The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-21

y the Day.
Well! it is comforting in the midst
Of this Sturm and Draug to hear that
there are SOME SUCCESSFUL MAR
RACES; and thus we are assured by
RIAGES"; and thus we are assured by
Abby Mcguire Roach, and who de-
monstrates it in twelve NOVELTIES
(Harpers).
Successful marriage, according to
this author, is a matter Of evolution
from simian ancestry to nirvanic pla-
tonism. 1t is only when romance has
been relegated to the prehistoric age,
when Passion, the dragon, has been
slain, and it's relative, the green-eyed
monster, has died Of anaemia, when
such words as lovers sometimes use
are properly expurgated from the do
| nestle dictionary, and the love let
tiers classified as unnatural curiosities
in the museum of two persons foolish
ness; when visions have fed dreams
been dissolved, broken idols swept out
into the dust heap and-we might add,
biscuits made-it is in "the cold gray
dawn of this morning after" that men
and women, with opened eyes, look fact
in the face and set bravely to work,
bringing in the pieces from the dust
heap, making new biscuit dough
(Which is figurative term for domestic
concerns) to patch them together
again-nOt into the old idol-no in
deed! but into we'll regulated bit of
mechanism, warranted not to desert
the children, forget that there are
others, or lose a count in the ticking
Of it's heart
The illustrations by Alice Barber
Stephens speak more for the attract
iveness of the domestic hearth than
could any twelve word pictures of the
interpretive incursions Of wives, sick
Of studying themselves, one would
think. The author has depicted the
struggle, the awakening and the grad
ual adjustment of one nature to an
other with delicacy and reality-her art
is not at fault. But for the lesson of the
DOCK one looks at these illustrations
OF sweet-faced mothers whose arms
are filled with happy children, just as
one seeking health would turn from
charts Illustrative of disease.
"A MAID IN Already" could not
reasonably ask prettier debut than
is accorded the one sent forth from the |
literary sanctum of Ralph Henry Bar
oour. Her story, in length, does not
exceed that of novelette,, and there
are unusual features of binding and
Illustration to recommend it as a hoI- |
iday gift.
1t is the same old story of a boy and
girl. He paddles his canoe through a |
orook, past "trespass" sign and on |
into Arcady-a country seat which one
never suspects is his own and rented |
to family for the summer only-for.
as he comes from the inn and beholds
maid not exactly pretty in the midst
OF these natural advantages, and as he |
returns each day to smoke cigarets and
await his goddess, there is sure TO he
somebody men enough to suspect him
of Interior motives.
OF course an apology will be forth.
coming when it is discovered that che
was only visitor there and a poor
girl, and that his first sight prognosisl
was bona fide, after all.
1t is good to know that she will con-
tlnue to be in Already with him. for
there is sanction in such surround.
ings as are described by Mr.. Barbour
ana shown in the colored photographs
Illustrating the book that not even q |
church wedding can give to the vounp
and tender passion. G.. B. Lippincott
Coz
The authorship of c. N. and A. M
Williamson imports love story charm
ngly and vvaciously told and the ubi-
qultous automobile. ROSEMARY IN |
SEARCH OF A FATHER" finds ono
IN the person of her mothers former
sweetheart, who has just arrived at !
Monte Carlo in his up to date touring
car. AS Rosemary's real father. an
impoverished English lord, is dead and |
as, quite properly her mother and this
young American millionaire have never
forgotten, there is happy meeting on |
christmas eve, weeks holiday that
might have been taken right from |
some fairy book, and a wedding New
Years day
This pretty story has been given the