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6 fly WILL ALLEN IM0311C0011: Iv- THE NAM (VILLE BANNER SUNDNY AUGUST 7 1932 GOSSIP By WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLE OF A WIFE By ADLLE ummisoN (copvtIght 1932 Newspkper reaturo Senlec Inc tt- 6 l' THE NASIIVILIS BANNER SUNDAY AUGUST 1932 11 1 Ir! ii 1 LITE -F1 si rr-71 (I I- rl r- 7 GO SSII1 -rixr I' 1-1-1 A IITIII -7 1 1 1 1 -r -1 III' Ili I OF A NN I i 1 liA Lp i t11 I 7 i 4 -4 L- Ai ''i 1 L'1 'AI: 'T 4 1 t4 ii A 144- )' --L i0 -0 I By ADITE GARRISON -t (Co pvtight 1912t Newxpepef reature Netylce Inc Ily WILL 1)1103101)1141 t- By $1111 ALLEN DROMGOOLE 1 7 7 1 1:: 1 1 Saint Naturnin The Heart of Life kly WILL ALLLN DRONIGOOLE Sidonie elinenherg's book your Child Today and Tomorrow" (hippincotti has been seieited for Inchbolon In the exhibition of books to be on view at the sixth world conference of the New Fducation Fellowship now being held ott Nice Mrs tiruesiberg will OkIMI give a course "The Family to Changing Society" dining the con Terence Bowers author of "The Tragic Kra" 'Jefferson and Hamilton" and 'The Party Battles of the Jack NMI Period" has Just completed a new book which Houghton Mifflin Company will publish this fall under the title of 'Beveridge and the Progressive Era" Both Senator Iteieildge and Mr Bowers served their apprenticeship in the rough school of Indiana politics and came into close personal reiations while stumplog the State for candidates of their opposing partira Senator Beveridge hart the greatest admiration for his younfer opponent and it WW1 at his suggestion that Mr Bowers then editor of the Fort Wayne Sentinel embarked upon hie career as historian The story of Senator BeveridgeS life from his youth to an outstandihg position In the United States Senate his decisive influence In shaping domestic and foleiga policies of the United States for two decades his notable work aa the biographer of John Marshall and Abraham Lincoln and the vast extent of his personal 'Alpert' and correspondence with world ieaders give Mr bowers scope not only for 1 vivid personal portrait but for a panoramic purvey of American life during the last half Sidonie fithenberg's boot your child 1-(lay end Tomorrow- 0111-An COW lots been seiettcd for Incluelon in the exhibition of hooka to be on vlew et the sixth world conference of the New f'docatton Fellowship now be Wit held ed Nice Mrs tirliesiberg Will OkIMI OW a course "The Faintly In a Nociety" doling the eon krillt IU had haunting faniniarity for me appealed amrwhere eine in the mlaalle WITH' Saki TIF11 sTANDINei (Irani) up the paper aeon MAx WAIIS AT 'TUE litFlt era core it carefully two or three FOlt 1Ittlkt MUSS end at last I found Ora at least IIALK twice 111 the tiOtly of the letter- for auf There Woe that in Bon Ticer'x face I Jutied the pftper to be-appeared thr and eyes as hie wile announced that cheracters which I had elnod Out 3 she herself teng going to th 8 bumhouse MCI not teke the Matti of a eherlock to tell my father of the skulks Odor- thst thee eepreelmed a It In the thicket which Vented rne for I fle cf the Otivntal hablt or fortinat the particular form of dotne-dir nWIV roccattnit tho Milne of the rt unplensantnese known as a 'family ciment of a letter several times Mainz row" I as imminent Nor could I find its context It In my heart to blame -the harassed A CISX141 IMAX nominal head of the house of leer al- a Conid he my ewnl though my aympathies are Aprth'etenntt m- nterlow evidenty with hia wife But my good neislibor meant to be totind by Me directed to like most other unusually placid and Me' I mulled over the sumsestion thct goodtetnpered wumen can outdo the dr-carded it as men More birlarte then most a eromplithed nagger when etre the method or the writer of the letter geto atifficiently Irritated a her huss makdix sure that it would fall Into hand's tupidity in the matter of tile hand The chtnese are a wily rice paper with the Chinese intiertpthin people and the men who had bent me which he had found twon the cushion the uemand for trauma lock box were of my automobile had given her the evidently A4 keen NA they were UngtellOpportunity to vent her righteous hut pubrufc They would know that 1 hal indisnation upon hIPI litekless no knowledge whirh would enable not heed No man with spirlt could have to read the lerrer and Cult further ClIAPTIIt 11S bad Mudding familiarity for me al)- kNr114 I vested an)where eiss In the missile tt to MITI The Heart of Life wants hope Forts tomorrow The Heart of Life needs hope IL has too much of sorrow A well written French nOVO hesutlful for Imagery appr altos In tient linent lofty In purpose cannot but give delight to It4 readers huch Nark la "ant SAttitriln" Jelin Sclitilberwort winner of the 1931 Northrillf Pr tze Tits transiation from the French la the' work of Dorothy Buy It le a book of splendid signIfiClinee and of great beauty It received the Northcliffe Prise given In Lkindon each year for the novel which best Interprets French life It presents a new apirit In French flction and depicts French Ws as it is too little known to the world of French fletion reactera Exquisitely pure force-fill tenderly grave radistatly colorful la "Esa int Saturniii" The story whi 11 has been termed "a drama of old age and family life" la classic tO lk modern setting Is highly Individualized and tremendously alive It la told In several ways thoukhout the book Letters dialogue soliloquy and straight narratne An adventure In a new and lattelnatillif form of literature Yet for all Its several forma It Is a distinctly understandable utilitter en summing up Mei Meting he kaki "And I too might hate atriten to watde somethlog which would hate put me with the foretotrat enabled me I) sant among them as among my peer I too 'env capable (If hitylnly my vanity flattered of tientbling with pleasure on being distlnguishrti from the crowd Is it only mean-spiritedness that I have chosen this mediocrity? The time hart come to look at things as they are The boy (his brother Louis) offered a stay of escape Why didn't you take It? here you are again re-married to the 'It Isn't important as they (the peopiel think to produce a great deal They've foyled me too long with their statistics and their It'a something e4e that matters though It's difficult to define Fidelity? Excellence one doesn't know