rr i 2 ---------------- A pn arm Before his novel, "If Winter Comes," had become a phenomenal suocess, its author, A. S. M, Hutchin- son, was working on another story dealing with one of the greatest so- cial problems of our time, the pro- tecton of 'he home in face of the In- flux of the up-to-date woman into business, professional and political spheres of activity. Can a woman 'who persists in carrying out for her- 88M a 'career' do her duty by hus- bapd and children? Almost every . man would at once reply "Cer'ainly not!" Mr. Hutchinson himself, while sympathizing with woman's struggle for equality, believes that the aver- age man is right in looking askance &t modern Eve who wants a husband and a position too. He has therefore duit up his new novel, "This Free- dom," to impress this unconventional . §eperation with the fact that the old | Way was best and the old-fashioned expression, "What is home without a ~ mother!" still deserves to be uttered Bot as a question but as a eelf-eyi- i dent statement of eternal truth. Sup- i : L with a salary of £200 a year. Me woman has achieved the suf- and can enter all kinds of oc- . ewpations today, if she marries and Bas children and neglects her family for business on the pretext that she should be as free to follow her am- "Biflon as her Busband, the day will obme when she will quote the words of the apostle but in dejection in- siead of in triumph, "With a great Sim obtained I this freedom!" % Victorian Girl's Passion for Business. The plot of this novel with a pur- is very simple. It is the bio- y of Rosalie Aubyn, youngest d in a large family in a rectory Buffodk. Her father, the Rav. Harold Aubyn had been a brilliant Student at Cambridge but he had Pen shunted off to a country parish There Be struck year after year, unable to * #eeure anything better. He haled the place and became soured and em- Pittered. His gentle and uncomplain- ing wife was a thorough-going Vic- forian woman, a slave to her hus- Band and children, and her monoton- life Yormed fn her youngest ter the early resolve io eseape possible from sueh a domestic mill, such a dependent existence. opening chapters in this story gffer-humoroug {llustrations of how more important were fathers sons than wives and daughters in | good old days of Queen Victoria how lowly and serviceable were latter to the former. Rosalie d never have escaped from the ct'ons imposed upon her by the f° of birth had it not been for Auut Bella, Mrs. Pyke Pounce, of don, who played lady bountiful] fo the rector's family and was cor- @ially hated by every one except her meek sister. Aunt Bella carried the Hittle girl to London, tor a number of rs paid for her keep and tuition a girl's school, and when she was uated aided and abetted her in ambition tp become not a gover- but a business woman. Through : aunt's influence, and much to the it of Pyke Pounce, who be- that girls should stick to the paths, Rosalie obtained a place private secretary to Mr. Simcox. eccentric Individual answered #11 kinds of advertisements in order het he might have the fun of open- a heap of letters every day. He f into multitudinous corre- 3 ence with heads of colleges and Sy Is, for instance, respecting the advantages to be obtained In their fostitution; insurance companies Were also drawn into writing to him leite: explaining the merits of r a ol pokcies. In this way 'Be became really expert in various Hoes of information. But as he had ® private income, he made no use of WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT A MOTHER This Is the Theme of "This Freedom," a New Story by the Author of "If Winter Comes"'--A Warning to Married Women Who Persist in Clinging to Posi- tions in the Business and Professional World. By Prof. W. T. Allison. 3 d the fruits of his correspondence school, Rosalie, however, had not been in his office long before she saw that it was possible for him to be- come an adviser to parents who were perplexed as to where to send their children to school, likewise to men who wanted to insure but did not know what company or policy to se- lect. 