Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm:

"Standing room only " in the nation's public schools. (P. 19.)

A broad belt of bubonic plague that has encircled the globe. (P. 17.)

Unfortunate interpretations of an anecdote about the late Mr. Harding. (P. 2.)

The new theatrical season on Broadway--so far a failure. (P, 14.) The unpopularity of republican government in Portugal. (P. 10.)

" The biggest graft case in German political history." (P. 9.)

Absurd hyperbole in an upstart journal. (P. 20.)

A temperamental feud between Prima Donna Jeritza and Tenor Piccaver. (P. 12.)

A sour insult to golf. (P. 20.)

Weeds on the grave of " one of the ablest men that ever sat in Congress." (P. 6.)

Unprofitable irrigation that may cost people their homes and the Government $100,000,000. (P. 3.)

A rocky coast on which a whole fleet came to grief. (P. 4.)

The murderer for whose head a 5,000 prize is offered. (P. 7.)

The World War, which still visits suffering on Israel. (P. 8.)

A vast country with barefooted children, wooden-shoed parents, poverty stricken villages. (P. 10.)