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terrogation they had but fifty cents when found by the officer.
 Tt is not so much a case of love as it is of Helen being a big sister, [" said the matron at the detention home. Helen has always treated Lawrence as her little brother. and. besides, Helen is good cook"
 During their stay in San Francisco the children had grand" time, ac. cording to pretty Helen who said they had been to two or three moving pic ture shows daily and otherwise en. joyed their time.
 Lawrence was serious about his trip here and had tried to secure "cor. ner" and sell newspapers, but was told he was "too little"
 Following their apprehension the parents of the children were notified and arrived in a short time to take them home.
 When Helen's father arrived at the detention home with tears of glad ness in her eyes she ran and threw her arms about his neck and declared she was ready to go home to mother"
 Lawrence reluctantly admitted he guessed he had better go home also"
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BOY AND GIRL ROMANCE IS
 SHATTERED
CBy International News servlcc>

(By International News Servlcc)
 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 1-Another youthful romance has been shattered.
 Pretty thirteen-year-old Helen Davis is hack in the olive orchard of her fathers ranch, at Oroville, and eleven year-old Lawrence Mahoney, of the same town. is telling his playmates about the sights" he saw during his and Helens brief fiye-day stay in the city" which disappearance pug. Zled authorities throughout the state.
 Helen and Lawrence have been friends for several years went to school together, played together and manifested a high regard for each other. The lure to see the wild things" Gas they called them) of San Francisco caused them to carefully plan a visit to the city. unbeknown to their parents. They pooled their fin ancial resources, totalling about S20 and arrived here before they were missed from home.
 Reaching San Francisco. Helen re- membered some friends who lived at an elusive address. but she found they had either moved or she had the wrong street number for they could not be located. Their only alternative was to take an apartment.
 The absence of the children from their Oroville home was reported to the police of that city, and later the search spread over the state, and every police department had been no- tified of their disappearance. After five days of searching police officers here found them wandering about the Ferry building watching the boats come in.
 The youngsters were taken to the juvenile detention home and when questioned by the matron, said they had left home because we love each other.ss-The rnatron also found by in
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HARDINC'S AIDS KEEP IN TRIM
 BY WALKING
By International News service)

WASHINGTON, Sept l. Presi- dent Harding's cabinet today is fully as athletic as any of it's predecess- ors, to judge by the activities of its members during their off-hours around Washington
 Be 1t said in the beginning, how ever, that these "offhours" are not numerous at present
 Not only the cabinet but many members of congress have joined in the wave Of physical culture which has swept over the capital since the president became so active on links and afield
 The new fad takes various forms. Secretary of the Navy Denby, a vet eran of the navy and marine corps, it is farmer when he has time; Sec retary of Labor Davis keeps in train ing by eating only the lightest of lunches; several officials do away with the lunch hour altogether, and most of them are enthusiastic hik- CTS.
 The most strenuous devotees of the latter recreation. however, be- long to what is known unofficially as The Statesmen's Marching Club, |" and it lives up to it's name. Its prin- cipal members are Colonel Theo- dore Roosevelt, Jr., Assistant Sec retary of the Navy; Senator James Wadsworth, New York, and Repre- sentative Nick" Longworth. Ohio, Colonel Roosevelt. who is also one of the light lunchers," mostly be- cause of lack of time usually leads the column" according to his asso- ciates.
 The rough garb affected by the club has lead to a number of com plications. Recently, while the trio were resting in bosky section near Washington, they overheard the mother Of several children who had been picincking nearby warn her husband to keep an eye on the chil- dron, because I think there are three horrid tramps over by the road" She was greatly surprised when she found who the "tramps" were.
 When President Harding "golfs' he nearly always has several of his late associates of the senate as part ners; while other members of con gress practice walking to work. " which is at times about the best way to get there. Uncle Joe" Cannon, of Illinois, and Representative Phil Campbell, of Kansas, head the con grcssional hiking delegation.
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WRITE VIOLET RAY. S. DENNISoN,
 Ohio, if you wiah g. pretty and
 wealthy wife. EAciess stamp. I
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MENTAL CURES STIR UP ROW
 IN BRITAIN
By International News service)

