t THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER I
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Young Giris Pay Most Dearly in Record Cosmetic Craze I
Physicians, Educators, Clergymen and Even Beauty Experts See Real Danger in Lavish Use f
of Paint and Powder by Mere Children Mi$$ Fifteen's Makeup Fools Nobody but
Often Ruins True Attractions Besides Contributing Enormously to Luxury Tax
By MARTHA COMAN.
JiH New York Saturday
sr K the ' Startling feminine fash-
KK9 1 Jons no one wonders who Is contrlbui-
fcSY Ing lar?el to the $750,000,000 lirh
KjBS the luxury tax return's show was spent la'.
iHjsH year for paint, powder and other complexion
aids, according to recent official reports from
!t5J Washington Miss Fifteen remi to hove
EHB most of It on.
Sm Almost any gathering of schoolgirls, or
girls of school use. Will pro It. .Mere
Igdfl youngsters are 'appearing with their faces
LtjH smeared with this taxable nakeup. and tbey
KH .-lieve that the have greatly enhanced
fiMfl their charm-? hy Its application The arte
9KE g.rls who should have glowing cheeks and
fidff IH . amine Hps tinted by nature herself. Insiead
jjjflfl of by their own childish hands out Of a
complexion kit such as formerly was found
8BH only In the actress's dressing room, thep
IffflHW crept Into the compartments of the society
'drltffiB woman's dressing table, and has now almost
H&H reached the kindergarten. At least It has
H fcund a harbor among the young girl's
BflHfl belongings.
H Her powder box and puff, her lipstick and
pot of rouge are dearer to the heart of the
rH inunit c'rl of to-daj then her Euclid and hci
'lMI French grammai should he She whlpa hei
' geld or silver makeup container out In public
and boldly proceeds t touch 11 P worn places
'i iirr racial vender
Btf" Votber and big
f Die art of beautifying Ihemael ea th il srtl
ftclally. than the schoolgirl of "to household.
She has learned a lot somewhere And It
Isr'i always i he older member of the family
who have set her the example or Incited in
her ihe dfinre 10 paint the Illy with several
coats.
Reaping a Record Haret
From Sale of Complexion Aids
Beauty parlors drug stores and depart
ment stores carry In these complexion ma
terials arc reaping a harvest. Never In the
history of modern woman has there neen
auch a tremendous demand for powder,
rouge, lipsticks jflid other complexion acces
sories as to-day. The tax placed upon tb -
articles has apparently hut added1 to their
Importance If figures were available there
Is no douht the taxes reported for the year
ending In October, 1!J0 would show a big
increase over the previous October's Bales
But hs these taxes went into effect May 1.
rlf'19. Iherc Is no way of gelling nl imp.ir.i
tlve figures
A shiny nose seemed a legitimate excuse
In bygone days for a matron or a voung
woman wio was out In society to posss
herself ol a powder box. She hid this in the
top drawer of tier dressing table and only
her closest friends over saw her dust the
white film over the offending, listening
feature Then she added a Ml of muse, be
cause the brilliant lights of the ballroom.
Ihe theatre or opera made her look nnattrnc
riveiy pale Soon the grew a little holder
especially after she saw those exquisite cold
i, and Jewelled anlty cases which ;he Trench
women carried. And she pro ceded to
- I up her face for daytime occaalona
J POWder and paint cloud the vision The
H soft pad or puff thai spreads the roallna of
H v. bite over the skin w-nnis to cim the vision.
B From the modest and meagre procedure of
a getting rid of the shine It is but a step to
Q the actual niakln u) The superlative d-
cree of this fashion, the effect that made a
H piri look as if she had dipped her face In the
HB Roar barrel has moderated. Hut If the
nnantltv used nt a single application is re.
IjaHI duced the number of persons applying the
Lflp makeup has considerably Increased
Deep Psychological Cause
BBA Underlies Extravagant Makeup
ImSb On the surface, speaking literally, this
wgff I makeup mnace may appear to be a fad a
. J whim of ihe season, a temporary loss of
BjBSl the feminine sense of perspective, a marl
ifJR effort tc outdo some one else It Is mor
fygH than any of these. Underlying the 1020
MI fashion which has been on the crescendo
HH for more tnan a year is a deep psychological
IH cause. The extravagant use of oosmetifs.
