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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-11-06
CONFUSION COMPOUNDED

CUNFUSlON COVF OUNDED
American politics is in chaos. All
lines of cleavage are broken. In the
Republican party, the League of Ma
tons has cut squarely across the old
line of progressiyes and conserva-
tiyes. Johnson and Lodge, Borah
and Knox, are on one side; Norris is
voting with some Democrats.
In the Democratic party the same
confusion exists. There it is Will
son and anti-Wilson. The president
has played havoc with party regu-
larity. Senator Reed, who is a
Democrat, is voting with the Repub-
licans, and so is Thomas. Half
score Of senators from the Solid
South have left the Democratic eau
Gus for one reason or another The
progressive and conservative issue
is not drawn in either party, and be-
fore snow flies the League of Ma
lions will be past history.
The tariff is no longer a great
issue. The certain adoption of suf-
frage as a constitutional amendment
will greatly silence the cry of negro
domination in the South. Prohibition
has played havoc with the. doctrine
|of states rights. The South is more
likely to be protectionist and prohi-
bitionist than the North, and the diff
ferences between the two great par
ties today are as unimportant as the
differences in the factions in the two
great parties. Issues are underlined,
fractional lines are gone, party lines
are wavering. The only real part
san in the United States is the Pres
ident and he is partisan on the
theory that politics is adjourned"
We are in the midst of a political
pentecost. The parties are without
leaders and the people are without
issues. 1t has been many genera
ton since America could duplicate
this situation. Yet over night some
great event may strike this fluid
mass and CONCEAL it into two great
opposing political groups. 1t cannot
be that the present state will last
long. Inevitably the event will come
which shall be needed to smite the
waters from the rock but just now
it is interesting to live in a time
when the people are curiously with
out political star, compass, or rudder,
and are drifting rapidly, but in
which direction and toward what po-
litical goal no one may say. Posi-
bly, we are headed toward Socialism.
possibly we are headed toward con-
|servatism, no one can say But this
may be sure that we are moving and
looking back at this ele five weeks
of five months, or five years from
now, the meaning of all this con-
fusion may be clear. Emporia Ga
zette.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-11-06
Sorghum Time


The following is poem composed
by Arthur C. Hills, who formerly OPP
Grated sorgum mill on his farm two
miles north of Merrimack. He spent
the past summer with his brother
George in Shelby, Nebraska, where
he has been operating mill that
makes the syrup there.
I'll tell you of the sorghum time
And how the business goes;
1t is busy sticky job
AS every body knows.
In early spring they plow the land,
And well prepare the ground
With jealous care the planter sees
No weed seed may be found.
Sometime in May the whippoorwill
Doth sing his welcome song,
The farmer plants the wondrous seed
In rows so straight and long.
In few days along the rows
The blades SO fine apear;
In token of the fine repast,
At sun set Of the year.
All through the summer, in the sun
They cultivate the cane,
They work and plant to keep it clean
With Drawn as well as brain.
Then in the autumn, when it's ripe,
They haul it to the mill
On wagons drawn by giant steeds,
And bring thir jugs to fill
IT'S now the fun begins, my friend
'Tis better than show,
To see the cane" by devious ways
Into molasses go.
The neighbors all with one accord.
The ladies and the men,
The barefoot boys" and girls with
curls''
Are moving towards the den.
1ACJ Sdlncl 1IOlu the east ana west,
They come from south and north,
They come from town and country
side,
All classes sally forth.
They come on foot, some s'Dobbin
ride
Some are in wagon borne,
While others in their autos come
A blowing loud their horn"
They come by ones, they come by
twos,
They come by threes and tours:
Ere long they'll come by eight and
tens
BY dozens or by scores,
They watch the press, with mighty
power
Extract the magic juice ~
AND see the pumice ,carted forth.
To dry for future use.
lhey see the juice put in the "pan."
they watch the expert "cooku
They see how well its clarified.
How fine it then doth look
Ihey see the queer "contraption"
Produced to cool it off;
Inc object of much merriment.
Though hats to it are DOTTED
Ihen when the finished product,
friends,
Doth on the plate appear
A smile breaks forth that doth extend
Complete from ear to ear,
Come ON dear friends be in the swim,
AT once your visit make
For II you chance to be too late
Your heart will surely break
THE, COOK"
Arthur G Hills.
Shelby, Nebr,
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Thinks Paper Fine

think your paper just fine
SEBASTIAN REUSCHLEIN
Plain, Wis.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-11-06
From Eloy

Could not do without the News.
CARL CLEMENS
Elroy, wis.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-11-06