'Within a year, so wonderful was her business acumen, she and Mr. Simeox funded a good-paying business. -- Rosalie Married a Genial Lawyer. Rosalie's aim was being realized a* last; she was going to be & free wo- man, one who could snap her fingers at the other sex and be absolutely in- dependent. The years passed swift- ly by end she prospered exceedingly, but when she was thirty-two she sur- prised herself by falling in love al- most over night wih & genial lawyer whom she had likened to a poor, tame cat. She married him, but made him promise that she should still be on an equal footing with him, as far as business was concerned. So he practised law and she became one of the bright ligh's of a private bank. | Then children blessed this strange marriage and for a good many years Rosalie and her husband thought the youngsters were doing nicely in the hands of governesses and housekeep- ers. But by slow degrees evidence was forthcoming that it was not enough for their good-natured mother to be giving only her even- ings and week-ends to her young family. She was always pleasant with them and she and her husband were never out of sorts, but somehow the girl and the two hoys were al- ways happy to go off to boardipg- school, and never displayed any af- fection for their business~-woman mother. A couple of times Rosalie broke away from business, but it was foo late; she could not eapture the love of her children; besides the fascination of business life was so strong that it pu)led her back, much to her long-suffering husband's dis- appointment. Finally tragedy invad- ed that house which was not a home. The eldest boy was expelled. from school, later married without his parents' consent, and wound up in prison; the daughter went wrong, and dled miserably, while her young- er brother shot the man who wrong- ed her and then committed suiside. After all these disasters, Rosalle ad- mitted to her hosband that she had adopted the wrong kind of life prin- ciple, that a married woman's place fs the home just because she is a wo- man. Aunt Bella and Uncle Pyke Pounce, To me the great charm of this story consists not in the social teach- ing which Mr. Hutchinson is at such pains to inculcate, nor in the plot which towards the' close degenerates into melodrama, but in the vivid portrayal of character. In sketch- ing highly individualized persons. this writer is master. Both inhisstyle and in his skill in etching queer peo- pie he reminds me strongly of Dick- ens. Aunt Bells and Ungle Pyke Pounce might well have walked ou: of an unpublished story by immortal Charles. Listen to this passage, -- "It was at dinner at the glittering table in the splendid dining-room of the magnificent house in Notting Hilf, Rosalie there on the half-term week- end of her last term, that the fright- ful thing was done. At dinner: Uncle Pyke Pounce bathing in his soup; beautiful Laetitia elegantly toying with hers; Aunt Bella beaming over her solid silver spoon at Rosalie. "Try that soup, dear child. It's de- Helous. My cook makes such delic- ious soups. Lady Houldsworth Hop- per--8ir Humbo Houldsworth Hop- per, you know he's in the India Office, you must have heard of him---was boa UNLESS you see the name "Bayer" on tablets, you are not getting Aspirin at all Acct any an "unbroken package" of "Bayer Tablets of which contains directions and dose worked out by physicians during 22 years and proved safe by millions for I ---- -- dining with us last week and said she had never tasted such delicous soup {It was the same as this. | asked cook {specially to make it for you." Does- n't that sound like Dickens? And watch Uncle Pyke Pounce when Ros- |alie announces that she wants to be {a business woman, Ien't this just the way Dickens would carry on?-- "Uncle Pyke Pounce, holding his breath because he is holding his ex- asperation as one holds one's breath {in performance of a delicate task: Uncle Pyke Pounce crimson, purply blotched, infuriated, kept from his food, dlowing up at last at the par- lourmaid: 'Bring in the next course! Bring in the next course! Watyer staring at? Watyer waiting for? Wat- yer listening to? Rubbish. Pack of rubbieh'." How to Eat a Herring. The first four chapters of this novel are just bursting with humor. Feminists will no doubt chortle aver this story as a whole and debate its thesis savagely, but everywoman will laugh loud and long over the au'h- or's pictures of the wonderful men and their masterful pride in the old- fashioned Victorian household! Fa- ther sharpening a pencil and father esting a herring are little classics on the vanity of man. Has any be'ter picture of the head of a household showing off ever been written than this herring extract ? '"Herrings! {Well, a herring is one of the most | delicious fish, it it's eaten properly. !There's a right way to eat a herring land a wrong way. Now watch me land I' show you how to eat a her- ring, Rosalie, watch. " 'Rosalie, dear,' (from her moth- er) "watch while your father shows you how to eat a herring.' "All eyes on father demonstrat- ing how to eat a herring! "And Rosalie used to notice this about the watching eyes. Her moth- er's eyes--most anxiously and nerv- |ously upon the operation, as if watch- ing a thing she would soon be called | upon to perform and would not able to perform; the eyes of Robert (14) sulkily; of Flora (18) admir- Ingly (it was getting to be a com- plaint in the family circle that