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fly Vitt glitEN 11110311COOLI: TIIE NASHVILLE BANNER SUNDAY JULY 17 1932 LITIAIRY GOSSIP Jr 4 fly WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLE (11 IlEART OF A WIFE Hy ADITIL UM( )N (ropvtigh I I NPvitpaper reattire er is 1 I i 4 THE NASI1V11LI: BANNER SUNDAY J111' 17 1932 oi-----7 LITEIURY GOSSIP 1 -1 4 1 71 1 r-7-71 17) rk 7 i 't- 71 OF ist Witi'li: -f- rir 0 rr" (7 I Ak- wil liA aee el 1 -1L01 i 1 1 1 1 i 1 -e I A 1 l'' f'71 A 10 A -a 444 'A a( '-i tir 3ii) 1 ropvtgh 1 I Hy ADLIIL (AittilS()N (tt lea Nwspaper restte a Bervio toe IIV 111111114 ALLEN Illt011f()(111: fly WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLII 1 I I1 100 MOTHYR CR All AkM TYRANNTCAI IN 1 HER CAPI11ATZi 1PORE APOLOWES 1 PORE MA)ULS citillitt 100 Western and Atlantic Railroad Of the State of Georgia Ilie Messenger Messenger By 'AWL AL 1IN DRO1G001 10 0 A messenger Caine to the Master's gate Twas noon of a summer-still day: The messenger rode with a wInd-swilt haste Rode down the King's highway All stern and soundless and sure his speed And sure and soundless his snow-white steed Coward-McCann publishers head a interesting fall list of new books with Waking the Dusk" by Webb The publication la announced for July 20 The largest book ever put into braille di be Albert Beveridge a 'Life rif John Marshall" One of the outstanding blograriblea on the Houghton Mifflin list It will require approximately 4 IMO braille pages bound in twerity four large volumes four more than re (lofted from the Nellie reproduction of the text of the Bible Theme Williamson's new juvenile "On the Reindeer Trail" la the story of two boys who tend a reindeer herd at ita inland pasture with the help of an Eskimo herder throughoul the Alasken winter Published by Houghton Mifflin Company It is a July selection of the Junior Literary Guild Mr IN 111111KM'S othrr books for bma are The Flood-Fighters" and "Opening Davy Jones' Locker" Oliver Is Farge author of the recent novel "Hoch Fly Upwarti" Is to conduct a seminar in fiction-writing at the third annual Writers Conference Pt the University of Colorado July 25 to August 11 Mr La first novel "Laughing Hoy" 11 nearing screen production Carl Lamm' Jr having already assigned the part of the heroine Oirl" to Zits Johann The modern American who la being warned (billy admit the devastating tmpo of our age might find vicarious consolation in a story told by Mal Jarvis in his new book "Ifeaterday and Today in Mina!" (Houghton Mifflin Company) For the Arab he says "time has no significant whatsoever I came across a case once In which a camel bad been stolen and the owners suspecting that It had been taken to the Nile Valley walked from Cairo to Kent a matter of 350 nines carefully inspecting every camel on both sides of the river till eighteen months later they discovered It Che camel Incidentally Was worth about pounds nn pnblinhera head an Intemsting fall list of new books with the Dttett" by 1 Webb The publication la announced lot July 20 The largeet book ever put Into braille 1411 be Albert Beveridge' 'Lite of lat Melthell" one Of the outetending dealt Engineer before the Lelia lative Commiasion that Inveettaated the claims of the Western and Atlantic The report shows that during the Mgt eighteen months of the Lease the Lessees expended something slightly lem than half million donate On Improvements large percentage of which wee for new Ste41 rails crosg-ties aide Itackv and bridgea The book also include1 the Wit leas lirtit Hill President IL la not posaible to rover witn one deem of matistactiOn even the most Lenora matters In thia volume in a brief notice With railroad pioutering building engineering in Ite infancy and Ifowth tunneling Improremenia changes tragedies of war and tragedies of deprettsion and handicaps there Is matter for several volumes hie Mat ter which Mr Johnston has condensed with skill and judgment For distribution by the Public Service COMMiAlli(n State Capitol Atlanta OS 13 50 Ile rode straight in without word of mouth As the King' men rode of yore And no man challenged him or forbade When he entered the Master's door But the room was hushed with a nameless frer When the great Kings messenger entered there Glancing at the title of this "Weetern and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Otorgia" some may Nrhips have an idea that here is an suivertise mint Never qui a greater mistake tete is history pure and simple The history of one of the oldest and most romantic Si well as important service institutions of the South It is pleasantlY interspersed with incidents Which however interesting are bearing upon the subject of the "The Western and Atlantic Railroad" To Mr James Houston Johnston moat Ito much credit for this exhaustive compilation which required years ef researcA and psinstIting effort A eompelling photograph of former Oov Wilson 1timpkin Oovernor of Georg's whose interest in and puts amine of the project Wal due the corn log of the great an upproprtato frontispiece book prepared following legislative action 1925 As explained in the Introduction It was shortly lifter One Nat Romig called the General Assembly of Oeorgia in extra sesslon 1915 that Mr James Houston Johnston was emplwied by the Governor as special engineer to look When one shall have something good and helpful whether of one a own creation or that of another one must pees It on Itspecisily ta this true of any sow end helpful thing found in a book Life needs help all the help-at tut get Humanity need's courage for the great business of living Sine living Is all that counte Life not death is the great sdlonture Life le to be lived Death will take care of itsPq and is oomething that Is beyond human help or hindrance Life needs courage and guidance and consolation nod a little laughter Life without point laughter would be a cruel thing-The iktening ear and the geeing fie wiIt find wise counsel as one Irma his deYbY-day war will Ilnd many a grain of shining gold among the dull sands of the road it only One shall watch ant Itsten Did you ever go to church some Bonital morning liaten to the pastor and so home with one doer shinIng pronouncement In your thought? Something to help life along? Or did you bear merely a tired man wailing the woes of the world? Or one giving you bits ot poetry In oratorical perfection? There are many preachers In this civilized world of men but there are none too many pastors There is a difference The most noted of the clergy mu anmetimes fall to sound the needed note of help to speak the word for which the soul of his hearers Is athirst And there Is no preacher so poor In oratory so barren In the