The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-07-21

BY ALICE LINDSEY wees
Questions gladly answered Write
"e III care Of the editor.)
Aeish Hunt, in the introduction IN
a BOOK for Corner" saws. "It 10
Dooks that teach us to refine our
treasures when young, and which
having SO taught us, enable ia RI 70,
DID," Wien
ohe cannot read Prof. John c. Van
ykes new book, "The Open Spaces. ;"
tScribner) without renewed inter.
est IN the clean and salutary lows of
such nights and days under the blue
SKY as he describes. He went into
lhe deserts in search of health after
years spent in art study in Europe.
anu ne came out with fund of inter-
ISSUING adventure and detailed know
iedge OF the habits Of wild things. the
beauty and wonder of mountains and
mesas and wide night skies. The
DOCK covers more, however, than Just
MS desert days and nights. for he had
drawn ON wide experience of range
riding in the west, canoeing in Min
nesota, trout fishing in the Catskills
ana Adirondacks and in Scotland
shooting game birds at home and
abroad, and trailing game of all sorts
IN various parts of the world. All
this rich collection of memories and
Keen observation he has brought to-
gether into book which will bring
back happy times to those who can
20 longer travel the open trail, and,
vicariously, to those who never have
been able to follow the gypsy longing
to sleep under the stars In closing
he says:
Culture is something that requires
teaching anew to each generation.
Nature will not perpetuate it by in
heritance. On the contrary. animal
ism is her initial endowment; it has
been born and bred in the bone since
the world began. Man cannot escape
it if he would. Will not Nature in
her own time and way bring man
back to the earth? And will not the
race eventually be the better for re-
generation In the open, In the free
air, under the blue SKYE"
There is a pamphlet on Your Bird
Friends and How to Win Them"
which you can have for the asking
by writing to President Joseph H.
Dodson of the American Audubon As
ISOLATION, Kankakee, Ill. Besides
some very interesting and helpful IL
Illustrations of bird refugees, food shelf
ers, and all sorts of houses to be made
for the different kinds of song birds,
there is information as to the time to
set out bird houses, how to keep the
birds all winter, what to feed them,
what kinds of trees and shrubs to
plant to attract them, how to get rid
of the English sparrow nuisance and
marauding cats, and what the birds
do for us every year in destroying
such pests as the codling moth, apple
curculio. chinch bugs, potato bug, and
green leaf louise, which all together
cost the country somthing like six or
eight hundred millions of dollars
year.
II Edgar Lee Masters had named
b;s new novel stephen A. Douglas,
a biography" instead of Children OF
the Market Place. { Macmillan, So,
It would have told more Immediately
what the book really is. 1t is Won
derful portraiture of the most re-
markable of the orator-pollticlah
builders of the country through the
Illinois pioneer and Civil War days.
Not much space is given to the war
hardly more than mention. But
the economic and political background
from the days when Chicago was a
settlement with Indians lettering IN
tho streets. no sewage or water sys-
tenn. and negroes, though free, were
licensed like dogs, are most VlVioiy
nictured Masters style Is an easy
ono to read. with its crisp, short SEN
tences else the long political discus
sions would sometimes be bit ted
ious AS a novel am sure OF It's sue.
cess: the various heart interests oi
the Young Englishman who Is telilng
Tho story seem to have little or nc
connection with what is evidently the
,h;,o thame the character ana
methods and achievements OF Douglas
Those the author has handled marVei'
ousIv well. am going to put the
hooL in a high school library, to IN
terest boys and girls in that portioi
of their country's history.
70 Won want novel with swift ac'
tion plenty Of excitement, ana ihter'
esting people who will make w,
laugh and cry, read "A Little Leaven
bv katharine Gray Uippincott' w
do not know who Miss Gray Is;
have never seen anything by her De
sore hut il this is her first mover
| Tho nublisher has made flnd' ant
the mountain folk of KENTUCKY am
tennessee have a powerful mee
sr;end when | had finished reading
wanted to offer myself and all IN.
aducationl equipment Immediately U
holm make places like Piney Forl
hanpier for the brave, half-starve'
descendants Of the Colonial pionee,'
Who are shut in there. Their kihoi!