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These will be the issues of May 11 and 25 June 8 and 22 :: :: July 6 The issue of May 25 will be the special annual travel and resort number containing articles on vacation subjects and illustrations especially selected. The corresponding issue of 1920 carried 198 advertisements of hotels and resorts. WRITE US EARLY AND WE WILL BE GLAD TO GIVE YOU COPY SUGGESTIONS Department of Classified Advertising THE BY THE WAY HERE is one bill which, a friend of The Outlook writes, is paid almost with pleasure. It is a bill for insurance on a small sailboat, and the pleasure is derived from the language in which the insurance policy is couched. Who would not thrill at entering upon a contract with a firm which describes its responsibilities in the following words? "TouchING the adventures and perils which we, the said Assurers, are contented to bear and take upon us, they are of the Seas, Men-of-War, Fire, Enemies, Pirates, Rovers, Thieves, Jettisons, Letters of Mart and Countermart, Surprisals, Takings at Sea, Arrests, Restraints and Detainments of all Kings, Princes, and Peoples of what nation, condition or quality soever." Can any lawyer supply us with the origin of these phrases? Do they date from the time of the Phoenicians or only from that of Christopher Columbus? Melville E. Stone, the well-known newspaper man, tells in "Collier's" the story of a famous phrase attributed to Mr. William H. Vanderbilt-"The public be damned." According to Mr. Stone, the phrase was used in exasperation against a reporter, not in contempt of the public. The persistent reporter got into Mr. Vanderbilt's private car while he was at dinner and demanded an interview. "Well, sit down at the other end of the car until I have finished dinner, and I will talk with you," pleaded the victim. "But," said the reporter, "it is late and I will not reach the office in time. The public-" "The public be damned!" ejaculated the infuriated diner; "you get out of here!" Out of this expostulation, says Mr. Stone, the reporter made his sensational interview, which did the railways incalculable damage. Unlucky vessels, sometimes called "hoodoo" ships, are soon spotted by underwriters, according to "Syren and Shipping," and the owners find it diffcult to get them insured. An accident during a launching is often taken by seamen as a sure sign of an unfortunate career. An instance cited is the Daphne, which turned turtle while she was being launched and drowned over a hundred men. Though her name was changed more than once in the hope of averting her misfortunes, she remained "unlucky" until she was finally sunk. According to the American Library Association, Zane Grey and Julius Cæsar are the two authors most popular among the doughboys of the American Army of Occupation on the Rhine Translations of the "Gallic Wars" run second to Mr. Grey's tales of Western adventure. The ruins of the bridge Cæsar built near Coblenz have lifted his writings out of the schoolbook class, in the eyes of the soldiers. The world's record in mountain-climb The Outlook Company, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City ing is held by the Duke of the Abrum who climbed 24,600 feet up the sides d Mount Godwin-Austen in the Himalayas, though he failed to reach the mountain's I summit. This record may soon be exIcelled by the prospective British expedition which is to attempt the ascent of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, estimated to be 29,141 feet high. Among women mountain-climbers, Mrs. Fanny Bullock-Workman holds the record in her ascent of 23,300 feet on one of the Nun Kun peaks in India. A "footnote to history" in a recent book says that the numerous "Bristol Hotels" in Europe get their name from the fourth Earl of Bristol, a well-known epicure, who always picked out the best hotel in any resort he patronized, which came to be known as "Lord Bristol's hotel" and finally gave vogue to the name "Hotel Bristol." Whether this is a true explanation or not, a glance through "Bradshaw's" shows at least a dozen "Hotel Bristols" in leading resorts on the Continent. "What is the matter with your face?" a well-known actress was asked by a friend who met her as she was coming from a photographer's, according to the "Dramatic Mirror;" "you look drawn and out of focus." "Well, why shouldn't I?" was the reply; "I have just had. some art photographs taken and I am trying to look like them." Mrs. Pepys, the "poor wretch" who Occasionally suffered from the frankness of her husband in his celebrated Diary, gets her revenge in the pages of the "Atlantic" this month, to which E. Bar-ington contributes some extracts from