Sftjll especially hv the voung. is nor merelv
fc frivolous iod of the times. It OWCS Iti
V fstence to the war. The situation in the
. minus of thinkers a a serious one. and U
i Is dio to the moll terrible conditions the
STiiMi worlj has ver faced.
dJM This opinion has been expressed by repre-
Life of a Prospect
f""rMn years ago T went Into a store to
Inquire the price of sometlilni;. an ex
SeH pensive thing this was, that T wanti-1
to buy some day when I had the price. They
iMjl were Just as nice to me as they would have
I een if T had come In ready to buy and
plank down the rAish.
;ij Tl.cn for 'lie tlrtlO belocr I forgot all about
H - It, bu t they didn't. About a ear after mv
. is M visit to the store the salesman 1 had seen
HB there came in to see me He was a very
ISj agreeable gentleman and in no way Insis
tent: he had hist looked in on the chance
3BB tnat now I was ready to buy. but my bank
rjl account hadn't looked up to any great ex
tent and I was not ready, ar I told him
rjjgfl I added that when I was ready I would come
In and I would come to him.
Thai. I thought, ended It as far as hear
lug from them was concerned; but not no
Wm A year later 1 had another call from the
salesman, my friend. If he will now permit
mo so to call him, on the same errand; a
pleaaant call and a pleasant little talk, but
t:jgsB with the samo result as before; and now, a
ftffiB year to a day nfter that second call, he l aa
fioB been In to see me again. We had our usual
. pleasant little talk, and then I asked him:
, "Don't you c-vcr give up a prospect?" To
which ho answered, smilingly:
"We never give up n prospect till ho dies "
entailves of the profession of medicine, th
church, by otic who has made the beauty
of her sex a Ilfe'ong study, by a college
professor nd by others who are so Im
pressed with the deplorable artificial and
unwholesome uppcarancf: of young girls,
especially, thai they have voiced their ob-s'-rvations
to Tttr .New York Hekalo. be
'Hevlng the time has come to call a halt In
the wholesale uae Of cosmetics by the youn?
and io appeal to parents teachers and guar
dians to aho'w girls how they are harming
themselves.
i:ihlcnii. phyelCdlly and from the slnnd
polnt of pulchritude the lavish utso of eos
metlce la wrong This is the consensus The
p.isrPr preaches against it. seeing In palal
and powder the emblem of women of a
class which the young girl should not imi
tate. The college professor deplores what
ever artificially reproduces the appearance
ot health; the physician, who. vith her war
experiences' looks deep into the problem, be
lieves that it is an ephemeral fad. and not
a sIeii of decadence. And the beauty spe
cialist sees in the painted faces of youth a
shocking disregard for health and the court
ing of prematura age signs. She. like th
others who corrfmcnt on this condition,
wants to take these girls, scrub their faces'
clean with soap and water nnd send them
home looking like the youthful persons they
should be.
Phyr.ician Blames Pairt Fad
to Reaction From W u Strain
lr. RoRalla Slaughter Morton, founder
and chairman of Hie International Serbian
Committee, w ho has given four years (if
gratuitous war service in Europe and Amer
ica, and who created the War Service Com-,
mlltee of the Medical Woman's N'utioral
yisoclatlon, and under the Council of Na
tional Defence organised, for this Govern
ment G.000 women phyaiciafia for war ser
vice, looks at the present appearance of
ounp American girls almost with the eyes
t.r a foreigner, she has been in the wr
stricken countries so long especially in
Prance nnd Serbia, that she la Impressed hy
f-.iOTO t) li'IU U KyC O - U'.iiivwoov
the contrast between the sincere suffering
there and the flippant social attitude of
many p-ople here which expresses itself In
il e prevalence of makeup.
'Every country shows Its neurasthenia
It. a different way," said Dr. Morton. ' Amer
Ira Is gclng through It now. As men and
Worntn became keyed up during ihe war.
they reached a hlgli nltch of idealism, were
stimulated to reni unselfishness, and also
for a year and a half they suffered war
train abroad or great anxiety here. The
present condition is due to reaction and
rervo fatigue. At heart they arc Just as
f'ne as they were during the war.