lore of books 00 wn acquainted with the charm of poetry and the elegance of tine prose but be nal still speak the golden word of mirage to help life along What a splendid thing it would be If every preacher of the Word would send sway hie flock from every flab-bath service with one clear word of help and courage It would be worth many long a I learned sermons many lovely poems perfectly repeated Do you ever go home from church with that golden word of life in your heart? When one shall hi and helpful whether tion or that of anot It on Ispecially ya sod helpful book Life netds hi tom get Humanity the great business ot II all Met eounta the great scilentur lived Death will nd Is something tl man help or Wilde courage and guidano and a little taught point laughter won't The Ili-telling oar a wiIt find wise colons daY4rY-da1 war will of shining gold error of the road if on: ant listen Did you ever go to Aar morning liaten aco home with one inouncement In youi thing to help Ills a hear merely a tired woes of the world? 01 ot poetry In oratories are many preachers world of men but many pastors The The most noted es anmetimes fall to sou of help to speak tl the soul of his bear there is no preacher so barren in the ler acquainted with tho and the eleganre of tilt still spears th outage to help Ills What a splendid If every preacher oi send away hie Cod bath service with help and courage many long a I lean lovely poems pellet you ever go home that golden word of And no man's pardon Of grace he sought And feared he not any mans blame For straight from the Court of the King came he A royal messenger came And only the Master heard him say "You're called to the Court of the King today" almoat threw up my bends literally at my mother-In-law) offended query It seemed I tiopeleior task Wets I bed undertaken- that of gettlne her In a good humor before fattier talk to tier upon the subject of the name he tablied to give our Iltt hairy gill But the nil (rimy of my fathers face stirred en strongly by nternoriee of his old gave me courage for another trial "I'M SO Sinn mot her I amid I didn't mean to offend you oir any iris eys discretion I know het perfectly Why I asked you I don't know MY ensiely that the boys should not he hurt ran away ith nie I fancy" To my horror I found my voice alisklog and closed my loos tialitly to prevent their trembling but as it Varied nut not eten I burat of sobbing ytoold have been 114 titPetire tet14111 my mother-in-law captioilsorea I Ike her son she '11 tyrannical in her tempera royel in her contrition With a MsMaved little ahe came Willi! toweid me and put her hand upon my shoulder a tarps which means as much it0111 het as would a fervent embrace from ormt women AN ABOUT FACIII 'Don't mind me child" elle said hurriedly "I've no business worrying you with my bad temper when you base so mirth on your mind and are not strong yet And I do appreciate all you ars doing for poor Eitzabeth's children even though I don't go around telling about it all the time So Jost put me out of your mind for the reel of the day And you niay be very cue Diet I shan't sty anytliiiig about thoae boya" you SO Mtleh" I nitirmured "And now won't you tell me what I can do for your 'Do for nie?" the echoed blankly 'Why yes You called me you re-I member rind I could not corns then" "Oh!" She hesitated a moment and I surmised that she had completely forgotten what she wished of me "It wise something to unimportant that It Isn't worth mentioning" she Raid a least bit loftily ''and I don't need it now You're looking rather pale You would better go and Ile down a bit before dinner" 'Perhaps I shall" I amid "but won't you mine over to the girls' room They're unpacking the new things they bought at Solitharripton" "Perheps after a while" She said ILI I expected I think she is congenitally imiapable of accepting an Invitation as awn as it is given although she is mortally offended if throuver any cner'sight she it not summoned to share in IThe Good Shepherd And the sun went down and the shadows fell With a silence cold and grim As the summoned Master mounted steed And rode down the dark with him With a stone-cold heart and with strangled breath Rode to the Court of the great Oh the world holds many a gallant knight Young blood or with eyes age-dim But young or old must they mount and ride When the great King summons them And well for him when the lists are drawn Shall the Messenger find him with armor on A 4 otk "The (-Mod Shepherd" la a book not unknown to many readers having first appeared in 1917 under the pseudonym John Roland The publishers a tate that "this noble story" bite been completely revised with a nw preface by the author who permits the new voltune to appear under his own John Rathbone Oliver a name already witi-iy known The Good Shepherd" Is the story of a physician who in healing others beaied himself Au surgeon senaltively hurt and deeply shamed by bia own I uisive misdeed became self-exiled in Austria But the blat upon hia past followed him in hitt conecience and WILI ruining lb Mlle At the hospital where he vorked be won the sympathetic Interest of his 0114 Professor Schroeder of the surgical clinic who proved helpful and generous In hie kindness but failed to lilt the cloud under which the young surgeon moved Re knew that he had been "hurt" somehow but how he did not know Ilia name by mischance became somewhat changed being a difficult name only a part of It had been regihtered The schoolmaster and the priest rather Matthias were also friendly But It was none or Joseph Shaw editor author pends his entire life reading and writing These occupations are vocation and avocation As editor he read! 2000000 words a month As author he write latest being "Danger Ahead" which will be published by the Mohawk Prem on 'July 22 The book 's a Graustarklan performance blending romance and adventure with interne tional political intrigue The Danish book rights in Willa Cather's "Shadows on the 144it" have just been sold by Alfred A Knopf to Gyldendal Bokhandel Nordisk Foriag of Copenhagen This Danish edition will corns out next year Lonely Things A wtIct flower by the wayside grew The tall trees spread to shade It The kind Night gave It of her dew Because they said Ood made It And ea God made all lovely things Tbe wayside flower the bird that sings A wild flower by the wayside grew The light winds gently moved It The wild bird crooned a song for it Because they said God loved it And so God loves all lonely things Sad hearts and birds wIttz wounded wings Lonely A wild flower by tl The tall trees spr The kind Night gat Becauae they said And too God made a The wayside flower A wild flower by ti The light