so great that
Pred could hardly work for a day or
10, but went about grinning at every
>ne he saw.
Then they found a house, bought it,
noved out, and then Marcia began to
ealize her past neglect of those chillren.
"Do you let them have fried eggs for
breakfast?" horrifledly asked Mrs.
Payne, who lived next door, and had
two small boys whom she was rearing
ls vegetarians. "Fried stuff is unwholelome."
Marcia didn't know what to say. She
:ouldn't explain that in the past the
FRED AND MARCIA FIGURED ALL,
EVENING."
;hildren had ldom tasted eggs, but
breakfasted mainly on fried potatoes,
ind now she couldn't refuse the eggs
:hey begged for.
*'Dld you ever try whole wheat bls:ulte
with rich cream?" asked Mrs.
Payne kindly. "My little Roy never
ite anything else till he was two."
Marcla said "No." .
It was only a few days later that Mrs.
Kelley advised Marcla that cream was
entirely too rich for any child under
lourteen. If she kept on her children's
itomachs would be ruined.
Later Mrs. 8mlth wanted to know
srhether Marcla bought underwalsts
vlth the shoulder bracing double bands
>r the New Idea bandless that allowed
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common complement of parents.
THE MI8ADVEXTIRE8 OF THREE
GOOD BOY8. By Henry A. Shute.
author of "A Country Lawyer," etc.
Illustrations by Sears Gallagher.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Having gone bankrupt at the business
of storekeeping. the three young heroes
0f this hilarious tale became joint owners
and editors of the Lambaster, a sheet
developed by them, in part to retrieve
their fallen fortunes, and, in other part,
to demonstrate the power of the press as
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Most of this work is ordered by congressmen.
A request will come in for a special
leather binding, a marble edge for the
j leaves and other and similar improveI
ments.
! The work done by the bookbinders on
| these special requests is frequently copied
by independent firms throughout the
I country. It is a sort of national standard
of efficiency.
The rooms in the government printery
are marvels of light and coolness. In
some of the upper rooms the impression
is gained that the work is actually being
'done al-fresco. At night long lights that
give a peculiar bluish-white illumination
j are turned on and the rooms made as
bright as they are during the day. Among
the employes there is little complaint of
eye trouble, despite the character of the
work.
In the room where the pages of booksto-be
are sewed together the work is
done entirely by women. The little ap- j
paratus used on some of the tables sug- !
gests a primitive frame of the kind used !
by the Navajo Indians when weaving.
The three general authorities of the i
printery are the public printer, the deputy
public printer and the chief clerk.
The first mentioned has general supervi- |
sion over everything, appoints the officers
and employes and is the court of last |
resort on questions of management, purchase
of materials and all other ipatters.
The second is more particularly interested
in the management of the building,
including the purchase of all supplies.
To the chief clerk falls the duty of supervising
the personnel of the office.
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The only feature of the printery's work
which is not done in the big building at
North Capitol and H streets is the color
and map work, and the employes are
confidently looking to the time when this
branch of work will also be included in
the routine. Reproductions of photographs
in the unpretentious pamphlets
put out by the government printing office
rival in fineness th*- work done by
nature to take care of a child's carriage.
Marcia stared in puzzlement.
Then a slow red came over her face.
Marcia bought underwaists, heretofore,
at barg&in counters. And beyond seeing
that buttons and buttonholes were
tolerably stout she had not fretted over
them. And a child's carriage?well,
Marcia for a moment thought that Mrs.
Smith meant a perambulator. Poor Marcia!
She looked wistfully at Mrs. Henning,
a slim, proud faced woman who went
by ocasionally in a limousine with three
slim, haughty children beside her. Mrs.
Henning called once on Marcia. It was
an uncomfortable period of time. Mrs.
Henning almost was taciturn. Marcia
was ill at Qfl.se. Sometimes she feared
that she didn't fit in with these busy,
brainy, planning women who devoted
so much thought to their children's
welfare. Poor Marcia sometimes wished
she would forget her children for half
a day and just be comfortable. She
loved them, but somehow it had been
easier Just to be poor and manage
poorly than to be comfortably fixed and
have to take so much thought.
Mrs. Henning, so the other women
told her. had been reared along scientific
lines. Her mother knew Froebel
by heart, knew calorics and the first
principles of moral suasion and the
last. And Mrs. Henning had always
been regarded as a model of what a
properly reared child would be.
So it was with doubt and misgivings
that Marcia prepared to return Mrs.
Henning's call. She wouldn't have returned
it at all. but that would have
been discourteous. The night before
i>i i, agea six. asked inquisitively,
"What are you reading:, mother?"
Marcia blushed and involuntarily put
a hand to cover the title page; as, though
email. Lily could read. "What is it?"
asked Fred, curiously, stopping in a furious
knee bobbing which had as its object
the amusement of Fred, Jr.. aged
four.
"Mone?no, Montesorri." Marcia stumblingly
pronounced. "It is about developing
children.
Fred was mildly amused. "Oh. don't
train 'em into their graves," he laughed.
"I never knew you went in for that,
Marcia." he said, admiringly.
Marcia sighed. If the children hadn't
been listening she would have told him
that she was merely reading up to be
able to converse with Mrs. Henning, and
that she knew she couldn't pronounce the
name right if she practiced all night.