Flora 'sucked up' to father); the eyes of Anpa (20) wearily; the eyes of Har- oid (22) contemptuously. "The herrings (a very frequent dish at the rectory, so much cheaper First father nipped off the tail with & firm, neat stroke, Then he deftly slit the herring down the stomach. It fell into two exact per~ fectly divided halves, Then he lift- ed out the backbone, not one scrap of fish adhering to it, and laid it on the side of his plate. Then four firm pressures of his knife and the little lateral bones were .exactly re. moved and exactly laid on the back- bone. Next a precise insertion of his fork and out came the silvery strip known to Rosalie as 'the swimming thing' and was laid in its turn upon the bones, exactly, neatly, as if ft were a game of spillikins. 'Now pep- per, Plenty of pepper for the roe, you see. There. Now.' "And in about six mouthfuls fath- er's plate would be as clean as when it was brought in, decorated rather than marred by the exquisitely neat pile of the 'backbone, the tail, tha little bones, and the silvery swim- ming thing. 'There! Delicious! rThat's the way to eat a herring;' and he would direct a glance at the pla'e of Rosalie's mother. Rosalie's moth- er made a4 herring into the most frightful mess it was possible to ime agine. She spent the whole of her time in removing bomes from her mouth; and her plate, when ghe was half-way through, looked to contain the mangled remains of about two dozen herrings. 'Very few women know how to eat a herring,' Rosa- He's father would 'say. "Wonderful father! How ta sharpen a pencil, how to eat a her- ring, how to do up a parcel, how to cut your finger nails, how to sit with regard to the light when you wrote or read, how to tie a knot, how to untie a knot. Clever, father, natty father!" ble. Seems Oan a Woman Never Let Go ? Other unforgettable charac'ers in this story ard Mr. Simecox, the abund. and Jetter-writer; Kegg, the whig- key-bibbing lady teacher in Rosalie's London school ,and the patient hus band Harry, with his eternal phrase, "Mumps and Mice." "This Freedom" is well worth reading just to make the acquaintance of these delightful people. Masterful, however, as he fa in character porirayal, I am inclined to think that Mr. Hutchinson's knows ledge of the female heart is not al« ways satisfactory. I leave it to any woman reader of this story whether Rosalie could have fallen in- love over-night with a man for whom she bad a positive aversion. No doubt the psychologists would say this was a case of suppressed complex, but I refuse to believe it possible. Again, Mr. Hutchinson says over and over 'away from it. © He {llustrates this Rosalie's case, but is oe true , 5 reds of be | than meat) came headless to the ta- | mine in North-Eastern Utah as junior engineer, He gpent {wo years engip- cering and prospeciing in the south~ west of Mexico, then went east as manager of some gold mines in Nova Scotia. He joined the rush into Co- balt, Ont., in the same capacity. The year 1909 found him surveying from Cochrane, Ontario, to Moose Factory, a Hudson's Bay post on James Bay. Later he became manager of the Min- ing Department for the Canadian General Electric Company at Toron- to, and for several years travelled all over Canada, and into many of its far corners, investigating new fields and their commereial possibilities in relation to the eleetrical apparatus that the company manufactured. He had previously been made a licensed guide in Nova Beotia, and having owned considerable property, has al- ways kept up this connection with the Game Commissioners, -- The negro and the savage are re- ceiving a good deal of attention in books at the present time. It is pure chance that this is s0, so far as can been seen. The books have happened to come along, that is all. Eugene O'Neill's wonderful drama, "The Em- percr Jones," published in his volume of plays, has a negro for its chief novel, '""Batouala," is now rendered into English, and published in a limited edition, A new novel of African native life, "Witch Doctors," {by Charles Beadle, deals with nativa {customs and worship--voo doo and {magic making--and the heart of | Africa. Here a strong drama is play- {ed out between two white men, the only whites in a territory of many square miles, "Savages," a tale of life among the | cannibals of the Solomon Islands, and | relating the adventures of one Hurri- {cane Williams, an outlawed sea cap- jtain, is another "native" novel just {published. Gordon Young is the author, | "White and Black" is a novel of the negro problem today in the {Southern States of America. Hers {the attitude, unlike other novels on i the color problem in America, is very {sympathetic to the man of colon. 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