Life — December 22, 1910 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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HARPER BOOKS The Adventures of Tom Sawyer New Holiday Edition The demand for a genuinely fine edition of Mark Twain's great story has steadily increased until now the publishers believe such a book will meet with a welcome wide enough to justify the outlay. That the pictures might have accuracy and atmosphere, the artist, Worth Brehm, went to Missouri and spent some time in the actual lo- calities, He has made sixteen drawings of more than ordinary interest. The book has been made throughout with every care for painstaking work- manship—from entirely new plates. A Chariot of Fire By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps A little book to bring a lump to the throat is this story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. A work- ingman, overwrought with anxiety for his son— injured in an accident miles away—appeals at a stranger's door for means to reach his boy. The stranger is touched, orders out his car and the two rush through the night in the “chariot of fire.” You must experience this suspense, this rush onward through the darkness and the under- play of emotion. Max By Katherine Cecil Thurston The heroine is also the hero in this remarkable novel. The startling novelty of the plot and the charm of the love story have called forth a chorus of praise swelling across the country and echoing beyond the ocean in the English press. Almost without exception they say that story is better than “ The Masquerader” (high praise, indeed). “More breathless in interest, with a central situa- tion just as strong.” Mrs. Thurston has “ caught the atmosphere, the glitter, the restlessness of life in these deft, pleasant pictures.” One critic says: “There is an ache in the throat in those scenes when Charpentier’s music floats out on the lumi- nous night. The Heritage of the Desert | By Zane Grey “An appealing love story, pure as the far water brooks,” says one reviewer of this new novel, “in which the curtain is raised on a scene hitherto un- explored in American fiction.” The New York Vorld adds this comment: “It is a strong story, tich with life and mixed with color. No man in the tale wears a collar, and the women are the | genuine daughters of the desert and the moun- tains, fit mates of their men. We are glad to rec- HARTSHORN SHADE ROLLERS Bear the script name of Stewart Hartshorn on label. Get “Improved,” no tacks required, Wood Rollers Tin Rollers Life’s Suffragette Contest (Concluded from page 1170) XXIII One Explanation SUFFRAGETTE., Genus hybrida.— Seldom born under thirty years of age. Found principally in North America and the British Isles. Said to be descended from the Euxine ab- igines, but this is not authenticated. The first one known to biologists ap- peared in Tibet about 14,000 B.C., but was promptly run down and ruthlessly beheaded by its irate mongolian bene- dict. After a Cosmic wink of 10,000 years a second specimen appeared. It was known as Eve, and assumed equal rights with a man named Adam in the government of Eden. It was then called suffraga. It ate—hence the modern word—suffer, suffraga—suf- fraga ate—suffragaette! The specimen now extant affects glasses, and is distinguishable from /a femme ordinaire by a rasping, squeaky noise—frequently mistaken for logic— which issues, without intermission, from an aperture in its face. An exhaustive study of the creature —from a-safe distance—induces the conclusion that it is androgynous. At any rate, no perfect male specimen has ever been found. Although the species has augmented rapidly during the last decade, there has been no organized effort to combat it. A valiant warrior, known as “ Dan Cupid,” is waging single-handed war- fare, however, and has succeeded in bagging thousands of the younger specimens which have, from time to time, mavericked from the suffragette | Any One You Care For enough to give a present to at all will be glad to have you give them a five pound box of Belle Mead Sweets CHOCOLAYES AND BON BONS You'll like the appear- ance of the package, and the confections are de- licious. Sold only in sealed packages by the better class of druggists BELLE MEAD SWEETS Trenton herd, This has reduced Dan to the “ suspicious character” class. Male man is cautioned not to ap- pulse these mavericks. Cast out any arrow which may plunge into thine heart dripping with blood from its pas- ¢ through the heart of one of these biped anachronisms. No matter what thine anguish, e’en though it may glad- den the heart of thine undertaker, tear it from thee! The modern suffragette as a source of material for humorous and serio- comic publications—not to mention the Bok Koran—is harmless, but for the man in whom it awakens the “ cosmic urge” it means “curtains.” Donatp Lowrie. Mut nd this fine new novel, ‘ The Heritage of the | Desert” | life Roc Best Table Water’’ From America’s Most Famous Spring Waukesha, Wis. | Put up only in NEW HARPERS MAGAZINE HARPERS BAZAR HARPERS WEEKLY Sterilized Bottles