Evening star., 1932-07-10

sibly do Given fair chance woman is no
more spiritual angelic than man"
THE physiological differences between the
two sexes by no means as great as they are
commonly supposed to be - the psycholog-
lcaI differences entirely artificial"
Every woman can accomplish anything she
seriously wants, in spite of the fact that she is
woman: and in this consists the best fulfill
ment of her feminine role"
Neither men women take their legal
equality very seriously 1t is still an advantage
for women to pretend to be little helpless.
Men especially American men, think it an ad-
vantage to spoil women and pamper them
EqtIality must be deeply realized before it can
in reality exist
BENEFITS RECEIVED. BY Alice Grant Ros-
man. New York: Minton, Balch 81 Co.
THE Cinderella myth has, over and over
proved a better-wearing stuff to writers
than the whole remaining root-stock of TO
Here are youth and beauty, male and
female. Ths ole in distress. The other to
the resuce. Love, immediate and inevitable
But that is not ALL That Is not enough
Cinderella ID coed girl. the old story runs
Here is personal reward for the pure life
You see. the basis of religion itself becomes a
part Of the ancient tale. And in the elevation
of this lowly and down-trodden girl there
stands as we'll the lea Of socaI equity with
political theory even edging into the story
1t is, OF course, the romance itself with which
readers are most engrossed. But these edges
ard fringes of moral lesson and social reform
enhance the Importance of the whole
Benefits Received Is engaged, in the main
with the affairs of rich old Mrs. Devonshire
parsonage surrounded by groups Of relatives,
devoted and fawning. A granddaughter only
Biddy Kerlin, has betaken herself to the
modern young woman's business of earning her
living youth, go-getter, clever and person.
able, becomes the third factor in this modern
version of old St9ry. The spirit of the
whole is entirely of the moment. The girl
in her outfaring into things is everywhere
The youth, too Old Mrs. Devonshire is young
as old women are learning to be. The hangers
hoping for legacies behave as the tribe
does in all similar situations, but the shrewd
Mrs. DevonsIlire is far too clever for these,
and quite too appreciative of Biddy, the girl,
SO like herself TO permit permanent danger to
reach her
Such the material out of which in good ac-
tion and ingenious incident Miss Rosman
creates a sympathetic and sophisticated tale of
today, one which in its essentials goes back
immemorially, but which in its effect is of the
current hour, a spirited, sturdy adventure
wherein some of the less admirable phases of
human nature stand clear under the pressure
of greed and envy. The love story is a good
one. And Mrs. Mary Octayia Brigid Devon
shire is a finely imperious unreasonable and
fascinating old woman.
COVER THE WATER FRONT By Max
Miller New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
YOU going to read Il Cover the Water
Front" and would hate to have it spoiled
for you by forewords upon it. Let me, instead,
tel you something about the author himself
or, better yet, and then Iet him tell it.
Book editor of the San Diego Sun, Mr.. Miller
calls the Pacific Coast his home town because
he has served SO many newspapers all up and
down 1t. "I was~always handed the water front
beat. My book T Cover the Water Front tells
the rest of the story" And charm of story
it is! However, that is for you to take in your
own time and mood. Right now it is rather in
teresting to know that Max Miller commenced
newspaper work In the eighth grade, doing
school sports, first playing the games. then
running over TO the Office at night and writing
them In this way. I, the second baseman, was
pretty sure of printed notice in the morning
paper"
when the war came along I Judged my age
ahead a few years, many other fellows
did . and SO the Government obtained an
other man it did not want" After the war
when universities were lenient to "iis veterans"
young Max entered the University of Washing
ton. I'm my senior year received $50 a month
for editing the campus daily, and never felt
quite SO rich before or after" To Australia
and back again, always the newsman. Then,
after a trip to China, during the war trouble
there in 1927 home to the San Diego Sun. from
which "I Cover the Water Front moves out
to entertain and delight you with its vivid and
varied pictures of comings from many lands,
of its sailings out to many shores, with its mot
ley of tars and dockmen and rough confusion
of tonpues and shifting ACTIVITIES.