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Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-15
What Is Going On Tonight

College Meeting at Slater Hall
 R. O. Fletcher Post. No. {. A L., meets in Stead Building.
 White Gross Council No. 13. K of C., meets in K. of C. Home
 Hugh H Osgod Lodge. No. ss2D. I. Q. O. F.. meets In Steiner Hal
 Canton OneCo, No. .. l. O. o. F., meets in odd Fellows Hall.
 Nemrod Grotio. NJ. O. V. P. r. R.. meets in Grotto Hall.
 Lodge Oscar, No. 90, " 0. Of A, meets at 25 ShetucSoet Street
 VaudeyIllr ana Moving Pictures st Broadway Theatre.
 Moving Pictures at Strand Theatre.
 Moving Pictures al Breed Theatre.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-15
rha. Rtitiah Museam

It is not generally known that the BH- tish Museum-that wonderful storehousc of treasnes-waE started from funds realized by state lottery. It certainly proves that It is easy to raise money by this means 7i
 A special act of Parliament was pass ed in 1753 to authorize the lottery, and
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-15
BIns etana EIke NIrhtnnrr..

The new movement to heal the sick oy thinking should find way to exc,uda thinking about fine bIn.--washinxton Post s
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-15

Aaay.. pa.IIlst has bssa ssa..ssa 2. U.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-15
Cost oI Turksv Gruw.-

Cost Of Turkey crows.
 Thanksgiving or no Thanksgiving, the cost Of Turkey 2 the civilized world is going to rise higher and higheE-BoSton Transcript. ~@'-r
The New York herald., 1922-09-03
THE VAN ROOM. BY ]. c. snait
ID. Appleton & Co.

THE VAN ROOM. BY ]. c. Snaith.
d. Appleton & Co.
A PLEASANT touch Of novelty
~ In the stage setting and Incl
dent make this story attrac-
tive. Not that the antique shop. as
such, is at all unfamiliar in fiction,
but the shop of IS. Gedge, Antiques, .
and its occupants have a flavor OF
their own. 1t is also a relief to find
such a plot centering about a revived
"old master" rather than a sordid
hoard Of pirate gold or an emerald
from the eye of an Indian idol. II
is not exactly a new field that Mr..
Snaith opens up here. but IL still has
freshness, and his cultivation OF IL
is clever. The note Of exaggeration,
of something little ultra, is audible
throughout, as in most of his work,
but it is not enough to spoil it.
s.. Gedge, Antiques, is also Uncle
Si' to his niece, June, whom he has
adopted lin a weak moment" Also
there Is William, shop assistant and
devotee OF beauty, with a large p
OF course Uncle 81 is a curmudgeon.
ayaricious and tricky, and William
is an excessively noble young man.
1t Is obvious that the girl must side
with William in case of trouble. But
William is also too noble to suspect
his employer of any but the highest
motives. The thing that brought the
trouble to a head was Williams dis
covery of a wonderful Dutch "old
master" under more modern paint
ing. There is difficulty in handling
this recovered picture from many
standpoints, and June is even Obliged
to steal 1t to bring about justice. /,
gives the author a chance to build
up an amusing plot, full OF surprises
and of tense or humorous situations
For instance, at one point the girl is
Obliged to hide herself in an immense
ancient jar and has trouble In getting
cut The plot is well managed and
the characters are lively.
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

intrusion than the ordinary thing.
Apparently 1t needs a Stevenson to
realize. fully. that there is no place
whatever for the ladies in story
Of this type: only two, 50 far as the
reviewer recalls, out Of the hun
dred or so adventure yarns Of the
past year have had the courage TO
leave out the unnecessary girl. But
Mr.. Marsh's dogs are among the
very best that have barked their
way into recent fiction. The
husky" Esquimo dog. ''F1eur." is
really the heroine of the tale and
is fully equal TO the responsibilities
OF that part. She is always dog,
with no supernal. spiritualized halo
about her, and she is all that such
dog should be.
The French Canadian hunters and
trappers, the Crees, and half breeds
Of the tale are also finely drawn,
accurately seen figures. Jean Mar
sci, the young hero, is a splendid
fellow; but he Is genuinely and al
ways of the woods The story is
staged In the eastern Hudson Bay
country and Jean wanders far into
the uncharted north and north
east. Mr.. Marsh evidently knows
his country: the feel of it Is strong
and clean. never overdone, but ex-
traordinarily vivid The incident is
sufficiently stirring nearly
starves to death. Is suspected OF
having murdered his two compan-
ions, and has a hard time OF il gen.
orally, but the whole thing Is kept
steadily in hand and never slops
over. The climax of the story is the
trip through q blizzard that Jean
makes with his magnificent dog
team in order to bring a doctor to
the trading post to save the life OF
the girl, Julie, with the result that
she discovers that she loves Jean
after all and not the taiior's dummy
of more sophisticated civilization
to whom she was engaged. Julie win
do, well enough. but this touch Of
conventional romance mars an other
wise unusually good story.
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

