moment, barking and looking up at me as if I were holding up some tempting morsel for him to spring for. He evidently saw or felt something that excited him. Did he see the light on the beggar's grass, I wonder, or did he feel the vibrations of my ecstasy? Perhaps all created things are part of one great whole. Perhaps little brown sparrows, little white dogs, internes, nurses, convalescing gentlemen, and old ladies are cosmic cousins, capable of a responsive family sympathy. I have never spoken to any one of these wonderful and beautiful experiences, because I felt no one would understand. They were very vivid, but now that I have put them into words, they seem very colorless. Language is so blurring to any attempted picture of the deep things of the spirit. I feel that I ought to apologize because, having found one to understand, I have spoken. Yet, why should not spies who have seen the Promised Land compare their bunches of grapes on their return? Louis-Octave Philippe has been through deep waters since writing his memorable article, With the Iron Division at Verdun,' which was printed in the October Atlantic. A friend in Paris writes that he went unscathed through the thick of the great Somme offensive, but, as he was getting his cannon into position in a front trench, preparatory to the third attack, a German sniper sent a bullet through his left shoulder. When last heard from, he was convalescing at the Hôpital Boucicaut, in Paris. He has been promoted to sergeant, and has received a citation before the whole army, which will entitle him to wear the palme on the croir de guerre which he had already won. Readers of the Canadian Captain's story of The Trench-Raiders' will be glad to share the contents of a letter from Ontario, informing the Editor that 'Captain M. has been honored with another decoration for work at the Somme a Military Cross this time.' An English contributor writes to the Atlantic a letter which has a million parallels in English homes to-day: My eldest son has just been home for a week's leave. In a recent attack he was one of two officers, out of eighteen in the battalion, who came through. He was three times buried by shell-fire. and his clothes were shot to rags. For forty-eight hours he held the captured position under direct bombardment, commanding the remnants of his own and another battalion which had lost its officers. I am proud to say that they decorated him with the Military Cross. This is the third great attack which he has survived, and I am as thankful as a little child. As to him, he is an absolute fatalist. Subscribe for the Atlantic on the Attached Coupon A.M. 1-17 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY CO. 3 Park St., Boston. Date Gentlemen: Enclosed find $4.00 for my subscription to the Atlantic Monthly for one year beginning. JOHN MARSHALL Lindsay Swift, in the Boston Transcript, says: "John Marshall stands in the foremost rank with Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin, and at last we have an adequate, a monumental, study of his great career. . . . If there is, since the publication of Nicolay and Hay's Lincoln, a sounder piece of political biography, we do not at this moment recall it. . . . For breadth of conception and brilliance of description it has hardly its equal in American historical writing. . . . It is written with extreme care, and, as far as we can see, with great accuracy. The language is elevated, of distinction, and at times thrilling. The assemblage of authorities and the use made of them are marvelous. One scholar has already said that it is the 'best documentated work of American history yet issued.' And above all things, it is readable. The print is fair to look upon, and easy to read; the illustrations and facsimiles are the best work of their kind. Altogether an agreeable pasture in which to browse as the winter's winds howl outside and the fire glows within." ¶ "As full of color and incident as a historical romance.” - Baltimore Sun. འ "The Beveridge 'Marshall' deserves to rank among the great American biographies." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Fills in the most remarkable way the need of a definitive biography that will stand for all time. . . . The two volumes are vividly interesting from the first page to the last." Dr. Albert Shaw in the American Review of Reviews. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. 2 volumes now ready. $8.00 net. CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL TO DAY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 4 PARK ST., BOSTON Enclosed find $8.00, for which please send to address below Albert J. Beveridge's Life of John Marshall. the soup of the epicure Everybody likes good soup! Good soup is one of the precious pleasures of eating. But what a pitiful, weak and well-nigh tasteless product much soup is! Many cooks, otherwise competent, fail in making soup. They make it from odds and ends or they do not take it seriously-hurry it through. Have your soup good! Have it good every time! Have it so that the cook can't fail! Have Franco-American Soup! If you were to have Ox Tail Soup, thick, made at home, would it represent days and days of patient searching of the market (as we do) to obtain beef that will yield the richest juices, ox tails of choicest, meatiest quality, tomatoes and carrots and onions and turnips and celery and barley that shall actually be the choicest grown? And would your cook's method of combining these betray (like ours) a whole life-time-and more-spent in the art and the practice of making fine soup? No. Then why not a Franco-American order to your grocer? Twenty cents the can-Double size, thirty-five cents Merely heat before serving The Crimes We Commit Against Our Stomachs EUGENE CHRISTIAN By Arthur True Buswell, M. D. A MAN'S success in life depends more on the co-operation of his stomach than on any other factor. Just as an "army moves on its stomach" so does the individual. Scientists tell us that 90% of all sickness is traceable to the digestive tract. Physical efficiency is the backbone of mental efficiency. Unless our stomachs are effectively performing their functions in the way Nature intended, we can't be physically fit. And unless we're physically fit, we can't be thoroughly successful. As Dr. Orison Swett Marden, the noted writer, says, "the brain gets an immense amount of credit which really should go to the stomach." And it's true-keep the digestive system in shape and brain vitality is assured. Of course, there are successful men who have weak digestions, but they are exceptions to the rule. They succeeded in spite of their physical condition. Ten times the success would undoubtedly be theirs if they had the backing of a strong physique and a perfect stomach. There are a thousand men who owe their success in life to a good digestion to every one who succeeded in spite of a poor digestion and the many ills it leads to. The cause of practically all stomach disordersand remember, stomach disorders lead to 90% of all sickness-is wrong eating. Food is the fuel of the human system, yet some of the combinations of food we put into our systems are as dangerous as dynamite, soggy wood and a little coal would be in a furnace and just about as effective. Is it any wonder that the average life of man today is but 39 years-and that diseases of the stomach, liver and kidneys have increased 103% during the past few years! The trouble is that no one has, until recently, given any study to the question of food and its relation to the human body. Very often one good harmless food when eaten in combination with other harmless foods creates a chemical reaction in the stomach and literally explodes giving off dangerous toxics which enter the blood and slowly poison our entire system, sapping our vi and depleting our efficiency in the meantime. And yet just as wrong food selections combinations will destroy our health and efficer so will the right foods create and maintain beng vigor and mental energy. And by right food do not mean freak foods-just good, every foods properly combined. In fact, to h Corrective Eating it isn't even necessary to your table. Not long ago I had a talk with Eugene C tian, the noted food scientist, and he told of some of his experiences in the treatment disease through food. Incidentally Ex Christian has personally treated over a people for almost every non-organic a known with almost unvaried success. An enva record when one considers that people ne always go to him after every other known ne has failed. One case which interested me greatly that of a young business man whose efficiency been practically wrecked through stomach aci fermentation and constipation resulting in phy sluggishness which was naturally reflected ability to use his mind. He was twenty po under weight when he first went to see Chris and was so nervous he couldn't sleep. Sto and intestinal gases were so severe that they c irregular heart action and often fits of great me depression. As Christian describes it he was 50% efficient either mentally or physically. Ye a few days, by following Christian's suggesti to food, his constipation had completely although he had formerly been in the hab taking large daily doses of a strong cathri In five weeks every abnormal symptom had appeared his weight having increased 6 pou In addition to this he acquired a store of phys and mental energy so great in comparison his former self as to almost belie the fact the was the same man. Another instance of what proper food comm tions can do was that of a man one hundred pos overweight whose only other discomfort rheumatism. This man's greatest pleasure i was eating. Though convinced of the necessity hesitated for months to go under treatme |