About this book
Twenty one articles each month from leading magazines - Each article of enduring value and interest, in condensed and compact form. A most convenient means of “keeping one’s information account open” —of reading stimulating articles on a wide variety of subjects. - Summary by From the title / front page
Chapters (32)
1Remarkable Remarks
2Throwing Away Our Birthright
3A New South. The Boll-Weevil Era Condensed from The Atlantic Monthly by E. T. H. SHAFFER
4The Kiss Digested from The Forum by EMILE MALESPINE
5What Patricia Heard From Tokio Excerpts from Harper’s Magazine by FRANCES LITTLE
6What Makes People Laugh? Condensed from The World’s Work by CHARLIE CHAPLIN
7Scientific Progress of the Year 1921 Condensed from Scientific American
8The Truth About Vivisection Excerpts from Woman’s Home Companion by ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES
9Our Common Lot
10Adventure Excerpts from Good Housekeeping by KATHARINE EGGLESTON ROBERTS
11Fair Play for the World Summarized from The Outlook by KATHERINE MAYO
12A Princess in Exile Condensed from Pictorial Review by PRINCESS MANICH MOURADIAN
13The Woman Who Should Marry A Condensation from Good Housekeeping by ANNE SHANNON MONROE
14Have You Any Idea How You Sound When You Speak? by FRED C. KELLY IN McCLURE’S MAGAZINE
15Useful Points in Judging People
16Human Nature and Industrial Conflict
17Cities With Junior Government
18Theodore Roosevelt, the Father by HERMAN HAGEDORN
19What Interests People?
20The Farmer and His Troubles by HENRY C. WALLACE
21Music---How It Affects Your Health Condensed from Physical Culture by CHARLES D. ISAACSON
22Sold A condensation from The New Republic by ROBERT COLLYER WASHBURN
23The Wonders of the Firmament Excerpts from the National Geographic Magazine by WILLIAM JOSEPH SHOWALTER
24About Clothes
25$40,000 For a Hog. How Much For Your Child?
26How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by ARNOLD BENNETT
27The Picturesque Gypsies
28Taking the Water out of the Cost of Living Abstracted from the Popular Science Monthly by JAMES H. COLLINS
29When Spiders Fly Digested from Country Life by AGNES L. B. KING
30“What Fools We Mortals Be” The gist of an article in Success by ORISON SWETT MARDEN
31History and the Limitation of Armaments
32The Art of Opening a Conversation Condensed from Vanity Fair by STEPHEN LEACOCK
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