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read your column today. Very sil
erely yours,
CATHERINE v. racket.
800 Fifth street.
NEW YORK
MY DEAR Mrs. Racket.
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WITHOUT ANY apology.
FOR PRINTING your letter.
I'M GOING further.
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AND I'm going to tell you.
THAT AS I sal here.
AND READ your letter.
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1T BROUGHT to my mind.
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OF THE Childrenrs Hospital.
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IN SAN Francisco.
WHERE TWO score children.
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LAY QUIET all day.
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AND QUIET all night.
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IN PLASTER casts.
AND STRAPPED to boards.
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AND used to go there.
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AND knew them all.
AND THEY knew me.
AND ONE afternoon.
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TOOK Harry Houdini.
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THE "HANDcUFF King"
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AND HE took little rabbits.
RIGHT OUT of my hat.
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AND A bushel of candy.
FROM A 5 cent sack.
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AND SILVER dollars.
FROM A little boys ears.
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AND He made them laugh.
so THAT one little girl.
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TOLD ME later on.
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SHE HAD laughed SO much.
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1T HAD cracked her cast.
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AND ANOTHER day.
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TOOK up a band.
AN THEY sat around.
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ON TIE little white beds.
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AND One little kid.
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HAD THE drummer man.
AND ANOTHER kid.
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HAD A trombone man.
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AND ALL over the ward.
EACH CHILD had a man.
RIGHT THERE on his bed.
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THOSE BIG band men!
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AN SOME of them cried.
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IN SPITE of the fact.
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THAT SOME poor soul.
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THAT I'm Dragging again.
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AND MY answer is.
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THAT ONE Sunday night.
| DRAGGED like this.
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FROM A church platform.
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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-11-06
PLANE STRIKES SLEIGH AND
TWO CHILDREN ARE KILLED

Near Hitteriall, Mimi. an airplane
struck a sleigh containing dozen
persons. killing three children Others
were injured
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PLOT TO KILL CLEVELAND
CHIEF OF POLICE Barred

A plot to kill the chief of police at
Cleveland, Ohio has been barred.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
In Action Over There
The Spirited Story of a Captain
i'm the Yankee Division

MY COMPANY. BY Captain Carroll ]. Swan H.
lustrated 12mo ID. Z. 263 The Houghton
Mrlin Company
From Broadway to Chateau Thierry.
over the top and back again, was an
Odyssey worth the telling, especially
when it could be told by one who was
very much in it all the way and who
had gift of telling it just as the men
felt and saw it. We must wonder if
there was a thing in all the campaign
that Captain Swan did not see and un-
derstand or an experience of any one
OF his men with which he did not SYM
pathlze.. Certainly it would be difficult
10 imagine more vivacious. red blood
ed book than his or one which more
keenly makes the reader hear the roar
and crash of the shells and smell the
acrld reek of powder and gas. They
were watching the bombardment Of
fere-e -Tardenois, of which we heard
much IN the dispatches at the time:
That American shell-fire was beau
tlful. Big ones landing everywhere.
raster, faster, faster they came. The
roar was deafening. The Major was
a study. His big athletic figure was
tense with excitement. He suddenly
jumped up, waved his arms and
yelled "Give 'em hell, Yanksl"-
cheering like a wild college boy
watching the pigskin going over the
enemys goal.
A thousand touches like that illumine
the book with human nature and with
the real spirit of the American at war.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11

Sanskrit, 'shinjini,'" and the generally
vast amount of teaching Of the Sara
cen chemists by Hindus, during me-
di@val scientific awakenings ain Sara
cen lands and in Europe"-all deserve
Credit where credit is due"-and the
interested weighing of all facts by all
sufficiently SO scientifically interested
and fair-minded. That Shushruta got
the number of bones in the human
body 100 too many and that Charaka
got it too many by 100, does not con-
demn these two great mems purposes
and real ributions-Charaka was
not merely guessing at them, if carti-
lagos and "protuberances" were bones
to him-and if Benoy Kumar Sarkar,
the present author. be overzealous in
his emphasis on belated credit to those
of his race, modern leaps and bounds
in surgery. as Professor Sarkar knows,
in fact, all our vast leaps and bounds
in sciences (since steam, approximately
one hundred years ago) are not entirely
our created dreams for many of these
modern wonders, especially the surgi-
cal ones, were dreamed out in sketch,
so to speak, by the Hindu dreaming
mind, the Hindu sharp, mathematical,
subtle and Connecting" mind, one
thousand, and two thousand, and
twenty-seven hundred, years ago.
T. = w
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
A Puritan Rebel
Studies in the Psychology of
Old Salem

