The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-01-05
az ALICE LINDSEY WEBB.
Questions gladly answered. Write
me in care of the editor.)


Old books, as you well know are
books of the Worlds youth, and new
books are fruits of its age.-Oliver
Wendell Holmes, in "The Professor at
the Breakfast-Table."
II l were choosing book to give
young girl for Christmas. and she did
not already have copy OF Louise May
Alcott's Little Women" think
should buy her the new edition which
has Jessie Wilcox Smiths beautiful
colored illustrations. (Little, Brown;
$500 The sweet faces. full of char
acter, follow out the spirit Of the
story, and the quaint old fashioned
gowns and rooms shown are just
right. too. The cover picture of the
"marmee" and her four girls makes
it particularly nice book for moth
er to give her daughter, suggesting as
It does tne close bond between them.
Girls who are not yet acquainted with
Meg, mothers helper; 10, the tom-boy;
Beth, 30 frail and loving; and Amy,
pretty, selfish and artistic; and with
Laurie, the boy chum, have some hap
py hours before them. have read and
re-read it, and never grow tired of it.
The same publisher has two sets of
Miss Alcott's eight best stories, the
regular edition ($12 boxed, $3.50 eachD
and q big illustrated edition ($20 for
the set, $3.50 each.) They include be-
sides Little Women, its sequal Little
Men, and another which is further ad-
ventures of the same youngsters, JOS
Boys; An Old Fashioned Girl; Eight
Cousins; Rose in Bloom; Under the
Lilacs; and Jack and Jill. know of
no new books that can take their
places.
Quite different sort Of girl than
those in Little Women in spite of her
old fashioned sounding name, Is Polly
Street, the heroine Of Jarvis Halls last
novel of the Mexican border, ACROSS
the Mesa" penn, $1.75) which l rec
ommend to all those who enjoy
thrills with desert setting and very
modern folk. 1t is the story of Chi
cago girl who suddenly descends up
on her favorite brother, superintendent
of a mine in Mexico, for visit. He,
meantime has been called east by the
company before iler letter can reach
him. and she reaches the camp just
In time to take an exciting part in a
bandit raid. One Of the mine officers
is wounded, and party on horses
takes long journey across the mesa
to a ranch after the nearest physician
with complications which include a
Yaqui Indian raid, and an attempted
kidnapping, and two love afafirs that
both came out right in The epd.-The
story Is we'll written. utterly clean and
with not dull page. That can not be
said Of all new popular" novels.
And | said to myself, if l were a
poet or painter l would take the COM
mon things, and show the wonder and
the beauty of them" This is the quo
tation Alice VanLeer iCarrick has
chosen for the title page of her book
on "The Next to Nothing House" CAT
lantic, $3.50. In it, she shows in
photographs and graceful, intimate
description the house in Hanover,
New Hampshire, which was the birth
place of the founder Of Wellesley
College. and Daniel Webster's home
during his sophomore year at Dart
mouth; also the quaint and charming
old funiture she has picked up here
and there for "next-to-notling." There
is a"wag-on-the-wall" clock stencil
ed rocker like the one have seen my
grandmother sit in, "pull-through'
and braided rugs, an Empire secretary
end other old and interesting pieces
lmany of them with pleasant little his
tories connected with them. Those
acquainted with Mrs. Carrick's articles
in Country Life" and the House
beautiful" know her pleasant style
and the authority of the expert col
lector Of antiques that is back OF hel
work.
She has another book also we'll illus
trated entitled Collectors Luck
(Atlantic, $225) in which she tells thu
secret of giving home the charn
Of lustre ware, woven coverlets, an
tioue lamps, and stenciled furniture
There is good advice in 1t for tn
amateur collector
80
] How does a pugilistic atheletic dl
rector, a ringside trainer, make
beauty out of a shallow, whining
lumpy. frumpy girl who is too fat
| all the wrong places? 1t isn't just he
! complexion and her figure he make
over. with his cruelty kind systems
strenuous exercise. 1t is something n
does to the girl inside that turns tn
trick; she acquires courage, patience
endurance. a pep" Of the spirit a
we'll as of the body. She learns to be
good sport, to take punishment in Tn
right spirit when it comes, to get rigf
IN again with a smile and go after tn
thing she wants, and get 1t. These al
things Darcy Cole learned OF And
Dunno. in Samuel Hopkins Adam
entertaining novel, Wanted: A HUI
band" (Grosset & Dunlap. 1t is
good story.
II There are 5000 country churches
Ohio. and because they believed the
to be typical, in their problems OF Il
country churches all over Americ
clifford Pinchot and Charles Otis G.
have published book of that title
the findings of careful survey tn
| made in cooperation with the Rur
Life Survey of Ohio and the Coun'
Il of the Churches of Christ In Anne