CRUISES A Few Suggestions WEST INDIES A Cruise de Luxe will sail from New York on March 12 by palatial GREAT WHITE FLEET steamer S. S. "ULUA." Most attractive itinerary. CALIFORNIA-ALASKA Luxurious tours-frequent de- JAPAN-CHINA- Escorted tours will sail from From New York February 8 and 26, visiting all parts of East and West Coasts. Both hotels in the heart of the fashionable Back Bay near the railroad stations. Both convenient to the shops and theatres. Both providing complete, adept service under the same management. L. C. PRIOR, Managing Director PISO'S for Coughs & Colds Send for McCutcheon's January Sale Book We have planned that this January Sale shall be the most important of any in our long experience. By careful and foresighted buying all through the war years we have been able to keep our Reg. Trade Mark Household Linen prices an average of about 20% to 25% below current market prices. Recent reductions in Belfast Manufacturers' prices therefore only bring their prices to the level at which we have been offering our goods for some time. But in order to do our part in helping to bring prices back to normal and to meet present conditions and demands, we shall make reductions during January on our Household Linens from these already moderate prices-amounting in many cases to 33% per cent. We make these reductions with the full realization that it may be impossible for us to replace the goods offered at the same prices. The range of goods on which these reductions are made is so wide that all may find what they want. The special catalogue No. 35, giving detailed descrip- James McCutcheon & Co. Fifth Avenue, 34th and 33d Streets, New York Of late years few things "made in Germany" have been worthy of anything except opprobrium; but a German newspaper recently instituted an idea that has elements of merit in it. This was a Good Manners Week, which certainly seemed a thing badly needed in Berlin, not only for one week but all the year round. The reporters of the Berlin "Morgenpost" were instructed to watch for acts of chivalry, such as helping old ladies with their bags, giving up one's seat in the last 'bus home, and so on. If they caught you in the act, you received a handsome prize. For one week, good deeds are Isaid to have been numerous in the German capital. A New York City paper has also started a campaign for politeness. It gives $50 as a daily prize for the person most polite to its representatives who ask questions at random in the streets and either get "turned down" or receive courteous replies which are rewarded in proportion to their civility. The Southern Pacific Railway has just completed a motion picture depicting graphically the story of oil, tracing its history from production to consumption. The film, according to the "Railway Age," will be shown at all terminals and at principal points of the System as an aid in teaching the conservation of this product. The Southern Pacific uses 60,000,000 gallons of oil a month, or about 16 per cent of all oil produced in California. The fuel industry, it is said, faces a crisis; those who depend upon the industry must take heroic measures if they would stave off disaster, and the picture shows what these measures are. ""Tis said that Brother K-Rarrived home very late from our last meeting," a fraternal news sheet reports, "and that the next morning at the breakfast table he had to answer for it. 'Didn't I hear the clock strike 2 as you came in last night?' 'Yes, you did. It started to strike 11 an' I stopped it so's not to waken you.'" The American language as overheard in a Missouri hospital, according to the "Journal" of the American Medical Association: Son (at the bedside)-"She'll be alright now if nuthin' don't set up." Father-"Nuthin' 'll set up. She lays down all the time." The "smart" Parisienne, according to the Paris correspondent of the "Millinery Trade Review," must have at least six different hats to wear on various occasions. "Everybody must have a fur hat," she says "that is, a toque with a narrow brim. The second indispensable hat is a small wireless affair, a soft crown swathed in folds of ribbon or velvet. Next on the list comes the largish ribbon shape which is so smart with less severe tailor-mades, for lunches, picture shows, or the races. For receptions and teas. the large hat find a new idea; the tight Persian turban rolled and ending at one side in a fold of the stuff long enough to form a scarf. The sixth type of hat, for restaurants and hotels, belongs to the smallish round crownless variety." Thus Fashion is coming to her own again in her chosen capital. of Legends of the terrible deeds Christophe, the black King of Haiti from 1811 to 1820, are SO numerous that it is a relief to find one of them discredited in an article in the "National Geographic Magazine." The writer of the article says that on a visit to Christophe's famous "citadel" a masonry chute was shown to him and described as a "death slide," through which Christophe hurled his victims down to the valley far below. "Subsequent investigation," he says, "revealed the fact that the end of the 'death slide' was less than twenty feet above a terrace and that it must have been designed merely as a chute for refuse!" A Pine Mountaineer who plays the fiddle gives his philosophy of music in the "Pine Mountain Settlement Notes:" "I take my fiddle when things are botherin' me, maybe the financial matters of the world, an' I sit down an' play me a tune, and, don't you know, I feel better. Or when the aggravations gethers round about me, or I get mad, I can set down an' play, an' pretty soon the aggravations is plumb driv' away." Which is good philosophy and enforces the lesson that a hobby on the side is a good thing for everybody to drive away "the aggravations." Two farmers met after church, as reported by an up-State correspondent, and had this conversation: "Sold your pig?" "Yes." "What d'ye get?" "Thirteen dollars." "What'd it cost ye to raise it?" "Paid three dollars for the shoat, five dollars for the lumber in the pen and house, and five more for the feed." "Didn't make much, did ye?" "No, but I had the use of the pig all summer." A correspondent, who satirically inserts extra "p's" throughout his letter, takes us to task for putting a city named "Binghampton" on the map of "the only established air route across America" which appeared in our issue of November 24. In urging us to mind our "p's" if not our "q's" he asks: "Why insult the memory of Patroon Bingham, after whom the city named, by making his name appear to have been Binghamp? The city is not a 'Hampton' allied to a 'Bing' prefix. It is simply 'town', or 'ton' added to the name of the old-time proprietor of the territory now covered by the city of Binghamton." is We apologize, in the name of our map-maker, to Patroon Bingham and trust that he will be kind enough not to haunt our typographical dreams. Even the upper air To guide the aviator, the air-lanes have been mapped-in the field of finance, the roads that lead to careful investment are also marked. Our Monthly Securities List is in effect an investment chart. It represents the results of careful analysis backed by our experience and judgment, and lists only securities which we have purchased and recommend for investment. This list is yours for the asking. Send for Z-152. 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