'iS SDtiFi'fJ LONDON, Sept. 1.-Only a few years ago any British doctor who professed faith in mental cures" was labelled "charlatan" or "quack." To day violent controversy is raging in the medical press. with some of Britain's leading physicians announc, ing that not only nerve troubles but even pneumonia benefit by mind treatment" auto-suggestion and hy. pnotism.
 The row started at the annual meeting of the British Medical As. socian. A large part of the associ. ation's time was devoted to debat. ing the value of mental cures, and the discussion is continuing in the press.
 Professor Robertson of Edinburgh, Ia well-known physician, declared that wounds cound not only be cured by mere suggestion but could be infliCt- tN III tut SaIit way llt dhStl lCi that he knew of one case where blisters were raised on a mans body simply by telling him he was being scared with an iron. He knew French doctors, he said, who con sidered mental suggestion an i'm portant treatment in cases Of pneu- monia. because 1t strengthened a patients vitality and enabled him to fight the disease with better sue cess.
 "I am not urging that we abandon the use of medicine" said Prof Rob ertson. but doctors should learn that there is something besides pills in their profession. If they would study, mental cures they would throw many a bottle of medicine into the sea"
 Dr Bernard Hollander, who adyO- cated successfully the use Of hyp- notism and auto-suggestion in cur ing cases of shell shock and nervous ness during the war, said that the drink and drug habits yielded readily to psychic healing. But he warned the association that they must not rely on mental treatment alone.
 Now comes Dr. F. L. Golla, assist ant physician to St Georges Hos pital and recognized authority or nerve diseases.
 These psychic headers forget that brain trouble always comes from bodily illness" he said Cure the body with pills and medicine and you cure the brain.
 "The craze for mental healing came to us from America. It is dying down there now. It never made any headway in France-the French are too clear-headed and it will have short life in England.
 "I have seen mental suggestion tried too often. A man on the verge of insanity tells his doctor that he has killed his grandfather. The doctor, by suggestion, convinces him that he has not but the next day he comes back and announces that he has killed his grandmother. The real cause has not been effected There has been no cure"
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REVIEWS OF NEW FICTION

her fathers shady business deals
would have spoiled everything and she
would have lost her lover anyhow.
That is probably the answer, he
never really had a chance TO win. Fate
wasn't hitting "a feller his size" when
he picked on Alice. she was doomed.
Whatever flaws alice Adams" con-
tains have nothing to do with the main
structure. One is grateful TO Mr..
Harrington for combining his mistakes
to details. One is particularly thankful
that if he found it necessary to make
resigning workingrnen say, "Yous capt.
talusts seem to think a mans got
nothin to do but break his neck
p'doosin' wealth for yous to squander.
You look out: the toilers day is
a-comin', and it amt fur off, neither"
he limited this puppets participation
in the story to one paragraph
For the benefit of those who like to
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
Peters perilS

THE VAGRANT DUKE. BY George
Gibbs. D. Appleton & Co
Mr.. Gibbs has had long practice
in pleasing the public. He can make
a good story out OF almost anything.
However, he has the journalists In
stinct He is quick to seize upon the
new forces with which the world must
reckon and incorporate them into
thrilling fiction.
What can be more appealing to the
average reader than a prince in dis
guiso The pre-war novelist had to
go back to the middle ages to find
such hero. Mr.. Gibbs finds one
readily in a Russian Grand Duke
driven from his home by the Bolshe-
viks. Peter Nicholaevitch takes the
name of Peter Nichols in the United
States and accepts a position with
Jonathan X. Mcclure, a millionaire in
New Jersey. lie finds that although
he is hired as a forester his real job
is to protect his employer from Hank
Kennedy, a blackmailer. His life Is
full of danger, but Miss Beth Cameron
causes his heart to palpitate more than
the porils to which he Is exposed.
Mr.. Gibbs has constructed a clever
plot. The scion of Russian nobility
manages to establish his sweetheart's
claim to half Of the Mcclure fortune
and so the wedding bells peal merrily
i'm the final chapter.
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gives us of the lives of the characters.
the novel leaves one with the sense of
powerful and penetrating realism.
Tt gives the impression of having fur
rowed to the bedrock of life of having
furrowed partially and in limited
area only, yet of affording occasional
flashes of that which lies beneath the
surface. one cannot but regret that
these are only flashes, and that such
vast amount is left to the intuition
of the reader; yet one is forced to ad-
nit that the author has made the story
convincing. And one will turn from
the book with the sense of something
wholesome, something broadly humor-
Gus and human in one phase of life,
and of a fostering sorrow in another
phase, a silent, futile tragedy half
concealed. too passive TO be fearful,
vet reaching down to the very roots of
the pathos in the lives of millions.
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Short stories with a long reach

