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ite Liners Â¥! MAY vilage of Parry :g'n.muâ€"-&. id a full day at to amuse them., SHEDD Island, see the Avenne o m Gramd r at Niagara * Seragny 357 1LLINOW ) The entire book is marked by this fine perception which makes it unnecâ€" essary to say that we hope for good things from Miss Forbes in the fuâ€" ture since she has already attained. Lanice finds interesting work in Boston with a firm of publishers and discovers that rather than a painter she will be a writer. She has a deâ€" vastating romance with dashing Capâ€" tain Anthony Jones; she goes abroad at Mamma‘s death and meets the young student who is dying in Italy, triese to see Jones again and fails, does some excellent writing; and reâ€" turns. In Italy Miss Forbes catches the very spirit of that homehow enerâ€" vating sunlight, and in the youth who is dying but content to die beâ€" eause he has loved life so well, she sums up that civilization which is wistful yet fulfilled. It is this conflict between convenâ€" tion and humanity which makes Lanâ€" ice human and interesting and modâ€" ern, yet because of the difference in the conventions, decidedly of the periâ€" od of the 1850‘s. «_ _« . . No one would guess that they were empty and that her feet were drawn up under her warm of gossip, is intolerable for her daughter. We like Lanice from the moment we see her in the cold little train wobbling its way to Boston. "She looked down and saw the points of her bronze slippers resting side by side upon the dirty floor exactly as a lady‘s shoes should rest, and smiled a lingering secret smile.. Exâ€" actly as a lady‘s shoes should rest. Lanice Bardeen leaves Amherst to seek a career in Boston, because Mamma has eloped to Italy with one of the young gentlemen from the colâ€" , and Amherst becomes a hotbed t is a story of the 1850‘s and might therefore be one of those books in which the background, instead of knowing its place, takes the center of the stage and shoves its characters mmtho corners. But it avoids this on error and we have the deâ€" fiht of that older, quainter day withâ€" t sacrificing the individuality of the people. i In "O Genteel Lady" Esther Forbes has written more than a first novel. She has written an exceedingly finâ€" i work, full of a keen observation subtle feeling for life. * 000 copies, duplicating the of “w... ( meecu 0: a musician, ‘has appeared in France and is being published at once in this country. The French edition is reâ€" ported to Have sold more than 100,.â€" ‘.Am?'mtmtoboanfootto make 0 m.m realist, and not a humorist as we thought he was at all. As Mr. Simâ€" eon Strusky points out in the N. Y. Times, the intelligentsia are coming to like the things that appeal to the common man but they have to find different reasons for doing so. Thereâ€" fore they make Charlie Chaplin not a humorist but a‘ tragedian, and Mr. Larder who makes millions laugh an expounder of grim realism. .A book, the fimh:o treat Franz Liszt as a romantic hero rather than A DISTINGUISHED FIRST NOVEL PHURSDAY, MAY l:"'.‘-t{ tm Book ormer] JUST PARAGRAPHS "O GENTEEL LADY" By Esther Forbes Hougton Mifflin Co. 1926 In Mr. Topper Mr. Smith has creâ€" ated a character, appealing because he is human and pitiful and ridieuâ€" lous who is worthy of extended life, â€" Topper has an unusual introducâ€" tion into u..i Jhigher joys, by the spirits of George and Marian Kerby who having loved them not too wisely but too well, while motoring an unfortunate rrence with a tree. But when Topper bought their car and motoredlé:st their ‘tree, they found no d Ity in joining him, though in an| éthereal state. This leads to endlegs complications. The car goes rot,ntfixz' through villages, Mr. Topper sitting beside the driver‘s seat which is empty, which incident leaves. the inhabitants in a state of coma, or the passersby see Mr. Topâ€" per sitting beside the road talking evidently to gpace while the puncâ€" tured tire rolls around and hops up on the rack and the spare obligingâ€" ly and without assistance takes its place. The Boston Heraid calls this superb novel of the 1850‘s "one of the joys of the year" Hougton Mifflin Co. a leg of lamb and a suburban game of bridge, is converted to the more zestful joys ofyfliroodom" and : youth and motoring, yet with the geservaâ€" tion that he remains an outsider, he acts ; as p xy for his class and satisfies this ll:iuw ( Publication : May 6 FREDERICK A. STOKES, (Princess Troubetzkoy) j A distinctly individual story. Tells of a penniless orphan who becomes the ward of a rich New Yorker and enters the world of theatres, music and society. longing to prove to others that we know just a little more about the enjoyment of living than they do. It is a secret vanity which is not satisâ€" fied, however, until the others know just enough of our joys to be made envious. So when :Topper, who: highest joys have been concerned with The QUEERN ESS 0O F C ELIA Bv AMELIE RIVES 0 GENTEEL LADY By ESTHER FORBES ONE OF FARNOL‘S BEST NOVELS Net $2.00 $2.00 The Bolsheviks have increased the mi!itury item in their budget‘nearly a hundred million for this year. Eviâ€" dently the communists are in favor of pacifism only outside of Russia. appointed to succeed John L. Whitâ€" man as warden of Joliet penitentiary, have been‘ current ever since Mr. Green was relieved as warden of the state