exactly of shirt kind but ail the rest la frumpery" And this a lingering note of prophetic vision brings Nicholas' 'Meditation" to an end: 'When the world gets tired of being buffetted in VI bteakers when the powerful have atifficiently crushed the weglit and the we sufficiently stifled the powerful perhaps It la our way of life that will seem the true one and people will be astonished at having so long neglected the wisdom of the peasants" "Saint Raturnin" ts a choice of 'The Dook of the Month Club (Dodd Mead Co Publishers New York City $2 SO) The Heart of Life wants peace From strife and striving The Heart of Life needs peace To ease the pain or living The Heart of Life wants port And peaceful homing The Heart of Life needs port It fickle grows with roaming helped her tirade and I knew that Mrs 'ricer's ordinarily eitygoing huthand could show a pretty temper of his own when he chose to unleash It I've had enough of Mk foollhness- he said his face crIniyming "I II let you know once for all Are you one of those p'isona who re always on the lookout for the expected certain that It will happen 'even If It never does? It la the un expected that does happen for the most part but It la when one hita ceased to xpect It 'There are those who say: -Keep looking 1111(1 It will come to pea" Dot there are others who claim that the thing der ed Ill an boils frauOtia willl-the-wisp which can never be overtaken but the more it is 'pursued the faster It files before and away from its pursuer At any rate life is too brief and aeriona to be spent chasing that which If It comes will come but which no pursuit Can hasten or de termini That la Of course the thingx of destiny: the things to which one is horn But about the unexpected I heard a woman recently say: It la the unexpected that happens When one has certcd to expect a cetlain event It aometimea just drops into on 'e lap like an apple felling front a tree" She sake an Incident to subtantiate her faith Said she: "I had friend a very dear friend I thought who left the town where we lived The friend left without a word of good-bye to me which wounded ms! no little But I thought aolnethiMt prevented and I'll sioon get a about It But I didn't I hurried to the mall box day after day fur weeks even months before I gave up Such I told myself Is human friendship out of eight out of mind and I dropped the Matter from my own mind and went along about other things if a bit illusioned none the less healthily happy in other matters And then one day casually Into the matt box I came upon the forgotten letter tin I didn't feel any special pleasure In It It had come too bite 'Exptetalion had died-dead as the children say Long sileOce bad been too revealing It had taught me something So much (with a snap of her fingers) for your 'Unexpected that always happens It sometimes happens too late to be of any force" And so It does yet Who shall gay the silence did not have a meaning or the revealing did not serve a wholesome purpose Expectation Is after all I sort of prayer And it was tillizabeth Barrett Browning who Paid an answer to a peralstent Pra5er might mean "a gift with a gauntlet In it" The Heart of Life wants joy And flowery meadows The Heart of Life needs Joy It has enough of shadows The Heart of Life wants love And tender greeting The Heart of Life needs love It has enough of hating The Custer fight Is described In great detail In Stanley Vestal's "Sitting Roll: Champion of the Sioux" announced for fall publication by Houghton Mifflin Company The great chief 's war record Is for the first time presented In full both his activitlea against the white troops and against such other Indian tribea as the Shoehoni Flatheads Crows Assitilboin Red River Breeds and Crees Ilia Atingle combats hi three sVOillida 111J1 ailing of coups his trophies and captives the horses arid mules he Mole 1111(1 the men he killed are deacribed by eye-witnesses atill living There la also told the true ntory of the fate of Fenny Kelly whom he toot away froin the Indian who had captured her The Midnight Murder The Heart of Life wants God Its trials taking The Venn of Life needs God Lest sometime it be breaking --4 :41 i 0 I 1008 iroh 4 fA I' i ik ik uokmlannamenmwmie nwre I a wild not run the risk of disclosing the heCtit of the box by calling in the aid of some sti tinge Chineso to decipher the leiter Then to whom was lt ittitlretfted and why was it pot Imo nv car? Or was ths whole thing simpiv ft cleverly planned hoax designed to frighten me and to let inP kileoW I irlipite the precautions my father had taken against them the were still to be reckoned with I put the letter down beside me and l'peitan roping through my memo'y pictures to see which elle Of theta would reflect the group of character in superscription and body which We: a hftuntIngly familiar to me I wond'rul if I were losing the remarkablit photographic memory which my Mu hcr liftd discovered in me when I wart tiny child anti which she had trained so carefully that she had Made it most valuable asset to me Nowhere in the mental card Index where front childhood I have Med toy ImPtCSSIOnA could I find it trace of those cryptin characters Of course the first memory whit had come to me was that of the only Chinese I ever had known Lee Chow high-horn Chinese friend of Hugh Grant lend who because of the plots against his life in his native land had for years masqueraded fts Hugh's faithful servant If only Lee Chow were in the---with a little shiver I realized thet I almost had thoueht "in the land of the liVII-Vt" Btit I reflected despondently I had no means a knowing whether indeed he and Hugh Grant-land the most fulthful friend env human being pcssessed were lilting or dead The inexplicable silence of Hugh for V) many months the brazen reappearance in Marys Hie of Jack Leslie who I knew would never have Mired to come back to America were Hugh no- dead Or so far away that his ultimate return was problematical these things had filled my heart with forebodings of the worst My pulses jumped excitedly Could it be possible that this direr tion of my thoughts WaS changed as swiftly as if someone had thrown mntel switch For alowly noiseletly azelnst the thet framed the Witt now epposite me I saw a face rising forth? Here ere a few bite from the book noted tor your reflection: SAM IS AGREEABLE "Ohl Mr 'ricer!" I tried to