Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-19

tender as are the gentle little knocks which prevail in any typical large family-the members love each other, yet there will always be some witty one who will keep the others in a gale by hitting off the foibles of the rest. Evidently, Helen Rowland regards the ever increasing circle of her readers as this big, happy family and with droll mischief she shows up their weak points.
 Most of all she loves to tease the elor-naughtily tickles his feet
 with some literary straw, gives a mis- E chievous pull to his scalp-lock, a tWitch to his ear-yet in the next pa
 ragraph, perhaps, will record some | amiable trait to convince you that he | is a pretty good sort of a chap after all-while she gently pokes fun at his |
 foil, the bachelor girl
 l Hers is not the kind of book which l i has to be read in secret-Frenchy en- | ough perhaps in it's wit, yet from | i prudence kept on high shelf from the youngsters. It might be read by
 a growing girl to her father--and
 would furnish unlimited fun for both. For her kindly philosophs1 IS sweep ing enough to take il every mor tal
 from the babe in arms to the great grandpa. One of her paragraphs in the newest book has a. tip even for
 the pair verging on golden wedding years, as for example,
 When love dies, a wise married couple give it's ashes a respectful bur I ia1 and hang good photograph of it on the wall for the benefit of the pub ic"
 The book, as noted, is dedicated ITO Fannie Hurst-who has discovered the
 secret of how to be happy, though welded to an art and a man at the
 same time"
 Now, that neat bit of deference is
 mere politeness on the part of amia
 ble Helen Rowland; for those who
 know her best are well aware that she
 has none of the modern Hurst fads,
 but is quite devoted to her home as kwas the praiseworthy woman of Scrip
 tural memory, looking as diligently
 after the ways of her household as
 does the most staid, rheumatic and d-flannel-petticoated housemother , among her admiring readers who couldn't turn off an epigram to save
 herself from electrocution In fact Helen Rowland isn't bitter man l hater, sitting at a desk, inky of fin gers. splenetic of disposition-but is
 just as liable to be discovered about
 household tasks to which as Emerson
 puts it, love lends the glint and giim-
 mer of romance. Neither is she giv- en to the united shoe or careless garb
 of the traditional scribbler, but is a sascinatingly tailored, trim, modish
 little lady, as fond of frills and fluffy things as the most frivolous of us :! |. Therefore her dedication isn't bit z in line with her platform, which is
 that of nine tenths of the women of IAI.s N 1, c1-1- That she can extract fun even out : | of homely and commonplace things and surroundings is evident from
 such paragraphs in her book as: . "A good husband is one who will s get up and lift the ice off the dumb [, waiter instead of lying back and lift e ing his voice to tell you how to do it e without hurting your itsy bitsy fin c gers.'
 e It would sometimes seem as though e Helen Rowland herself is the one Il latest conscious of her unusual ability . -so modest is she in both her pubic
 and her private life. For if any wight q is so foolhardy as to fancy he can keel 2, on getting out these clever sayings le like the Proverbs of Mrs. Solomon n The Reflections of a Bachelor Girl anC
 the rest-well, let him try it while e that's all
 le Helen Rowland's is one talent il ir tens of thousands As trained news l. paper worker she knows what it mean Id to grind out copy-the pages that arr
 must" to be ready on time thougl l. the Heavens fall But there fare news ss paperers and newspaperers; and n there is another extant who can toucl r. her at her chosen work-she-or h -- lis not known of herea abouts-is no = in captivity, as far as advertised . 10 Of course the Fannie Hurst inc; 'r dent is mere buncombe This ma IS be bad old world-the wonder
 it is not worse with SO much that i le merely ne;sr-religion teachiJIs men "a nothing but platitudes = but ther Id are some things for which it is go m ing to stand firmly till kingdom com It. and one of these is the unity of tn lg home That is for what Helen Row IS land stands pat, too ! Nine -tenths c
 the women-and a bigger proportio re of the men are enrolled in caucus fo nt it also in spite of the front page sen in sations of the day. Human bedroc !" is still firm, praise be ! If not wh le does even the toughest down and -ou CT in the New York where Helen Row a land fits so well and into such bi tn sector, instantly show the impulse { tn touch his hat when he meets, say or Sistefa of Charity, or a mother wit 1g a babe in her arms ?.
 tn Here are two or three nuggets froI
 "A Guide to Men" as a tempting sam IL pie of the sportive contents squeeze ne into its two covers:
 IT. "A woman always wants her photo " graph to flatter her, but a man Ut perfectly satisfied if he gets one ths It looks as fascinating and impressive z & he thinks he does.'
 It, "A man is like motor ear, whic
 always balks on the trolley tracks an ss runs at top speed down hill; a wi f. is the human brake that prevents hi sh from going to destruction 'f- Every time man falls in loy ew he fancies that he has discovered lg, brand new sensation; but, alas it a gs ways turns out, like the hotel sou of to be just the same old stock wit 'm different flavoring."
 ch Tt never pays to compromise em Cheap clothes, cheap literature, chez he sport, cheap flirtations-a life fill
 with these is nothing but an electr be flash, advertising something just he good D
 ng When a woman looks at a man as evening dress she sometimes cam