winds Thu wild bird croon Because they said And so God 'area al Sad hearts and biro wings thing too of the deadliness of over-conscience that makes for superstition and harm The romantic note is sounded in the last two lines of the book: a clear sweet note and ringing which for its sheer charm I am also passing on to you It was In the mind of the young man as he turned sway from baffled romance: And whether she speak me kindly or whether she pass me by The face of that gentle lady will follow me till I die" A Bedtime There Is an hour a quiet hour of all the hours the best When petals fold about the flower And wild birds seek their nest And mortals free from toll awhile 00 softly to their rest 'But for the Grace Of God' A new book said to be auteblographteal by Sullivan the well known English writer on science mathematics and music will be brought out by Alfred A Knopf August under the title 'But For the Orae of Ood" It la written in a form which suggests fiction rather than autobiography but there can be no doubt as to the nature of its contents for it deals with adventuresexperiences and reflection which arelinown to be Mr WI liven's The book consists of the recollections of a man who has reached middle age and Ls taking stock of his life It carries the reader Into the university the army the laboratory and the concert hail and deptrts the writer as a lover a friend a choler and an Indolent bohemian ill I I i I 1 I 1 1 A i -t i 1 3 1 i I 1 i I ti tr 1 11 i i I 1 1 00! ir i 1 4 I 'g 1 4 1 4- 1 I i1-1 I these that wrought the final cure of a oistorted conscience and a troubled heart His cure cam through serviest to cthers One sees him ministering to children with little broken limbs to be mended twisted bodies to be made straight They adored their "Ilerr Mister" did those small slifferere One sera him playing tin soldiere with a small patient who bad been desperate'v Injured the soldiers arranged on the small sufferers chest whiie he lay 'trapped and in agOnY on the hciepital cot One sees him taking the part of Chr1 in the Passion Ploy and fainting 1 the cross But the cry in his heart seas to "go borne" Back to the home from which be had fled In self shame It was one day when the flood of bitterness overwhelmed him that a heavy hand fell on hie shoulder and be looked up into the face of a typical Tyro lea countryman The most modest little books like the modest sermons ere often full of belpful things for one to' carry Out Into the problems of life Quiet little booka these such as the greet ieviewere are pleased to term "light novels" they often have their grains Of gold scattered among the pages When one finds something good eine must pass it on In a little book The Word of ToInorrow" by Petry Williams end published by the Penn Company of "light pages are well sprinkled with these some shining grains of gold although the book itself ts far from anything of a "preachery" nature Taking few of rt helpful pronouncements I am passing them on to you The old man of the story Is sneaking to the young man: "Things happen because of something hat went before like when you trod on the doe' ant be bit you" The moat modest the modest sermons helpful things for Into the problems Quiet little booka great teyiewere are "light novels" they grains of gold sca pages When one fir cone must pass It on In a little book Morrow" by Petry Darted by the Penn i "light nor well sprinkled with I grains of gold alth self is far from anyt try" nature Taking tut pronouncements on to you The old speaking to the yol "Things happen be that went before Ilk the dog ant hs The hour when little children kneel And told their hands In prayer And tender mother o'er them lean And whisper Ood le there And told them gently to their sleep And leave them In Ilia care and goof 'em away for another year I has en I he sOe to est omibt In the soitirt Diet your letter volt get to Jack tvlibout 10ith Allen ft Inteiterence---Lhat le If you cent flee it es I infer you aunt to On troiM Stip WillIkit(1 Iler noee at me ems oes rectal exploftftion aft welt an her tone mitt me that elle did not is-mm0mo with nly attempt to get beie the set tor ati you see I het I Most Brt It beck that I ought to have wrIStett or tent I sem doesedly I riee that you heileve twit 'remote therefore you would better get busy" you would not try to get It bat It if you weir in toy Mace' I ceruilnly Ammo! not" elle returned enothat wally 1 don't a now if you had esked my Advice toefore writing toe fitter I not have had the coot-Kee to say 'go mitred after the exPleee loolohltion Ntoiteline geoe you But now that it's vele withotit your meaning it to be ma Ord I consider that It out of tour harms rind in your place I should eit down Mitt toe hende rosa no peaceful brertet and cotrutplate the 'leo of the gods' 'a II IA hpetMaThe inteiest But of emose you'll do nothing of the kind You'll no heaven and earth anti the other ploti In order to get it beck Welt bele't wishing you lurk and playlna you won't have it I stip- porie you'll try to Ilse Mortha lialitett tiret thing In the roorolos "Yeti but I cotiCt tio it fruit here Ill hair? to find None excuse to get 111 a from the howte before nine Wheo the reaches the office Trott letter soil be on her desk when etre gets there" THZ BOYS RETURN "Leave that to me" Lithan'e Yoke y-es crisply efficient If you're dressed end through your breakfast by half-past eight Iii guarantee to have an Bil-W001 and yard-wide errand for YOU which nobody but you cen do I haven't any Idea whet it will be now but have an invelitive mind you know" "Nu woe knows it better" I answered tryIng to smile et her 1111Wortilil "and I'll teat on your promiee" "Ail nicht Atli! nriw IMpty-010 you get (tressed for dinner You've been tearing around so much you haven't had a second to pronto I'll stand guard while you do It and turn the machine guns on totem Milian or child who tries to dieturit yoti" She straightened lieNelf in her chair end folded her Arnie with a belligerent air which tent me into a poem or laughter Then I hurried through my deeming for it wart near the dinner hoof' and I eepected every second to hear the telephone ring with the ruesshee 'hitt Dicky had promined to give Inc It Was nut the telephone bell )tow evrr but Di by auto horn iv htch marked the last faetening of my din-nee frock Kittle hed been right He had forgottert to tlephoile CHAPTER Ur! BILL AND HANK RETURN 'IntEsshD FOR THE OCCASION AND MADOE RELEASES THE GIRLS FOR THZ MOMENTOUS MEETING At the Bound or Dicky's auto horn I niived swiftly toward my door "I must eu down end see if the Moot are Messed Ike they wiehed to be" I said to Itlliu Will yon keep the elite up here until