The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-08

The ordinary and entertaining
,se,dents Of regular girls life are
Ma us in Eleanor H. Porter's lat
+ ~ story, Mary Marie" (Houghton-
wtR1ln,l 1t is in diary form. and
Ne very beginning gives an idea Of
NV fast and we'll the story is
-ritfen: Father calls me Mary.
uother calls me Marie. Everybody
slse calls me Mary Marie. The rest
!, nv name is Anderson, and I'm
rross current and contradiction"
The book is to be published this
month.
What would you do if your life
lons and very best friend ran or
a Baltimore for a day and aig,it
with your wife? Bob Meredith diu
chat most men would do--took the
,svolyer from his desk, pondered
tor a moment. and then handed it
N Iulisn Osborn. the offender. who.
with a conscience eating like can
cer. had come to settle up and end
The affair somehow.
Cosmo Hamilton in His Friend
and His Wife little, Brown and
Company offers US this problem
and follows up with the story OF
tho social scandal in the Quaker
Hiil community. the fashionable
residence section of the coninut-
ing young husbands and pretty
Young wives in crisp organdies and
chauffeured imosiHes, resulting
from the adventure.
4 striving young artist, Mary
Miller who converts d barn into d
nerfeetIv fascinating studio in a
erandalously shor! time, get mix
ed up with the husbands and
wives and complications set in.
The story belongs TO the high
saciety -house-party cycle, but has
enough OF the substantial in it to
make it better than the average
light reading" novels. Hamilton
does say THE suiight OF a deli
cious spring afternoon but may
he there are delicious afternoons
nothing seems impossible these
days. The latter part of the book
is very we'll written and for quiet
pleasant evening at home. nothing
could be more entertaining than
"His Wife and His Friend
The trial the joy. the uncertain
", the absurdity of d confident
business mar undertaking to be d
farmer with only the knowledge OF
the city to guide him, composes
1.-THE Real Diary of the Worst
Farmer" by Henry A. Shnte
lIcughton Mifflin). The every
day situations are told in that
quietly numerous way that makes
you chuckle to yourself, occasion
ally laugh out loud, twist around
in your chair, and read the passage
aloud to whoever happens to bt
within hearing distance. All vol
amateur gardeners read this book
and YOU professionals read. tina
the unsuccessful attempts of your
first few years may be cheerfulls
recalled.
When the weather has been rain.
tu-n rn1iI u-nnt-c ~
some busy-body tells you the mos
unkind gossip that is III circula
ton about your very best friend
and your nice. on-gum-chewini
stenographer steps off into matri
mony, and prices keep going VI
and large Tom cat serenades yo'
alter each midnight. and your
fussy and provoked at everything
in general-then read Joseph {
Lincoln's The Portygee' apple
toni. Not that the action vii
make the sun shine nor the cat sto]
bowling in the wee hours, blu
your faith in human nature and as
surance that there is good and
lot of it in our world will be estab
llshed. and at the same time, you'll
De reading the interesting low
story OF temperamental an
handsome youth and the daughter
OF a millionaire and a minister
and the many decisions that ar
decided before the right girl
chosen.
The Portygee.' as his GRANDPA
theT calls him, is taken from tn
very exclusive prep school and DIES
uhed to spend the remaining day
OF an uneventful life in Sout
Harnlss. His grandfather. Captain
Aeiotes Snow, is unfavorably pref
udlced against the lad. for his fla