Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-05

Of the girls character with an idiotic
ignorance concerning birth. A woman
will see in AIMS reference to storks and
rose bushes very real IL very foolish
characteristic OF the average human girl,
who pretends to a faith in this especial
myth long after she knows better-just
as children pretend to falth IN santa
Claus long after knowledge has come.
Nanny Lou. in her capacity OF widow
to six husbands. mostly living. brings the
annals to close with bit OF wisd I'm
that also ends the book-''What goodn
your gran children do you. I'd like to
know, If you set up all night and lose
your looks, SO you'll nuvver fin no nus
ban'?''
MASTERS OF THE WHEAT-LANDS.
BY Harold Bindloss, author OF
Alton Of Somasco;S etc Ills nlust Fasd1
erick A. Stokes Company.
This story pulses with the life of the
great northwest. with England for a
background. There is the fresh earthi-
ness of first furrow into raw wi'ds that
are to become golden wheat fields. There
is the strength Of passion, the splendor
of honesty: failures that are to yield sue
cesses and sorrows that end in JOY:
Woven in and out of the rugged life or
the Canadian country are threads OF
golden romance. The threads shuttle into
fangles. but each kink and snarl is
straightened out: an adjustment which
frees a quiet, Enelish-reared cir, from
the farmer she had come to Canada to
marry, and gives to the farmer himself
a native-born wife whose moral strength
is needed to make him man.
A CARTOON HISTORY OF ROOSE-
vELTS CAREER. Illustrated by
$50 contemporary cartoons and
many other pictures r By , Albert TT
Reviews Company.
1t has been said that no other states
man of this country has been SO widely
cartooned as Theodore Roosevelt. This
may be because Of the exceptional de-
editorial during the years of his political
engagements Col. Roosevelt undoubtedly
lends himself strikingly to the cartoon
lists pencil. He is good copy" and his
lists at every turn. and DR.. Shaws enter
prise in collecting these pictures has in
volved q task Of selection rather than
of search. He has written biographical
sketch Of Mr.. RoOsevelt's career to &C
company these reproductions, which have
been chosen from foreign as well as do
nestle sources and follow the strenuous
pursuits of the many sided man chro-
nologically. Regardless of political at
filiations. these reproduced cartoons ap-
history.
THE MUTT AND JEFF CARTOONS.
BY Bud Fisher. Boston: The Ball
Publishing Company.
For some time past the readers Of The
Star have been enjoying the Mutt and
Jeff' pictures from the pen Of Mr.. Bud
Fisher. They now have an opportunity to
secure a collection Of these comic pic
lures, which has resulted from many re-
quests made upon the author for Mutt
and Jen'' book. These cartoons have
been running now for about three years.
and at the time Mr.. Fisher starte1 on
the making OF this book they totaled
nearly LOCO pictures. He has selected
publication and will be as funny ten
years hence as they were on the day
they were first printed. Mr.. Fisher &C
that to print all of the pic
like the city directory Of Greater New
York, and q truck would be necessary to
move the book from the store to the
home. which would greatly
handicap it's sale. Not desiring to put
keting Of this flock Of debris. We have
been forced to make a selection OF
number Of the most representative pic
lures from the various periods OF Mutt
career We give some Of Nuts earlier
adventures and end with his most re-
cent, thereby covering the most impor-
tant events in the life Of this eccentric
gentleman ard his side kick, Little jeff
SHORTY AND PATRICK, U. s. $. OK
LAHOMA. By Stephen French Whit
man. author Of "Predestined," etc.
illustrated by F. c. Yohn. New
York: p. F. Collier & Son.
Whether Mr.. Whitman ever met with
two such fascinating fellows from Off
battleship as Shorty and Patrick Is not
a question for the reader to raise. Doubt
less there are many Shorties and many