genous nation, suffering from cruditl
and ignorance rather than FROM
precocious degeneracy. She Il
greatly concerned demonstrating
that England is far from moribund
and that the century old -traditiop
is still yitally alive, but. oddly
enough, she attempts TO demonstrate
IL in her Elizabeth, who does not
embody that tradition very perfectly
1t is only in the very last para.
graphs that she does strike the sure
note, in the case OF the cd farmef
whose four sons have been killed Ia
the war but who is going calmly
valiantly, steadily about his busi,
ness. Capt Cornish, we are told.
''felt the presence of a strene. bes
sides which his own strength stood
abashed. his youth and vitality be-
came Of little worth"
The book, however. contains d
good deal of very well founded
criticism of America and especially
OF our attitude during and after the
war. Elizabeth sums il up in 4
passionate outburst:
The world is cruel, and Amer.
leans go about with a monstrous
cheerfulness singing-Let US then be
up and doing. You forget-yoV
do not dare-that this Europe whic9
is old In sin is also old in suffering
You have never suffered and yo4
do not understand"
That is pointed truth that cuo1
deeply. The whole book is PASSION
ately in earnest and nobly meant
It certainly does demonstrate tn
need OF a better understanding be-
tween England and the remnant of
the English here, but ii seems to
show that IL is England rather than
We who need enlightenment the more
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

THE WHELPS OF THE WOLF. Bv
George Marsh. The Penn Publish
ing Company.
"HERE is nothing Of the ma
chine made artificiahty that
usually marks the adventure
story in this. except, to a slight ex-
tent, in the introduction of a con-
ventional love theme. which, how
ever. is well handled and less Of an
The New York herald., 1922-09-03


Little. Brown q Co.
THE obvious comment has been
made In England that the
author OF this is aptly named:
It is stormy book, rising at times
to hurricane intensity and moving
also with the apparently erraiis
shiftings OF a summer thunderstorm.
There are lightning flashes Of bind
ing brilliancy. followed by duh, quiet
interludes. The story Is not at al
incoherent. but II Is ejaculatory,
staccato and uneven But 1t must be
admitted that at its stormiest it Is
impressive.
The -clash" referred to in the tite
is that between the British and
American temperaments as exempl.-
fed in the persons Of an English
woman and her American lover. As
a presentation OF national traits il
is not very convincing. though as a
personal drama II fully succeeds.
The trouble is that one finds 1t hard
to See anything very typically Eng
ish in the nervous, imaginative.
tempestuous Elizabeth. Even the
most thoroughly modernized Lady
Clara We're de We're might be ex-
pected TO have held on more firmly
to past traditions. And II is as
suredly very far from accurate In
any sense TO consider Capt. Jess
Cornish a typical representative of
what passes for American civiliza-
ton He is, In fact, neither fish,
flesh nor fowl. He IS from Texas,
the son OF a man who is fifth in
descent from an English pilgrim an
cestor, but who also has Spanish
blood and other elements In his
makeup. There are at least a score
OF easily definable American types
each genuinely American and typ;-
cal enough, but Cornish belongs 70
none Of them.
When he meets Elizabeth at an
aviation camp toward the end Of
the war she Is the wife OF an amiable
gentleman whom she married largely
out of maternal desire TO take care
OF him. She and Jess promptly IA
passionately in love and she becomes
his mistress, intending TO ask her
husband to divorce her so that She
can marry Cornish. But she finally
concludes that she CAM hurt him 80
and also finds that the thought If
going to an alien country, like
Texas, Is unbearable. To put II
otherwise. the passionate interlude
is over, and each is really rather
glad OF IL. The tragedy Of it all Is
real enough. and told with great
efficiency.
Cornish Is possessed OF the notion
that England Is moribund and that
the future lies with young America
a notion which very few even mod
erately intelligent Americans. who
have any first hand knowledge cf
England at all, would hold for a
moment. The author is also under
the curious misapprebension that
America Is a more OF less homo
The New York herald., 1922-09-03
New Fiction