let no consciounness of his choler appear in my face or voice "I ought to tell you why I asked Mrs Ticer if you couldn't stay here while ahe went over to the farmhouse I hate to stay here for a little tell von why nresentlY I'm ao feel safer with you around I do hope you'll let I ole go" I devoutly hoped the recordlng angel had his celestial fountain pen engrned In other corner of the universe than the Ticer farmhouse For I would back Mrs ricer's abillty to repel marauders against that of her husband any day of the year With a rolling pin a flre poker and a teakettle of bulling Water I thlnk she could repel a aieee An appeased grin touched the corners of Sam Tierra lips "Why I'd Jest as aoon stay here" he Raid and I gueswol that he WitM Secretly glad of the way out which I had afforded him And don't you worry none Mk' Graham Nobody nor nothin'll bother you while Em here" "Ohl I know that I asserted promptly "I couldn't worry with you around I'm sorry I have to stay here I could save Mrs Ticer the trip to the farmhouse But I didn't know how long you would have to be with the car and I couldn't get my telephone connection so Mrs Tieer kindly permitted roe to wait here for it" "I'd like to see you trying to do anything else" Mre Ticer reiterated her hospitable indignation of a few minutes before "Now 'ricer Ma' Graham wants to write a 'An I suppose you want me to get Out he grinned his good humor evidently restored "All right I'll go out and finish my chores Say You lock up when you go all but the back door and have Nils' Graham lock that after you I'll be right outIde in the garden 'them Ini want weedin' and she can call me mit of the window if she needs "Time and time only will knit together ragged edgei will heal a aoul's pervmal rhythm wounded by wrong aorta of worde---tinie and silence" With the exception of to Jenkins family Martha Dickinson Bianchi iS the only person now living who ever saw Emily Dickinson It is quite appropriate therefore that her forthcoming book of unpublished letters notes and reminiscences should be entitled 'Emily Dickinson Face to Face" The book which Houghton Mifflin Company announce for fall publication will include 130 of Emily's characteristic notes and letters which have never before appeared A foreword will be contributed by Alfred Leete Hampsom "Humanity In the 1111 Important oouls who don't matter" Friend of -My Heart obrn sing me a song dear Friend of my Heart Sing me the song that you love the best Silently drawing the curtains apart While the aun goes chwn to the waiting West And the soft clew fella on the tweet young grasc And spirits of twilight soundlessly pas 1 1 i I 4 i 0 i I 1 I1 i 1 i' I "Funny how those you love and fight with and aay bitter things to and kiss with wet eyes when they how they take away part of you and leave behind bits ot themselves In your hair your clothes your thoughts After their departure you feel you aren't wholly yourself You want to wash Off the fingermarks as you do the edges of doors after the children are packed off to school" William McNally's novel of the Upper Mimissippi Valley 'House of Vanished Splendor" just published by Putnam's Sons went into a second printing before publication There seems to be an amount of speculation going on as to Just what prominent Twin Cities family the John Victor Knott of the novel are modeled after Mr McNally hastens to assure Interested epeculators that all characters in the story are purely fictitious The 1073000th copy of a Crace Livingston Hill book was sold yesterday "Happinem Hill'' (Lippincott) is the recent book which brought Mra Hill's total aales to that astounding figure 1Prienti of my Heart touch lightly the keys Music Is spirit and echo not sound As strange whispered words of wordless breeze Or the healing touch to an unvoiced wound Touch the keys lightly there's magic In song Ilea ler of heart hurts and righter of wrong tIltPTER MADOF STARTIED RY TITE APPEARANCE OF A CHINESE AT THE WINDOW QUICKLY GETS INTO ford It was on a West End street car that Mr Snell said to this writer: -Remember when we went to achool to Miss Maria?" Mien Maria was the late Mrs Richard Beard a enter of this writer who for several years taught a small select school in that good town Mr Snell told this story: "One clay all the boys in school decided on playing hockey To make it a clay of real adventure we planned a fox hunt floch a fox hunt as perhaps the world never witnemed The boys were separated into groups One group were the hounds another the hunters and one boy was the fox With all the Accessary paraphernalia horns and such we started on our great adventure We gave the fox a good start Then we turned the hounds loose They yelped and barked and bayed like never was while the hunters tore along after them tooting horn and shouting We went all over that town People stood by to watch us people rushed to their doors horses stood on their hind feet as we tore along the fox doubling on itaelf the hounds cavorting the hunters tooting and yelling What was it all about? Somebody it it be known that it wee merely a group of foolish school boys on the rampage an the town's-one policeman stood by with the rest of the citizenry and grinned and sicked us on kept it up all the morning At 2 o'clock we went on back to school Miss Maria was ready for us She had bunch of switches ite big around as a big man's wriet She wilted until we were all safe In the hound and hunters Then she began to unwrap the switches She didn't scold She didn't ask one single quettion She didn't chow either mad or glad But she ben with the fox "Take them off ova" said she and we followed the lead of our late fox In laying aaide our colds Then she took us one by one beginning with "Brer Fox" and she laid on thobe switches to the Queen's taste It was aurnmer and we wore no Irhoes Our bare legs furnished grand opportunity for the perfection of our punishment and our thin waists helped along alb Al for the mate of our pants they were warmed to the scorching point 'And" grined Mr Snell -right there I lost my taste for fox hunting It was my last excurelon into that hilarious pastime It Is known that 'On the sly' Mime Marta laughed as heartily as anybody over the escapade But never by the lift of an eyelid did she let us know it Nor did she ever rag us about it The switchem had done their lob complete and efficiently