OlU odlCM
JAVA HEAD. BY Joseph Hergesheimer limo ID.
30. Alfred A. Knopf.
An oldtime Salem shipmaster, in
aristocratic revolt against the narrow
ness of life and morals among his
townsfolk, and barred as he thought
by an impulsive quarrel from the girl
whom he would have married, in China
marries high-born Manchu as a re-
sort to save her life, and brings her
home to blaze like an exotic flame
against the sombre tones Of the Puri
tan background Then he realizes that
he still loves the Salem girl of his
first choice, and in time the realization
dawns also upon the mind of his
Chinese wife. Tragedy supervenes, and
in the end he marries his first love.
This is scarcely so much as a skel-
eton of the plot, though it should be
sufficient to suggest the possibility of
romance of singular and fascinating
interest; and such, indeed, Mr.. Herges-
heimer has produced. Occasionally he
becomes a little theatrical, fault for
which the provocation is obviously
strong, but in the main he exercises
a fine restraint. His study of sharply
contrasting Characters is admirably
consistent. and he enters into the psy-
chologv of the social rebel, the social
conservatives, and the Manchu wife,
with equal skill and authenticity. The
net result is a work of exceptional
power, which will enhance the authors
already enviable reputation and cause
discriminating readers to look with
eager anticipation to further works
from his pen.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Hindu Scientific Achievements

HINDU ACHIEVEMENTS IN EXACT SCIENCE.
By Benoy Kumar Sarkar. l2mo> pp. Kill g.
Longmans. Green & Co.
This little handbook of justice to the
Hindu, Ito furnish some of the chrono-
logical links and logical affinities be-
tween the scientific Investigations of
the Hindus and those Of the Greeks
Chinese and Saracens," has performed
its task and purpose painstakingly and
perhaps as Interestingly as possible,
considering its rather thankless nature,
of merely arraying multitudinous Hindu
names, contributions theories--scien-
tifc summaries. While it is we'll
enough known that the Hindus gave us
such a thing as the decimal system Of
notation, little enough is known of the
part the Hindus played in dozen
other branches of what we may term
material life. While the universal facts
OF birth, sickness and war would make
it plain, on thought, that the really
intellectual mind of that ancient
Aryan, the Hindu, must have made
contributions to the knowledge of the
visiting Greek, Egyptian and Sara
cen, in medicines, surgery, anatomy,
physiology and embryology, such
things, in other branches of life, as
the discovery Of the process of distilla-
tion by the Hindu, complex and en-
ing discussions very early regarding
the theory Of atoms and molecular
combinations, the early conclusion that
both matter and energy were inde-
structible, eight and heat known to
Kanada as different forms Of the same
substance" the analysis and mathema-
teal calculation of musical notes and
intervals, "the so-called Pythagorean
law of the vibration of stretched
strings known to the Hindus," !"
an early mariners compass IAN "iron
fish," floating in vessel of oil and
pointing to the north"), the term
"'sine.' an Arabic corruption from
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Idealism Upheld
With Some Criticisms of Other
Systems

A DEFENCE OF IDEALIsM By May Sinclair
A@mo' pp. 1886 The Macmillan Company.
After reading this clear and scholar
ly work, characterized by the same fine
workmanship and pervading charm that
made her "Tree of Heaven" one of the
great books of the war, we turned to
Who's Who" expecting to find after
Miss Sinclair's name long list of
academic degrees. Instead, we dis
covered that she was educated in a
quiet English ladies' college and began
her career writing reviews on works
OF philosophy. That was twenty years
ago. She must have studied her sub
yect deeply since that time in order to
have produced so clear, SO brilliant and
so logical treatise Her brief is for
ldealistic Monism, and in order to es-
tablish her point she examines care
fully the best known of the other philo-
sophlcal systems with which she diff
fers.
The Pan-Psychism OF Samuel Butler
and his theory of personal identity first
received her attention. She shows the
fallaciesN OF the idea that personal iden-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
ldealist Irenics
APPLIED To All the Problems
of the Great War

