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THE AMEBIC AX MUSEUM JOUEXAL 



production on account of their peculiarly 

 translucent texture. Ice cream is made by 

 boiling wax and flour together, molding into 

 shape, and then cutting into portions and 

 coloring. Chocolate creams, looking tempt- 

 ingly real, are made of paraffin. About two 

 months' time was spent in the preparation of 

 this exhibit, which is designed to bring be- 

 fore the public the calorie and protein values 

 of the various foods commonly used. The 

 artist, Miss A. M. Kenaud, has been only 

 three years in this country, having taken 

 special training for her work in Euroi)e. She 

 has been connected witli the American Mu- 

 seum for about two years. 



From the battlefields of Eurojie, where he 

 Avas wounded and gassed in the treuch war- 

 fare of the Avestern front. Captain A. Ead- 

 clyffe Dugmore of the English army comes 

 to America to tell us something of the exact 

 situation and needs of our English and 

 French Allies. Captain Dugmore was an 

 active participant in the battle of the 

 Somme,, in which nearly the whole of his 

 brigade was wiped out. He himself was 

 overcome by gas on the fifteenth day. After 

 six months in the hospitals of France and 

 England, he rejoined his regiment in Eng- 

 land, but broke down again some two mouths 

 later from the effects of the Somme gas in- 

 jury and was obliged to give up the idea of 

 active military life. Caiitain Dugmore is 

 sent to this country by the British Foreign 

 Office. He says : "I shall lecture everywhere 

 in the country on the conditions on the other 

 side, Avhat the thing stands for, and what the 

 ultimate aim is. I want to show what we 

 are up against, and Avhy. I want to show 

 England's position, and particularly to rem- 

 edy certain wrong impressions, due to Ger- 

 man propaganda." When asked what he had 

 been doing at the front. Captain Dugmore 

 answered: "What all the other fellows are 

 doing — trying to miss bullets. Sometimes 

 one succeeds very well. Sometimes one does 

 not. The men are splendid. It is almost in- 

 credible Avhat they are doing there. We do 

 not have to get behind them and push them 

 to the front, nor look back to see if they are 

 coming. There is no need of urging the 

 men. They come right forward even Avhen 

 they know death is certain." He further 

 said: "If the war crushes the menace that 

 has been hanging over the liberty of the 

 world for all these years, it is worth the 

 sacrifices. Germany is fighting hard still; 



but the most gratifying thing is that since 

 the battle of the Somme opened she has 

 failed in every counterattack. She has never 

 succeeded in driving a counterattack home. 

 We drove her out of positions in France 

 which she had planned years before the war. 

 Even gas cylinders we captured bore the date 

 1912." In his lectures throughout the coun- 

 try Captain Dugmore will also tell of the 

 great part taken by the women of England, 

 of their sacrifices, and absolute unanimity of 

 purpose — in order that the men may be re- 

 leased for military duty or government Avork. 

 Nine tentlis of the mail carriers are women, 

 there are hardly any men left in the banks, 

 even the i)orters at the railway stations are 

 Avomen. 



Captain Dugmore is not imknoAvn to the 

 readers of the Journal. In March, 1916, 

 an article appeared in Avhich Avas described 

 his trip to Africa Avhen he secured for 

 America his Avonderful photographs of 

 African game. Some of these pictures have 

 appeared in the Journal, and duplicates of 

 all the negatives secured on the trip are 

 stored in the educational department of the 

 American Museum. 



Each nu'iiibcr of the staff of the American 

 Museum has been presented, through the 

 courtesy of President Henry Fairfield Os- 

 born, Avith a copy of a handbook entitled 

 niiifs to Houseivives, A\'hich has been issued 

 by Mayor Mitchel's Food Supply Committee. 

 The book is opened by a j)atriotic call to 

 houscAviA'es to do their bit toAvard solving 

 the food problem, and contains recipes for 

 cooking, for canning fruits and vegetables, 

 preserving eggs, and much useful informa- 

 tion in general on hoAv to buy and care for 

 food. 



Work is in progress on the elephant group 

 for the center of the African hall planned 

 by Mr. Carl E. Akeley. Surely there never 

 has been a scene in the past history of taxi- 

 dermy and sculpture quite comparal)le Avith 

 that today in the elephant studio of the 

 American Museum. The beasts are so gigan- 

 tic, so vast in their proportions, that the 

 Avhole visible space of the eighty-foot studio, 

 with thirty feet to the ceiling, is dominated 

 by them and the scaffolding and other para- 

 phernalia for their preparation. There are to 

 be four of these giants of the African jungle 

 in the group. The calf and young bull are 

 practically completed (photographs of them 