The chapter was closed" Emily's husband Is the book' mvtery and Emily's shame Ile had told her he would love her "forever and ever" borrowed her money and "disappeared" "Emily was no longer so earilly fooled about this forever and es'er businesa Forever and ever might as well be alive forever and ever as deed forever Ti have a husband who being dead lb alive forever and ever alive In one's consciousnesit and the worst calamity" And here is a reflection sounding a different note: a note which ends like the song of a certain wild bird In a sort of plaint which in mortals would be called sigh: "A dusty wind started blowing Into her face scrape of newspaper and sand It blew meeningly like a wind that has been uncovering what should be covered a wind that blows away the pitiful vase of flowers trom a shallow grave" Even in the hottest of hot weather cm enjoys a good mystery story Particularly If the etory is not over bloody and one is not kept too resolutely in the dark as to the myetery All of this can be said in favor of The Midnight Murder" Paul Herring's new novel One is not long uncertain as to the Identity of the criminal even thougra one may have for a time some doubts even suspicions of a certain jeweler and his lovely daughter Who figure prominently in the story Margaret Midnight appearing in the first pages Of the book at the jeweler's with a magnificent necklace of blue diamonds la alinoet Immediately murdered and her body Is found with a necklace of fake diamonds blue also about her throat She had asked the jeweler to value her necklace and then to hold it in hie safe for her He had declined to take charge of it Such a valuable necklace wOuld undoubtedly have a history Be knew nothing of Margaret Midnight: the necklace may have been stolen That mune evening the girl is murdered and her dead body found in a parked automobile belonging to the fiance of the jeweler's own daughter Rachel Goldshine The Goldshinen are Jews They had aeen the necklace knew its value been asked to hold it Clohigh Ine had been tremendously affected by the beauty and charm of his visitor but he had been wLse enough not to take charge of her necklace Be disliked his daughter's young man And now the body of a murdered woman had been found in his car and a jewel of almost inestimable value was missing from that body Rachel however scorns the idea of her lover as either murderer or thief She had been with him hi the theater at the time and was with him when he went for the car The police had It in charge even then and were only waiting for its owner to appear Things look bad for the young Man for awhile but others are also involved even Clo idshine himself and still others Who murdered Margaret Midnight? And who had the marvelous necklace so recently valued by the London Jeweler Cioldshine? Developments shOw that Margaret Midnight was married A feet-do-well husband comes into the scene and a beautiful actrese And far away in exclusive loneliness an unhappy English Lend appears In the mystery Be had once had such a necklace lie had bought it for his young bride and on their honeymoon elle had fallen overboard on their yacht and been drowned Her body had never been recovered She was wearing the fatal necklace of blue diamonds at the time Investigation proved the necklace worn by Margaret Midnight the eame the bride had worn How did it come into the hands of Margaret Midnight and whoswas Margaret Midnight anyhow? Wee she the lost bride? The mystery deepens Revelation follows revelation who murdered Margaret Midnight? The crime however isn't the main interet of the story The chief interest is in the characters In Margaret Midnight hereelf and certainly in the Go lcishines One likes the Goldshines One liken their Occasionally suggested Jewish characteristics One likes sensible faithful Rachel and one likes the sentimental jeweler himself No one le ever the worse for bit of sentiment in his nature Read what Ocidshine says about it in the closing lines of the story: Friend of my Heart We shutters throw wide: Let in the breath of the sweet twilight oew Let in the call of the deep-flawing tide Let In lifes 'IMMIX the old and the true Vey le for toiling sod bitttling end tears Twilight for song and release from lift's ears "I'll tend to Ril ht4 WIfr mld Impatiently and heaved a sigh from ber toes when her husband finale had made his leisurely wity out of the house" "That man would maks a saint tsar his shirt" she said "he takes so much time gettin from one place to enother Now you finish your note while I make your coffee Then go over to your house and you cart drink your coffee at your leisure while you're waiting for your 'phone call" She bustled out in the kitchen and resolutely turning my thoughts away from the rice paper with the Chineee inscription which had thrust into my bag I took out my pen aanin and finished my brief note to Lillian "That rrusn would make a saint tear hie shirt" she said "he takes so much time gettin from one place to enother Now you finish your note while I make your coffee Then go over to your house and you cart drink your coffee at your leisure while you're waiting for your 'phone call" She bustled out in the kitchen and resolutely turning my thoughts away from the rice paper with the Chinese inacription which had thrust into my bag I took out my pen again and finished my brief note to Lillian Mention Joe Lincoln's name and Caps Cod cornea to mind You think of milt1 breezes sea captains fishermen and quaint old towns You think of 'Shavings" "Mr Prat" "Cpn Ed" 'Blowing Clear" and many other delightful novels with their TOMMICP pathos and vigorous humor Now comes another 111111S11111 Ltncoin story Which is eagerly awaited by his sdrnirers in all section! of the country It is called "Head Tide" and it takes you to picturesque Cape Cod once more and hack to the mellow 18708 when New England ille was at Its richest and particularly to in Massachusetts (Appleton) JEAN SCLUMBERGER French author of "Saint Saturnine" (Dodd Mead Co) rupted a story of family life family devotion family pride and tragedy which only makes more magnificent the courage of devotion of a family for a father svhoeis tnental faculties they watch falling day by day and whose safety they would guard against Imposters men and women For the old man la atilt head of the house and can waste its wealth be