sous" The Paris underworld, yes, it
was like that He remembered the
thin, dark girls who used to come into
the place with market baskets on their
arms. Then again in the first story,
Prelude" what lifelike picture there
was of the mysterious wife, of whom
no one dared ask her thoughts; and
the children, they were entertainingly
done In fact they talked nonsense
seriously, just like his own kids. DO
the stars ever blow about?' asked
Lottie sleepily. Not to notice. replied
the storeman.
He fiicked cigar ash from the third
buttonhole of his waistcoat and,
alarmed, realized that he had actually
noticed it tcaS the third. Great
heavens, This realistic stuff is get
ting mel" he cried, starting from his
chair and moving restlessly TO the
rain splashed window. But his mind
continued in the same track. Almost
the strongest story in the book, "Reve-
latons," told with keen. delicate irony
of a woman in a hairdressing shop
who, sensing something amiss with
George the hairdresser asked what it
was, rushed out of the shop overcome
by her emotion, and, on her way TO
Princes for lunch. thought of sending
white flowers because Of the death,
being. tragically, his first child. But
IL didn't quite come off. she tapped
against the window Of the taxi; the
driver did not hear, and, anyway, they
were at Princes already 1T was
keen exposition of the way in which
q good intention goes wrong. The
business man took out his memoran-
DUN book and made a note that two
of the quail he had shot on the South
ern trip should be sent to Miss Pin
gree. sick stenographer. tomorrow.
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and of course Alice, are splendidly
realistic. Only Walter. the worthless
son, does not seem entirely real. One
feels that here Mr.. Harrington has
been a bit relentless. The boy is too
bad to be true. But this is a minor
flaw as Walter does not play very
prominent part in the story.
There is something decidedly odd
about Alice Adams" Out of a few
misfortunes that seem conventional
enough, a powerful and convincing
tragedy is built. The end of the book
finds Alice defeated in purpose, but
with the whole world before her; yet
she is a profoundly tragic figure. The
readers heart goes out to her. Only
rarely is the hard shelled, unimpres-
sonable person who writes this review
willing 80 make an admission of this
kind about book. 1t goes hard with
him to concede it, but it is true that
Alice's defeat got under his skin Hun
dreds of other readers will probably
make the same admission before long
and wonder, at the same time, what
this girls appeal can be. Perhaps it
is the fact that she accepts crushing
reverse SO courageously; after all, how
much sympathy have we for the peo-
pie, in books or out, who, in crisis,
can do nothing nobier than run wildly
into the back yard and weep a few
quarts in the rain barrel? Perhaps
the girls appeal is her intense human
ness Certain it is that her faults
bring her closer to ourselves than If
she We're presented as perfect speci-
men. And maybe, to hazard another
guess, We are so sorry for her because
we feel that no matter which way she
had turned she would have been
beaten; that even if she had been
truthful in her relations with Arthur,
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
Empty jewel casket
THE CHESTERMARKE INSTINCT.
BY j. s. Fletcher. Alfred A. Knopf.