That is the dominant note of the
conclusion, but the case for the others
is not understated 1t is thought
full, and ought to be a useful, as well
as very interesting book.
HENRY WALKER
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

ately in earnest and nobly meant
It certainly does demonstrate tn
need OF a better understanding be-
tween England and the remnant of
the English here, but it seems to
show that IL IS England rather than
we who need enlightenment the more
THE GHOST GIRL BY Edgar SaltuA
Boni & Liveright.
TF' as the publishers note records.
Mr.. Saltus considered this his
best work, II is not difficult to
agree with him, though it lacks
somewhat of the glamour Of his "Im-
perial Purple" 1t is a monstrously
clever thing, and. to quote his own
comment, ''it's not easy 10 write
either a good mystery story or 10
make psychic phenomena plausible.S
He has surmounted both those difi<
culties TO a notable degree, espe-
cially the first One is not quite %
sure as to the efficacy of his psychic
material, though Ii is creepy enough.
But after all. one goes TO Saltus
for the sparkle and the ebullience a
his writing. his mastery Of words
rather than for the solidity Of any
thought behind them. Not that hs
was shallow, or that his stories and
essays are merely glistening. soap
bubbly things with nothing inside.
1t is rather that the matter is over
shadowed by the manner; which Is
perhaps, one reason why he never
attained any very great vogue, de-
spite the indubitable superiority a
his workmanship. And the sparkle
is here, in scintillant abundance
AS always In his writing, the char
acters are very sharply defined; even
little overdrawn. The story is told
in the first person by the novelist.
Chandos Poole, who is a minor ac-
tor. The protagonist is Jim BradisA
very wealthy. big. fine and strong
but disfigured by a hideous birth
mark in the form and color OF Q
spider, which becomes infiamed when
he is angry and seems a live thing.
The girl who is 10 be made into
ghost is Nelly Chiffon, supremely
beautiful, of course. but burdened
by a vicious, scheming mother. who
is bent upon marrying her TO Bradish
and his millions. She succeeds. by
a rather crude stratagem. involving
a forged check and the girls belief
that she must marry Bradish 10 save
her mother from going 10 prison,
II goes without saying that Nelly Is
in love with another man, Fred Aus
ten. After the marriage, as they are
leaving the house in an auto tbere
killed and Bradish seriously hurt.
II should be noted that Nelly has q
double. one Ally Bolton. who is her.
self something of a mystery. Later
a third replica turns up. in the flesh,
a cousin OF Nelly's.
And then comes the ghost. which
appears twice TO Bradish and Poole,
at noon. on a stone stairway in Gem
tral Park; appears and Vanishes,
though on her second appearance
she says to Bradish, Your Nelly is
dead" But that is more than
enough Of an Introductory summary
Of part Of the plot. II thickcns from
that point on. and has some nicely
hair raising elements. They might
possibly be more ghostly II the att
mosphere were kept more steadily
foggy and supernormal. But Saltus
never could stick very long to any
objective method; ne always pops
himself in. sometimes disturbingiy,
with brilliant commentary-fin in
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

pragmatic philosophy" 1t is an am
bilious book. but the result justifies
the authors daring.
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

IifE HAPPf FOOL, by John Palmer.
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Il"HE HAPPY FOOL" is writ
ten with all the finish and
distinction one might expect
from a member Of the stan of the
Saturday Rerieto (London). whose
published books include two novels
Peter Paragon" and The Kings
Men," as well as several volumes on
the theater.
This novel is the story Of Guy
Reval. a whimsical. rather delightful
English youth with a penchant for
music. At Oxford Guy has an affair
with a country girl he nicknames
Sabina- After he leaves Oxford Guy
becomes musical critic for London
weekly. He is attracted by a charm
ing girl whose interests and tastes
are similar to his own. when a tele-
gram comes from Sabina- Guy feels
that he should marry her, and does
so.
The married life OF this paIr. un-
suited to each other in almost every
way, Mr.. Palmer handles with a nice
sense of values and keen insight.
Especially convincing is his showing
OF their genuine love for each other
and its persistence in spite of the
unhappiness their MISUNDERSTANDING
cause. Sabina dies, Guy remarries
and The Happy Fool" presents a
full. convincing account Of his later
married life, his business and social
career. his throwing over worldly
success and position for his desire
to write music. and the outcome OF
II all.
Quiet, admirably restrained and
careful in his writing, Mr.. Palmer
has written a living story in "The
Happy Fool" Sabina is an ably
drawn figure, justly shown in her
awkwardness in surroundings for
which she has not been educated
eagerness to appear the equal So
cially of her husband and his friends
and utter inability to meet the de-
mands her new milieu makes upon
her. Guy Reval is a temperamenta
person who lives and breathes as an
actual human being. not a mere lay
figure contriyed by the novelist's
imagination. Especially understand
ing is the showing of the feeling be-
tween Guy and his practically minded
brother, and OF Guy for Marion. a
girl he had known all his life. who
became his second wife. Individual
scenes in the story are handled well,
especially those in Oxford and in the
married life of Guy and Sabina.
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

o0nsinued o. Fono.cIA0 Fa0e
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
Travellers
Notes
BY Post c. Serbs