I let you know they can come down?" She made no reply at first Only put out her hand and ftelled my artn In Co firm a cleep Diet I could not 1110e "We'll just reverse that protream if YOU please" ale Field firmly "You've been doehing up end down stalre whn you Ought to know better I'll go down end see that the boye are ell right an I'll come up and give you the offiee when it's all right for the girls to come down Don't fall to corns dowrt with 'em though I heve a shrewd simpleton that we older people are go- 0 Ing to hey seats at a three-ring enema tinight I wouldn't miss It for a form" She released me and walked quickly out of the door and down the stair I had no time to feel either resentment or gratitude for her Interference because the door of Marv's room opened and the fresh tomtit voices of the two etrie came to My firs THE FASHION PARADE 'It's too bed to waste Diet hock upon a couple of preparatory school kids if they are me own deer broth Cr Mary wise saying between the giggles with which both she end Merlon were peppering the air "But hurry up You look perfectly raviahing and I'm InXIOUs to see the boys' eyea feetooned all over their cheeks When they catch sight of you" They had almost reoched the staircase when I called aoltly: "Girls lint a minute!" They turned their giggler' suddenly suppressed and chorused "Yes Auntie Madge" with the pretty deference both glee an older woman "Please come Into my room a minute before you go down I want to see your hocks" "That's the beet thing we do" Mary maid with a laugh which Marion echoed "show off our frock Come on old girl your best mannequio poste now" She caught Marion by the hand and they advanced together to the middle of the room where they made a deep courtey end then separated "I don't suppose Molyneux or Magee Roof! would stage it jut that wee but were nothing if not orielnal I'll etrott Mgt MB11011 end then yOtt come on with yours" She slithered one hand down the Aida of her gown a flowered chiffon with big roses upon a black and silver background a Afflictive thing exactly 1 suited to her and flexed her other hand In an exAggerated imitation of a thannetitilit'll gesture as she swayed her body past me My laughter was tinted with admiretion for Mary le histrionic to er linter tips and she was acting the role to perfection KNOCK-OUTS" "Now Marion" Abe said and Mar- Ion giggling aelf-coneciously went past me in a graceful if distinctly school-girlish Imitation of Mary's per torment But the Was co winsomely lovely in her delicate frock Leo or flowered chiffon but of paetel Mattes of rose end gray with flowers of dart blue that I knew she could hold her own an ficialrelsntyM Mary me eot courge there would be no rivalry Ta the boy Mary wee only their sister Marlon the suddenly unknown tem! nine quantity Bid where were Hank and Bill had delayed the vets waiting for the word front Lillian that the boys were "deemed tip" for their reception But (Continued on Page Column 7) 1 1 I 'and stof 'em away for another year A holy hour by heaven sent To wile the soul away To rest itself in placid sleep Like children tired of play And Lite stands still to hear it breathe Its Amen to the day A Are you contemplating a holiday In the woods? It Is the best of ail hail-days particularly for folks of elender means Among the pleasures of such an outing do not discount the friendly little nre In a book last night I came upon this Said the man in the book: 'I've got nothing to grumble about And he lit his pipe and shouted for his bearer to light a fire A Are is company when one is alone" And that is true Did you ever think about the company of en open fire? Did you ever go into a fireless room and sense the cold depression of It? Then when you have quickened a ruddy blaze In the grate or better still in The fireplace have you noticed the sudden change In the room ln yourself In the world about you? Rave you ever spent an evening alone with I book and a little fire? Aryl wasn't it an evening crammed with comfort? You didn't need any other company: the fire made excellent companionship In one of his "Days Off" or "Fisherman's Luck--Van Dyke has something to say about a little fire on a fishing trip He calls it "a little friendship lire" and recommends It heartily Better still If you will do a little cooking at your fire such as boiling your own coffee broiling your trips of bacon roasting a potato In the ashes just getting back to nature for awhile through the good offices of little friendship fire Don't carry your coffee in a thermos bottle make It In the woods sweet with wood scents and wood smoke and the pungent scent of wild herbs crushed under your feet Then when you've eaten your bacon and corn pone which might be an ash-cake if you like light your pipe If you're a man-person drop your line (if a fisherman) In the stream and sit over In easy company with your little fire and believe in Clod And let the old world go bang Then when your day off to ending don't forget to tread out the little fire Bear in mind you are not big enough yet to set the world on fire No outing la a perfect outing without a little friendship fire Thermos betties and sandwiches do well enough for a Journey but for a picnic it'a hats off eleeves rolled coffee boiling bacon sizzling a friendly little fire and the world is yours Shall you not know how to triliti a fire in the woods ask some Boy F'nit to give you a lesson The scot 4 at Camp Boswell did that for me In fact one can learn a lot from the acouts If One shall be open-minded and friendly 1 rl 'Wild Bill and ills Era' The Pioneer Press of Washington announces the early publication of an important biographical and historical work entitled "Wild Bill and His Era" The manuscript of this book was completed shortly before Ms death by the late William Connell''' long accretery of the Senses State Historical Society and an authority on the history of the Plains Country in the closing decades of the last century Mr Connelly who personally kenw Wild Bill began more than forty years ago collecting material for what those who have read it declare to be a compelling and definitive account of the career and times of an extraordinary man The book will be profusely illustrated front contemporary prints and photographs The first edition will be limited to 600 numbered copies of which MO will be offered for bale "Be so good as to tell me where I must take the mother" said the farmer On the front seat of his wagon it an old womanthe victim of "the westing elckness" Inatant ly the surgeon In the man wits aroused And when later the farmer told him of their village with no doctor and the terrible sufferings of the peotele be knew his