THE CHESTERMARKE INSTINCT.
BY J. S. Fletcher. Alfred A. Knopf.
The uncle had a cold. sphinxlike face;
the nephew had a soft, leering smile.
and both were at the same time coun-
try bankers and city usurers. At dusk
one day the manager of the bank they
owned in the country walked into his
garden and disappeared. Shortly be-
fore his disappearance he had been
entrusted with the safe keeping OF an
earls jewels. The bankers let II be
known that they also had lost valu-
able securities.
The detective soon walks upon the
boards--a youngish man from New
Scotland Yard. Not a very profound
individual and lacking utterly the
charm of character which distinguished
the sleuths of Conan Doyle and even
OF Arthur Cnbb or Clarence Budding
ton Kelland. The body of a murdered
man. a stranger is found at the bot
tom OF an old lead mine and an empty
Jewel Casket is found beneath the
CRATE Of the house once occupied by
the missing manager. His housekeeper
disappears after a conversation with
the nephew. he of the leering smile.
Theories and clues thrive on the
mystery. which grips the reader by the
strength of the formula which gov
erned its construction rather than by
the quality or horror Of the episodes.
Nowadays II has become extraordina-
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His mother and his wife
JAKE. BY Eunice Tietjens Boni
iuarfyht

JAKE BY Eunice Tietjens. Boni &
Liveright.
TNHIS is primarily a novel OF a
single character-of Jake" the
amiable and talented but weak
and easily led newspaper artist, a man
of kindly but too plant disposition
whose life is a succession of struggles
that in the end prove too much for
him. He is almost slavishly attached
to his mother, with whom he has en-
dured many early privations: but he
is scarcely less devoted to his wife.
who is coming into constant conflict
with the mother; and the contest of
the two women over the man they
both love, and the way in which he
is wrecked by their selfish contro-
versies, constitute the central theme
of the novel. if the novel can be said
to have any central theme.
However, it can scarcely be main
tanned that there is any principal
thread to the story, for the author
rambles from subject to subject in a
haphazard way that would scarcely be
conceivable had she not given us the
evidence of it in black and white. This
is due in part to her method of tell
ing the tale: she writes in the first
person, as biographer for her friend
Jake; and, incidentally. she brings to
bear a large mass of ostensibly bio
graphical material. and devotes nearly
as much space to describing her own
experiences as those of the central
character. Often we fail to discover
any relationship between the two: but
though this may theoretically repre-
sent an artistic flaw, we are not Sc
riously concerned with that fact: for
everything the author has to say is of
interest, and there is something par
ticularly delightful in her description
of her home life, of her children. and
of her eccentric. genial husband, of
whom she is exceedingly fond, yet who
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that bring happiness which were to
be found in the golden land of Su-
varna. De Gys. the Frenchman, be-
lieved the legend was not a legend but
a reality because he had seen the
lovely-yes. beautiful-Melie and had
tasted OF her tiny box of purple seeds.
Long'un. Lord Furlmere's only son,
and Beamish, the Socialist, Joined him.
and together the three. i'm the gulse Of
Cinnamon Of the Tong of the White
Tiger. travelled through the wilder
ness to the Gates If the Harinesians.
where they found the white maidens
and the purple seeds. In the story one
sees what can really happen to q
Socialist when he comes in contact
with the civilization Of the Middle
Ages and what befei a man who loses
his soul but keeps his body The story
breathes adventure from first to last
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be electrifed-and this means most of
us-be it recorded that chapter Is con-
tains a climax that has rarely been sur
passed for dramatic intensity
For the benefit of those who like
good bookmaking-an this means an
other gang of us-be it stated that
Alice Adams" is an excellent example
of this art. The large, we'll spaced type
Is a joy to behold.
This book despite it's unhappy end
ing, should prove extremely popular.
1t is SO honest a piece of work that
even the Pollyannas will recognize it's
fundamental truth.
We believe that Booth Harrington
will some day write a sequel to Alice
Adams" The stage is perfectly set for
a continuation of Alice's story, and we
doubt whether her creator can resist
the temptation to go on with the per-
formance.
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
Reviewed by
ELIZABETH HOUGHTON.

