Show il NEW BOOKS I I The Mothers Mathers Nursery Guide By Se Setrak Setrak Setrak G Eghian G P Sons New York publishers While the mother sniffs with disdain at the idea of a baby the little lady who sudden suddenly ly l finds herself the possessor of a wee dimpled one with no knowledge to en enable enable enable able her to differentiate between a squeal of temper and a watt wait o of pain will find Dr handy little book a most desirable and inval ble adjunct to the first nursery Perhaps no branch of f the domestic menage needs a cleaner sweep of old and dan dangerous dangerous dangerous theories than the nursery De Defective Defective knowledge of how to care for forthe forthe forthe the tender young life ute trusting faith in the advice of the ignorant and the mistaken and blind belief beliet in the all magical power of a mothers love have turned many a cooing rosy youngster into a waxen little bit of or clay and the mother who knowing her own ignorance Ignorance ignorance ance studies the subject of ing at least as diligently as she does her cook book will be rewarded by b less aches and pains in the baby with con consequent consequent consequent sequent gain of sleep and peacE for herself herselt Dr Eghian who Is a In Ogden Utah Is well Qualified i fied fled to pose as an oracle on the care of the baby as he is a specialist In the diseases of children and a graduate of the University of or Berlin The little book he has put forth tells in a concise and simple manner with i no cumbersome medical phrases to be bewilder bewilder bewilder wilder the mother who Is la struggling along under the weight of maternity the Intelligent way in which to minis minister minister minister ter unto his lordship the baby He strives to Impart at least a working knowledge of the principles which mod modern modern modem ern em science has laid down and alms aims to enable the mother to cooperate Intelli Intelligently Intelligently gently with her family physician The mother who at the slightest sneeze from the cradle sends for her doctor In a distracted manner and the mother who waits walts until too late before securing or Invoking medical aid ald for her child will be alike benefited by keeping tho the book close at hand and reading rending It over carefully and often orten The Tho topics as arranged are particularly particularly particularly practical especially ical Peculiarities In Infancy Feeding the Infant Artificial Feeding with Its Us many perplexities Personal Hy Hygiene Hygiene Hygiene giene of the lEaby and its care caro Imme Immediately Immediately Immediately after atter birth Signs of Illness In Infancy which tells plainly and un unmistakably unmistakably unmistakably mistakably the danger signals nature sets up Contagious and Infectious Diseases In Infancy and Childhood making it possible for a mother to help along both nurse and doctor Acute Digestive Disturbances with full di dl digressions digressions on their dangers Disorders of the Respiratory Tract and finally Emergencies which chapter careful carefully ly conned renders an Inexperienced mother almost safe from the tho sudden panic that seizes her at the sight of baby bleeding from a cut or unconscious unconscious unconscious from a fall tall Sex Emmet Densmore M D Funk Co New NewYork NewYork NewYork York publishers Price I Whether actuated by mere curiosity or animated with the most sincere and deep desire for knowledge on the many sexual and sociological problems treat treated treated treated ed of ot Sex Equality will interest and Impress any reader who Is willing to read through tho the first chapter Treat Treating Treating ing Ine men men and women from a racial more than a social viewpoint the author should receive a crown of laurel from the sex so long called weaker for with many instances of proofs and facts to back him up he manages to make out outa a convincing argument proving that mans superiority in many things is duo entirely to the fact tact that womans training has laS been detective defective and that her mode of ot life has haa handi handicapped handicapped handicapped capped her instead of ot any physical or mental unfitness as a candidate for equal place with man Womans long acknowledged Inferior Interior Inferiority Interiority inferiority ity In the larger and higher realms of thought and work he shows by count countless countless less modern and some ancient examples Is due to the fact that she has had to struggle against the suffocating at atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere where masculine dominance of her world placed her Deceit finesse intuition and similar attributes are shown to be purely the result of sub subservience subservience and enslavement The book Is far from being a full fuH some laudation of women as a sex for I her faults and weaknesses are unsparingly unsparingly unsparIngly discussed the author however In almost every Instance giving the fair ones the best of it by excuses based on the grounds stated before The book has but one aim to convince that there Is no weaker and no superior sex and that the distinctions made so sotar far tar In the history of the world are sim slim simply simply ply owing to false conditions Inci mci Incidentally dentally the author takes a rap at polygamy and polyandry and declares that monogamy