of talk is that? Add an hour to your grandmother! You
subtract an hour from the time as given here. This is Eastern Standard
Time. See, it says right here: 'The time shown in this folder is Eastern
Standard Time, one hour slower than Daylight-Saving Time.' See? One hour
slower. You subtract."

"Here, you guys are both way off. I just asked one of the trainmen. The
5:56 has gone. It went at 4:20. The next train that we get is the 6:20
which goes at 5:19. Look, see here. It says 5:19 on the time-table but
that means that by your watch it is 6:19"--

"By my watch it is not 6:19. My watch I set by the clock in the station
this morning when I came in"--

"Well, the clock in the station is wrong. That is, the clock in the
station is an hour ahead of all the other clocks."

"An hour ahead? An hour behind, you mean."

"The clock in the station is an hour ahead. I know what I'm talking
about."

"Now listen, Jo. Didn't you see in the paper Monday morning"--

"Yaas, I saw in the paper Monday morning, and it said that"--

"Look, Gus. By my watch--look, Gus--listen, Gus--by my watch"--

"Aw, you and your watch! What's that got to do with it?"

"Now looka here. On this time-table it says"--

"Lissen, Eddie"--

Whatever else its publishers may say about it, the new New York Central
time-table bids fair to be the most-talked-of publication of the
season.

XLII

MR. BOK'S AMERICANIZATION

If ever you should feel important enough to write an autobiography to
give to the world, and dislike to say all the nice things about yourself
that you feel really ought to be said, just write it in the third
person. Edward Bok has done this in "The Americanization of Edward Bok"
and the effect is quite touching in its modesty.

In "An Explanation" at the beginning of the book Mr. Bok disclaims any
credit for the winning ways and remarkable success of his hero, Edward
Bok. Edward Bok, the little Dutch boy who landed in America in 1870 and
later became the editor of the greatest women's advertising medium in
the country, is an entirely different person from the Edward Bok who is
telling the story. You understand this to begin with. Otherwise you may
misjudge the author.

"I have again and again found myself," writes Mr. Bok, "watching with
intense amusement and interest the Edward Bok of this book at work....
His tastes, his outlook, his manner of looking at things were totally
at variance with my own.... He has had and has