And the next day, with a self-conscious
pink in her cheeks that was becoming,
although she was far too miserable to
realize it, she went to call on Mrs. Henning.
Mrs. Henning received her in a pretty
rose and green parlor and they chatted
amicably about the weather and the condition
of the country, touching on politics.
At least Mrs. Henning did. Marcia
nodded assent. Inevitably their talk got
to their children. The topic was hastened
by the sight of Mrs. Smith with
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baster. too. was cut down in its youth
by reason of the fact that the sharp eyes
of its editors anu the reckless freedom of
its own type made the life of every villager
a burden of fear lest he any morning
face himself in print of the most
damning and explicit character. So.
through the ingenious inventions that
only a boy can muster, these three boys?
"good" boys their sponsor calls them?
pursued a varied and general "good time"
at the expense of every live thing in '
and roundabout the village where they '
lived. The whole book is a breezy, j
laughable account of the boyhood days j
from which Judge Shute himself has. j
happily, never recovered.
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is the boast of the photo-engraving department
that any picture In a G. P. O.
publication can be rephotographed and
reproduced effectively. And this is one
of the tests of good engravings.
The Congressional Directory, a volume
bound sometimes in green, sometimes in
blue and sometimes In red, is one of the
most pretentious of all the undertakings
which come under the head of routines.
In this volume are practically all the
general statistics relating to the three
branches of the government, including
the biographies of the President, his
cabinet and members of Congress. An
I error in a single date relating to the
happenings in the lives of any of those
men would mean a storm of criticism as
soon as the book came from the press.
Consequently the proofreaders go over
the statistics in this volume many times
so that they are assured that the book
and the "copy" tally absolutely.
Talking with one of the workmen in the
bindery department brought out a view
which many employes hold regarding the
reason for the remarkable efficiency .
shown in Uncle Sam's printery.
"The wages are better," he said, "and j
the conditions in the building are much
better than would be found in a private :
publishing house. There is a spirit of ,
co-operation among the men. due largely
to the fact that they have confidence in
the higher officials and are not afraid
that politics will make them lose out."
Certainly the statement concerning the
I conditions under which the men work is
| absolutely true. Any newspaper in the
country could learn things if it studied
the government printing office for a
while. The main corridors are things of
beauty, the rooms are wide and on the
warmest day the employes in most of
the departments don't seem to suffer at '
all. Of course, in the rooms where metal
is cast, heat is essential to the work.
Many of the publications which are put
out by the government's publishing house .
have regular subscribers who send in
their money. Notably there are the dip- <
lomatic and consular reports, which are
of interest to every big business house in
the country.
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her two plump, pretty s&ns. Marcia re- '
membered that Mrs. Smith had said knee- 1
dandling: was terribly unhealthy for the
child, and Marcia asked Mrs. Henning's <
opinion.
"To dandle a baby on your knee?"
Mrs. Henning repeated. "Well, Froebel
says " I
There came an Interruption. Two
black-stockinged legs seemed to shoot ]
into the room, followed by two brown j
legs. Two heads, one yellow, and one j
black, were mingled in screaming con- ?j
fusion. Two blue serge dresses were |
wound together. f
"Dora! Esther!" rebuked Mrs. Hen- ^
ning. "What's the matter?" ^
"Dora knocked me down and kicked me (
in the stomach," wailed Esther. ,
"Didn't. You done it. I ain't a story
teller." ?
"Children! Such language," cried Mrs. fi
Henning. She rose, led them from the j
room, and then Marcia, listening, heard t
the sound of a spanking hand. a
Mrs. Henning returned in confusion. ?
Her face was fltished. She would not meet J
Marcia's eye. *1 am so ashamed," she t
finally burst out. "And you'll never
understand, Aftv all that every one J:
says about your well behaved children. f
But I can't keep mine good all the time.
Sometimes they behave simply angelically. ?
And then they ha\e a streak "
Marcia gazed at her in amazement. Of ^
course her children were tolerably good, j)
They had learned to be. She had been ?
too busy to make them good by rule, so e
she had simply tried not to scold too
much. Although it had been hard, when j
things went wrong and Fred was more
than usually discouraged.
"I've tried every method," Mrs. Hcnning
said, discouragingly. 'First one
kind one week and another the next, the !
same as my mother did. And what j
method do you use?" she asked, eagerly.
"I'll try it; I don't care how much bother
it is " ;
"I never used any," Marcia confessed, |
honestly. Her face was crimson, but
under her confusion ran a great pity for
the woman before her. "I never had
time. So I just gave them the best I
could in the way of food and clothes and
tried to keep them happy,"
It was Mrs. Henning's turn to blush.
"Do you know." she said, dolefully, "I
never thought of that "
A month after Fred said, curiously: !
"Marcia, I thought you were afraid you
wouldn't like it here! You said the
women were different and you didn't
seem to measure up to their standards."
Marcia blushed. Her husband had met
nine .women leaving the house and one
had said: "I don't care what her method
is. It works."
"You see I was so busy all those
years." She paused.
"Yes," said Fred, puzzled.
"Well, I didn't have time to know."
"Know what?"
"To know how much I knew," she
laughed.
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