hospital at Chester. In a reâ€" ported interview at his home in Kanâ€" kakee, Governor Len Small is quoted as saying that no such appointment has been made. ‘Well by not being in the League, of Nations this month we certainly missâ€" ed a fine fight. > . That at least two more units, which will triple the capacity of the United States Veterans hospital at North Chicago over its present size, will be added within the near future, is deâ€" clared by those interested in the afâ€" fairs of the institution. ber of other cities and towns in Lake county, according to Paul E. Bertram, deputy state fire marshal, who paid this county a flying visit last week. The plan of John G. Gamber, state fire marshal, to conduct a probe of fire hazards in Waukegan, has been broadened in scope to include a numâ€" Searcho(.llroadsinthecounty made last week by Postmaster Manâ€" cell Talcott and several United States postal department detectives for trace of rifled mail sacks stolen from truck on the Northwestern station platform failed to disclose any clues. : in the city on Monday, May 31 in honor of the observance of Memorial Day which falls on Sunday, May 30. â€" . Members of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce in meeting in Waukegan voted to close all stores 0. E. Churchill, a resident of Liberâ€" tyville for more than 35 years died last week at the home of his son, Dr. A. H. Churchill, in Oswego, III., where he was visiting. The deceased was T19 years of age. Independent residents of Zion are taking more than a passive interest in the ‘action of the Zion council in defying the order of the Illinois Comâ€" merce .Commission with regard to stops being made in Zion ‘by the North Shore busses. - Work was started last week on the construction of a $100,000 addition to the rHioly Child high school on North Sheridan road, Waukegan, by the Monroe . construction company, 500 North Dearborn street, Chicago. Death coming after two years of illness, closed the life of W. P. Higâ€" ley, veteran merchant of Waukegan, and long an outstanding figure in the life of the community, at 4:30 o‘clock Wednesday afternoon of last week. The deceased was 82 years of age. Reports that Elmer J. Green, formâ€" sheriff of Lake county would be NEIGHBORHOOD Interesting Happenings About This Part of North Shore _ and Vicinity; County Beat Doings . BRIEF NEWS ITEMS â€" FROM LAKE COUNTY THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOTS JOTTINGS llme_ w&' mowml?' “d wastelands our domestic vestock garner forage and give it new useful An engrossed book on display carâ€" ries text as follows: pear scores of products derived from animals. â€" These commodities include not only meats but useful articles obâ€" tained â€"from hides, wood, â€" mohair, bone, feathers, viscera, hoofs, horns, and glands. There are also displays illustrating the quarantine service, tuberculosis eradication, and other veterinary work. The céentral theme of the exhibit is W“gh‘mbyuumtgmmm paintings illustrating production of animal products. In the foregoing and flanking the principal scene apâ€" Grouped about a central feature which livestock render to mankind, an exhibit now being prepared by the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, is approaching completion. The display is 72 feet long and will be shown ‘at the ‘National Sesquicentennial Expo‘1 sition in Philadelphia beginning June SERVICE OF LIVESTOCK . . $ TO BE SHOWN IN EXHIBIT 522 Central Avenue 148 North First Street FISK â€"PREMIER Spring Tire Special BLACK SOIL FRANK SILJESTROM Iceâ€"Coalâ€"Building Material Quality at Low Cost rade in Your Old Tires on New Ones V Cow Manure Balloons and High Pressure . P. STEFFEN .AUTO SUPPLY SHOP is, Oils, Grease, Accessories A street at Versailles, France, has been renamed Rockefeller street. Doubtless they will keep it well oiled. Motorists driving â€"to the races at Indianapolis Memorial day are adâ€" vised by the touring bureau of the Chicago Motor club to take Ilinois state highway No. 10 through Danâ€" Vflkw?luhfia&mmnb way No ‘ :ii:;gNg.gblndhmpolh. 168 of the 226 miles of this route are paved roads, the remainder being good gravel. TELLS BEST ROUTE » TO INDIANAPOLIS ucts; finally the soft plumage of these creatures gives added relaxation to man‘s rest and sleep. ; 4 "The horse and dogâ€"for centuries aithful comradesâ€"perform countless wmfld‘ddmtom. tion." “Und:dfi& m;:dol;nlmd &, grass coarse ~become m milk, wool, and leather. Meanwhile, humbly picking up seeds and insects from here and yon, busy domestic fowls:g?‘ply;_ still other food prodâ€" forms. of Good Quality . Ne m Te un dite anioag “\'gifi j."jrzfig 19 un l.'pm;h |.'; n £ first viceâ€"president; Mra, Harold i. M. deBeers, recording tary; Milg C. R. Ringson, correspondir crig tary; Mrs. Henry W. Fay, treast it. Committee chairmen are as follo " Mrs. Howard I. Patten, goc ork; Mrs. Austin L Wyman, pro 3 Mrs. A. C. Goodnow, mbership; Mrs. B. M. Kohler, house} Miss Ruth L, Goss, finance; Mrs. 0. B. F t fellowship; Mrs. Francis L. Wooliey, drnuuc;ln.fi.c,’ decore tion; Mrs. Henry P. Pope, good chear; Mrs. A. W. Fischer, dinneg. 4 . _New officers installed t the ing of the Young W. ‘s guild the Glencoe Union held week are as follows: R W. . on mpracrnl SEND YOUR DRY ANIN RUGS AND DRA 8 TO THE RELIABLE LA RY. DRY CLEANERS AS WELL LAUNDERERS. w Phone 350 Telephone Cf PAGE THREEF