Inveigled into the schemes of tharpers men and women which no one Is able to present It is a magnificently touching story tragic at Unica always dear and clean and forceful As wild it is unusual in form One reads the straight narrative to a breath-taking point when the author rests the mind and it the erne time mtisliea the Interest of hin teaders by changing his Mary into the form of a Yet when all has been story and feeling and setting and great charm of this book is the beautiful composition in which the author presente philoeophien truths 11 the phazes of human thought and love and suffering There are lour members cat the faintly of Bout Nicholas their eister Jourdaine and their father William Colombe Saint Saturnine is their ancestral home There are several grandchildren who figure pleasantly sometime importantly in the story The two eons and their sister are of Individual temperament having each an individual scheme of life It is with Nicholas lover of the Roil and handling the farm Interest of the estate lies the chief Importance and perhaps the chief charm of the story Of different temperaments and interests the three but one in heart and devotion to the trust bequeathed them by their patient care of their father The story throughout is of lofty pitch Never once does the author sound faiie note or touch a plane below the highest It opens with the death of the mother: "She Is dying who wan the POW of the house she is dying who was thought coloullem because she was timid who wee thought weak of will because charity was her first conaideration Her seventy yeara are accomplished Her two sons and her daughter are with her wondering at her calm her grandeur She wants to speak There is something someone she Is looking for" It la the old man her husband for fifty years who in a bed upstairs pretends to be asleep "It can't be helped" said Nicholas 'he's growing old But the long years of filial respect are not to be wiped out In a few hours The elder son cannot yet accept what Is impossible to deny The old mane mind la Sq do their grave troubles begin Did their mother realMe what WU happening when before her death she penned a brief letter to her children? Would they have had the courage to stand by so gallantly without that brief letter in which was couched one carefully preferred request: Moult of the world-weary children of men Loot in the valley of doubt-burdened time Find in the twilight their visions again Music and dreams and the rapture of rhyme Etna me the song that your spirit en clears To coniure heck visions long lost in the years The Purple Prince of Oz For a tense throbbing second as lbw face Outside Mrs Ticera sitting-room window came slowly into view I eat motionlessi Then as the cosirse black hair lemon-colored face and slanting eves of a lower-class Chinese Cain Into view I remembered the lessons 'w hich hal learned under Lillian when I bad sided her in the secret service during the war 'Never show sturoriee or fear" she ale ways sisid "but always have your next move planned In advence" So as I at with evee ateadily looking at the almond slanting ones peering "Dear Lillian" It ran "Mrs Ticer into the room I Was relotltig that will give you this so that you but no the eolith upon which I wail slitting one else will know whPre I am I had Wan not backed close aeainst the wall a blowout Just past the Ticer house and that but a little distance from its so I went back and telephoned from head was the swinging door into the there But Miss lialkett hni not yet tiny hall between the flitting-room and come in so I have left a message and the kitchen I also noted in one cur-am waiting here for the call Mr Ticer ner of my brain that the couch was on is weeding outside the windows so I rollers and easily moved can call him If I need anything Mrs If the owner of the eyes was sure Veer has a message for Father but you prised to see Inc sitting oppoKtte him are not to worry Everything is all he showed no such emotion He peered right Better destroy this Will come into the room as if he had a perfect home the minute I get my call right to hits positiOn and I felt that "Affectionately he had noted every detail not only of "MADGE" my appearance but of the riee-paper MILS TIcnt STARTS ERRAND letter lying open beside me on the little stand I folded the note and put it in the Ms eves expressionless beady but envelope wrote 11111aMs name upon more terrifying in their hlankneos than it and then lay back with my rYel if they had Mom filled with anger Disclosed utterly spent The next thing toned thernselvea upon the paper for I knew Mrs Ticer was saying "Mis what Fectned an eternity Then slow-Graham! Mis' Graham!" in a fright- ly lifting a hand from which I cub coed voice and I opened my eves to ConsciOusly noted that the little finger "Speech to be good" said Emily "must be responsive What requires no listener or invites no response is dead Like eloquence like oratory Its dead falling like a sterile stone on the infertile moss of the other persona silence Good speech plays back and forth It's a spring of water flowing bubbling from clean sand There is a cool virgin source whence those bubbles a little at a a little at a time never overwhelming you Things wake to greenness by the spring and you know it from the dusty road by its living bordol You can tell by people's faces by he alive glow that speech between them is good" There's magic In twilight rriend of my Heart There's magic In songs that We love the best There's magic In curtains drawn lightly apart When the sun goes down to the waiting West The wrangles of life for a brief breath etsre And the tides go out In rhythms of peace A Lovers of the gorgeous Oz books tali! be delighted to bear of a new volume of thts fascinating series New In every sense of the word yet Introducing many favorites who figure In all previous volumes The Oz books as most readers of the books know are a series of colorful tales of the imaginary Kingdom of Oz the series founded by Prank Baum Royal Historian of Oz and continued upon that foundation by Ruth Plum ly Thompson The very superb Illustrations are by John Neill Ruth Thompson Includes a brief word to her thousands of readers inviting the young folks to write her how they like this gay adventure The addresa Is Ruth Mundy Thompson 254 Farragut Square West Philadelphia No Telephone As I rode