T,IE GREAT PEACE. by II. H. Powers Crown
Sso Up. x. SSS The Macmillan Company.
To hear the other side is always
lust and profitable rule, even though
u involve at times an embarrassing
multitude Of counsels. In the vast task
of peacemaking which now lies before
the world there are almost innumerable
questions of essence and moment, each
enc of which has at least three sides
instead of the traditional two. For
each of them involves the interests,
rights and what not of two disputed
nations. and also the interests of all
the nations put together in the COM
monwealth of the world. To consider
them all. in all their phases, hic labor.
hoe opus est.
1t is such task which Dr. Powers
hero essays, with the serious purpose
of one who is not propagandist with
preconceivcd convictions and purposes,
unless there be propaganda OF ideal
ism, but who Is an open-mlnded seeker
after light and truth. He discusses
practically every issue that arises IN
the settlement of the war and the
guaranteeing of peace, and he. does so
from every point of view which the
average man recognizes and occasional
" from one which has not been gener-
sllv recognized There is no dogma
tism. save that of principles of benevo-
lence and righteousness, but there is
everywhere spirit of sweet reason
ableucss and an obvious desire to
establish truth and justice. In fact,
the weakness of the book lies in its
lack of greater positiveness. We can
not agree with the author in some
places where we should like to. be-
cause the moment he has expressed
view with which we coincide he coun-
ters with another dametrically op-
posed to it. Neither can we disagree
with some of his views as vigorously
as we should like to do-as with those
on nternationalism, for example-be-
cause he instantly modifies them poten-
tally, through the expression OF others
of a very different kind.
So it is a book which, to employ the
old saying, people will neither swear
By nor swear at. Yet it by no means
bears the imprint of Laodcea. 1t will
set people to thinking, and to thinking
things concerning this war and the
coming peace which they never would
have thought of if it had not been for
DR.. Powers and his stimulating and
inspiring volume.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Ranch, Salon and War

THE COW PUNCHER. BY Robert J. G. Stead.
illustrated. l2mo pp SS1. Harper & Bros
The theme of the romance is fam;l-
lar. There is charming city girl, with
a snobbishly proud mother, who visits
the cattle country and NETS rough
diamond cowboy, clean, brave and
manly, who falls in love with her, and
who has another suitor in a depraved
and conscienceless man of fashion. The
changes are rung on the triangle and
in the end the cowboy wins, only to
war. 1t is a clean, fresh and inter.
csting treatment of the familiar theme
though marked here and there by q
naivete SO excessive as to suggest the
hand of the amateur. a fault which
time and practice will correct in a
writer who here gives US hope of good
things.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Some War-Touched Lands
Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Rus
sia, Jerusalem. the East

ITALy's GREAT WAR AND HER NATIONAL
ASPIRATIONS. BY Mario Albcrti General Carlo
Corsi. Armando Hodng. Tommaso sillani. Attilio
Tauaro and Ettore Tolomci; with Introductory
chapter by H. Nelson Gay. With illustrations
and maps. l6mo pp. 267. Alfcr & Lacroix
Milan.
SERBIA. BY L. F. Waring: with preface by j.
~ Jovanovitch. l6mo pp. 256. Henry Holt &
MONTENEGRO. BY Alex Dev1ne With a map
l2mo. pp. H. 140. The Frederick A. Stokes Com
paDy.
RUSSIA AFTER THE REVOLUTION. BY Charles
Il. Beury. With maps and illustrations l2mo
pp. 1888. George W. Jacobs & Co.
JERUSALEM. PAST AND PRESENT BY Gatus
Glenn Atkins. illustrated. 12mo, pp. 1862 The
Fleming II. Revell Company.
AMERICA SAVE THE NEAR EAST BY Abraham
Press.
Historical, descriptive, argumentative,
the first of the volumes in hand is a
glowing vindication of the right of
Italy to regain that Italia Irredenta
which she has been seeking in the
Great War. Concerning ne1 title 20 most
of that territory there can be no seri-
Gus question. But there is some of it
which is also claimed by Serbs or Jugo-
Slavs, and which will doubtless be the
subject Of considerable controversy.
The work presents the Italian side of
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Tales of Action
Old and New, Imaginative and
Realistic

