The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-03-23
BY ALICE LINDSEY WEBB.
Questions gladly answered. Write
e In care of the editor.)

81 Books are good enough in their
wn way, but they are a mighty
Qoodless substitute for life says
Robert Louis Stevenson in an apology
br idlers.
l am about to begin Edwin Bjork-
hans brilliant Swedish novel, THE
Doul of a Child" (Knopf. $2.50) 1t is
taid to be a remarkable piece of boy
but nevertheless a book
Tor entertainment.
Steve CORTLAND loved her from the
3irst moment he saw her, shy but de-
liant behind her great feathered fan.
But ne could not tell her so. He had
Nothing but family debts and family
bride to offer. She would not have
believed his protestations, either. for
Elamorgan, her father, had forced the
marriage-a big, rough man with his
millions, but come of peasant stock
Ind determined to buy ancestors for
his grand children. So he threatened
foreclosure on the beautiful old Court
land estates; and Steve, to save his
Trail old fathers ruin and heartbreak,
5consented to marry Geraldine Court
land. That was before they saw each
other. When they met, circumstances
Forced Misunderstanding on both
(which meant cruel hurt to their young
bride. 1t took months OF exciting
from the Injuries of life in the east
Ito bring them together. Often they
were on the verge of an understanding
when that green-eyed cat of woman
Felice Denbeigh, interviewed with
Stissue of lies and made them both
suspicious and jealous again. Bu
they were such good stuff really tina
they were bound to straiglten out the
:ftangles in the end. Emile Loring II
IL this novel of THE Trail OF Conflict
81 (Penn) shows herself full mistress o
ii the art of creating interesting plo
with lively entanglements, and yer.
d real and individual characters. At tn
81 same time she has the smooth-flOwini
81 phrases of a poet, and the delicat
81 sense of just the right word, wlic
q makes the book run quickly unde
il your eye. 1t is well printed, too
81 $50 49,
81 "The Promised Isle" is transla
q ton OF Laurid Brunn's Danish tai
Den forjoettede", done by Davl
Pritchard, (Kopf, so 1t looks like
81 most amusing story of the island thu
81 appears in BRUINS previous move
4 "vanZanten's Happy Days. Brun
al peoples the island with these: a
s. author named Daniel Hooch; a veg
81 tartan musician called Jacob Bee
= (no wonder they were close friend
u Hooch and Beer) Hendrix Koort,
ff drawing teacher addicted to sun batf
~ Eau natural, and Pieter Coy,
n waiter with faithful blue eyes wi
81 lent them money. Surely rare pc
81 sonnet for a tropic isle.
81 - a
n Rhetoric Is inseparable from life
n says DR.. John r. Slater Of the Unive
q sity of Rochester, in his new! revi
ed Freshman Rhetoric" (Heath).
" stands for human efficiency Strip it
81 forms and customs, and it proves to-
n nothing more nor less than the mi
81 in communication with other min
81 for desired end. With his hands
81 man works problems-changes in
"A relation of his own ideas; with tong
and pen he shares his deeds,
81 problems, his knowledge, and his sy
pathies, with his fellows, there
g working a change in the relation
n ideas in otler minds. These three
all the kinds of work that man {
81 do in this world: deeds, ideas, expr
sion Therefore command OF G,
writing, and especially of clear
n effective speaking, is the most
81 portant single element of education
n a social democracy. Language thai
81 but a borrowed garment will fai
man in some emergency. Langu
n that is the man himself, made VI
by the mystery of words, links
81 with the past, the present, and the
ture; with the inheritance of the
in history and literature; with