Harper's Magazine: December 1918

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December 1918

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1-13	Fiction The broken soldier and the maid of France By Henry Van Dyke PDF IMAGES
14-24	Article The new simplicity By Katharine Fullerton Gerould SEE ALSO: Cost and standard of living PDF IMAGES
25-37	Fiction A spree d'esprit By Sophie Kerr PDF IMAGES
38-45	Article Dinner-tables of the nation By Elizabeth Miner King SEE ALSO: Food conservation; Food service employees; Self-denial PDF IMAGES
46-52	Fiction The Golden Mountain By Elsie Singmaster PDF IMAGES
53-63	Article Christmas in a Y.M.C.A. hut on the Russian front By Richard Orland Atkinson SEE ALSO: Military discipline; Military life; Personal narratives, American; Revolution, 1917-1921; Russia. Army; War work; Y.M.C.A. PDF IMAGES
64-77	Article Other folks' harbors By Mary Heaton Vorse SEE ALSO: Boating for women; Boats and boating; Buzzards Bay; Martha's Vineyard (Mass.); Nantucket Island (Mass.); Yachting PDF IMAGES
77	Poem Their victory won By Florence Earle Coates PDF IMAGES
78-86	Fiction Overnight By Charles Caldwell Dobie PDF IMAGES
87-93	Article “Transport 106” By Henry Seidel Canby SEE ALSO: International relations; 1900-1945; Personal narratives, American; Transatlantic voyages; Transports; World politics PDF IMAGES
94-110	Fiction Crater's gold: A novel (V-X) By Philip Everett Curtiss PDF IMAGES
111-122	Fiction Lost-Lady Trail By Sarah Comstock PDF IMAGES
123-127	Article The Laocoon of the shoe-lacings By Robert Palfrey Utter SEE ALSO: Discipline; Imagination; Laocoön (Legendary character); Suicide victims PDF IMAGES
128-133	Fiction The white horse By Armistead C. (Armistead Churchill) Gordon PDF IMAGES
134-136	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Abraham Lincoln (Book); Aristocracy (Social class); Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron; Foreign public opinion, American PDF IMAGES
137-140	Editor's drawer/Poem The rime of the Lady May By Carolyn Wells PDF IMAGES
140	Editor's drawer/Joke The rule that worked both ways SEE ALSO: Grandparent and child; Intergenerational relations PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Didn't recognize him SEE ALSO: Church attendance; Corporeality; Gods PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A Sherlock Holmes decision SEE ALSO: Cross-examination; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); Parodies, imitations, etc.; Sex differences (Psychology); Telegraph; Trials (Forgery) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Reassuring SEE ALSO: Bathrooms; Boardinghouses; Butlers; Privacy PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Fortune's favorite SEE ALSO: Brokers; Common sense; Fortune PDF IMAGES
141	Editor's drawer/Cartoon The girl they left behind them SEE ALSO: Statue of Liberty (New York, New York); Transports PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Juvenile philology SEE ALSO: English philology; Suffixes and prefixes; Umbrellas and parasols PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Waiting on appetite SEE ALSO: Ethiopia; Excuses; Ship captains PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke The efficiency of lightning SEE ALSO: Folklore; Lightning; Montana; Pioneers; Thunderstorms PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Feared the Greeks bearing gifts SEE ALSO: African American women cooks; Compliments; Richmond; Skepticism PDF IMAGES
142	Editor's drawer/Joke A reasonable request SEE ALSO: Dairy farmers; Milk; Quality; Westchester County; Women consumers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A pertinent question SEE ALSO: Food service; Middle West PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Slacker skyscrapers SEE ALSO: Control; Fog; Skyscrapers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Seeking the best terms SEE ALSO: Coeducation; College discipline; Fines (Penalties) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Communism; Examination; Eye; Ophthalmologists; Recruiting, enlistment, etc. PDF IMAGES
143	Editor's drawer/Joke Worth considering SEE ALSO: Cost and standard of living; Gifts; Grandparent and child; Marriage customs and rites; Rice PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A good beginning SEE ALSO: Basic training (Military education); Target practice PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Why he reformed SEE ALSO: Aged men; Chicken stealing; Converts PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A mystery SEE ALSO: Bereavement; Control; Insect pests; Mourning customs PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Peculiar qualifications SEE ALSO: Recruiting and enlistment; Speech errors; Sunday school superintendents PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Excellent reason SEE ALSO: Civil service; Examinations; Fire fighters; Job hunting PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Doing her bit SEE ALSO: Instruction and study; Juvenile; Patriotism; Piano; “The star-spangled banner” (Song) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem The treacherous tree By L.E. Copinger PDF IMAGES
144	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Wild duck SEE ALSO: Duck shooting; Trench helmets PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Making it emphatic SEE ALSO: Love-letters; Telegraph PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke By indirection SEE ALSO: Marriage proposals PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Sparing his feelings SEE ALSO: Entertaining; Rabbit hunting PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Overdoing it SEE ALSO: After-dinner speeches; Farm life; Recreation; Rural children PDF IMAGES
145-154	Business and financial/Article A peace of victory: Its import and its prospects By John Grant Dater SEE ALSO: Peace PDF IMAGES