Judge — April 2, 1921 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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“You're Afraid” “1 ain’t afraid “You are.’’ “1 aint.” “You are.” What would have happened next if you were a boy? A fright- With the calm un- of youth these two boys fought without even knowing each other—just as you have fought many a time—just because you couldn’t help it. MARK TWAIN 12 Volumes at a Low Price Humor — Biography —History —Travel—Boys Stories—Essays—Novels America contribt answer comes in welling chorus, From the Golden Gate to China's Wall—from Alaska to the Australian Bush—from the stately harbor of New York to the hot, burning, colorful harbor of Singapore— from the Argentine to the English Channel the Hebr the Mediterranean—the answer rings firm MARK TWAIN. FREE—REX BEACH 5 Volumes Rex Beach What ha world? The Only a Few Sets FREE Beach now costs ; prepaid, a set of Mark Twain in 12 iin handsome green clotn, 9 imped in ob, Jodge saat Three Needles Found in a Haystack By Besyamts De Casseres 1 Balzac of Main Street VERY one [ meet nowadays seems to know E Carol Kennicott. At this present brewing she is the most talked of young woman in these benighted States. Carol was a girl with Soul and Urge. She lived in ul (Minn.), where for some time she was a librarian, which is a lady who indexes books and fines you a penny a day for hooks that you fail to renew after two weeks. This bit of feminine Finer Clay, with the Higher Aesthetic Perception and a collection of Grade Elinor Glyn and Margot Asquith complexes behind her serge waist, married for some unaccount able reason Doc. Kennicott, of Gopher Prairie (same Minn.). He took her home, and! then the great tragedy and exposé of the action of a typical Ameri- can small town on a Grade .\ soul begins (“Main Street,”” by Sinclair Lewis; Harcourt, Brace & Howe) If you have ever lived in a small town you will recognize all the characters in the book, analyzed inexorably, brutally, masterfully and humorously Main Street, Gopher Prairie, is the United States I regret to announce. Its narrowness, its its slyness and its hypocrisy the immense metropolis of St. F today vulgarity, its stupidit have crept into our war laws and post-war laws. It is a well-known fact that the capital of New York city is now Lincoln, Nebraska—if you get what I mean. And, reverting to a stale wheeze, I believe the worst is yet to c¢ The enorm Main Street” by its publication at the psychological moment. It i the greatest that has appeared in “Spoon River us vorue of * is caused reat hook America since Edgar Lee Masters’ Anthology live ones” leave small towns, and what's the matter with the American people today? Read “Main Street” and look in that mirror for the answer Thanks, Mr. Sinclair Lewis 1 Real Joy-Ride PEAKING of books (and nobody was, but t 4 good way tol who reads old romance nowadays? And Query answers, Who? T don’t mean the Mars stuff, the Tarzan tosh or the Conradian word-crochetin: theromancethat releases the mind from the tof the present and bellies the sail of dreams with the wild winds of an- cient adventure—just romance that is neither psy chological nor moral, neither scientific nor aesthetic Sucha romance is“ Domnei,” by James Branch Ca- bell (Robert McBride & Co.). It is woven of the ge of incredulity and hungon the vaporous wallsof fancy It tells of the love of Perion of the Forest for Melicent, of Bellegarde (which vou will find on the map of Nowhere), who was betrothed to King Theodoret (whom you will find in the History of the Kings That Never Were) Perion is a scarlet bandit—the sort of man we all dream of being; the sort of man we shall never be; the sort of man who never was outside of those wonderful pages of Cabell, whose job seems to be to make of life an illusion 26 na subject And Melicent is the sort of woman poets dream of through great clouds of pipe-Amoke over the third bottle of midnight Burgundy Maybe these romances are for the elect; but if you are, of think you are, one of the elect read this book, which is a ticket to a town clean out of life “Domnei” is really not a book; it isan adventure Lost—A Face WWIIEN she came to after the automobile accident she was in a luxuriously appointed room which she did not recognize. She got out of bed and looked at herself in the mirror. This beautiful face was not hers Or had her soul and that of the woman in the other car exchanged bodies? And the next morning when she went down to breakfast Was she crazy? a handsome man, whose manner was polite and yet very puzzling, was at the table. She gathered that this was her husband. But, she told herself, she had never married anybody lapsed and Una elapsed with them. She lof her face. Havin of identifying it lost her powder nnounced the pal brew-master as he th k the portiéres that to the secret dumbwaiter \ tratlic cop entered with a lost lip-stick and a plate of new thumb-prints. Una recalled the auto» mobile, the sudden collision with the the Battery and the passage of May through the crowd. Then all was black again the director had ordered “night” in that studio set. But the contented smile stayed on Calthorpe’s face as he rode down to old Joe Gasslei eve wasa serene frumenti look of unbustable courage Calthorpe had found a face in the Champs de Bleecker resembling Una’s. It was buried ina bunch of American Beauts, which he held in his fox At this precise moment a suicidal sound is from beyond the Back Bay, Elsie laughed and said “Humph!” by way of comment. She slipped in « new Caruso record—-and Una looked in a mirror. Her face had reappeared—and on her bureau was a brand-new lipstick Further details will be found in “The House of Another,” by Beatrice Mantle (The Century Co. Aquarium a Hyla s, and in his Little Marguerite (aged four\—Papa, wasn that a funny dream I had last night? Grouchy Papa (who has just finished a battle with the furnace) jon’t: know anything about your dream! Little Margueri was in it Well you ought to, you By Order of the Court “When the Golightlys’ divorce was granted each was given the custody of their infant son half the time.” “Yes, so I heard. And Golightly stipulated that his half be the days.” comicbooks.com