down town on the car today Thinking what teaks might be A gay little maid aat Over the way Bent of coquetting with me A sweet little cute little dear little Miss With eyes as black as a crow And red lips fashioned Just right for a ktRa And I think she knew It was so nee her anxious face txndinf over me "You was so white you scared me" she said Are you all right'" 'Perfectly" I told her with an effort "I just dropped off to sleep I fancy "Oh' what a wonderful odor your coffee has She had set down i trRy on the table near me with coffee cream sugar hut Ur doughnuts and some of her locally famous "raised biscuits" "Well if you're hungry I won't worry any longer" she said relieved and after locking up departed But when I had locked the door after her did not pour my coffee immediately Instead I out the rice paper and scanned It feverishly "I've nothing to do with sentiment any more When fate throws a brick through the window of all your beautiful Ideals the best thing to do is to pick up what remains of 'em make a better show In your shop window Insure 'em for twice as much as they are worth and wait for another brick" The book is crammed with things familiar to you to every one alive You will hardly turn a page without stumbling upon a familiar something There will be a certain thrill In the meeting with these familiar things: You will perhaps say to yourself: That is true too I see It every day In my town" Such as this about the dance hall In burewater Mansion: "A mansion of stone Ivy-covered that In the seventlea was the scene of hunt bails when ladies In bustles flirted with bearded young gentlemen who managed their four-in-hand Today Whistle and Ginger Pop are sold In the stone paved entrance hall" There La humor in this' book too Cuttingly aarcestic humor like a sugar plum roiled about a pill of bitter mediCine to cheat the unwary Such ea this: "Emily availed herself pf a discarded newspaper on the East Tremont cross-town elevated a nice clean one end whiled away the Upper ranges of New York's bedroom windows that die-Play Wilk bottlea bedding backs of chairs and fat women enjoying gregarious travel ISIthout the cost of a journey Emily blotted the out by reacting obituaries being at the age when obituaries have news value when being alive ht moral superiority over people who have Died soddenly or those who have 'peacefully passed away after lingering ill-netts Please Omit flowerer So I answered her smile with a smile to match As a gauntlet gsv thrown down Or a spring-ball tossed with a dare to "catch" And caught as quickly ss thrown The unexpected must not be confused with the expected the long looked for and forgotten Destiny walks the streets unrecognized eery day and the most casual walk along a familiar path or read or pavement may bring one race to fare with that which Phail effect all after life for good or bad Vver think what a day may bring forth 'here is likely to be change of some kind In almost every day because nothing arande still nothing remains the Kerne In a book last book With the compelling title "Whither I Must" written by Bridget Dryden and pub lished by Stokes I came upon this: 'Entity was going where she had to go She had the manner of a person who understands her Identity and who has scooped Out for herself a valley of clear time in which to follow the fine urge of destiny She was going where she had to am She was bound for the center of New York for a day of doing whatever she pleased a day when she would walk calmly obeying the momentary impulse day when she might encounter that disguised Fete which waits for us at any street corner or In any restaurant Or glop" That la the idea: destiny waiting to Its at some street corner come store Some quiet travel on a street car aa Play be And when our day arrive we rut on our grand Planner and carelessly a sneer or song as may whither we must It take no fatalist to know this: it Is the old rugged ragged tattered but Imperishable and unchangeable law of life We go "whither we must" impelled by seeming chance business pleasure what not And at the corner Fiends Destiny waiting klver considtr whet a day may bring forth? Then I spoke right out to that small coquette: "Hello!" And again "Hello!" Her thrills me with laughter I allot no telephone thoughW A There Is philosophy In that Gold-shine had learned a great lesson Be had discovered that "throwing bricks" Into one ideals smashing up things then retiring until the stage Is properly set for the next brick Is an old trick of fate's An old trick not easily discovered Lippincott Co Publishers Philadelphia Pa $200) In the ''Purple Prince" this charmingly originel author has followed a new trail with practically a new setting although quite svithin the bounds of the Oz Kingdom The Emerald City where the Court of Queen 0ma Is comes into the story to be sure but the main part of it ts in the territory of King Fompus Xing of Pomperdink The story deals with magic of a highiy daneeroue quality which of course makes it all the more exciting "The Purple Prince" le the story of a chap (whose identity It would be unpardonable to disclose) caught by the "General" helping himself to Kim Pornpusi favorite grapes In fact oe bast eaten every grape on the Inc Ragged end seemingly forlorn he Is dragged into the presence of the Itirnt Who was told by the Royal Gardener that the boy wm a thief The culprit refused to tell who he seas lie said he ate the grapes beceuse he wag hungry Now the old fat Ring could never beer to think of anyone being hungry asked the boy 'what he thought of the grapes "Sour" was the reply At which the King flew Into a fine rage and ordered the boy dipped In the purple well which was held to be a most terrible punishment but the Elegant Elephant whose wimlom was highly esteemed at Court Interceded in his behalf need the boll from the dipping took him to his Own apartment in the palace and they became warm frietubi Lnd brother adventurers In restoring the Royal Family to the throne when they had been whisked away by wicked megicians They have many and dangerous adventures before the final restoration when was inbstrig he pointed with the forefineer at the letter Then he made a beckoning geeture patently directinZ me to bring it to the window and give it to him The eyes were so devoid of expreeAtom the mosiements uf the bend DO mechenleal that I had