hour had struck He had beard his call: a clear unmiatakable call end with promptness he answered it The Passion Pisy as here presented le I wlolesome bunion tendelly beautiful thing And bens is fOrilitnee tot) and a woman Who added the final perfect touch to the healing of his airk mind and troubled heart And here Is Father Matthiaa who must not be overlooked and who furnishes such bits of humor as may be found in the story It Is a very human sort of humor always with Its sober side As when he he stands overlooking the hospital courtyard where the surgical convalescent children are gathered the doctor and his lady In their midst: "And now I suppose they will be wanting me to eay Mese for the children Not that they (the doctor and his lady) believe a word of heathen! May the saints protect them But they conform I like that So do my wtople And after all whether Its a acrifics of Gods body and blood or pure bread and wine its our common offering up of Life to the greater Life around us so that Our Life may be given back to us stronger and move worthy the living Now I wonder what the Prince Bishop would say to that" He chuckled and went on himself: "liztter not ask him Father Matthias You're too old to be burned Though you'd melte a fine fire" (Frederick A Stokes Co Pub 'inhere New York City 2001 0 Listening Int on This For three years or so Bessie Clarke Drouet prominent New Yorker painter and suciptress has been holding spiritualistic seances at her home in Past Itighty-sixth Street with Mains 'Tele direct voice medium in attendance "Station Astral" to be published by Putnsm's Sons next month records details cd the very remarkable conversations which Mrs Drouet's seances have bad with prominent shades (among Dente" Chester French Quentin Roosevelt 'tendon Col Theodore Roosevelt (Rant) Perhaps the most unique testure of Mrs Drouet's work in spirit ualism is the recording which she made of the spirit voice of the late Thomas A Pillion Tbe recording was made on the Edison ectiphons machine lent to Mrs Drouet by the Idison Cortmonv for this specific purpose Is Mrs Drouet's meetings the spirits speak In their own medium playing no active part Believe It or not life also needs a "What's good and straight doesn't little nonsense a little laughter as It die Sometimes it seems to but the goes long else will life plod grow worship of men's hearts keeps it alive weary and discouraged tile without leen worship good son and that's a some laughter would be a cruel thing tact to keep in mind Whether by When all Ii geld rnen are merely chit lighting or tOilOWIDII it they worship dren grown up and a good laugh a It A man wont tete the trouble to omits of humor will keep the child ltght a thing that's got no power beart of them learleas with bope Not long elect In the house of a That is a great thought for the per friend I met a small son not yet 3 seemed and for the victims of MI years old The kiddie flatly refused and jealouty Where there is DO power all my friendly overtures When I no force of character no danger of corn tried to "make friends" be simply repetition nobody takes the trouble to treated back to the wall soinething light But whiot you shall see the darts very Itke a frown on his face of envy of maliciousness and jealousy I said: Vying you will know there is force 'Cern over here and I'll tell you a power gentus courage afoot When bear story" men take the trouble to fight a thing Instantly the situation changed: a It means there is some force whether smile on the erstwhile severe little face tor good or evil still a force to he developed a real giggle of delight and evekoned with But tri go on with the soon we were ranging the very Jungles 444 MOO of the story to the young of fancy on a glorious bear hunt I men: think I killed that bear twenty Vanes "You are gokng out into the world at least: for every time I bad him eon It's nothlng to do with wanting "good and dead" my small audience ste not wanting You've got to go eh nited: "Morel Morel More bear" 'You've got to learn to stand on your A little nonsense now and then: It own Its give and take You'll find is the same with the grown-ups They that out when you come to rub need relaxation encouragonent a anoulders with other men Don't be brief tolling away from the cares and a fool DOD You've got to learn what burdens of duper thoughts problems other men can teach Some of 'which employ 'Itheut entertaining them will show you goodnew and tour- the mind ass that'll make you feel Nave you ever noticed what solemn that won't hurt you And some ot them faces some persona wear? As though mil show you badness that may set the whole world might be reeting on you wondering why (kid made them their shoulders Paces which look as and lets them live But he dtd and theeigh they would crack if their wear dorm And that's a point You've to get era dared risk a hearty good laugh? It bold of It's DODO of your business is Do wonder the world looks black to to Judge them Mind your own bust- them they carry its shadows In their nue and It will take all your time if Niue everybody welts wide of a you do it properly" abadow when possible That was a wise man who discovered "Because you don't like a thing or that "a little nonsense now and then 'understand it Is no raison for mak la relished by the beat of men" Which Int fun of It' Wnetstet them Is life ons might amend by saying Is needed there le Omnipotent's If you don't by the beet of men" Horace Walpole Isles with People leave them alone puts It more satisfactorily: There is nothing easier than to sie "A careless song with a little non down and carp at other people other sense in it now and then does not ways than our own" misbecome a monarch" Yet bow many men not monarchs seem to feel that A Word in Season a little nonsense or a eir little laughter Is quite beneath thdigntty The one spoke a word of courage world needs more laughter more mu-A simple kindly Weird: sic more friendliness And for friend God gave it wings and sent it forth liness there is nothing so provocative A courage-carrier bird as a little laughter You have heard the expreselon! "Be Across the dirk it hastened never sete the fun in To many a troubled breast: Doesn't it make you think of some That simple word a singing bird thing Christ said about throwing away Nang reetlemness to rest your pearls? A wicked waste that when a whole necklace would not avail Thus many a word in season to arouse the risible In some solemn Swift-winging to its goal soul? We needs more laughter It Bears golden nonage silver framed Is contagious It startle hope In the To cheer Lifts famtehed soul heart like the singing of a wild bird in a dry and lonely land But It was