produces prod utes the finest race While rather sensational as to title the tle the book treats of the different topics embraced in a purely academic man manner manner manner ner and with nothing to appeal to the taste always eager for some discussion of ot the eternal topic of man and woman Tho The Folks Afield Eden author G 0 P Sons New NewYork NewYork NewYork York publishers Just simple chronicles sometimes mere sketches of humble village folks this of short stories gives one an almost startling Insight into the seemingly stolid mind of the peasant and the toiler toller toler Murder hate revenge and love l ve In his own char characteristic characteristic characteristic manner flashes upon his canvas in quick succession and the effete denizen of the boulevard will hang his head in shame to realize realie how sluggish and dull his blood circulates in comparison with these fiery and Imaginative field folks folk of the village viage and andfield andfield andfield The Earthquake Child the opening story Is probably the best bit of de descriptive descriptive writing although the little plot is but a scrap upon which the tho lurid flames faes of earthquake and fire form a highly dramatic background For the th rest rest the are a hodge podge of ot lovers and maidens who Incite Incie the swains to all al sorts of mischief and nd wrong and tempt to destruction with red lips and flash flashIng fash fashing flashIng Ing eyes Despite the theatrical clap claptrap claptrap trap that mars some of the stories storie the theauthor theauthor theauthor author writes convincingly of these people and displays a sympathetic in fn insight i sight into their longings Ideals and life lite even though he gives hitherto un unsuspected unsuspected suspected attributes to his ed lovers and heroines Practical Health Lander Leander Edmund Whipple author the Metaphysical Publishing company New York pub publishers publishers lishers Handling Hand ng his subject matter mater In a ale ase ssuie se le sensible and best of all simple manner Leander Edmund Whipple has h brought together some highly interest interestIng InterestIng Interesting Ing and new Ideas In his book on health and healing and this despite despie the vast ast flood of new thought thought mental healing and ana an similar cults cult literature that has deluged the students of the 1 J G V V country countr during the past decade Mr Whipple however wins the unprejudiced unprejudiced unprejudiced diced readers attention at and respect If It not conviction In the first pages of his book The central Idea the thread that binds the tho different topics treated of together is that as a man so is he In a nutshell the author has aimed to inculcate the idea that health and happiness is after all al large largely ly if not riot wholly a matter mater of right thinking Keeping absolutely clear cear of the cult cul of cant and tle twang of mi miracle miracle racie healing he attempts to show by b many convincing deductions that the mental state of ill 1 health Invariably precedes the physical malady malay Instancing ing tag the th fact of affection from sheer panic during epidemics and the like Fear and worry the book goes on to tell tl are arch enemies of mankind and have been through though ages along with mineral drugs and minis minister minister minister ter to 10 the effect and not the cause of disease Whether or not the tho average reader will be induced to follow Mr Whipple in all al of his excursions Into the much fought over realm of mental healing to the neurasthenic and hy by hypochondriac hypochondriac the tho perusal of the book will undoubtedly be of benefit particularly particularly those parts which prove that the many symptoms of hysteria melan melancholia chola nerves decline etc are the re result result sult suit of the wrong mental attitude To r the ordinary prosaic pro atc reader with no nerves and a healthy stomach sto ach the book will wi prove of Interest as beIng one of the sanest and plainest of Its kind wholly devoid of ot any attempt at mys mystification or occultism V 7 V The Altar Alar Fire by Arthur Christo Christopher Christopher pher Benson G P Sons New York YoI publishers To the eager devoUrer of sensational moribund or liter literature ler literature Arthur Bensons latest offspring will wi prove of not one single moments I Interest or amusement but to those rare souls who delight in his writings The Altar Atar Fire will be a treat in indeed indeed indeed deed Differing in many respects it I yet bears bear a delightful reminiscent Ilk Ik ness of From a College Window pos possessing possessing possessing the same tranquil charm of easy grace and delightful musIng as the earlier carler work work There is an intellectual about abut the tho many man chap chapters chapter chapters ter however that redeem it from any suggestion of while the quiet thread of humor that runs through every page gives the reader an actual fellowship feeling with wih the lovable character who sets set down his Ills whimsical but at all times sane views of ot men and things The book fairly radiates with wih the quieter Joys of living and points out the happiness of ot the mediator and the thinker To one who delights In the crooked little litte Journeys deep dep down Into a cultivated mans mind the last cover of the book Is