Harper's Magazine: December 1921

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December 1921

CONTENTS
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1-15	Article What Patricia heard from Tokio (part I) By Frances Little SEE ALSO: Career as missionary in Japan; Correspondence; Little, Frances; Influence; Jilson, Katherine; New Year; Tokyo; Tokyo (Japan); Women missionaries PDF IMAGES
16-26	Fiction The marriage in Kairwan By Wilbur Daniel Steele PDF IMAGES
27-34	Article The oldest case on the calendar By Meredith Nicholson SEE ALSO: Aging; Autobiographical memory; Conflict of generations PDF IMAGES
35-50	Fiction “Talk” By Francis Rufus Bellamy PDF IMAGES
50	Poem Not by the sea By Sara Teasdale PDF IMAGES
51-63	Article Behind the scenes in red Petrograd (part II) By Paul, Sir Dukes SEE ALSO: Communism; Counterrevolutionaries; Espionage, British; Revolution, 1917-1921; St. Petersburg; St. Petersburg (Russia) PDF IMAGES
64-78	Fiction The true Nelson touch By Alexander Porterfield PDF IMAGES
78	Poem Omission By Margaret Widdemer PDF IMAGES
79-89	Article Wise men from the East and wise men from the West By Abraham Mitrie Rihbany SEE ALSO: Career in diplomacy; East and West; Faysal I, King of Iraq; Mandates; 1914-1940; Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920); Syria PDF IMAGES
90-103	Fiction Mother-wings By Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman PDF IMAGES
103	Poem The specialist By Martha Haskell, Mrs. Clark PDF IMAGES
104-108	Article Romance By Laura Spencer Portor SEE ALSO: Romance (The word) PDF IMAGES
109-118	Article Working with the working woman: VI.—Pantry girl in a New York hotel By Cornelia Stratton Parker SEE ALSO: Hotels; Sexual harassment of women; Women food service employees; Work environment; Working class women PDF IMAGES
119-121	The lion's mouth/Article Wonders of success By Frank Moore Colby SEE ALSO: American periodicals; Millionaires; Success in business; Vocational guidance PDF IMAGES
121-123	The lion's mouth/Article The goon and his style By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Communication; Henty, G.A. (George Alfred); Cooper, James Fenimore; Style; Style, Literary PDF IMAGES
123-124	The lion's mouth/Article Rituals By Edwin H. Blanchard SEE ALSO: Conversation; Jargon; Weather PDF IMAGES
125-128	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Conference on the Limitation of Armament (1921-1922 : Washington, D.C.); International relations; Peace PDF IMAGES
129-130	Editor's drawer/Poem A slight anachronism By Carolyn Wells PDF IMAGES
131	Editor's drawer/Joke A Miltonic battle SEE ALSO: Conscience; Devil; Discipline of children; Gods PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke An extraordinary theft SEE ALSO: Architectural acoustics; Theatrical companies; Theft PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A difficult task SEE ALSO: General stores PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Just to keep Santa Claus from getting in bad SEE ALSO: Santa Claus; Signs and signboards PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Not untold SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Explorers; Lectures and lecturing PDF IMAGES
132	Editor's drawer/Joke No booster SEE ALSO: Automobile travel; Cities and towns; Orientation PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A true economist PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke An amended alphabet SEE ALSO: Alphabet; Home schooling; Swearing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Child welfare; International Committee of the Red Cross; Santa Claus; Toys PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke No occasion for speech SEE ALSO: Missing children; Parents; Police PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Late contrition SEE ALSO: Corporal punishment PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Somnambulism SEE ALSO: Altar prayers; Baptism; Brothers PDF IMAGES
133	Editor's drawer/Joke An undisputed authority SEE ALSO: Bostonians; Giant sequoia; Tour guides (Persons) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A natural preference SEE ALSO: Cookery (Chicken); Nutrition; Uncles PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Had proved the brand SEE ALSO: Butchers; Grocery shopping PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke The voice of sincerity SEE ALSO: Booksellers and bookselling; Colportage, subscription trade, etc. PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Animal crackers; Brothers; Grocers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A natural dilemma SEE ALSO: Boarding school students; Parents; Sons PDF IMAGES
134	Editor's drawer/Joke Intrinsic value SEE ALSO: Finance, Personal; Marketing; Money-making projects for children; Puppies PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Marketing in the country SEE ALSO: Crackers; Delivery of goods; General stores; Grocery shopping PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A worthwhile accident SEE ALSO: Disfigured persons; Faux pas; Railroad accidents; Sympathy PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Appreciation—Caricatures and cartoons; Shakespeare, William; Youth PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A zoological definition SEE ALSO: Circus animals; Definition (Logic); Hippopotamus; Teacher-student relationships PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Good and Osgood SEE ALSO: Bostonians; Genealogy; Snobs and snobbishness PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A hidden treasure SEE ALSO: Birds; Collection and preservation; Millionaires; Museum attendance; Natural history museum curators; Taxidermy PDF IMAGES
135	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Medical fees; Physicians' spouses; Surgery PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A neglected Whistler SEE ALSO: Drawing ability in children; Whistler, James McNeill PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A satisfactory answer SEE ALSO: Cotton gins and ginning; Employment interviewing; Intelligence tests; Prohibition PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Celestial laundry SEE ALSO: Clothing and dress; Heaven; Laundresses PDF IMAGES
136	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Basic needs; Luxuries; Santa Claus; Taxation; Uncle Sam (Nickname) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A long flight SEE ALSO: Angels; Aunts PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A wise precaution SEE ALSO: Cigars; Physician and patient; Tobacco habit; Treatment PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke The natural method SEE ALSO: Card players PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke No wish for a larger field SEE ALSO: Country clubs; Fathers-in-law; Husbands; Management; Used cars PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A precocious citizen SEE ALSO: Citizenship; Irish; Recruiting, enlistment, etc.; Suffrage; United States. Navy PDF IMAGES