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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 and gold is this brief essay by Kath leen Norris, copyrighted a year ago, continuing its popularity this year. Suitable for a gift it will doubtless be much handled in the coming ' Christmas season. The essay is np- j pealing with its suggestion of eloer rapport between mothers and sons. Nor does it leave untouched the young wives who stand between par ent and offspring, thus weaving for them.'elves later on, the same suffer ing at the hands of the third gene ration which they sometimes cause. BRIDGE PUZZLES By Fabysn Mathey and Harry T. Hallabsn E. P. Dolton end Co., New York This compact book of 228 pages hRs Ween constructed for the edifica tion of auction and contract bridge players. The publishers guarantee that it will do for such players what word square puzzle* have done for the rest of mankind. Some of the rewards promised the users of the volume are: ability to play brilliantly freedom from those perplexing in decisions of the game, a knowledge of tricks that will put thrills into the game, and admiration from one’s fel low players. Seventy-one problems are *et forth in the fore part of the book with indication chart*. Eighty-one pages of solutions of these problems comfortably .await the reader in the latter part of the volume . COAL is an ancient discovery, but consumers of our various grades are continually discovering its stored-up wealth Rich in carbon, but poor in ash—sums u' the reasons for the general satisfaction rendered Our service is a match for their quality, too— Sy our coals, i s up to scratch. FCWlER-FLEMISTtR COil :0, TAX PAYERS NOTICE! PEACE By (hr Her. 5. Parks* Cadmin, D. D. E. P. 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