the eerie feel-Mg of watching a robot with move mente directed by some super We'llgence outside Put when as I did not flume the beckoning gchite Was repeated this time with an opening wide of the eyes In the fashion that a snake might employ I Welded that the time had come for action With one hand I grasped the letter with the other I picked up the aniaa coffee pot fortunately a heavy one and hurled it straight at the face premed against the pane I (lid not wait to see the Wert of mv throw although the sound of shattering glase told me Ord what Dicky facetiouely calls my "plieher'e arm" had riot tailed me But at the CilOflInt ollowlot the loosening of the pot from ray hand I had thrown m3self back upon the couch rolled to the back of it and dropped to the floor With the ries paper clutched In my bend I shoved the couch to a position In front of the swinging door and in It ithelter crawled Into the tiny entry at the same time calling through the kitchen elmdow MR TICER OPTIMISTIC "Mr Ticerl Quick? In the kitchen door" I rushed to the door and opened it Just as he reeched "Whet? Where?" he eked breathleesly and I told him of the staring eyes and of what I had done getting Mentioned en Page le Column 2) CHAPTER 116 MADGE ALONE AT THE TICEH HOME PUZZLES OVER THE MYTERIOUs CHINESE MESSAGE LEFT IN HER CAR The rice paper which Mr Ticer bad found pinned to the cushion of my automobile was of red while A young compositor on this paper recently came to work wearing a smile as big and bright as the moon The compositor bad news There AS a lovely little daughter at his house Of cotirse all the boys had something to say about the new arrival They were particularly interested on account of the youth of the lather and his 'wife Several clsys later a friend inquired as to the health of the new arrival The young man exploiting the accomplishments of hia little daughter exclaimed enthusiastically She cry" Anyhow it is something to be able to make a not in the world Not every old sleepy-head can appreciate the importance of the accomplishment "Old age te a difficult burden take my place betide the companion of my life Do not forget that In his laborious and honourable career you were his first thought Be patient even if a great deal of patience Is needed Help him in his solitude' His Was to prove the great solitude although he never knew it or ouch like a child he wanted companionship attention and affection Like a giant he went about building and tearing down a magnificent wreck of man wreck Ing the work of his own life titre Louis with his mills could not be constantly on hand ea Jourtlaine was although her life's interests were elsewhere with her son somewhat with her husband It wu Nicholas and his two rnotheries children Nicholas lover of the soil who was always on hand or within easy call The old man grew feeble in body while vigorously and in a way danger ously strong In purpose Madame Tavernier a relative who hod disgraced herself and had been forbidden the house by the wife of WO ham Colombe appeared lodged her' self in the house and was piaying nurse companion and what not to the chmented old man who she said wanted to marry her A good aum of money eels the Madame on her way at It but the household had yet to learn of a deadlier woman danger than Madame Tavernier And still they guarded him those suffering children still remembered the last request of their mother and tried I I Signals Thrown SomPtime4 when ways ate weary-dat With lite's anxiety Acroas the darkness comes a spark Of spirit light tl me Like ships that Egnal gallantly Their Ester ships at sea They trim their white sails to the wind To breast what atorrns may be They ride the wave end courage tind In fignting toarleasly Their hignAl flies the danger rone: 'Who would make port must sail Eraight on" LAIIS 1LACI 5 upon IL Virt El Some Best Sellers blue black which is aupposel to be the property of the raven's wing and the The following la list of best sellers hair of Irish colleens But it was not In fiction and non-fiction in Brentano's of beautiful girls nor yet of birds I Wei New York stores for the week ending July 30 1932 thinking as my shrinkirr- fingers tin- folded the paper All my mentality Fiction! wile focused upon the conviction that "Ballerina" Lady Eleanor Smith sometime somewhere I had seen the Bobbs Merrill A delightful romance characters of the superscription alien of great dancer by the author of though they were to anything I ever "Flamenco" had known or studied "Promenade Deck" Lithe' Ross Few were the character upon the Harper A dramatic and entertaining outside of the paper and I ressonrci novel of ft company of passengers on a that perhaps they stood out so starkly luxurious' world cruise as to aet my imagination working 'Pigeon Irish' Francis Stuart Mac- the lirlpression pereleted and when I millan A novel of the looked upon the inner pages and saw With mysticLsm and symbolism that at the head apart from the letter "Keeper of the Keys" Earl Derr Big- for such I judged the thing tobe the gent Bobbs Merrill A new Charlie hame characters were repeated the sersc Chan story with good pl9t and hum- of famnisrite grew stronger ming with excitement and- humor I spread out the paper finding Holiday" Ackerley Vik- tunately that it was written in Ruch log The story of a romantic India manner that I could compare the minus propaaande supertwription upon the outside wita "Benefite Received" klke Grant Roe- the salutation if such it were upon the man Minton Balch An entertaining Inside There were more characters novel of young Luglish pope upon the heading but among them I the characters upon it were of that blue black which is supposed to be the property of the raven's wing and the hair of Irish colleens But it was not of beautiful girls nor yet of birds I Wal thinking as my shrinkityv fingers unfolded the paper All my mentality Yes focused upon the conviction that sometime somewhere I had seen the characters of the superscription alien though they were to anything I ever had known or studied Few were the cherscters upon the outside of the paper and I reasoned that perhaps they etood out so starkly as to set my imagination working 13t the iMpression VrIsiO4ted and when I looked upon the inner pages and saw that It the head apart from the letter for such I judged the thing tobe the manner that I could compare