Life — August 11, 1898 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previonsly acknowledged. $3,190 Eleanor L. Hastings ... vebeseseets 1G Rand Be WORL 9 Pheip girls Ned. r. Binghamton, h Annual Wes Ruth, tinete qi Witkestarre John Jacob You!" THs fs the season “when the Red Gods call for "and, if your road t< clear before you, y geil already a rendez: vous with a velvet-footed " gulde, The smoke of the campfires ts rising In the Northern wood “The eliek of the shod ¢ is heard will have arn around the bend of the river—and tn many a camp Kipling 1s a guest of honor, because of his song of the wilderness. Many who are accustomed to keep the bunting tryst are bivouaced thls year on the hills of San tiago, “The feet of th ‘oung men” have led them on strange tratls, and the game th hunted has been man, The smoke from their campfires and from yours will meet in fellow. ship somewhere in the upper air; and a soldier In his soggy tent on the Coban hills will dream that he 1s tn camp on the Penohscot, and will shout for joy. oe . F you are going to the Canadian woods you will find entert tin * dian Folk- Life and Folk-Lore’ (Richmond), by William Parker Greenough. tts not of the made-to-order sporting b Jety, which narrates hn) stories and surprising adventures, It has to do with the interesting * halttants * of Canada who will be your grata Is of their songs and stortes, and gives some of the muste of the chansons that your trapper will sing for you as you paddie home from the evening's fishing. of these people, thelr religton, ir curious land. ire and thetr language, are written about by one who has lived among them for ten years. The book makes no pretenses, at has the spontaneous charm of an Intelligent amateur, The “winter exearsion,” which con- cludes tt, {s particularly entertatning. NOTHER kind of vacation hook Is A Tto- mance of Summet Seas” (Harper), by Miss Jefferson-Davis. It moves along the trill of a P.and 0. boat from Penang to Yokohama, with an exciting Interlude and change of boats at Hong Kong. On this voyage the P. and 0. boat carried a scaly lot of passengers. Indeed, it ts doubttal whether so many people ready to slander each other and think all manner of evil things were ever gathered on one ship—except on a pirate craft, Still, If there had not been an old maid and @ Kansas colonel, and a drummer who could start slanderous stories abont a mild-eyed, Burne- Jones maiden of eighteen, the voyage would have been without Incident, and there would not have heen any romance. Icebergs and wrecks are scarce on the Indian Ocean, and, outside of typhoons and yellow pirates, there Is litte chance for the novelist. ‘The Inherent meanness of some people comes out beautifully on shipboard, and a student of human nature has a good chance for a psychological novel. Having granted the author the privilege of choosing a mean lot of characters, she manages them very well. They display thelr victous ten- dencles in a becomingly diabolical manner, They are mean all through—except the Kansas colonel, who ts simply plg-headed. In the end, the innocent girl marries her high- minded and generous patron—which ts exactly What the gossips sald she ought fo have done before she sated from Penang. The moral seems to be: Don't start on your wediding journey before you are married! Droch, comicbooks.com