A Solomon wisest of the wise who laid bare the real secret of the matter when he said: "There is a time to laugh" But that didn't mun one should laugh at all time only that 'Ohere a tin) to laugh" I doubt even Solo mmt mold mewl some old Noma COOLIO1 of the truth of that "What's good end die Sometimes it worship of mini he leen worship good tact to keep In ni Pghting or followin It A man Wont ta light a thing that That Is a great th seemed and for th and jealousy Where to force of character petition nobody tall light But when you of envy of malielou Being you will kno power genius emu men take the troutil It means there is ao foe good or evil a reckoned with But ced man of the at man: -roll are going eon It's nothing ere not wanting 'You've got to learn own It's give and that out when yr nerulders with oth a fool son Youve other men can leo them will show you age that'll make vie that won't hurt you VIII 'how you bad you wondering wry nod lets them live doem And that's a bold of It's nom to Judge them ati Pees and It will ta you do it properly' "Because you don understand It Is ing fun of it Vo there le Oninipote grew with people There is nothing down and carp at ways than our own A Word One spoke word A simple kindly God gave It wings A courage-carrier Aeross the dirk it To many a trout Thet rumple word ding rootlemores 'Moo many a wort hwift-wineing to pars golden trait To cheer Life's JAMES HOUSTON JOHNSTON Who compiled the hietory "Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of (ieorgia after the Interesie of that State In the valuation of the Western and Alantic Road about to be undertaken by the Bureau of Valuation Interstate Commerce Comm Poston Mr Johnston was elected special engineer to the COMMibliOn Hifi duties involved collecting data from el ery available ce He found a surprising lack of care In the presemation of valuable data: records being scattered in various places some In the State Library ethers in basements and even in an old disused storege houire In Atlanta From these and Other soureetv after lmost endlems labor he wee able to give the Commission the information required for a proper disposition of the Western and Atlantic Railroad Less than six years after the execution of the new lease the Georgia Public Service CommiEsion In 1929 called on him for certain information which required tedious search through scattered paper and files which finally led to legislative action for compiling all data relating to the road Into one or more VOIUMel that would bring together and preserve this Important data To the Georgia Public Service Commission was delegated this duty The Commission was instructed to employ Mr Johnston for the preparation of the work under its supervision Thil book is the product of that action This is atory of romantic progrese Lovers of Che romance of progress will find entertainment and information In Pe pages They will love the courage of its builders the vthiOn of that Governor of Georgia Wilson Lumpkin who foresaw the coming of the people the growing greatness of the are-Mon and the ever compelling need of land transportation A vision which Impelled him as far back al 1833-34 to embody In his messages to the State Assembly the advantages of rail connection between the eeecoest and the upper Mississippi Valley So was not only a progressive factor In railway legislation but a pioneer in empire building It la related that Governor Lumpkin for four years cherished his dream taking active steps to bring It to consummation Mr Johnston describes the difficulties In his waynot the least of which seems to have been the difficultiee of the land One will appreciate those difficulties In reading the report of the engineer who surveyed the Stephen Harriman Long Colonel Ingineer Corp A first chief engineer of the Western and Atlantic Mee 1837-1840 Attention IA called to the fact that at this time there were few rattroads in the United States and the science of railroad engineering in its Infancy And that the country traversed by the Western and Atlantic was crossed by many streams and high ridges Considering these things Colonel Long's location is still regarded ma a remarkable achievement Mr Johnston follows with the growth of the enterprise: from the aeaboard to Atlanta from Atiants to Chattanooga and later with the lease to the Nashville Chattanooga St Louis Railroad which is still operating it 'under lease contract But there is much history between And there 1 much tragedy There la a War Between the Staters and there are other things In fact as has been said by Mr Wilbur runt son-in-law of the gallant Captain Puller famous for the capture of the "Oenteal" the engine stolen by Andrews' Itaidate during the Civil might look long to And a railroad that has had snore of melodrama and stark tragedy than the Western and Atlantic Within the very title-deeds of the various properties acquired lurked the touch-powder of that highly explostive entity compounded of greed and human nature Every inch of Its one hundred and thirty aPI'Prt miles of paralleling nil has played its part in that entivalling epic that began at Sumpter and ended at Appomattox Raiding rederale" It is related "played pitch and toss with locomotives and bridgge retreating Johnston advancing Sherman devastating Hood and Wheeler did everything that could be done to a railroad --excepting the one thing only: they left the tunnel (Mr Johnston tells the story of the tunnel) Intact" Mr runs significantly adds thet 'The way-etationa along the line In 1860 became mere atom In 1864 these names were emblazoned on battle-flags: one-armed veterans In Texas and could call the names of the stations on this railrovd when they couldn't name the States in the Union" A notable section of the book Includes its various Lease Contracts with the Nashville Chattanooga St Louis Railroad under the several presidents of that road A chapter relates the taking over of the Western and Atlantic by the Pl ar ft road the first time in Ilire) John Themes president The chapter 1 eoero the report of Mr Hunter McDonald Rest repork at ktr Hunter Mc Drniald Haat- any unustiel happening of the family "III tell them you're coining over later" I field an I went Out of the door feeling as might a Mall boy Whose switching had just been canceled If nothing else happened to upsiet her the would be In a mellow mood all through the evening and my fattier wouM have a feir theme of impresing her with hie stoty I went to the kitchen and adited Katie to keep silent about the burning of the ehlte-Ilannel trousers She bent double with laughter and I thought ehe would never atop giggling "Done boys tink cloy bees fellers now all ready