At the right is Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton, a physician who
deplores the extreme use of cosmctus., especially by younr; yirls. Larp.e I
photograph shows the ultra-modern cji rl in contrast with the &irl of I
a generation or so ago. Below is the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton,
who constantly preaches against immodesty in women's dress and the 1
effects of it on the morals of the young
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"I don't think the average girl realise
l.OW fQpilah extreme fashions ami fads are.
tnd that they arc but the dictates of-wwiiu-
foctui-ers rtfforo the war and during the
war women (jreaaed consaryatlvely. Now the
'right Culor Is refroahlpg. However, the
evtrenie styles tpd the Itloreaafd use of
, ainl and powder are deplorable.
'Many girls express recret themselves at
tie clothing they wear, ut they gay ihey
v;int t. be In style. 1 don't believe there
I- any pirent hut has an anxious heart over
'i i passing phase we are going through
"Extravagance In everything Is h part of
the aftermath of war During the war mnnv
women grew pale. They touched up their
faces with a lit t Io rouge, nnd they gol the
paint habit becauae thry thought It made
them Icm.i. more presentable. It became a
f.ul. and high colored clothing em pi i i
paleness.
"I am shocked by the prevalence or un
gle dances. As a physician I reallo that
the lowered moral lone they denote Is. a
public danger and by all good citizens should
be discountenanced;
"I see my own country and its people
through the eyes of fifty Serbian boys and
slrls whom I have brought here to rro to
college. They are now studying in colleges
from Vermont to Texas and from Maine to
California. These Serbians look upon
America as an Ideal country. I want to
help them keep this feeling. They hive
comt here believing that America Is the
strongest country in th world, mentally.
R)nra)y aod physically. Therefore. wh"n I
sec young girls smoking cigarette!, tln-ir
(ttoes plilnted and thvlr skirts scant. I re
;ret that they present so false an idea of
our real America.
"On the other hand I am thrilled by the
splendid America I have conn- in contact
wilh In our schools and universities. So
io my people have i great world vision which
expresses itself In ur.felflsh service. I think
Am-rlca as a whole, has received spiritual
Iti petUB through the war"
Dr. Thomas !' Wood, professor of physi
cal education :.t Teachers College udmits
that the problem Is h complex one. "It Is
hard to (icure out bow much the Impulse pf
these young clrls who use cosmetics Is due to
,i deSlrt In pleise themselves nnd compete
with women who resort to artificial aids,
and bow much n l.s due lo i 'I' -.r.-. ..-
s i qui or subconscious to ataruct. Appar
ei tlv the clrls themselves cannot analyst
I heir motive.
"I have been studying this question a
long time and have asked girls why they
painted and powdered,'1 he said 'They re
plied that they don't know why they do it
Girls that are well bred, well nurtured do It.
and I am of the opinion that they arc not
quite sanely controlled, they show a lack
of balance. Some girls state frankly that
they want lo dress In this ultra fashion to
attract and Interest men.
"'According In some of Ihe reliable skin
spedsJlsta -though this Is not my dictum
the better cosmetics are not Injurious to the
PHWto&j or fiABRij eKWfMCI
skin. I say this frankly because It is lm
portant to have the appeal on a different
btisls. The social and moral standard of
good taste Is the lase on which I want to
touch them.
"My reason for objecting to the use of
cosmetics Is from the standpoint of good
health. Here is the objection. In so far as
these clrls want to make themselves at
tractive to themselves or to men uy simu
lating health and beauty through artificial
means thev are practising a form of deceit.
They are trying lo Imitate go"l health with
out having good health
"On the other hand, this form of deceit Is
less objectionable to the observer than the
fashion which led girls to whiten their
faces to an absurd pallor Imitative of a con
n Of ana tula and Impoverished hlood
So Ions a tbey use rouge to make the lips
look pink and t!ie checks bright, trying to
Imitate srond health without necessarily
having K'.oil h "b they show an improve
ment In the atlliiclal standard.
V ufortunate on the Side
of Good Taste and Morals
"On the side of good taste and moral
standard It sretns unfortunate that uirls
should idnpi artificial standards so as to
make It difficult to discriminate between a
girl of refined taste and the woman of the
!reet
"It really n matter, then, of sincerity
or honesty ir a mutter of how for they want
to use camouflage to confuse the impression
of iluii personality. In a mild way they are
using the trickn of fashion, but without real
Izlns It thev are resorting to artificiality.
Insincerity and trickery to make themselves
appear often different from what they are.
And one of the serious phase of this fashion
is when the prlrl of essential refinement de
scends to paint anil powder.