the superscription upon the outside wita the salutation if such it were upon the There were more character upon the heading but among them I It was Stephen liawes who eald: "After the day there cotheth the darke night For though the day he ritRViTT ao lonpe At laiit the belies riligeIh to everisorige" gt'1- VT -v i A I ft '4'4 i' 4 ft Faie Cings her challenge on the air As ships their signals throw Aml bids the souls cr brave men dare Whatser gates may ThrOli2b wind and wave when all bk! l-5 gone Le ships at ate keep sallindon A Circulating Library It was Emily DIA inatln who said: "It I an stop one heart from breaking I shall not live In vain If I CA13 MO one lire It Al aching Or root one pain Or llep one fainting robin Into his nest again I shall not live In vain The Late What If the day be wintry bleak And the winds go with a whine And the tides nn the helplees Ore sande break And the run reficte to shine? I know though the day be biting-cold And winds have a 'sanity err The night will have to unfold And the eters will mount the sky Though the dial clouds bang on the misted noon Their blanket dull gray and strange et the turning tide will sing ta the moon lie old oid magic of ihanite Tor ljf badlay and 'olden abeien With a changing face tl show: Try be as it never had be-n Icor Inge last le Touctt and Oa A There twe rnany brieth-rekIng in tiT inget a a tol'it of beauty of ertair of thinan nrceeld In one day life with DerAtny knock oce's elbow jr--tling the crowd t-lteete A dee nitt of tife One irttignificant think what to cloq may bript 'Mere to tneny ilTAM-414ii r- en ne in It 14 1)021E CI fiT idget took of beauty of etor of thinge reNeelti In one hey 41 l's Iffe 111 Der-ttoy knoca- 31-5 I 01 '3 elbee lortlIng the crowd tr-oel rne A tiv not of We One ILzorirently Itokrilticent Iltiot ii tholt hitt to clay may bil3 the kind recoenives In his co-savior his 'little grape eater' Be wanta to keel him and do him special honor but the boy cant stay for reasons affecting the risPPY climax of the story Funny things happen also terrible things As when the wicked magicians turned the cook Into a cocoanut restored to himself (fortunately nobody had eaten him) by good Queen Ogrna who bad hurried to the rescue the cook prepares the finest banquet ever with the Royal Family ell Present 'main and the Elegant Elephant the Rod Jinn and Ozma and her escort and the little grape eater all seated at the board- when the hiPtinly of the grape-eater is revealed Then comics more magic of a different sort and soon the "Great gooseberries!" exclaimed King Pompus "these dimtppearances are making tne positiveiy iddy And so this "giddy" StOry MIMI to I happy end and they all live happy ever after Ruth Plinnly Thompson says tell her young reader that Just bout the time next year's STIOWbal Bre ripe shell be writing another book of sOs history' for hem tiil Lee Chicago $175) I I a i 1 1 '4 Vt i' I 1 1: I tk 1 Dury's Rental Libr3ry 'FOUR WIVEy Carlo Krkth 'THAT CIR17 Jarp lec Devai MORE ORCHIDS' Grace Perkin -TOASTED TIMML' hristopher Peeve It was Samuel Johnson who sold: -la not a pntron my lord one who looks with unconcern On a man strug16ir4 for We in the weter and when he hns reached nafe ground ericumLvere him with help?" ---ape Cil on found the group which with rising excitement I decided was a replica' of the superscription The aroma of the coffee came reproachfully to my noatrils and pieturing hospitable Mrs icer's dismay -I't if she should find that I had not taken of the things she had prepared 6TJ I laid the paper down drank a Cup of the coffee and ate one of Ler biacults I knew that I could square my neglect of the doughnuts by begging some to take -T( home to Junior and to Roderick a quest whichliaraTs pleaSel her mightily But I found it hard enoLgh t) choke the biscuit down and swallos the coffee although orrilarily I never slight a culinary offering of my neigh- bor The inacription upon the parer obsessed me I wanted tr) determine 420 whether or not the chnrecters hich ''NO 0 wantert -) rirtermine LI: he hi rs le ch 1L- The farther a man gets from hle xceoe-urate OeyA of boyhood the better he hkes to recall them And the funnier his pranks appear the good disstande which the years lend Flaying boutiey doing all manner of foolish thing! boys like to do particularly the things tatin allght flavor of daring And when all SR said the 1'0(111101 prank tit tide yesterdays' are far leas harmful than some of the tritias It whirrs yoitth eit the preseent daya amusei It tril Toe yrmrrt: than soorn 01 yotith of the Non-Fiction: "30 Years in the Golden North" Jan We LEI Macmillan A gorgeous yarn of Arctic adventure "The Trial of Jeanne D'Arc Gotham House The firt complete translation Into English en the original Trial Records "Men and Memories" (Vol II) Sir William Rothenstein Coward McCann Sketches and anecdotes of twentieth century celebrities by a gifted moon teur "Owen Young" Ida Tarbell Macmillan An able and appreciative study of the treat indultrial leader "In Great Waters" Capt McNeil Harcourt Brace The retired skipper of the Mauretania tells his story of an seivenitiroua and fmcinstMg le to be p3t1ent As she bad foreseen pa tience was sometimes difficult DIM' culties come In battallion take root grow to giants tinder the old mares crazy activiticw Finally the great blow Sharpers get in their work The old roan signa papere: Saint Saturnine Itself le about to be boat Still the patience of hla children held It held to the hour of death and death was long In corning There are many adventures before the final Iteene In the last pages of the bock when matters have been settlet and each bee g-ine to hls own Jourdaine had told herself: In her last summing up: The dead are easy enouth It la the livIng who bold out against tAs" tlicholas wads dafcr It wwe Edward who etld: "A howe of dreams untold It Foote out over the whiApering And feces the settIng sun" ''TWO PLONT" A A 'Win Gift Shap Gift Shp Dury's Union St Nashville Tenn union ar rrarrime Jaw's Ens11 Nashvilhs bruker trO born An tonist-to-socd nAs MurfrItenoro thsp wss rtcPntnv crtintn ecsusils of rips youns ytars 14 the capaLl ot Oid Eutber Mr 'Jame broker trot 'tree err yeSrl th the It wroi Paul who soini' 'Here we tmve cqnlinuing bLit Ito ikeeli 015111 14 to1211" I moj NIJefretf 1 II 7 immooloommome L4 I tFfvagttrrsrwkvveaFe 2 i 12i 4.