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Contents of October Number (Continued)
A CONGRESSMAN'S FIRST BILL Victor Murdock . 545
\Vini (''i(Ox\ 'i tIn Jmiix T. SI\T(':TeI' N.
I'rha l, you ricImembilr the hlumor ,of The First Speech asi described by Ceong:L rsmtn M ur-
dck in Aulgust. I 'r e's another which gives you more idea of the inside workings of (Con-
grc;s than a dozen arti]sx. Cong'ressmatn iturdlock coms from KIansas, where' there's more
doing in politics than in any other state incidentally thev seem to 1c getting nearer real
[ Iohn T. M 'Itt lt con, ivhose cartoons illustrate this satire, is a regular contributor to the
neg:vine. h'lr is no cartoonist to-day gifted with the brains and humor of Ic (Cutcheon.
\V olx' Io ,la mak an announcement/ t soon in regard to some special new work of his.
LITTLE JOHN'S EMANCIPATION Jessamine Jones. . .
\V nt i ]Jlis .IT' r it N J. '. V. M I'.ur
.\ store, of loy life, with a teachers' kiss formilng the tragedy element! It's all vry anusing
ind rcminiscrent to us grown-ups, buit hl! how real Iitlh John's troubles were to himself.
AH-MAN. Lincoln Colcord . .
T ixil t STI ,v' ii). ('r[ xi: s. StEr i'E u.
\V'ini rl]aLs'TI I'Ons nY AnRT[UtR CoVEy.
'l'his is the first story ever published by Lino,ln (',ohord. Rlad it and see if you don't agree
that in Mr. Colcord we have found a real stor- teller. \ V have llmore stories of his. Mr. Col-
lort's fitihr was a sea captain, and he himself has made voyage;, so it's iprolale that there
is a certain foundation for all these tales of the sea that he tells. "\h-l an" is full of wild
adicnturi , and also atfords a glimpse of the inscrutable Chinese.
\rthur (', the illustrator, is also a young man. ie studied for three ' ars with IFrank
lirantgxiy , the great English d coratiVC artist, and, as will ie seen by the illustrations, Mr.
C(ovey is particularly interested in tlhe decolrative side of art. ut he:'s a realist, too look at
ithe i-t'lu oin plgl ,)60o; did you cvcr scc anything more real than the wetness of that deck?
THE CURIOSITIES OF SLEEP . Woods Hutchinson, M.D. - 567
TIhrc has always been a curious superslition among doctors that the" should not write-in-
deed, writing has ibeen sort of a breach of "the etiquette of the rofession." .'' But with the
neiw turn that medicine has taken, where less stress is laid on the curative powers of drugs
and inr on i thx intelligent lirCCntion of disease, doctors are beginning to se the advantage of
telling people all they klnow and thus b'est safeguard the public health.
" ITh ('riositics of Slee," answers all sorts of qlueStions: \\hV do shoes feel tight in the morn-
ing? \Vhy we grow ldrowsy in stuffy rooms? Why we curl iup for a nap? Are peopl e ever
buritedl alivc? Th relation of sep to i trances. itl's packed full of most interesting information.
THE EDGE OF THE FAIRY RING . Venita Seibert 57
Ix TiE )IFFiRENT 1oI'RLD.
\VITI II-ux iR.iniONs BY \-. iExD.\.
\iss Scibrt is a young Grman girl f Louisville, Kentucky, tile homi of Alice Iiegan Rice, of
"Mrs. Viggs" famin, and (George Madden Martin, whose '"'.mm Lou" and "Lettit" are
classics of child life'. It was tuhroughl those authors that we first canme to know Miss Seibert's
work. "Thc Edge of the airv Ring" is the fifth story we have published under the general
litlh "In Ilih I)iffercnt 1\ orh." all dealing with the life of the imaginative child.
iiand n rvel of miar]vels- tll' author likes the illustrations! Miss Scibert writes: "ThIe Fairy
Ring' picture- ar /xhaxrmii, and in the smallest one Mr. Benda, with hlis usual second sight,
magic or whatever oui may call it, has pictured i'The Mant' really quite as he was. I really
lovr ih illustrations all through and don't se how thv could have ben improved upon."
IN THE WONDERLAND OF DELIRIUM . . Charles Roman . 57S
\WItl IILUSTRAIOxS BY CI ('Ixs R. Nli Liy.
This record of personal C xicrict es is a rm-arkabei doc um nt. Evcr v one interested in
psychology wil want to rad it. iFortunat].v, ir. iRomanti is a trailed writer, so, unlike most
people who have vr undergone a similar Cexperience, he can put it on Lxpaper in a vivid and
Mr. Maauiv, the illustrator, is the brilliant cartoonist on the New York lI'orld. lIe
tarted as a cartoonist in (Cle 'iand, then caine to Nexw York and gave tp his time exclusively
to i lustratio n-p rhapS his best knimn illutrations are those for Poe's detective siorics. But
the cartoon continued to interest him and wheln Ixush, the famous cartoonist of thie l orid,
was. I'cause of illness, no longiil able to get out hiis daily ciirtoon, MIacaulxv' took his
plia(c -at first on trial, later permanently.
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