"There never was a time when II wag
more Important that girls of this type should
tbeinselves exert all their Influence to check
the tendency to use cosmetics, if thev do
t ot help to do this tbey are missing on of
the greatest opportunities to make them
selves bi-lpful to their sex"
C'antv specialists are so closely llnkrd
With orenms and powders and roue.es that
it Is remarkable to find one who counsels
throwing these complexion aids away and
substituting the use of soap and water.
Bui Mme, Ledalre, who has devoted most
of her life to the study of the complexion.
Is one of the strongest opponents of thrss
artiiiciai beautlflera.
"It Is shocking to see voung girls seated
In restaurants, smoking cigarettes and with
their faces panned and powdered." aald she.
Harvard Devises New Music Plan for Public Schools
r;ir: the new School of education
J at Harvard University gets under
way next rear It Will undoubtedly
lav the foundation for a revolutionary
change In the method of teaching music In
the public schools Miroughout the country.
For some time Harvard professors have been
convinced that the present system of teach
ing music to the children rests upon a funda
mental fallacy. They have devised a new
system, based on the simplo singing of the
folksong, which they soy has met with re
markable success in the several cities in
which it has been tried. It Is certain that
this new system will And expression in the
Instruction in teaching music which pros
pective) teachers from all parts of the coun
try will receive next year at tho nt-w School
of Education.
Chief Fault of Present System
Is Place Given to Technique
One of the men most lireMed In tho new
method Is Dr. Archibald T Davison, a mem
bet of I he Harvard faculty, orsanist in Ap
pleton Chapel and chorister of the university
choir. In his experience In tho above capaci
ties, os well ns Q that of director of the
Harvard Glee "lub and of i ommqnlty -!ng-ing
during the Wnr, Dr. Davison became
convinced thot I here Is need of a sweeping
change In the method of music Instruction
In the public schools. With this conviction
he made a study of singing In the public
schools -.n Boston with tho result that the
new metho, was adopted there. Other cities
have taken it up .md n further Impetus is
to be given to it next fall.
According to Dr. Davison, the chief fault
of the present system Is the fact that too
much attention Is paid to tho technical side
of music and not enough to tho musical.
Professors Urge More Singing of Good Old
Melodies and Less Attention to Teach
ing of the Technical Side
Children spend t l"ht or ten vear In school
learning to read notes and then com put
without any attention having locn paid 'o
music, without having learned to i e
good music and without having euitlvnej
a desire for It. There Is too much teaching
of technique and not enough of appreciation.
The present system alms to make students
musical mechanics instead of making the::i
musical.
"Some time ago several students called my
attention to the method of teaching music in
the public schools." sild Dr. Davison when
Interviewed tit Appleton Chapel at Harvard
a few days ago. "T began to look Into the
matter end was amazed at what I found.
Children spend eight or ton years learning
to read notes a training which Is of verv
little value for most persons, and get no
training in learning to recognize and appre
ciate good music. They do not become
musical.
"At the present time children arc taught
technique too early. They are taught to
read notes, to study intervals, arpeggios,
measures and the like before their musical
bense !ia been developed ly singing. Or
perhaps they are perched on piano sloois
and taught to play exercises mechanically
according to rule of thumb. Of all Inslru
rnents the plnno Is the most mechanical and
least of air allows the children to develop
musically by spontaneous, personal expres
sion. Their musical sense Is killed In the
cradle by making It too mechanical.
"Tho study of these technical features at
an early age results In tho composing of
songs to demonstrate these features. A pop
ular composer Is secured to write 'Mary Had
a I.ltlle Lamb' to Illustrate a particular In
terval. Tbasi songs are taught the children
and they po about slnclng them Instead of
singlnK the good old melodies which have
Inherent merit and will last for all time
This poet laureate sort of thine not only Is
worthless in itself hut It supplants the good
music In the lives of the children. Teaching
children to read notes makes h strong bid
for the taxpayer's approval, for it Is some
thine which can be demonstrated as a result
of the expenditure ot his money, but the
mu-slc is the thing, and that is being neg
lected ' Another fatal error of the present system
Il the Ignoring of rhythm. The teachers no
Iciigi-r beat rhvthm. niobobly as an put
: rowth of Ho- Mobtsasorl system of scif-ea-presslon
Individual expression Is very vital,
but It can't be done in anything cooperative.
There must bo rhythm.
