Life — November 4, 1926 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Any ex- cess that you might take simply passes harm- lessly and unchanged through the system. So, next time you feel uncomfortable after eating, try Gastrogen Tablets. They are mild, effective and 100 per cent harmless. They quickly quell digestive disturbance—within 15 to 20 minutes. They are aromatically pleasant to taste, and they are surprisingly good for sweetening the breath. Your druggist_has them in handy pocket tins of 15 tablets for 20c; also in cabinet size bottles of 60 tablets for 60c. If you wish totry them before you buy them, send the coupon for free introductory packet of 6 tablets GASTROGEN OMblets © Bristol-Myers Co., 1926 i} Life Life and Letters THE highest praise goes herewith to Louis Bromfield for ‘Early Autumn” (Stokes), the third of the series of novels wherein he plans to present American life in its various phases against the backgrounds of their respective traditions. He has the advantage of having made a beautiful beginning in ‘The Green Bay Tree,” whose lovely Lily Shane stands up well beside Galsworthy’s Irene Forsyte in the calendar of al- luring ladies; “Possession” carried on well, transplanting quite a differ- ent product of the Western Reserve to Paris and other Continental points. Now comes “Early Autumn,” which shows all that can happen to a bride from Chicago who must live out her life in Back Bay. It is not to be imagined that ali the choicer inhabitants of Boston are like the Pentland family, but the antipathy which Mr. Bromfield holds towards some of their ideals and convictions helps him to make his heroine stand gloriously alive in the midst of her unsympathetic environment. He even allows Sabine Callendar to come back from “Possession” to make her relati uncomfortable, and he gallantly rescues Olivia Pentland’s daughter from her mother’s fate by marrying her off to Lily Shane’s illegitimate son. “Early Autumn” is a study in re- pression and the story of a lady. It awakens curiosity as to where Mr. Bromfield will look for his next American “panel.” “POHE BAD SAMARITAN,” by Justin Sturm (Harper), is t kind of novel which makes de- tective stories stack up so creditably. I mention it at all only because I was tricked into reading it by its ex- cellent title and by an arresting open- ing sentence. After five incoherent and unrelated chapters, the plot is given over in a sophomorically flip- pant way to one of the most pi and serious situations in life, woman's justifiable — dis: with her marriage. The whole thing was so utterly ridiculous that I fin- ished in perfect accord with the final sentence of the blurb on the jacket, which ran: “Mr. Sturm should be read—and watched.” Baird Leonard. High Art MaANs-AB0UT-TOWN It’s quite +"* the best portrait you've donc, old man; but somehow it doesn’t seem a perfect likeness of Miss Van Tinkle. Artist: I know, but I rather had to idealize the knees a bit. Contentment in Every Draw— Cards or Tobacco A new slant on pipe-smoking content. ment is brought to light by Mr. W. H. Doughty, a furniture dealer of Green. ville, Tenn, Read what he writes: Larus & Bro. Co., Richmond, Va, My dear Sirs: For twenty years I have been encaged in retailing furniture. On rainy days my partner and I call up some of our friends and invite them down to a little poker game, In this melange of our selection there happened to be a fellow by the n: ft Austine—a tobacco dealer. 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