.sT- VEN the title might have
made you Suspicious
Bliss You might have
known that your heart was going to
he ripped and torn. A collection of
short stories: The Little Governess'-
always weak chested and imaginative,
governesses; 'Prelude'-that means
something horrible will occur after
the story is over and you will have
to guess what is is; Je Ne Parle Pas
Francais,' i'm all probability a little
English girl is alone in Paris not
speaking the language, with Of course
fatal or disastrous results. Not a
book for bad weather that, and you
had asked for something CHEEKY. The
thought that mere book had upset
you like that was annoying. Raptur-
ously some one had said Of it: Like
the Russians. that sharply focused
view of every day life that YOU find
in Tchekov or Andreyev'-as though
II were a special privilege to be ad-
mitted into the lives of those people,"
The Ordinary Man turned uneasily
in his chair. That was not strictly all.
His thoughts went on. Katherine
Mansfield, a young girl to Judge by
her photograph, how could she have
seen the things she describes? Ger
tainly she must have seen them. for
the accuracy of her details was as
founding. That pale. sweaty waiter"
OF the Partisan underworld cafe in "Je
Ne Parle Pas Francals," "he is gray,
fatfooted and withered, with long,
brittle fingernails that set your nerves
on edge while he scrapes I'D Your two
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rHE JOURNAL OF CARLO KNIGHT,
FREE LANCE.

Monday. I receive 4 check for s1.65
from the editor Of Htrth for the fol-
lowing wheeze on Holy Cross's over
whelming baseball victory over Yale:
"a little college Is a dangerous thing"
Tuesday. | start another riot In
Greenwich Village by telling Ber-
narlino Belfry, the attic poet that l
find nothing Attic in his work.
Wednesday. contribute dedication
ode to The Poets House Fund. The
cause il a worthy one. ! hear they are
going to have a sumptuous house with
many beds and Picrian spring for
for each bod
IhursddD Comes letter from friend
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Enchanted seeds
or Suvarna land

THE SEEDS OF ENCHANTMENT.
BY Gilbert F'rankau. Doubleday.
Page & Co.
- ILBERT FRANKAU. son of
Frank Dandy. has a wide scope
of experiences as strange and
as varied as has ever been wished for
by any writer. He is the young man
whom Rudyard Kipling has called the
coming British novelist" AT II he
was the president OF a large corpora
ton, a position he sacrificed to do his
bit i'm the war. His contact with
practical matters gives him a realistic
view of modern life and won for him
the success of Peter Jameson" Never
theless he has found time to travel
over many parts of the world, absorb
ing the color and romance of strange
lands. 1t was his Oriental experiences
and travel that aided him in writing
this present volume, Seeds of En-
chantment."
Whispered about through Indo- China
was the legend of white women, beauti-
full women and of enchanted seeds
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Impossible, yet---
BAT WING. BY Sax Rohmer, Double
day, Page & Co.
HERE lies the wing of YAM
pire Bat" he said, pointing,

hdgs 4 dHt ~ w
HERE lies the wing of a YAM
plre Bat" he said, pointing
in Chancery lane. \ i inn
possible. Yet" he raised his glass,
"'Pussyfoot Johnson has visited SCOT
land, the home OF whiskey'
In these sceptlcal words Paul Hur-
10y. the detective, begins the investi-
cation OF one OF the strangest cases
which Sax Rohmer has depicted.
Paul Hurley's client. Col. Menendez
from Cuba. Is assuredly ono q the
bravest of men, but when he enters
the story It is apparent that q mys-
terious doom is upon him, and no Is
prepared to meet his end, and seems
halfhearted in his efforts to ward off
the inevitable. When he IS shot in
his garden at midnight all the eNi-
dence points to some one who Is famil-
lar with the workings Of voodooism,
and Colin Gambler, an earnest seeker
after occult truth. Is enmeshed in the
nets OF justice. How his innocence IL
established Is remarkable proof of
the infallibilty Of Mr.. Hurley
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rily difficult to give readers the cold
shiver which we Of the olden time as
sociate in loving memory with the
"F'all Of the House of Usher" and other
chef d'nuvres of the everlasting Edgar
Allan.