'The most natural approach for any child
lo learn music Is to sine folksongs Singing
I n savage thing. It grew lip ttom primitive
nines. Anybody can sing It Is a natural
coordination of mind and twdy and Is one of
th i most potent ways of personal, sponta
neous expression
"Teach the children lo sing songs. Train
their cars and don'l confuse them by trylnc
to tram their eyes at the same time. Lei
lin n, sing songs and keep on singing sungs
Lnt be sure that tho music Is good. Delay
Iho leaching of technique until thoy have
developed a musical sense by singing. Let
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them sir.i: these songs for three rears and
tl-en place ths note.! before them. If thoy do
not get the sight reading It does not matter,
because 'he singing la the thing which makes
them musical. If thev get it on the third or
fourth time, very well. Tho average person
i an BOQUira enough note reading ability to
last a lifetime slnply by association by
looking at the notes of u song he has learned
to sing by ear.
"'.Music. Is Just like life" continued Dr
Davison "One makes casual acquaintances.
They come lno one s life and they go out.
They arc forgotten. They have left no Im
pr'ci Ion. Thgy have Ron?. But then there
arc one's ft lends. There are people to whom
one always ties, to whom one always goes
! ich Their influence Is always felt. Thoy
may be living" at a distance they may be
degd h'.i" Miey are the permanent things.
The1) hare valid qualifications ind one In
; . vely turns to them.
A'of Technique But Music
Makes Songs of Lasting Value
"In music It Is to the songs of permanent
valu thr.t one Instinctively turns. It is in
the songs of Bsahma, Bach. Schumann, Sclni
ber" and others thai one finds tho counler
part of a friend's Influence. Il is not their
teohnlQUe which grins, il Is the music Itself
There are other songs, but they come Into
and go out of one's life like chance acquaint
ances. ) is to liie sons of fundamental
n eri that one ilwgyi cocs back and upon
which cue most depends"
I ci a number of years the Harvard fae
u.'i.v .' art" and sciences has offered a count
In the appreciation of music. Its purpose Is
to make good listeners There Is only a
minimum Of Instruction In technique. The
remainder of fho course lis taken up by the
playing Of examples of gooil music from
symphonic and pianoforte literature. It Is a
more advanced staKe of what Is to be done
In the public schools.
"The smoke Is harmful to he skin: It eats '
Into it and dries It up. If these girls will '
leave their complexions alone, when thv I r
et r.:rter they will not ned to descend to
mlflclal ways of brightening their faces. "
"It is pitiful to sc some of these school- f
girls. I have girls of 15 come to me rather
their mothers have brought them to see t
If I could Improve their skin one girl,
not over In. was brought to in ny her -H
mother. The parent could not find out what
r-r daughter was using for her complsxton.
Although hardly more than a child this
fsii was almost ruined. The skin was t
i abhv; it sagged and looked like an old H
woman's face Tup daughter finally ad. H
n itie; to m that one of her school friends H
ad told her to use Ice on her face. And H
ecretly she bed been applying ice every i
It dried up the akin. H
Soap and Water Far Better W-
Than Creams aid Powders S
"Schoolgirls tell each other aout creams , H
nnd powder- and other cosmetics they read m'
of or bear mentioned, and without knowing &
anything of the properties of these materials I H
the girls buy them and use them. Thev i H
i any kind of cream, powder and paint, "
With the result that often their skuas are I H
ruined.
"Soap and water are far better than cos-
met les Creams clog the pores and produce f j!
unsightly blackhead? Bven powder Is dan- E
ferous to use. I warn women against ths L
of 'ich aids. When I see these poor
ignorant girls making up in such an ex- ,
travagant fashion I feel like scoldinr them f!
and sending them home to give their faces a
tend scrubbing with soap and water. j
There h nothing belter for the skin than v M
the simple treatment The skin needs cleans-
log. not clogging. A baby's delicate skin Is H
Cleansed with soap and water Soap cannot
liriim (he finest skin texture. Yet these
!;o'i;clr!s smear their faces with creams
Instead of washing them and never give the
pores a chance to breathe. It is like stopping
Ihe nose and mouth, thus cutting off the
supply of air. Von cannot live if you do fH
that Neither can the skin live if It does
n-.t get a chance to breathe. If you do not ( H
five a flower water it dies. If you do not F H
give the rkln wafr and fir it shrivels.
