The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-28
The CURRENT
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,sof shoes to the history OF N country
to the character OF its people
bel ncDpugall. !. Ma n Sunday by
Frank G. Moorehead. .sThe, Astonished
Bride" by Edith IT. Merriman, and
Did You Ever by Elizabeth Girard.
There are dozen different articles
with illustrations concerning spring
/ fashions and, as usual, numerous de-
partpe nts devoted to various phases
3of home and social life. s-+
!. Both sides OF the twilight sleep
lquestion are ably discussed in the
April number OF The Ladies World
! Another interesting special article is
Betternent Films, y in which motion
pictures of an uniting nature are
discussed. Among the fiction Offer
tsinSs are The sMatchnakers, by Alice
~. Duffy. When Agnes Neither Faith
err by Marion Hill and The. Great
(. Silence" by Arnold ~. Tane. It's US
lual attention is given TO late fashions
| and the various departments pertain
ing TO the household and social actfy-
\ tiles are replete with new and inter
AcstinE Information. H III
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/ The first story published ID Nc
i Clurc's Magazine on the European
var appears in the April issue, which
| is filled with good things 1T is The
| Man from the Front by Arthur Strin-
ger. An Indian scientist has dIscoy-
| cred that plants have "a nervous sys-
TEN and his experiments promise 70
i.revolutionize plant physiology, open
! ing great new fields OF experiment II
I medicine and scientific agriculture.
i AL this is interestingly recounted III
\ What Plants Feel by Wadle1na1.
[ Kae1Ephert In Twilight Sleep in
America Constance I1eupp and Bur-
ton J. Hendrick describe the conclus-
! ions drawn from their own practice
by American doctors who studied the
K Freibnrg method at first hand Fdc-
ton numbers in addiIion.to the serial
Offerings include t-Sir Isaac's Raga-
mullins by George A. Birming CHAM,
Egga Chipolatar by Sophia Kerr Tn
tderwood, Miss Trinlble Tries Sabo-
tage' by Frank GoeWey Jones and
!, hat Happened a I Reyere's' by. Will
Payne. .5ss
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II you read nothing else in. the April
number of the the Smart Set, now on
the newsstands, cast an eye Upon Lee
! Pape's love story, Little Girl prob
ably as deft a touching upon. the
ground of American class distinction
as has been made visible in the re-
cent native literature
Lord Dunsay, the brilliant Irish
writer and one Of the illustrious. fig
ures in modern European litera ture,
whose Assignation' is the last NUM-
iE112 daily American newspapers. con
tributes to the current number. a rare
story entitled "a Tale of London.
Also a brief fable, 'The Dream OF King
Karna-Vootra.' and a brief satire,
The Greatest Painter in the sWorld''
A complete novelette, by Helen Jet
more Major, called When Fancy
Leaves the Marrow Path :. 81 leads the
magazine Among the other excellent
features are: The Uplifters"i by JAG
ques Morgan, an amusing story of the
effort Of two bored bach elors8t to enter
tain themselves on dull night in
New York; The Desert is not Fifth
| Avenue by Marshall Hugh Irish; a
thrilling one act melodrama entitled
| The Windy Shot by Edward Harold
Conway; The Cad by Harry Kemp;
"A Careful Surgeon by the new
British humorist, N William Game The
Man Who Waited y, n a story OF the
subtle revenge Of a prosaic man:
"F1irt" by Thomas Ransford The
Dangerous Inheritance" iby Louise
Winter; and The Moral Defeat, by
Alexand erl Harvey. 4s TX If gt fl
III The Red Book Magazine has added
another big writer to It's already
imposing list. Melville DaYfsson Post,
a Harrison county boy, Who is recog-
nized as the greatest living authority
on the short story, and especially on
the short mystery story, begins in the
April issue series Of mystery stories
built about lis famous chaTacter,.U I'M
Gle Abner." The first story is entitled
The Straw Man 1t has that "a bid
iisketching in Of BACKGROUND, the quick
/ action and the surprising finish which
have made Mr. Posts stories stand
out among those OF the writer's of the
day n ": 5sss
Other short stories in the April Red.
Book are BY such writer's as EDWIN.
E1dlHleI, II eleF@b- fNynE, ia t.Nl.SEIFanS,
isKennett Harris, Ellis Parker Butler,
I Jack Hines, Walter j ones Bethe Knat-
void N1ellett and Frank Forest Rupert
Hughes s new serial OF New 7 ork life
approaches the big climax: Cyrus
\ Townsend Brady's The Island or
\ Surprise" becomes more surprising
than ever; and Frank Westcott's
"Hepsey Burke comes to very salts
/ flying conclusion All in all, study
iof this issue Of the Red Book Maya
zine makes it easy to nderstand Why
| this publication is gainging in circu-
alation faster than any her magazine
| In the country.