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sties with Spires," Georgina Garry, a new English author, presents the story of a kept woman. "High deeds cafi blend with low desires . . So let However, aside from these sad morâ€" al aspects of the themhe one can sit back and enjoy the faithfulness with which the author impales her charâ€" acter, the skill withâ€"which she paints to the life the poenlo-pofi' and nesthete. For it is of this, if skill is able to convince you of anything, that Miss Parrish‘s excellently drawn character of Christabel Caine and her adorers does convince you. In fact the uniâ€" versality with which Christabel is able to take them all in is the weakâ€" est point in the book. Only Uncle Johnnie out of all the ramifications of relations in Germantown or out. of all* the admiring throngs that Christabel met when she goes to fashionable watering places with the rich aunts, only Uncle Johnnie knows that she is a little fraud, a snob, a selfâ€"worshipâ€" er, a cheat. If this is possible, what is the use of virtue in a world that would just as soon have its shadow? It is most depressing. But we don‘t think it is possible. "Humor, tragedy and pathos are acceptable, but not stories that are morbid or that leave the reader unâ€" comfortable." So runs the delicately phrased slip of guidance to its conâ€" tributors that a certain American magazine sends out. We don‘t know just where it would class Aun Parâ€" rish‘s "All Knceling" among these but we should think it would adjudge that it leaves the reader uncomfortâ€" mbie. Nothing leaves one more unâ€" comfortable than to be presented with the evidence, perhaps the proof, that one lives in the midst of hypocrites with their following of dolts. a book by that name by a German biographer, Fulopâ€"Miler. Mussolini, mnother enigma of our inquiring age has chosen characteristically to do his own in "My Autobiography" to be published Oct. 26. Mussolini is said to have stopped a newspaper contest on the subject of the enigma of himâ€" self, saying ‘It is absurd since I myâ€" self cannot enter an opinion." He has evidently thought better of it and toria Woodhu!! Martin, "the redâ€"hot grandma of all the flappers" is almost ready for publication. The truth about "Rasputin, The Holy Devil" is said to have been revealed at last in publication of her book of criticism "The Strange Necessity." of them be published until after the has arrived in New York. Miss Weat admits for the benefit of those who await in more or less despair the comâ€" ing of her long promised novel that she has three novels either completed book of complete sincerity. taking ome immessurably far from all we know and understand, a book to be read quictly and with brooding. this wil} be a tremsâ€" EXCEPT UNCLE JOHNNIE By Gertrude Bell st your beckshap, $3.40 Frederick A. Stokes Co.. N. Y. Publishers of the best ceiting *Bete leal" and "Brook Brane" "PIGSTIES WITH SPIRES® THE STRANGE CASE OF MISS ANNIE SPRAGG By Louis Bromfeld 50,000 Bcfore Publication THE WOMAN PAYS JUST PUBLISHED A New and Greater By Georgina Garry E. P. Dutton & Co. JUST PARAGR "ALL KNEELING" By Gertrude.Bell By Ann Parrist Harper & Bros. e w the reason why Josephine Demayne consents to be the mistreas of her emâ€" er ployer‘s husband is that she is tized of poverty mot cnly for herself but for her small pale daughter Sonin. . PH® Left a widow very young, never having had any chance for anything _ Critic for| in life but poverty and work, Joseâ€" the month,| phine Demayne does not know the this country. The best salary she could hope to get was $25 a week. As a chambermaid she is paid $40 a month and given board and room, her tips average $25, and she has all the time she wants to see her "feller." What could be sweeter. morrow‘s hotels they. will not "sleep in" at all, because land and duilding costs are too great to permit a hotel the extravagance of bedrooms for the help." I am not going deeply into the servant question, only enough to indicate the bearing the servants have on that eight doliars a day. In most States nowadays the giris work in three shifts on a sixâ€"day week. The $12 a month chambermaid of 1019 never did get through work until her feet broke at the ankies. When the poet wrote that "woman‘s -ih“dng":m: days a month except in February. Nowadays they have plenty of time to go to dances. A handsome Danish girl told me that she had been a stenâ€" agrapher in Denmark and worked at the trade for a time after she ruot to _ DELIGHTFUL SKETCHES I PERSIAN PICTURES" month and board nowadays and inâ€" stead of sieeping in dormitories each pair is given a neat little room in the cot in aâ€"hall that looked as large as an auditorium and probably sounded like one. She did not get out in the sunlight very often because she was interested in her work. By the time loafed in bed until five o‘clock every morning because she was too tired to get up, writes Herbert Corey, in the Nation‘s Business. | pays. The book gives an excellent | study of what effect these things have | on Josephine‘s life and on the devel~ opment of her child. Sonia grows inâ€" | to the precocious cynical, rather loneâ€" Here is one of many reasons why a night‘s lodging in a good hotel costs a great deal more today than it did when grandfather was a travelâ€" shrcrhduuéeup&elm'mnsh Conclusion of Explanation of Why Hotel Rooms Cost In 1910 a chambermaid was paid $12 a month and was fed in a good fun out of them that I expect to have." and this was not affectation for when she was finally persuaded she only consented to have them come out anonymously. Now after her death when there is so much interest in her as a personality and in the cast, itself, they are reissued. If you love the names of Teheran and Saâ€" mark and the secrets of the east the value of which as Miss Bell says "no one understands better than the Oriental" you will enjoy _ these <ketches. AND, AFTER ALL, WHAT COULD BE SWEETER? In a delightful format of grey andI crushed grape this little book, the first one to be written by the now famous Gertrude Bell, has been pubâ€" lished. For those who have enthus-i iasm for the east, for delicately| drawn â€" wordâ€"pictures of â€" romantic‘ things "Persian Pictures" will be a : happy discovery. | Gertrude Bell who as truly as Lawâ€"| rence won undying fame in Arabia during the war, did not want these pictures of her trip to Persia to be published at all. "I have got all the ly yet determined woman that such , an upbringing would make probable.| mhooki-'d.ldou.nnextnnelyl interesting psychological study, and‘ the theme is handled in such a way as to make it less "shocking" than' mest of cur happy little romances. are only a few of the things that she sport, to adapt her mood to his unâ€" certainty, the piacing of her child in possibilities that are within her. Posâ€" sibilitics to be attractive, to be gay and carefree. It is left for Robert, the man of means but utterly devoid of moral sense, to show her these. But Josephine pays a high price. Endâ€" trade for a time after she got to More Nowadays Horace Liveright Moran Brothers | _ Modern Plumbing and Heating | Metimates Cbeerfully Given Jobbing a Specialty 360 CENTRAL AVENUE Telephones Shop H. P. 1404 _ Res. H. 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Apparently the principal calamity that can be expected from the elecâ€" tion, is that a large number of poliâ€" ticians will fail to get the jobs they are after. hine in selling: It is the faskion nowâ€" The "trust" we Arere taught to fear at the beginning of this century, the "trust" against which spellbinders inâ€" veigled and which "trustbusters" sought to bust was a trust of manuâ€" facturers. What of the new forces at work in the fields of retailing? What of the chain stores? Are not the worried and harassed retailers more apt to ask stricter legâ€" islation against "big business" than to ask to see our laws modified? the Sherman act to cure all sorts of ills, but those who urge its modificaâ€" tion might well consider one thing that stands in the pathway towards l”_‘fih.. _ _ Solvay Coke Old Floors Resurfaced to Paul E. Downing Phone H. P. 566 m--‘?r-h-dr;l;h-u Highland Park, Hlincis Look Like New Again in 1928 This dependable fuel is making records 1 block west of Waukegan rd. 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