' Telt these sirls to wash their faces well IH
a; nigh, iislnc a pare soap with wa'e
When (bey ret up In the morning thev will H
fee' fresh, for the whole body has been able H
. '-'-athr properly
Tlien tell them to use soap and water A
scaln In the morning and see how- quickly I
they will hejrln to look rosy and radiant, how
Uielr completion will Improve ond reflect the IH
healthy condition It was never able to ac- fS
onire because of the eoatlnc of cosmetics. M
And ask them what they will look like when I
they are middle need wnmn If they continue i
to upe unwholesome and harmful materlsls "
Mme ,e litre feels so strongly ahnut this I
that she has frequently taken croups of I
schoolgirls and voluntarily advised them In HH
i'ii same svay because she wants to help HH
(hem What they have told her about the
pots and boxes of beauty aids they have I I
Cried has been pathetic, according to her ' s
"TOO don'l see the fashionable women of
Pal iQ painted as 5 ou se seme of them here
continued this expert "And vou never hear I
ounr :lrl using c-reams and powders IsBasssI
in j.- 'io iuu n.is iiicnfo n snameiui ano f
stajre."
Ethical Side of the Subiect H
As Viewed hy a ''lergynan j
T!:e ethlcii rfe of the question was dl'- B
led b thi i'e ir fohn Poach Straton, VJ
pastor or the Calvary Baptist Church.
Dr. Straton had Jus' returned rrom a trip JH
to Montreal, where he Invelphed against gBJ
"devilish and Immodest dances' and he was HH
In the right mood to voice a protest against HHl
the paint and powder fad. BHa
The nye of cosmetics Is pari of the whole H
tendency of the modern ate," he said. "It H
is ethically wrong because It is practising
a deception. It doesn't fool any one at alt.
Men classify women according to the quan- HH
Uty of paint they use. The henvr ihe paint H
ths less esteem thi women command. sB
"1 do not believe any right minded man H
has anv regard for a Woman who has to
omplexlon In bureau drawer.
The fashion Is harmful because It tends to
destroy the natural complexion and Impair
the health of the skin
"The wfty for women to have a good com
plexlon i- smselvea healthy, to do
a reasonable amount of the world's work
and to cultlw. te that modesty for which the
American women of former generations IH
were famous Ihe world over And certalnlv
the respectable women of to-day ought to
be verv slow to painl their faces, because
the habll hi (.he pas tias been largely con
fined to women of tho underworld.
'Taint and powder are pari of the HH
Thole emphasis on sex appeal to-day They
think It attracts men The whole thing has
gone to an absurd extreme. 1 understand In HHfl
ome of the so-called fashionable restau- H
rant.-, and hotels cigarettes for women ire H
row sold with red tips, so the dear ladles HJ
as they now smoke will not be embarrassed i
by the red paint on their lips ccmlng off on HHJ
th vrhite end of the "iR-arette. HJ
"What a pitiable lowering of Ihe whole
standards of womanhood tho whole thing H
New Guide for Sailors I
THANKS to tho efforts of a woman who !
has their Welfare at heart, no Amer
ican sailor Just off freighter or ,
passenger liner foe shore leavg, at Alexan
dria Egypt Singapore in the Far rast. the
free port of Danzig In the Polish corridor, or.
Indeed, any o' the 300 ports that are visited
by American ships, ne?d go astray In seek
ing folks wao speak his language and can Hl
minister to his needs. To find the consul. H
the dentist t.i? laundress, tho boarding H
house keepe- or places of interest and whole
some amusement Jack has but to consult
"Tho Seaman's Handbook for Shore Leave."
through which Mrs. Alice Q Howard of Bos
ton and Cleveland, author of the little vol
ume.ygutdse the American sailor In foreign
Publication of the pocket directory of
world ports was one of the first activities of
tho social service bureau for the merchant
marine which Sirs. Howard established In
war time wh.Ua assisting her husband, Henry H
Howard, who organized the recruiting ser
vice Of the United States Shipping Board
which manned the Government built mer
chant ships Mrs. Howard continued her I
bureau after tho armistice, with hvadqusr
tera at Boston, and is now Issuing a new
nnd enlarged edition.
Of vest pocket size the book contains 164 H
pagea giving information of more than 300 J
ports, containing also a table of foreign
monetary units and the normal valuo of
each In United States currency.