Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17

every one rs Sunshine Annie This
little girl SO unselilsh, so tender
hearted. so lovablc and so radiatingly
hHEpy, Is the lief Of the orphan asylum
which Is her first home, of her depart
ment III the great store. ct her adopt-.
ed mothers home and Of the home OF
the fashionable young lady whose
nature she changes The story of
Ahhi"'S experience as a missionary OF
happiness IA built about the popular
poem by James Whitcomb Riley,
Little orphant Annie" which is
made To NJ the career Of this small
heroine Very snugly Annie's sympa-
thN FOR The cheap. hOmely dolls on
her shelves and her anxiety to have
them ind homes where they will be
lovingly cared for is pretty and en-
dcarng, Sunshine Annie is q real and
most delightful addition to the favorite
characters in Story-booli Land: to
known her is to love her and to be the
letter for 1t. With its pictures in
color by Fanny Y, Cory the book IS
especially attractive.
"rhe ROAD to Providence" by Maria
Thompson Davicss, author Of Miss
SELMA Lue." Illustrated by w. b.
King. The Bobbs Merrill company,
Indianapolis Now and then there an
pears story with a title so wholly
charming that the reader Is captivated
before he even opens it. Tho Road to
H'roNidence'-who does not want to
travel It, and dallying between its
pleasant borders forget for q space OF
lurid sensations of the detective mys-
terry and the soul borrowings OF prob
lem plots? It may he said briefly ut
the start, and without eXaggeration,
that Miss Daviess's new book Is Just
MS good as its name. wholesome, sweet
with human kindness, juicy with hum
orouS philosophy Mother Maybcrry,
It's chief character. is own cousin to
Miss Selma Lue, who, with her soap
box babies, made such IL host OF friends
when she appeared on the pages OF
the authors previous story last year.
as Miss Seina Lue was guardian or tho
entire river Bluff. SO Mother Mayberry
looks after Providence and it's vicinity.
Tennessee country Doctors wife, the
mother of distinguished physician,
she herself is equal TO curing any all
ment from tcethinE to tisic. Large, RAJ
dating. capable, she lives by the side
of the road and is friend to every
man, woman and child who comes
along il. Cheer. clothes, cake roses,
whatever is needed, she gives with free
hand and warm heart Naturally, be-
ing kin To Miss Selma Lue, Mother
Maybcrry Is inclined not only to moth
cring but to epiSrams. When sho
speaks the milk is in the cocoanut
stood things muster took Adams mind
often himself to a very comfortable de-
gree"
But sentiment, plety, worldly wisdom.
humor, practically and conuetry arc all
blended in Mother Mayberry. ana sur
prising as 1t may seem, they all mix
thoroughly. with the result that life
seen through the compound Is bouutl-
ful, digniiied, useful, serious, happy ar-
fair. Dr., Tom Mayborry. who has been
away from home, IS commissioned by
the government to study the causes Of
pc!llgra among the people there. and
he himself has Coniided to his mothers
ministrations Il beautiful young singer
who lost her voice and has come to him
for treatment. Along with her other
accomplishments Mother Mayherry Is n
skilled matchmaker. and guided BY hcr
shrewd unsupported management
pretty romance springs up between tho
two NDllnt. pppnlp