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THE UNION-RECOHOERf MimPOEVILl-E. CA.. PECEMMK », IMS
BOOK R E VIE W S
A ••octal* Profe«oi
By DR. ALICE C. HUNTER
f Enilitk Goocgta Suit Coll**# for Womr
author takes a mildly argumentative
tone, backing up his assertions with
quotations from literature worldly
sirahlc blessing, accomodating itself
*o our changing moods and fortunes.”
amps is this ' Ths blessing comes through conflict.
Wall. The AH ir«n crave it; sympathy with
others increases their desire. Peace,
the gift of God, is not for the wrong
doer and he “who undertakes to
stifle conscience that he may obtain
tranquillity of mind builds upon
THE NO-NATION GIRL
By Ereu. Wall
The Ceutury Company, N. Y.
A story of elemental passions
thrown against the haunting back
ground of Louisiana
hriiliant novel of Ev
book teems with psychological im
pressions and reactions. No more
powerful contrast, it may safely be
said, of Caucasian and African na-
turv has ever been written. Others
—notably Vnchel Lindsay and Eu
gene O’Neill—have used the tom-tom
and the storm of black love ns liter
ary material, but. compared with Mr.
Wall’s work, theirs are collections
of word- and his a tale written in
heart brats and age-old emotions.
Prtcieuse is the daughter of a
Louisiana black mother and n white
father who had sunk to the level of
the swamps. Precieuse gTew into her
“beauty days,” with lovely curves,
rosy lips and ro‘c tinted cheeks;
white as a lily, crowned with a
wealth of blue-black hair that waved
gently. The white in her predomina
ted until one day when a tragic
happening loosed the black strain nnd
her “beauty days” passed. And agnin
r.s her hnuia were numbered the white
gnined or.ee more the ascendancy.
Into the swamp came Cliff, proud
offspring of a Southern household,
dazed, in the midrt of his college I ' “ r
course, by the news that his grand- : i ,:
father, whose wealth he had always !t . K
been promised, had died with debts j has
that more than covered the gracious J r
and elegant southern e-tate. Trained ■ heior- many days pass the whole
to be a gentleman, Cliff coulj not j town wil have hesn covered. Many
fare the fact of work. He saw Prc-i^ave been phoned to several times
cieuse dance with African abandon. —hujt have not been reached—as
He sow the brutal whipping administ- yet, so if vour name is not on the
°red t'- h n r by her negro mother. He list that apiMtars in this article—it is
interrupted and later Prccieus? came | because you have either not decided
to him on his houseboat—as a ( what you can do—and will let the
strange wild creature out tf the j committee know later—or the com-
swamps—he took h r in—and loved | mittee has been unabl; to locate you.
the girl-child to whr m he was a J So—phone the chariman that lives
mysterious and god-like. | in your “slice of pie” what you are
Evan.- Wall lifts the curtain of j gonig to do and don’t wait to be call-
the I-ouisiana swamp country and we i ed again.
*"* till- drama, relentless, heart- j U yoa wiu imog i„ c Hancock and
crushing of its people torn by and- J Wayne streets arc lines cutting the
-rn heritages, veneered hy western ! town into four part—with the cen-
elothtr and ways. Throughout tho u-r in town at Culver nnd Kidd's—
.-lory we catch the tapping of the Exchange Bank—A. nnd P. Store—
~ater against the houseboat, the calls ! and Joseph’s you can tell which
* .. .. , . slice „ you ] Jve jn Each .. a , ic€ ., js
Hr. Cudmnn refer- to the great
souls cf history who seemingly
posses-od per.ee. At the end of his
essay he shows the part that peace
playr in religion and cites the prom
ise of Christ that the peacemakers
should inherit the kingdom of heaven.
XMAS TREES TO
| BEAUTIFY CITY
I Many to Decorate Out-door or In
door Trees During Holidays Two
I Large Trees Down Town
(NEuLE W. HINES)
| Rcspon-c to the invitations from
j various committees to join in the
bi>:c!al lighting for our Christmas
jt kbr-.tion in the Old Home Town
most enthusiastic, and while
has not yet been reached,
any days p
have besn
of the wild creatures, the yellow clay
clotr surging down the- water-ways,
the heavy moss, the black outlines of
trees agninst the winter sky, the
burgeoning of emeral springtime.
The flow advance of the story
with its sad and tragic ead reminds
one of the Sophoclean drama which
impressed ever stingly the verity of
fate, the inevitability of consequence
and destiny. This is a moving story,
and, although it deals with the primi
tive in mankind, it is a clean but
gripping tory that leaves the reader
deeply thoughtful.
5 the
ne beginning with the
ed—so figure it out.
These are the chairmen—Joseph’s—I
Mrs. G. A. Lawrence; Exchange—
Mrs. A. F. Latimer and Mrs. Lee
Jordan (acting for Mrs. M. H.
Bland); Culver and Kidd—Mrs. Pear
son Berry; A. and P. Store—Miso j
Leila Lamar.
The folk wing names have been
sent me by these four committees—
and there will be other naues added
I am sure. Mrs. G. A. Lawrence
chairman!—Out Dcor Trees;—Mrs.