to go Courtin'" she said when she could speak 'But I say nodinge und I tell dot JPern to keep bees beg motit' shut too" "Thank you Ketle' I held refraining heroically from reminding ber that would never hive to be admoniebed to keep silent about anything But Katie hugs to her soul the belief that she rules her quiet husband when In reality he is her balance wheel I was at the kitchen door before I thought of Dicky's prorniee and turned back "Mr Graham said that he would telephone what time he was coming back so that you would know when to put dinner on" I said "Tab I hear heem tell dot before" she answered with a good-natured grin that made up for her impudent manner of speaking a truth well known to both of us ''But I tink I not put dot steak In oven till I hear dot car drive In All oder tinge I keep hot ofer hot loiter" "That will be very wise" I told her and sent upstairs again to the room where Mary and Marion were displaying their purchases to Katherine with Lillian looking on happily I inspected the sport frocks sweaters hate and anota hurriedly but approvingly and then managed to slip away with Lillian to my room "I hope you don't think we spent too much" she said worriedly "but you said you wanted Mary to have everything that Marion did and Harry was determined to buy out the them" I loved the pridefu note in her vele as she spoke of her husband's devotion to his winsome stepdaughter and hastened to reassure her "Mary needs everything you purchased" I said warmly "and the things Sr lovely So stop woryring about that and tell me what I ern going to do If I can't get that letter back" 101 LILLIAN DISAGREES WITH MADGE AND ADVISES THAT THE I IglIER TO JACK BICKETT BE FORWARDED TO HIM Lillian alarmed apprehenelvely at the door fie I asked her to tell me what I was going to do If I did not "get that letter back" then sat down with I little sigh of relief at seeing it closed "I larked It after us" I said as I 'drew a chair near to here Then on the verge of disclosure I heeltated "I don't believe I was ever go aMimed of anything in my Me as I am of that letter" I said She flashed her gamin grin at me "I Mal' be clairvoyant old dear as you so often tall me but really I'm not the Delphic oracle Suppose you tell me what all the shooting's for" Swiftly I made a decision upon a point which had been troubling me "I'm going to tell you the whole story" I said "because I know that when a suitable opportunity knees Katherine herself wiii tell you of the letter which la the primary reason for all my worry" She stretched herself comfortably In her chair and put her hands behind her bead "Go ahead Shoot the works" she said and I obeyed her I told her of the venomous letter Ruth Allen had sent to Katherine asking her to give up her husbend of Katherine's refusal to write to Jack anything concerning It of my promiee not to send the Allen woman's letter back to Jack and of my evasion of that promise by writ log to my brother-cousin and telling him of he contents of the letter without giving him either the original letter or a copy of It "I inclosed the letter to Jack hi one to Miss Halkett" I finished 'asking her to Inclose It in one of the competty envelope and mark it 'personal "And you typed your envelope to Jack I suppose" Lillian said 11e" "Then I don't see any reason why he shouldn't receive it without any interference by the Allen cobra unless the letter was true and he's on such I terms with her that she would dare i to open mail marked personal" "I can't believe that of Jack I can't" "Neither can I Lillian said quickly "but" with a little moue 'you never can tell Men are kittle-cattle the best of them sometimes and a wilder-news teal exactly the best background for Victorian standards" "I know" I said despondently "novertheleaa---" "Don't mind me" the nil quickly "tirvi Just exercising niv poAlmlotie 1 ll take 'ern Indoor now I I I I i I I I I I hibitIons 1 II take 'em indnora Dow Roughy the Dog Who Ran Away These Acres My small neighbor Thomas is eon-'Ingrate Thomas is a great admirer of his young aunt Bolen likewise of her possessions "Put that down honey" is a warning familiar to little Thomas who admires his own image in Helen's fragile mirror likes to finger her purse for stray pennies to Investigate bar vanity box and numerous other things girls carry about with them Thomas has beard something now and then about friendly folks who dis and leave their treasures to those they Imo But Thomas la considerate Recently following a secret inspection of Helen's purrs ha wild: "Aunt Battu when you are most dead lesiva me all your pretty things Doesn't that "most dead" get you? Now comes an Interesting bit of information from Will Rogers (not our Will) running for Congrimsmamst-large In the State of Oklahoma Wilt says his parents named him "Willie" but Willie being a rirl's name he ahed it and called himself "Will" There's something In that even a girl tagged "Willie" may wimetimes feel the same way about the babyish "le" and "go and do" Just what Will Rogers did: call herself Will However tha Oklahoman needn't have worried about "Willie" As he moved on in life the "fellows" would certainly soon have dubbed him 'Bill" There is no room in mane philosophy for either Will or Willie Bill is the whole show With the girl "Willie" things Cr different She will have to answer to "Mr And Mrs isquire" and even sometimes "Doctor" meaning sk churchman of course And there wag once a great man who challenged the generations with the pronouncement "nothing in a name" Think of It! There is much quiet beauty In the poems by Trances Trost In her new book "These Acres" Restful as the "Acres" to which they are devoted breathing the soil the quiet country IlinfS and sunny meadows they are exquisitely in tune with nature While having all proper construction of excellent verse and all purity of rhyme and rhythm It Is none of these things In which their chief charm is found but in the sweet simplicity of Imagery and expresaion There are no great 'flights here but always a loving near ness to earth in which there is often a note of pathos almost of edam but the dams which Is still a part of nature and of nature's muelc As the following lines from the poem "Them Acres" from which the book takes He title: "I cannot tell how long thee seem will be possemed I cannot tell how many men will stride at dawn Over the Mopes and fasten a bores to a plow Leaving behind in a white house the firm smooth throat of a lirtnnla Nummtng I song through cool rooms" "Poems of the countrlside" bee tter1 said of Mies Troetrt book end that is good The earths wide acres are here: the warmth of summer and the mellow autumn the fragrant noons