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i's^^^S1 22 '••"•*«? IvcMcling Lim .BOUT BOOKS AND THE â-ºEOPLE WHO WRITE THEM , A Four Character Story TELLA DALLAS" By Olive Higgins Prouty % 'Stella Dallas" is of permanent worth. || mbining emotional depth and psych- |lf gical insight, with original construc- ts n and purity of style, Mrs. Prouiy has ill i the stocyof a cultured and refined =i Shand; a wfre- instinctively primitive Ǥ i socially outrageous; a daughter, the II iiy of whose nature seemed only en-. ?|§ iced by the character of her up-bring-1 ;|§ :; a former sweetheart, who as the li end wife, is the artist understanding $0'â„¢ all- -' ,,;M"W!1M^ â- .. **: These are the four pe^ ot 1|^ ItBry around them the- skein is skillfully ven. Stella achieves her destiny by renunciation of her daughter; Laurel â- s through a fine appreciation of her her and a generous courageous devo- id to her mother; Stephen Dallas and :len Morrison in an abiding union heal- \ the scars of their earlier experience. These are all well drawn, consistent iracters. The fates which bring their es together provide the story. ! Blackmail SDRDEUA THE MAGNIFICENT" By Leroy Scott "AMERICAN GIRU 23, strong. _ considered goocf looking. "Best social standing. Expert at swimming, riding, tennis, dancing, and can drive racing car. Has other accomplish- ments, but no useful training. De- sires position with adequate remuner- ation. What have you to offer her •?" This was Cordelia Mariow. Her appeal ught $he eye of Mr. Franklin, junior imber of the firm of Kedmore & anklin, attorneys of uncertain stand- and it further offered him a golden â- rtunity to further certain plans which fertile brain had conceived. Inno- t Cordelia was sqon on their payroll pr thirty thousand a year to spy out in- Irmation which she thought was to help ir friends; but before long she found (rself in the midst of a tangled web of ickmail. How that web was unsnarled ikes a thrilling tale. We are told that skeleton in the closet is the most ex- sive member of the family to main- in, and after reading the adventures of lordelia and her friends we can well lieve it. Ralph X. Taylor. War's After-Cloud â-ºANGER" By Erne|t,Poole lis there danger ihat^we fors&f mi war\l "h- that our rlgfftfem^anpiri^bme, wor- ld? Is it possible to keep: the warjroin- badowing lives that began after it? Is tiere a world - wrapping menaceâ€"a cloud of tortured thinking and potential tumultâ€"that the war has left to youth and infancy today? It is brave old Miss Tillinghast, the rock of faith and watchful serenity about which.stir the lives of three generations of New Yorkers, all war-touched though the war is ended, who watches the world's horizons as well as her own troubled hearth for the answers, sometimes fear- ful, to these questions, in the well-writ- ten novel jof the man who won a place as stylist, social thinker and story teller, all in one, in his novel of a few years ago, Natalie and Dallas, Jack and T. Don- ohue, Maud and her shell shocked veter- ans all are carefully created, living fig- ures moving in a contemporaneously con- vincing, sometimes disturbing, never merely casual pattern. Roberts Everett. Good Old Blood and Thunder Stuff "THE BELOVEDBRUTE" f: By Kenneth Perkins I In ah exciting fashion the author tells the Story of Charles Hinges, known as the strongest and worst man in that sec- tion of the country southwest of Buz- zard Mountains. Sitting in China Jones' saloon and dance hall, Charles' romance with the -dancing girl, Jacinta, com- mences. Single handed and depending solely on his great physical strength, he hurls himself bodily through the crowd and* rescues her from this den of iniquity. Then follows their romantic escape across the western desert, and their sub- sequent appearances in small towns, jacinta as the dancer, Charles as the champion wrestler. The sudden appear- ance on the scene of Charles' hated brother, David, who snatches from him the title of champion wrestler, interest- ingly complicates the situation. The girl wavers ^ween_ih&Jayxjnen^but-^na^ aUnftirns out well. Josephine Oakes Wheeler. Copyright 1923, Howard H. Seward Cook County Continues To Lead in Contagious Cook county continues to lead in the number of contagious diseases, according to the weekly health report issued here today by Dr. I. D. Raw- lings, director of Public Health Ser- vice. The Teport follows: Diphtheriaâ€"Ninety-three cases, of THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY* TULY 27:1923 £S&^ ^gBBS==g=gl!!!!- . ' â- â- 'â-  '. .g=S!igBB"^- ; V»jll.1'!IJill'|BW«WHMfaMwl i In f .......ii.Wiiii......11...11 n. uri ,'iiiii||ll|i!|i||).ifili..... nm.......|.,i i i i .111 i n iV iji '„ y fi ' liilri m MiiiiiM'i m.iiiiiVi iiHi ii i imm J.,y»ift&fltt,Si. DRESSES and Sport Apparel REDUCED PRICES for July and August Grace Forbef Shop Room 217 Hoyburn Building BÂ¥ANSTQN____ Phone Evanston 7647 Library Plaza Hotel Evanston THE finest jewelry shop mx the North Shore, maintaining a repair depart- ____ment for watches, clocks and je^eky. Lighten the Burden Let us make launder- ing easier inr your home by Installing a convenient sanitary washtub^^ tumsTl^t^^ running waterv We are ahfmy^jnead^ care of all your plumbing needs. ^vrmm^mm Ttm^ymmsm^m which Oopk county has sixty-nine, Chicago, 'sjxt^-three. Scarlet fevferâ€"Fifty- six cases, of which Cook opunty had thirty-six, Chicago thirty-two. Smallpoxâ€"Ten case*, of which Cook county had two, Chicago two. Typhoid feverâ€"Twenty-four cases, Cook county having seven, Chicago six. Poliomyelitisâ€"One case, in Fulton county.. Epidemic Meningitisâ€"One case in Bureau county. Lethargic Meningitisâ€"None. Pneumoniaâ€"103 cases, of which Chicago had ninety. Influenzaâ€"Six cases, all in Chicago. Syphilisâ€"280 cases reported during week. " •'^.â- v- Whooping coughâ€"251 cases. t y- **-" -*TOUR EYES are your mo- -----jptien-preture camera Through ~ which you view the World's ever-changing program. Fail- ing eyesight needs the compe- tent assistance our Optometry offers you. Dr. 0. H. BERSCH Optometrist Fwnw Mgt. Opi. DcjL & D. 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