The Detroit times., 1911-01-09
The Fortunes of Betty.

Betty IS small town" girl who Is
forced by her stepmother to leave her
home. She sings and dances well. SO
drifts naturally to the stage, and
when the story opens is stranded with
a one-night stand company at her old
home town.
Her father is injured by an auto
mobile, so Betty returns home to
nurse him back to health, learning
that her stepmother had died. Betty's
daddy, G. A. r. man, is the postmas-
ter OF the town, and keeps a general
store, but is threatened with business
failure, and is accused by Burton, a
rich mill owner, with robbing the
mails.
Betty stands by him in time OF
need, however, helps him to untangle
his accounts, and succeeds in discov'
ering the mail thief
The admirers of Miss Spooner will
undoubtedly be glad of the opportun
ity TO secure In permanent form q
work from her Pen.
The Fortunes OF Betty, Is by Cecil
Spooner, and Is founded upon hel
successful play OF the same title.
II is published by the j. s. Ogilvie
Publishing Co., New York.
The Current "Harper's Weekly"
The issue OF Harper's Weekly for
January eth is largely devoted to the
automobile. Among articles dealing
with this subject are: The Motor In
the New Year; Selling a Car; mo
toring in Winter; First Aid to Brok-
en- Cars; THE Well-Kept Car AT
Home: 1.-THE Horse and the Motor
Car; Motoring on European High
ways: The Automobile and the
Railroad; Automobile Horns" In
"Joy-Riding of the Real KIM Har-
old Whiting Slauson contributes hui
morous feature 10 this number. John
Kendrick Bangs resumes his amusing
Table d'Hote Talks" George Jean
Nathan writes upon "Romances OF the
Recruiting Offices and Herman
Scheffauer contributes thrilling story
entitled LAGOON" This Issue con
tains William Winters review OF dra-
matte conditions in New York and the
usual editorial and humor features.
The January American Magazine.
William j Locke begins a new
series of stories in the January Amer
lean Magazine. They deal with the
adventures of Aristide Pujol. as whim
steal and entertaining a character rs
the Beloved Vagabond." Each ad
venture OF Mr.. Locke's hero is a sep
arate story and the first one leads on
the series propitiously.
Other features in the same issue
are Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell's article on
Rhode Island, which she calls "A Tar
in. Made State" and in which she
shows how the tariff effects the work
ing classes in a state where the In
dustrles are highly protected; Albert
Jay Nock's article showing the fulfil
ity of the persopal-property tax laws
and how big corporations like rich In
dividuals evade them; Drinking "
Dry Places" In which the author sub
mits a record OF his experiences In
every prohibition community in the
United States, in all OF which he could
get as much liquor TO drink as nc
wished: and The Progressive Her
and the Insurgent Ducklings," a bril-
liant political article by William Al
len White.
The fiction is contributed by Olive
Higgins Prouty, Inez Haynes Gilmore
Dorothy Garfield, Frances Hodgson
Burnett and Elias Tobenkin.
In this same issue, there appears
the second OF the stories OF heroisn
connected with the Greeley Arctic Ex
pioration Expedition. There is moth
ing more thrilling in fiction that these
fact stories OF The Measure OF HUI
man Grit"