"Pouf! I don't need any overcoat!" the Colonel cried disdainfully, feeling himself warmed by the old spirit of 1861, which had been fanned into a comforting glow by the new spirit of 1917. "Yes, you do, Roger, for I heard you coughing only yesterday!--and you remember what I promised Marian!" "I will, if you put on your muffler, Amos!" "Oh, very well. But what I started to say is, that--while I don't make a practice of it--I think we're entitled to go to the hotel for a small--er-a! Then we'll walk out Main street, and take this good news to the little aunts!" "And some flowers, Amos! Tulips, if we can find any--a big bunch of 'em!" THE END * * * * * Of all the charming books that may come forth this year, none will be more welcome than GEORGINA'S SERVICE STARS By Annie Fellows Johnston TO BE PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1st In it will be found a new story of beloved Georgina whose Rainbow adventures led into her tenth year. Now she is older--sweet sixteen, if you please--and Richard, her playmate of childhood days, is a grown man of seventeen--and as devoted as ever. Of course he got into the great war enough to give Georgina a second star to her service flag; her father, being a famous surgeon, his star is rightfully at the top. But watch out for Richard! (Beautifully illustrated. $1.35 net.) AS USUAL--FOR ALL THE FAMILY +-------------------------------------------------+ | GEORGINA of the | | RAINBOWS | |Now selling in beautiful popular edition, 60 cts.| +-------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * He has written another one--and it is as good as his famous book "Laugh and Live" MAKING LIFE WORTH WHILE --that the title of _Douglas Fairbanks'_ new book to be published in early autumn It is written in his own inimitable style--another book of inspiration for people of all ages and either sex--a new vein of optimistic cheer for us mortals of a war-worn world--another message from the man who knows how to keep himself happy and well, and who is willing to pass his recipe on to others. _His book makes for Success Everybody will want it_ 12mo.--Beautifully Illustrated with 16 New Photographic Duotones Cloth, $1.00 Khaki, $1.00 Leather, $2.00 Ooze, $2.50 To be published September 1 * * * * * Over the Seas for Uncle Sam By ELAINE STERNE, Author of "The Road of Ambition"