Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-13
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Want Things -

! HARLES DANA GIBSON put it this
I way, 1t is in humor that Flage excels.
don't know of anyone with greater
gift of humor. 1t is in every line he draws.
Flagg is big man. and he is getting bigger all
the time.
| No one is higher authority than this man
who for many years has been recognized as the
| foremost of American illustrators. And his
tribute is fitting introduction to the announce
ment that our SUNDAY MAGAZINE has COM
missioned ia mes Montgomery Flagg to draw
a series of double-page cartoons in which his
keen but kindly humor is to be given the fullest
play. The general title, ITS RISKY TO
| WANT THINGS" becomes specially sgnifi
cant when the cartoons are before you. They
are joyous satires on the realization of long
held desires in the way of experiences and pos
sessions. The first cartoon, HE WANTED
| TO SEE HIS BOYHOOD HOME. appears
next week.
lDERIcLEs OF THE NANAIMo IS a big
1 story-and there are few of them published.
1t is big in its theme, in its people. in its hand
ling. The author is Villa m Brown Meloney.
with whose powerful work readers of our Sun
| DAY MAGAZINE are familiar. The story that
will appear next week has the majesty and
| splendor of the sea. And it is written by a>man
who knows it, and the ships and the men who
sail it.
IELEvATING WALL PAPERS is the second
II story in the series by Vera Edmondson.
and it has the qualities that distinguished its
predecessor. Katherine Ellsworth is the hero
inc of this tale. If you read THE GIRL
WHO HAD NEVER PLAYED. you will have
pleasant recollections Of the pretty girl of
nineteen who wearied Of society and wanted
really to do something.
| There is no resisting Kits Ellsworth. You
remember Miss Harcourt found that out when
the fluffy society girl was thrust upon her. to
| the bitter resentment of the advertising mana
| ger When Miss Ellsworth appears most peo-
pie are bound to smile; for she is one of those
people whom it is good to know: she is so full
of the joy of living, so kindly, so eager to make
everybody happy. And there is much wisdom
| as well as bubbling enthusiasm in her small
head.
| It seems daring to make this girl of nineteen,
who comes of rich and socially distinguished
/ family, not only real worker. but one who
finds her own romance in this work One
shoulders at the thought of the effect the news
will have upon Miss Ellsworth's society
friends. But there isn't any worry about Miss
Ellsworth herself. When she says it is glo
rious world one feels that she is announcing
new discovery. and that nobody would dream
of disputing the truth of it. And that is big
accomplishment in a story.
This is true of most of Miss Ed mondson's
characters. They are real, and she brings out
the human quality of them in way that shows
extraordinary insight And the charm of the
story is not to be lightly measured. 1t has the
freshness and enthusiasm of youth. together
With it's sparkle, with an undercurrent of seri-
business that gives it real significance.
THE LAWS LONG ARM presents phase
L of THE Walled City," DR.. Edward
Huntington Villa ms calls the hospital
where the criminal insane confined, that
has unusual interest. He tells about the efforts
of the convict inmates to escape, and how futile
are the attempts. In all his long experience
| DR.. Villa ms has known only of one or two
that were really successful. Most of the plans
are discovered before they can be put into
effect One of the curious things is that many
| of the inmates manage to get outside the walls;
but that is all. More than any other article in
the SERIES this gives insight into what these vic
TINS of mental malady and crime are really like.
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY is reaching
\ point where nerves are getting taut. In
the next instalment the Countess and Smart