Frank Bone. Mrs. E. R. Hines, Mrs.
Moate, Mrs. T. M. Hall, Mrs.
Otto Conn, Mrs. G. G. Reid. Mrs. F.
H. Harding, Mrs. L. H. Andrews,
Mrs. John Holloway. Trees in Win
dow; Mrs. George Carpc.iter. Mrs.
Tom Fraley, Mrs. O. E. Thaxton, Mrs.
E. H. Scott; Mrs. P. N. Bivins, Mrs.
Floyd Hendrickson, Window deco
rated; Mrs. G. A. Lawrence, Mrs.
Russel Bone, Mrs. Homer Shy, Mrs
Culver Kidd, Mrs. L. M. Jones, Mrs. j
Charles Moran, Mrs. Dixon Williams.!
Miss Leila Lamar; Chairman—the.
folowing will either have a tree or.
some special aut-door decoration;
Mrs. L. G. McKinley. Mrs. Louie
Wood, Mr?. A. C. McMillan, Mrs.
Louise Lear is, Mrs. C. E. Caldwell, i
Mrs. J. D. Neighbors, Mrs. R. W. Me- [
Millan, Mrs. I. P. Stanley, Mrs. J.
B. Lawrence, Mrs*. W. L. Rossee,
Mrs. L. D. Smith, Mrs. M. F. Davis,
Mrs. J. C. Etheridge, Mrs. M. E.
Pennington, Mrs. C. W. Gholson, Mrs.
F. R. Brookins, Mrs. H. McCoy, Mrs.
J. C. Ivey, Mrs. A. Goldstein, Mrs.
W. L. Gholson, Mrs. Warren Welch.
Mrs. J. A. Moore, Mrs. J. A. Ben-
ford, Mrs. F. R. Broom, Mrs. J. A.
Smith, Mr'-. Dawson Wilson. Mrs.
Alford, Mrs. Thos. Godfrey, Mrs. P.
! F. Montgomery, Mr?. Roberts, Mrs.
Osterman, Mi’s. Mamie Pitts, Mrs.
C. P. Crawford, Mrs. Cason Black.
Mrs. Steven Thornton, Mrs. Miller
Bell. Mrs. David Ferguson, Mrs. Louie
Stanley, Mrs. L. Benford, Miss Mnnic
Jones, Mrs. Carlyle Giles, Mrs. S. A.
Boone, Mrs. Richard Binion, Mrs.
Sim-. Mrs. Boston, Mrs. Chns.
Moore, Mrs. Edftar Long. Mrs. Leon
Callaway, Mrs. D. M. Rogers.
Mrs. Ed Lawrence, Miss Leila La
mar—Mr. D. M. Rogers, tree at Cen
tral Station.
Mrs. Pearson Berry; Chairman-^
the following have promised definite
ly and other names from this “slice”!
will probably be added later. Those
who will have out-door trees; Mrs.
Kenneth McMillan, Mrs. Jon Hutch
inson, Culver and Kidd Drug Store; |
Trees in windows wlil be; Mrs. James
Ivey, Mrs. Prosser, Mrs. Lucious Hot-'
ten, Mrs. Peeler, Mrs. M. M. Fiemis-1
ter, Mrs. Floyd Frederick; Decorat
ed windows will be—S«nger Sewing
Machine Co., R. W. Hatcher Store,
Baldwin Hotel, Mrs. Peason Berry,
Mrs. Y. A. Little, Out-Joor Tree at
Mrs. R. W. Hatchers.
At the State Sanitarium—Mrs. J.
I. Garrard Chairman—the following
11 recornU*—either a tree or
, special window. Two trees in yard
|of the Sanitarium. Mrs. U. S. Bow
en, Mrs. R. M. Bradford, Mrs. Hom
er Bivins, Mrs. W. A. Bostick, Mrs.
C. G. Cox, Mrs. G. L. Echols, Mrs.
J. I. Garrard, Mr?. G. E. Whortfr,
I Miss Ccc‘1 Humphrey, Mrs. L. P.
iLongino, Mr*. F. C. Penuel, Mrs. D.
;T. Rankin, M;s. W. W. Stembridge,
Mrs. R. C. Swint, Mrs. N. P. Walker,
Mrs. G. A. Wheeler, Mrs. Y. H. Yar
brough.
Mrs. M. H. Bland—Chairman—
(Mrs. A. F. Latimer and Mrs. Lee
Jordan with a special cojnmittee will
assist Mrs. Bland—who on account
have time to ae cabout the matter.
Many have been phoned to—but the
list for this “slice of pic’ will appear
>. week--watch for it
How «
jro«r tires? Ask shout
our »-*^ v -rices on Kelly’*. We
stead beck ef every tire seld. Liberal
trade is allowance*.
RALPH SIMMERSON
Bnick end Marquette Dee Ur
MOTHER AND SON
By Kathleen Norris
E. P. Dutton end Company. N. Y.
A beautiful litle volume in green
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Suitable for a gift it will doubtless
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ration which they sometimes cause.
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By Fabysn Mathey and Harry T.
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Seventy-one problems are *et
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