(M ?www$HS y!iwiNw ' vWT " 't f Tr'w" . ' " ' EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERPHlLADKLrHIA, a TUESDAY, MAY 20, 191!) A fcJ& w new OOTH 1ARK3NGTON w t " p r ' v w c1 I lb K- f 1ft 1 f $r c SJS1 tx 'V - n !$l tot, Here is a stoty that will make you young again TWO inimitably funny boys and Florence, a little girl as diabolically naughty, as fascinatingly unexpected as the immortal Penrod ... If you want to know how a small town can be uprooted devastated swept from its moorings by the simple, outspoken publication of what two small boys overheard and saw then read Booth Tarkington's big new serial, "The Oriole," in the June Pictorial Review. The town of North End had been going along peacefully. Neighbors gossiped, young men "paid attention" to young ladies, young ladies "encouraged" young men in the com fortable, regular way. And then, all at once a bomb! Those two incorrigible boys, Herbert Illingsworth At water, Jr., and his friend Henry Rooter, decided to start a newspaper. Then enter Florence! You will laugh as no story ever made you laugh before. It is Booth Tarkington at his best recreating, with a master hand, the magic and soar kle of your own adventures when you were fourteen. , ; SCHOOL TEACHERS' salaries are a disgrace Sixfoil picture .'page color' s Major-General Leonard Wood A daring and unconven tional portrait, by Charles Chapman. Our Camouflaged Transports at Sea A splendid marine painting, by Frederick Waugh. "Dethroned" One of Anton Fischer's half pathetic, half humorous studies of American life. "Memorial Day, 1919" A wonderful decorative painting, by Will H. Low., N. A. C. H. Twelvetree's adorable babies Two whole pages of them, with irresistible comments by the author. libur Summer Clothes And do not forget those wonderful Summer fashions 17 pages of them 10 pages in color such as no other maga zine even attempts to give you. WORK that women carit pe hired to do ! t Do you know how seven Ameri can cities are taking the drudgery out of housework? THE biggest single industry in America the most important and yet the most backward Housework! Eighteen million women' working at it! but never any attempt to regulate hours, wages, conditions of work! Aren't you interested in what is being done to change this? Wouldn't you like to know how the drudgery can be taken out of your housework? The intelligent wife of a college professor decided to keep a chart of the time absolutely necessary for her to devote to her household of five members. It came to 16 hours of labor a day! ' No wonder women can't be hired to do this work! Read how New York City, Washington, St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Princeton and Montclair, N.J., are solving this problem. Read Katherine Glover's remarkable article in the June Pictorial Review. TEACHER, $65 a month. Colored bar ber, $30 a week. These two advertisements recently appeared, one be low the other, in a New York newspaper. Is it any wonder that our educational system is in its present ap palling condition ? In Washington, D. C, a teacher begins at $750 ayear less than $15 aweek. After rw3nr.y-.five years she may rise as high as $1300! In Chicago it is worse. The minimum salary is $600, and a teacher must work seventeen years to get $1000! In twenty-three states the average teacher gets less than $400 a year ! A real estate agent in Washington, D. C, hung out a sign, "No apartments available ' for teachers." When asked about it, he said that he had no apartments on his list that teachers could afford. A high school teacher in Illinois tried to persuade one of hisboys who hadleftschool to work in a mine, that he oughtto finish his education. The boy replied, "No, sir. Iammakingmore money without an education thanyou are making with one." Read Ida Clyde Clarke's vivid, arresting article in the June Pictorial Review an -article packed with pitiful, outrageous facts, about teachers' salaries. The second in Pictorial Review's great new series on Ameri can education. Special Subscription Offer If you live in the country or any town where there is no newsdealer, wo will enter your name on our list to receive Pictorial Review for the next six months-a speciar'gettin acquainted" opportunity-for only One Dollar. .... v..w. v iiiuuuu i .iuimi i-vcvicw win contain: Eight Hundred Smart Stylet Two'CocipIete Novell, which, when nub llihed later In book form, will cott $3 From Fifteen to Twenty.four Full-Pago Picturet In Colon to Frame Twenty Complete Short Storiei Fourteen Special Article! Send $1.00 to Pictorial Review, 222 We.t 39th Street, New York City Six to Ten Paget of Cut-Outt for tha Youngitert Twelvetrea'a Inimitable Kiddy Pictures Houtehold Hinti, New Monut Care of tha Children , The June Number- Now on Sale PICTORIAL REVIEW LARGEST 20-CENT MAGAZINE CIRCULATION IN THE WORLD America's Leading Woman's Magazine VS in : ' . f , '' jJL. " 5- r "- V Jf , i -ns mz&mm WHI&, MM , v ' Jli - 1 &v
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