"Wii With # frontisplece. lsmo. pp. s55. A. G. Nc
Clurg & Co.
THE GODS OF MARS. BY Edgar Rice Burroughs.
..FIREBRANp" TREvIsoN. BY Charles Alden
SETTER; illustrated l2mo pp S20. A. T. Nc
FIRECRACKER JANE By Ahce Calhoun Hanes..
l2mo pp. 927. Henry Holt g. Co.
THE VALLEY OF, THE GIANTS, By Peter B
Kyne Illustrated and with ifontispece IN color
Emo pp 3SS. Doubleday, Page Co.
MY BRAVE AND GALLANT GENTLEMAN. Ry
Robert Watson. l2mo. PIP. 3Sa. Tho George H.
THE CLUTCH OF CIRCUMSTANCE, {, By Marjorie
Benton Cooke l2mo. PIP. 23o. The George II.
Doran Company.
WHISPERING WIRES. BY Henry leverage 12mo
PIP 299. Moffat. Yard & Co.
THE STOLEN CREDENTIALS. BY Octave (M E.
So l2mo pp 3l4. Robert j. Shores.
Here is varied budget Of stirring fc
ton. of strenuous action in many lands
and times, duplicating good men and
bad, brave men and towards, and women
both beautiful and brave. In Mr.. Par
rsh's tale we have thrilling romance
Of pirates and buccaneers in the old
davs of the Spanish Main, we'll invented
and we'll told, more in the speech Of the
present day than in any endeavor to re-
produce that of two centuries ago. Mr.
Burroughs, of course, gives US work
of sheer imagination, in the style of
That "princess of Mars" which en-
thralled so many readers. He is in
eenious, plausible and always intensely
entertaining. Mr.. Seltzer, on the other
hand, tells most realistic story of our
own day, Of savage conflict between
strong men in the West, in which the
law is used to defeat and lawless vio-
lence is employed to promote justice.
There is thrill on every page, and
, there is a grip that holds the. reader
fast from beginning to end.
"Firecracker Jane" is an mpassioned
, romance Of the Mexican border during
our recent "unpleasantness" there, with
plenty of action and some tragedy, and
a tempestuous little heroine who, with
all her wilfulness and madcap esca-
pades, commands our sympathy and
love.
Mr.. Kyne has gone to Bret Harte' S
country for the scene of his romance OF
the redwoods, and has conceived fas-
cinating tale in which love and bust
ness, shrewd bargaining and physical
force, all in the fresh, breezy air of the
forest land, are mingled in an interest
ing whole.
The Canadian Northwest, that fecund
source Of romance of adventure, is the
scene in which Mr. Watson's Brave
and Gallant Gentleman" disports him
self. Love and adventure and daring
achievement make up the whole of it,
with no war and no problems. for which
let the charmed reader give thanks.
That is not to say, however, that all
stories relating to the war are weari-
ness. Marjorie Benton Cookies. for eX-
ample, is gripping melodrama of Ger
| man spies and war plots and grim trag-
cdy, presented with a wealth of emo
ton and conflicting passions and en-
raging strong sympathy, even with the
victim of circumstance.
Another mystery and detective story
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Spying and Wooing

THE APARrAlENT NEXT DOOR BY William
Brown e. Co.
The great war has been prolific of
detective and secret service stories
about the doings of German spies and
the counterplots of American and Eng
lish agents. and the average quality of
them has been pretty high. We should
doubt. however, if there are many, or
indeed any of them more meritorious
than this of Mr.. Johnston's. It's plot
is ingenious and sufficiently intricate
to pique and to battle curiosity until the
authors own disclosure. and at the
same time it is entirely possible and
plausible. The narrative and CONVEX
sations are natural and convincing of
reality. There is a scrupulous avoid
ance of the exaggeration which mars
too many works of this kind, and there
is an unfailing and most effective ap-
peal to human sympathy.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Youth Has Its Fling
1t Dances, Pays the Piper and
Wins the Game

WHO CARES? By Cosmo Hamilton. Illustrated.
l2mo. pp. 3i2. Little Brown & Co.
When insurgent youth takes the bit
between its teeth and defes convention
the result is too often disaster The
average novelist would portray it as
stained with sin and shame. But not
necessarily and not always is it so.
There is an innate passion for cleanli-
ness which is quite capable of suprem-
acy and under the control of which the
most impulsive youth may pass the or
deal of temptation unscathed at least
by the ultimate touch of evil. There
may be penalty to pay for saying
greatest penalty.
There is thus, to our mind, greater
interest in victory than in defeat;
more human interest in the spectacle
OF clean minded youth remaining un-
spotted of the world than in all the
records of yielding and lapses and
pollution. Mr.. Hamilton mas therefore
chosen his theme wisely, and he has
tells us of young woman and young
man, little more than girl and boy, un-
governed and unrestrained save by
their own will. who contract madcap
marriage which, by her will, is in name
only, and then, that she may enjoy the
social freedom which had been denied
her at home, maintain those nominal
and conventional relations. Of course
a crisis comes at last, which narrowly
escapes being tragic. A price is paid
which can be paid without remorse, and
all ends we'll. There is not trace of
the pruricnt in it, and not trace of
the goody-goody. 1t is true to life and
is pervaded with the charm of youth.
ard it has a dramatic power of stress
and passion that holds the reader with
a masterful grip from first to last. Mr.:
Hamilton has done nothing better, and
not many current fiction writer's have
done as we'll.