Harper's Magazine: May 1917

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May 1917

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

761-772	Article The apple-tree fleet By Holman Day SEE ALSO: Sailing ships; Ship captains; Shipbuilding industry; Shipping; United States. Coast Guard PDF IMAGES
773-780	Fiction The home-coming By Achmed Abdullah PDF IMAGES
780	Poem The children By Mary Brent Whiteside PDF IMAGES
781-794	Article Some Mark Twain letters: To William Dean Howells and others By Albert Bigelow Paine SEE ALSO: Biography; Correspondence; Humorists, American; Twain, Mark; Portraits; Howells, William Dean PDF IMAGES
795-800	Fiction On duty By Elizabeth Louise Haskell PDF IMAGES
801-810	Collection The harvest of the night PDF IMAGES Article Prefatory note By Gilbert Parker SEE ALSO: American Field Service; Masefield, John; Journalists; Journeys—France; Medical care PDF IMAGES Article The harvest of the night By John Masefield SEE ALSO: Ambulance drivers; American Field Service; Medical care; Participation, American; Personal narratives, English PDF IMAGES
811-820	Fiction Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial By Fleta Campbell PDF IMAGES
821-826	Article Can democracy be efficient? By Robert W. (Robert Walter) Bruère SEE ALSO: Democracy; Employee participation; Industrial management; Management PDF IMAGES
826	Poem West wind By Alice Brown PDF IMAGES
827-836	Fiction “To love, honor, and obey” By Lily A. (Lily Augusta) Long PDF IMAGES
837-848	Article Immigrant's luck By M.E. (Marcus Eli) Ravage SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); East Side (New York, New York); Emigration and immigration; Immigrants; Peddlers and peddling; Romanians PDF IMAGES
849-862	Fiction Mr. Timmons tackles life: In three parts (part II) By Wilbur Daniel Steele PDF IMAGES
863-866	Article Fuss and feathers By John Burroughs SEE ALSO: Berkshire Hills; Bird watching; Human-animal relationships PDF IMAGES
867-876	Fiction The edge of the ripple By Stewart Edward White PDF IMAGES
877-885	Article A confession of St. Augustine (part II) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.); Saint Augustine (Fla.) PDF IMAGES
886-898	Fiction The pretender By Forrest Crissey PDF IMAGES
898	Poem Roses in the rain By Clinton Scollard PDF IMAGES
899-902	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Physician and patient; Rating of PDF IMAGES
903-904	Editor's study/Article Editor's study By Henry Mills Alden SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Howells, William Dean PDF IMAGES
905-906	Editor's drawer/Poem A prehistoric hunstman (archaeology for children) By Burges Johnson PDF IMAGES
906	Editor's drawer/Joke Keeping a secret SEE ALSO: Children's secrets; Dolls; Imagination in children PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Careful SEE ALSO: Ice PDF IMAGES
907	Editor's drawer/Joke An experiment SEE ALSO: Hospitality; Suburban life; Watchdogs PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Scientific SEE ALSO: Definition (Logic); Water PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Proved unnecessary SEE ALSO: Mountain roads; Traffic safety; Traffic signs and signals PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A scoffer SEE ALSO: Fog; Vision PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Horses; Spelling ability PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A mathematician SEE ALSO: Apples; Worms PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Economy SEE ALSO: Brothers; Children and sex; Infants (Newborn); Mail-order business; Twins PDF IMAGES
908	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Church attendance; Discipline of children PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Saw him first SEE ALSO: Fugitives from justice; Quakers; Sheriffs PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A case of indigestion SEE ALSO: Fathers; Moses (Biblical leader); Tablets (Medicine); Tablets (Paleography) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A poser for the cook SEE ALSO: African American waiters; Cookery (Eggs); New Yorkers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke True to herself SEE ALSO: Burns and scalds; Porridge; Table etiquette PDF IMAGES
909	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: City children; Farm life; Wells PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke No time lost SEE ALSO: Feeding and feeds; Pocket watches; Rural children; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses; Swine; Warranty PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A halt for repairs SEE ALSO: Hit-and-run drivers; Maintenance and repair PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Feeding and feeds; Tigers; Zoo animals; Zoo visitors PDF IMAGES
910	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Body image in women; Poor women PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Safety first SEE ALSO: Delivery of goods; Tardiness PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon The optimist SEE ALSO: Hit-and-run drivers; Optimism; Traffic accident victims PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Not important SEE ALSO: Doorbells; Malapropisms; Orientation PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke On the wrong track SEE ALSO: Boys' clothing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke True to life SEE ALSO: Collection agents; Doorbells; Mother and child; Role playing in children PDF IMAGES
911	Editor's drawer/Joke Wasted instruction SEE ALSO: Etiquette for boys; Table etiquette PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A sensible question SEE ALSO: Entertaining; Farewells PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A pathetic inquiry SEE ALSO: Suffragists PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke An Oriental aroma SEE ALSO: Egypt; Humor; Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke High authority SEE ALSO: Definition (Logic); Humor—Quotations; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A varied diet SEE ALSO: Boardinghouses; Food service PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A new definition SEE ALSO: Definition (Logic); Flirting PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Shopping for baby SEE ALSO: Animal crackers; Grocers; Grocery shopping; Mother and infant PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Well provided SEE ALSO: Absent-mindedness; Collection agents; Debtor and creditor; Finance, Personal; Husbands PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Automobile drivers; Maintenance and repair; Velocipedes PDF IMAGES
912	Editor's drawer/Cartoon To let—at an early date—bachelor apartment SEE ALSO: Apartments; Bachelors; Betrothal PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem The ballade By W.T. (William Trowbridge) Larned PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Non-alcoholic SEE ALSO: Alcoholic beverages; Alphabetizing; Castor oil; Exercises, recitations, etc.; Societies, etc.; Sunday schools; Temperance PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A damaged flock SEE ALSO: Pull toys; Sheep ranches PDF IMAGES