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April 1917

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610-694	Fiction A surprise in perspective By Floy Tolbert Barnard PDF IMAGES
611-619	Article The safe and useful aeroplane: An interview with Orville Wright By Burton Jesse Hendrick SEE ALSO: Aeronautics; Aeronautics and civilization; Aeronautics, Commercial; Aeronautics, Military; Air pilots; Interviews; Inventors; Wright, Orville; Safety measures PDF IMAGES
619	Poem My heart is very quiet By Margaret Widdemer PDF IMAGES
620-635	Fiction Mr. Timmons tackles life: In three parts (part I) By Wilbur Daniel Steele PDF IMAGES
636-644	Fiction Laughter By Charles Caldwell Dobie PDF IMAGES
644	Poem The great poets By Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones PDF IMAGES
645-657	Article French battle-fields of yesterday By Louise Closser Hale SEE ALSO: Compiègne; Compiègne (France); Medical care; Military hospitals; Personal narratives, American; Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 PDF IMAGES
658-665	Article My plunge into the slums By M.E. (Marcus Eli) Ravage SEE ALSO: Americanization; East Side (New York, New York); Emigration and immigration; Immigrants; Romanians; Slums PDF IMAGES
666-679	Fiction Rods of the law By Robert Welles Ritchie PDF IMAGES
680-688	Article A confession of St. Augustine (part I) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.); Saint Augustine (Fla.) PDF IMAGES
688	Poem The lost paradise By Richard Le Gallienne PDF IMAGES
695-706	Fiction The infant tenderness By Eloise Robinson PDF IMAGES
707-714	Article What is the matter with the American chemist? By L.H. (Leo Hendrik) Baekeland SEE ALSO: Chemistry, Technical; Chemists; Dependency on foreign countries; Textile industry PDF IMAGES
715-722	Fiction Nemesis By Alice Brown PDF IMAGES
723-731	Article Black Mardi Gras By Frederic Abildgaard Fenger SEE ALSO: Carnival; Grenada; Grenadians; Riots PDF IMAGES
732-745	Fiction The idealist By Laura Spencer Portor PDF IMAGES
746-749	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: American poetry; Literature and society PDF IMAGES
750-752	Editor's study/Review Editor's study By Henry Mills Alden SEE ALSO: American books abroad; American literature; Pencraft; a plea for the older ways (Book); Watson, William PDF IMAGES
753-756	Editor's drawer/Poem Dutchman's quirk: A New York legend By Arthur Guiterman PDF IMAGES
756	Editor's drawer/Joke Just the one SEE ALSO: Employment interviewing; Nannies PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke All of one mind SEE ALSO: Deacons; Last words; Misers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A change for the worse SEE ALSO: Christian giving; Finance, Personal; Quality of life; Sunday school superintendents PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Misdirected energy SEE ALSO: Children and the aged; Gray hair; Sewing; Uncles PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke The usual solution SEE ALSO: Grandmothers; Mothers-in-law; Onomasiology PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Hardly fair SEE ALSO: Orthography and spelling PDF IMAGES
757	Editor's drawer/Joke Feminine logic SEE ALSO: Balls (Parties); Effect of husband's employment on; Hours of labor; Husbands; Sleep-wake cycle PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Fish scales SEE ALSO: Birth weight; Fishers; Fishes; Infants (Newborn); Long Island; Scales (Weighing instruments); Weight PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Discipline of children; Hand-to-hand fighting PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Children and sex; Mother and infant PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke English as she is spoke SEE ALSO: Baths; East (U.S.); French teachers; Pronunciation by foreign speakers; Speech errors; Sponges PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A quixotic error SEE ALSO: City children; Fans (Machinery); Farm life; Windmills PDF IMAGES
758	Editor's drawer/Illustration A voice from the past By P.D. Johnson SEE ALSO: Hymns; Memory; Young men PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Richly endowed SEE ALSO: Gifted persons; Gifts; Sons PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke The guilty party SEE ALSO: Kindergarten; Kissing; Meteorology; Railroad conductors; Winds PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke An ancient legend SEE ALSO: Hotelkeepers; Legends; Pies; Pride and vanity; Taverns (Inns); Westerners PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A wise child SEE ALSO: Aunts; Boys' clothing; Definition (Logic) PDF IMAGES
759	Editor's drawer/Joke A New-Year reduction SEE ALSO: Markdowns; School reports PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A necessary delay SEE ALSO: Abusive men; African American women PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A grave misapprehension SEE ALSO: Cemeteries; Chess sets; Show windows PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Dangerous proximity SEE ALSO: Eruption; Mother and infant; Teeth PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A change of heart SEE ALSO: Human-animal relationships; Marriage proposals; Mortality; Rejection (Psychology) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A mother's recommendation SEE ALSO: School discipline PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Playmates; Truthfulness and falsehood in children PDF IMAGES
760	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Entertaining; Suburban life PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Too far in the lead SEE ALSO: Birthdays; First-born children PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A far cry SEE ALSO: Crying in infants; Father and infant; Infants (Newborn) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Loyalty SEE ALSO: Niagara Falls; Niagara Falls (New York and Ont.) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Protecting the natives SEE ALSO: Clerks (Retail trade); Drugstores; Training of PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Not a business child SEE ALSO: Beggars; Truthfulness and falsehood in children PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke No discount SEE ALSO: Baldness; Barbering; Barbers; Wages PDF IMAGES