Our fellow member Joe Mills with
Mrs Mills returned to the old home
town, Wednesday, Nov. 20, just in
time to enjoy their Thanksgiving
Turkey at their own fire side. The
members of Post G, welcome their re-
turn, and the boys are all delighted
to know that Mr.. Mills health is
very much improved.
Saturday night the boys we're out in
force, and a god tim ewas had by
every one, who was SO fortunate to be
present Our Saturday night enter
tainments are becoming very popular
Come up everybody, as there is plen
ty of room for all.
Saturday night the committee on
dance program met at our Post rooms
and very entertaining session was
held with our president and secretary
in charge of the meeting. Invitations
for the dance, are now in the hands
of the committee and ready for dis
tribution. The following names were
added to the floor committee: G. B
Beck, W. j. Blackmore, A. e. Holmes
II. Shuman Jones.
All members of Post G, with theil
guests, please note that we will have
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
OLD SPOILS SYSTEM
IN PARTY POLITICS
ATTACKED IN. SPEECH
fRy Associated Pressl

(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. San appeal
to the party in power to turn its back
on the "spoils system and adopt a
thorough-going application of the mer-
it principle was made by Richard H.
Dana, Boston, president of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform League,
in address before the annual conven-
ton of the league.
''Let me ask the administration .
said he, whether there is any other
issue it could now take up which
would so appeal to the public at large
and so rebound to its own credit in
the history of the country. Expert
ence has shown, that any fragrant use
of patronage always loses votes for
the party responsible"
Mr. Dana said that counting en-
ployes of states, counties, municipal
tiles and township, the army of civil
ian public employees in the United
States numbers above 100000, or
one for every seven families. The
payroll of this army Is about $3,000,.
100000 a year, of which $780, 100000
is spent by the federal government.
Waste of Salaries.
paid, Mr.. Dana charged, is wasted in
supernumerary employees, unnecessary
duplication of work, Inadequate man
agement and antiquated methods.
could waste be stopped in the pub
lie service" he said, "there would be
a saving to our over-taxed country
of $7O0,000,000 a year,
The Civil Service Reform league
proposed two methods of eliminating
this waste, Mr.. Dana said. First by
turning efficiency and employment ex-
perts into the various departments to
replace the inefficient, standardiZe
work, modernize methods and put pro.
motion on a basis of merit instead OF
seniority or political pull. Second, by
requiring that officials in the higher
grades responsible for the manage
ment of the lower grades be selected
on account of fitness.
Mr. Dana appealed to the admins
tration, to congress and the general
public to support this program.
1--WE as a country have let matters
drift on far too long," he said. 1--WE
are not only wasting our patrimony,
but are continuing bad habits which
are becoming more firmly fixed"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08

card games, as well as dancing and
the card feature, of our entertain
ment, the night of Dec. 20. will be
looked after by the following named
ladies': Mrs. Walter Bates, Mrs. E.
Z. Lebo, and Mrs. H. Shuman Jones.
Therefore our members who do not
dance "The Light Fantastic" can be
assured of spending a very pleasant
evening with their friends at cards
The ladies in charge of the card
games, wishes to announce that any
of the members with their guests can
make up their own tables, for the en-
tire evenings play, and those who do
not have partners can rest assured of
having some one to play with them.
By having both dancing and cards, our
members can know in advance, they
will have a good time,, and we hope
to make it an evening, long to be re-
membered in T. P. A. circles.
Time-night of December goth.
Place-K of P Building, South
Eighth street, fourth floor. Elevator
service.
Two additional names of members,
Messrs. Earl Coate and Ira Wood,
were placed on committee for refresh
ments.
We hope all members of Post G,
will arrange their holiday engage
ments, so they will be able to be with
us on sour Night" and assist in max
ing this entertainment most pro
nounced success. Haberstadts orches-
ira of six pieces will play the order of
dances.
All members of committees please
note we will meet in special session
on Saturday night, Dec. 8, and we
trust every one will be on deck ready
for business.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08

Clean your bowels-then feel fine!
When you feel sick, dizzy, upset,
bilious, when your head is dull or ach-
ing, or your stomach is sour or gassy,
just take one or two Cascarets.
AS soon as the bowels begin acting
and bowel poison and bowel gases are
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08

Washington, D. c., has a plot 1900
feet long devoted to the growing of
rare roses.
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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-05-24
PRESSNELLS DRIVE $500 ON
TRIP THROUGH CALIFORNIA

Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Presnell and
Mrs Roy Douglass, arrived at home
Tuesday evening from their trip tc
California, having driven $500 miles
since leaving Moscow. They were ac-
companied home by Miss Eta Eggan
formerly of this place, who will spend
the summer here The trip to Los
Angeles was made in five and one
half days, and the return trip in seven
days, some stops being made enroute
Mr.. Presnell stated that the weather
was cold in California and the lemons
and oranges badly damaged by the
frosts.
One of the remarkable things, the
Moscow man says, is the large amount
of road construction that is under way
in California and Oregon, many de-
tours being necessary.
Mr.. Presnell found his business In
good condition when he came back
and states that the trip was in every
respect most delightful one.