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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Sep 1928, p. 39

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SeP.t(~ber 7,.· 1928 WILMETTE LIFE ENJOYS VACATION Having finished her 'new novel "Scarlet Sister Mary," Julia Peterki~ has gone on a vacation to her summer home at M urrels Inlet on the Novel Sb~s New Light South Caralina ·coast. It was from this place that Theodosia Burr set sail and 'Upon Life of Dickens never returned. Mrs. Peterkin's second Prob~bly the most popular writer novel, "Scarlet Sister Mary," will be of the 19th Century was the author published· this fall. · fa~cy of ·~David Copperfield," Charles Fruit Salad Dickens. He was the most widely read Mrs. William McDaniels of New Ice Cream Moulds novelist of the century both in Eng- Y.ork and and Mrs. George F.. Wissland and America, and one of the best haack City of Los Angeles ar·e in Wilmette beloved. From his novels written for an extended stay at the home of about the poor and lowly folk of their brother and sister-in-law, Mr. Ice Crum London Dickens· has always been con- and Mrs. Joseph B. Marshall of 1040 Wilmette sidered a champion of the unfortunate. Elmwood avenue. A new novel, "This Side Idolatry," by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts ~ ~. ("Ephesian"), soon to be published, is based on the life of Dickens, and incorporated in the novel is much new, Et~anston Shop Open Tuesday, Thursda, and SatKrcla, &minp unused or unrecognized material about his life. Charles Dickens' life was vastly different from his writings, according to Mr. Roberts. His treatment of his wife, his publishers and the poor with whom he came in contact, leads one naturally to suspect that Dickens may have been hypocritical. After Mrs. Dickens had given birth to ten chilCHICAGO-State and Jackson· EVANSTON -Orrinaton and Church dren, she and Dickens were separated. \ That fact is well known. The reason for the separation, according to Forster, the biographer of Dickens, was that Mrs. Dickens became insane. Stich was not the case, the reader gathers from the novel, "This Side Idolatry." Dickens, always extravagant, urged petty economics on his wife; his attention to other women hurt her; and his irresponsibility worried her constantly. With his publishers, after he became popular, he was unscrupulous and broke oral and written contracts with seemingly no thought of ethics. He who had visited his own father in prison and had written so feelingly about the horrors of English jails, once sent a young girl to prison for using coarse language. Many characters in his books were taken from his own circle of relatives and friends, · IN OUR EVANSTON SHOP who were often hurt and angered by his exaggeration of their characTYLE! Variety! Value! Three mighty impcirtant teristics. This and much more new knowledge things to well dresaed high school men. Here are about Dickens is revealed in "Thts complete selections of Lytton Hi Suits, the VerY pick Side Idolatry," all of which cannot of our tremendous downtown varieties. Here are found fail to interest Dickensians everywhere. every smart style idea like double breasted vests and BOOKNBWS Orders . ·taken for . I Snider-Cazel Drug Co. El· ······································ ····-. Get Wealth of Material for Tennessee Memorial Many curious and interesting photographs and documents are being sent to the Bobbs-Merrill company for use in the Memorial volume of "The CaYalier of Tennessee," by Meredith Nicholson. Bobbs-Merrill is still in the market to receive anything pertaining to Andrew Jackson and his period which can be incorporated into the volume. The book wilt be large in size, and when completed will be exhibited over the country before it is sent to The Hermitage, Jac~son's old home at Nashville, . Tennessee, where it will be on display permanently. SALVAGE Three things iQ my house are my own. Not the dark pictures whose blood runs in my veins, Nor the vines that I trained round the windows, Nor even the books. But the curve of a shabby armchair that molded itself on your body, And the echoes of songs that you sang, And the square of sun Tha_t comes as it came, first in the mornin~, · When you had open~d the window. ""his poem by Beatrice Ravenel is one of the maav lovely things to b.e found in Addison Hibbard's new anthology, "The Lyric South." (Macmillan · · · · · · · · .· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · . The Styles and Colors you'll want for fall are here in LYTTON HI SUITS For High School Men -Two Long Trousers $25 . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · S pleated trousers. And the economies of our great buying power assure maximum value. Other Lytton Hi Suits up to $50· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · I Real Values in Boys' Lytton Jr. Suits 2 Pair GolfTrousers ManyluJ"Ye Double 'Breasted VestJ $15 ~ T · · · · · HESE new Fall Lytton Jrs.are certainly smart looking Suits. The clever patterns, the rich brown, grey, and blue mixtures, the new styles. But you won't appreciate just how wonderful t:Pey are until you examine their fine woolens and eoul)d workmanship. $15 goe. a long way -here! Sizes 6 to 18. Other Lytton Jr. Suite up to $35. $2.25). e=·.·.-.~.·.~.![IIIII!!! .... ~.~.·.~.~.... !I!!.!!II!.~.III!I.~.~.~~~.~.!II!.IIII!.~~~.~.!II!.II!·!II!·~·I!·!!I!·~·IIII!· ....~.~.!!I!.!II!·IIII!·!II!·!II!·II!·!II!!·!II!·IIII!·!IIJ!·!!II!·~·~~~.~·I!III·!I··ii I · · · -and the Newest Things in Boys' Furnishings

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