reached with a sigh and the book bookIs Is laid down with a keener appreciation of o the tho beauties beautes and charm of the quiet intellectual life le leAn An Interrupted Honeymoon By Jane Grosvenor Cooke Published by A AS AS AS S Barnes Co New York Price 50 An Interrupted Honeymoon by Jane Grosvenor Cooke Is a story stor of two fools who married mared after an ac acquaintance acquaintance acquaintance of of a lifetime and an un unusually unusually unusually usually placid and commonplace court courtship courtship courtship ship In a country town There were no rivals nor obstacles of any kind to break the monotony of or their happiness On their wedding day after ater the cere ceremony ceremony ceremony mony had been concluded arid ad the rice thrown they set out for the furnished home which had been awaiting them for several months for the equipment of which both had ha planned and con contributed contributed contributed A few miles mies along the road they quarreled quarreled William wanted to dl di dl card the tho embarrassing white stream streamers ers era with wih which their jocular friends frieds had hal adorned adored the buggy bugg but Sally Saly pre pro preferred to leave things alone William Wilam persisted and Sally Saly protested At last Sally Saly leaped from the buggy bugg and waded waed through the dust back to her old home William acting very sensibly for once drove cm v Four years passed while whilo Sally took in sewing William prospered in a dry goods business at the county seat seat Gradually he began to take notice n of ot ofa ota ofa a young widow who was likewise lone lonesome lonesome lonesome some About this time Sally Sai began trading at Williams Willias store meeting him occasionally and greeting him for formally formally formally mally One day they got chummy and ad went over to the te house they had ha fixed fed up for tor a home Together they got up a meal mel but lint Just as they were sit sitting sitting sitting ting down the tho widow arrived The Tho wife wie retired to the pantry pant and the widow was taken to the parlor where she reproached William Wilam for neglect neglect He told her he had about decided to keep right on being married mared and weep weeping weeping weeping ing she went away But Sally Saly be found She had gone to a lawyer to get a little information on the di divorce divorce divorce vorce question queston William pursued her ivr h r Having lost his widow he wanted his wife Sally Saly kept him at as length for another year ear but after an amazing lot of idiotic misunderstandings tOey V y wandered back to the empty home one night and a storm stor came up keeping them there until morning moring Sally Saly was greatly greaty scandalized and ad wept hys hysterically hysterically In her shame Of a sudden she exclaimed Oh William Im your our wife wie He admitted it and ard in the tho last words of the te story she cried Then Thenis Its is all aU right The Te story Is not without Interest Interest but the hero and heroine are a brace of stubborn hopeless Idiots who have wasted five years year of married matTied life and seem destined to continue petty and unreasonable to the unwritten end The Daughters of the Litle Little Grey House By Marlon Marion Ames Taggart Published by y McClures Price The Daughters of the Little Lite Grey House is a restful story Etory sory In which the theauthor theauthor theauthor author displays considerably more skill In portraying Ideals Ideas than knowledge of human nature In the well wel written chronicles of the Grey family and their friends one will wi look In vain for a plot or a hero or a villain The boys aro ac all clean and manly the girls sweet and an refined the old men generous and fa and the old women kind and motherly Not an unkind word Is ken by any character to whom the reader Is introduced Not an unworthy act Is recorded Everyone is trying ting to do good and to help his fellows Three young men menthe the Rutherford brothers brother students student of Yale buy Rutherfor a home In the quaint qUant old village of Fayre They are neighbors neighbor of the Greys chums of ot the Grey girls and ad friends frends of their friends fends They have good times together er or and enjoy clean wholesome amuse amusements amusements ments meats But In time after graduation the young pair off and people of get mar married married ried ned without opposition or regret and the te stream of life flows on serenely under calm New England skies skie The little house continues to be headquarters for family gatherings and every body remains so good and considerate eVer that It I Is Inclined to make the reader rader ashamed of himself Two Royal Foes By Eva Madden Madd r J I illustrated must d by the Kinneys Published I Iby by McClures McClures Price The history of the tho French Invasion of Prussia Is made very interesting by Eva Madden In her Twp Royal Rol Foes It Is the story of the good Queen Louisa from the viewpoint of a loving people Little Bettina Bottina Bettna the peasant girl who walked across the kingdom with wih Important documents document sewed up In Inthe Inthe inthe the lining of her dress the tho children of ot the rich and educated Von Storks men and women of every walk of life and the statesmen and soldiers of the realm worshipped at the shrine of their |