er "Diurnal." Here is a sample: Weary to bed, Saml starting up in the night with Nightmare [after a truly Pepysian feast] not knowing what he did, and did so shreeke and cry that the Mayds in affright did run in, and the Watchman called to know was any poor Soul murthered within. But this no more than my Expectation, and so quietly to sleep. "After the feast, a famine." The sayng might well apply to a multitude of eamen in the port of New York, who uring the war were getting higher ages than ever before and now are idle nd some of them destitute. Twenty housand sailors, the largest percentage I them Scandinavian, are said to be us stranded, their ships being unable obtain return cargoes at the present me. There is no stranger tomb in England, correspondent of the New York Times" says, than that of Sir Richard urton, the famous traveler, in the metery at Mortlake. "It is of white arble, and is fashioned as an Arab nt decorated with a crucifix. Within an altar, and Mr. Thomas Wright in s Life of Burton completes the picre thus: 'Sir Richard's sarcophagus es to one's left, and on the right has nce been placed the coffin of Lady Burn, while over all hang ropes of camel lls, which when struck give out the d metallic sound that Sir Richard eard so often in the desert.'" A Cash Offer for Cash payment, from $1 to $5, will promptly be made to our readers who send us a cartoon or photograph accepted by The Outlook. We want to see the best cartoons published in your local papers, and the most interesting and newsy pictures you may own. Read carefully the coupons below for conditions governing payment. Then fill in the coupon, paste it on the back of the cartoon or print, and mail to us. THE EDITORS OF THE OUTLOOK, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York Makes Sturdy, The delicate stomachs and organs of elimination of growing children need careful attention at the first signs of derangement. 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Gough in The Outlook for Feb ruary 16, referred to the organization of the Washington Total Abstinence Society in 1840, and added, "This was, I believe, the first total abstinence society organized in America." Three readers have sent us account of such societies organized earlier than that date. One of these societies is mentioned by the Rev. Clifford H. Smith, of Ludlow, Vermont, who writes that he has in his possession the record book of "the Pitts ford Temperance Society," organized a Pittsford, Vermont, April 9, 1828. T members promised to abstain from arder: spirits except as medicine, to refuse the use of them in their households, and to discountenance their use in the community. This society continued until 1893. Another society, organized only a few months later, namely, about October 1, 1828, based on principles of total abstinence from ardent spirits except as medicine, is described in a letter from Fred E. Brooks, of French Creek, West Virginia, where that society was formed. Two earlier societies, however, are mentioned by Charles T. Andrews, of South Bend, Indiana. These are described by him, in a letter to us, as follows: "First, the Rev. Lyman Beecher, pastor of a church at Litchfield, Connecticut, about 1815 organized a total abstinence society of which my father, Richard Andrews, then eighteen years of age, was a charter member; second, in 1816 what has later been known as the 'Hector Town Temperance Society' was organized in the pioneer settlement of Hector, then Tompkins, but since Schuyler County, New York, on the east shores of Seneca Lake. "This society, singularly enough, was formed in the barroom of a country tavern. The farmers thereabouts had been in the habit of meeting Saturday evenings and taking what Burns calls & 'cup of kindness' while chatting over the news of the week. On a certai: night one of them said: 'We are having boys growing up. While we do not fer bad effects from our whisky, it may n be safe for them to follow our exampl I suggest that we agree totally to atstain from intoxicating liquors.' Others favored his suggestion, and that nigh they drew up and signed a pledge whic most of them kept faithfully. "I well remember the old 'taver transformed into a farmhouse. I also was personally acquainted with two of the 'charter members, Chauncy and Caleb Smith. The society has contince! to this day. It has annual meetings, a in 1916 celebrated its centenary. "To my knowledge, it often exerted : salutary influence by securing the elec tion of 'no-license' town officials, the making Hector 'dry.' "I am inclined to believe that the old est total abstinence society in the world is the Hector Town Temperance Soci in Schuyler County, New York." |