period of six months;
1,898 of them were positive of getting a perfect bill of health.

Here are the findings:

Sixty-three were absolutely sound.

The remaining 1,937 all suffered from some defect, great or small,
which was capable of improvement.

(7)

(_Country Gentleman_)

SIMPLE ACCOUNTS FOR FARM BUSINESS

BY MORTON O. COOPER

Is your farm making money or losing it? What department is showing a
profit? What one is piling up a loss? Do you know? Not one farmer in
ten does know and it is all because not one in ten has any accounts
apart from his bankbook so he can tell at the end of the year
whether he has kept the farm or the farm has kept him.

(8)

(_The Outlook_)

AN ENFORCED VACATION

BY A CITY DWELLER

Have you, my amiable male reader, felt secretly annoyed when your
friends--probably your wife and certainly your physician--have
suggested that you cut your daily diet of Havanas in two, feeling
that your intimate acquaintance with yourself constituted you a
better judge of such matters than they? Have you felt that your
physician's advice to spend at least three-quarters of an hour at
lunch was good advice for somebody else, but that you had neither
time nor inclination for it? Have you felt that you would _like_ to
take a month's vacation, but with so many "irons in the fire" things
would go to smash if you did? Do you know what it is to lie awake at
night and plan your campaign for the following day? Then _you_ are
getting ready for an enforced vacation.

(9)

(_Leslie's Weekly_)

TAKING THE STARCH OUT OF THE MARCH

BY GERALD MYGATT

Don't most of us--that is, those of us who are unfamiliar with army
life and with things military in general--don't most of us picture
marching troops as swinging down a road in perfect step, left arms
moving in unison, rifles held smartly at the right shoulder, head
and eyes straight to the front (with never so much as a forehead
wrinkled to dislodge a mosquito or a fly), and with the band of the
fife-and-drum corps playing gaily at the head of the column? Of
course we do. Because that's the way we see them on parade.

A march is a far different thing. A march is simply the means of
getting so many men from one place to another in the quickest time
and in the best possib