and dewey menthes and the mystic call of the soil There are no far flights but there is one poem of the collection which stands out supreme above the rest It is "Wind tem Hour" and Is altogether In another port of We same book there la "ths Profeaeor" epeaging to daughber Said the girl: "'Things to seem to be extraordie nerily iontrary 'Why are there ekr-h beano of peopte who aro always In trounle? Poor and III end rot tertint on end having enditee disappointMonis Gond people who've noer dons any harm in their lives' "'Ilium In their lives? The profeaeor Mt up and thundered It her 'Never done any berm In their lives Negative thotightl1 Vinat good hare they done? In another port of this same book there la -the Professor" gouging to daughber Maid the girl: Things do won to be extraordl verily tenttary Why ate there sueh buret of Rums who are always In In another port there la -the Pro liii daughber Bald "Things do ace iIiy tentrary hearse of people trouble? Poor and on and having Menus Good swill any harm in their "'rearm In their oat up and thund done any harm in I What 'Rotighy the Dog Who Ran Away" is a faecinating new book for the tots particularly the tots who love dogs There is nothing new about Roughy and hie unwise jaunt Into the cold cold World Re did precisely that which even the best of dogs will do On occasion and met with the game experiences that always befall such escapades boys with stones near-automobile sc cidents thieves who thrive on the per formances of stolen doge while permttting them to starve and that moet tragic of tragic incidents in a dogs 111e-4 chase with the dog-catcher But Roughy Was lucky after all Re did get stolen the boys did rock him the dog-catcher almost got bim but be finally got home to his own delicious bones his pillow on the sofa and his seat in an automobile where he could bark at Other dogs leas fortunate than he It is the same old story albeit a story that never grows old Still It isn't the story itself which fascinates ono but the pictures Never will one find more eaptivating pictures than these with which Diana Thorne hae illustrated her story One of the most fetching of theee is the boy with a peashooter ''A hely came along with a peashooter and Rough got his second surprise by a rattle and stinging on his ribs" Only once does Rourkby find a friend and that friend proved to be a little girl All boys he met seemed to bold a grudge against him: and boys Sr supposed So be friendly to dogsk a very very grievous mistake as Roughy could testify if celled before the court As a witness Be found them Invariably cruel and mean The little girl gave him a fine meaty bone and some biscuit but a bull terrier ran Out with a terrible growl and had to be driven off Rouarly was frightened and when the little girt west into the house tor a string to tie him up safely he decided that the time to be going was while he going was good and off he went The author-illustrator of this attractive little book bas long been a famous etcher of doge and into this miry of toughy elle hoe put life and feeling and bewilderingly fine artistry fa Nem Plihilahers New Tort City 4100 I TINE City I el Do i Without Lang bier The tilers flow down to the loos The little brooks follow after The rivers ere doers In mystery The little brooks shout wlth litUghter I 7 'S 1 Circulating Library It wao Goethe who said: "Tea my love whoever Mee loam but he also wins There to an old epigram which saes "The African Ilona rush to attack buns they do not attack buttartlies" It was tonLfellow who said: "The honest of all holidays are those Rept by ourselves in silence and apart Tba secret anniversaries of the heart When tha full river of feeling overflows The happy days unclouded to their cose The sudden joys thst out of darkness start tss flames from ashes: swift desires that dart Like swallow singing down each twind that blows" It was George Goethe is who 'mid: "Succesfully to accomplish any taAl it Ii necessary not only that you give It the beet that la In you but tnat you should obtain for it the best that Is In those under your guidance: It was Solomon who Wei "The profit of the ecth Is for all The King himself is served by the The earth bideth forever" toret The ea th abtriett eN That's the queetion Whet good have great rivers servo the proud earth we done? What good have you done? With COMMITC and ship' end splen Or leaving good on the aide whet post dot: lye crested thing have moat of us The little brovas serve the lonely lands tione? rrrittEnK like leaves before the With mueical mirth and tender wind what's the force or energy behind that? We diattirAte olir emsegiee In And Ws ts I river profound: oven dircidion: we weaken our thought Ite happy souls follow atter tutees with sny drivel that comee our A cruel thing would the greet life be way: end then we wonder why thlngs Without the music of laughter Eli upside cipI'L' Llfe hes its sunny souls ever 'You think staid the "41 Ese would the great Life perith: It would make all the difference In The wild flowers flame in the lonely people's lives it they put the Kihtdorn toms of rlsaven first? Then Why don Girl The breve little brooklet' nourish 471-1 lir '54 Id 1-ati prOfeasor: 'Why dldnt Nes For Gloom is I child of the dark wan bathe in the Jon? Anel Irftr is its Own sad daughter: Life has its sunny souls ever E50 would the great Lire ocrh: The wild flowers flame lu the lonely hills The brave little brooklet nourish Tor ig a child of the dark And Year is its own sad daughter: That the qireatio we dons? What a tre leaving good on tive created thin! done? Drifting ashavg the ftfl that? We dimly ever' direction: are tortes with any war: and then are att tit-01dt reelly th would make a 11'7 th of irreaven Deal? ut '''Sx14 tee psh5ss luso bathe In the Dury's Rental Library Bummer hates-15e a Week Newest Books Fast Is Alskoss Fast Pamela Wynne Stormy Fires Florence Ward Modern hero Louis Bromfield 'Younger Sister Kathleen Norris 4 4' I 1 4 1 I tit I 1: I 1 1 "Before the tall night leans against this rafter In the windleas hour In the hour of dusk remember a voice and laughter Remember an afternoon that bloseomed like a glower And the Wien petals and the silence after" And a ctiel thing would the stern Lire be ytt for the nonne of laughter A A Dury's Gift Shop Wm Trost is soclalmeet one of the moet stfted of Amor Va's young lerietS tintithert MfflIT CO Publiehe-c Boston Me $2 Orl Boston kta 2 On) fiPT th rmt riliAlsks It thlit "prthrv Jt 1A 117111111111-0 111 1711(11! 34 na tur a at nfl ataitiondit gazaim stir mi rx-v-7 'az twu atiitathonaitt a r404411-0 lortmgo PVP1 tiCt "orecllory- arta color rtzt-el 420 Union St Nashville 1 I 1 i 1 I' 1.