Evening star., 1932-05-22

with the social life of Washington and other
cities, American and European, with friendships
here and there and everywhere, with zestful
undertakings from the pioneer period in Colo
RADIO to ocean voyages and strange experiences
in Egypt and the Near East. One races along
trying to keep up with the crowdng experiences
and their animated re-embodiment here. But
reading even becomes a sort OF cut-and-run
enterprise under the leadership OF this flying
woman. packed and crowded book but not
once disorderly book Events speed along
but ever in the proper time and place with
comments wise and innocently appraising, with
a wholesome fronting upon whatever comes in
the best of practical philosophy. rare book,
because it delivers from its own substance
rare individual Here is a big, spontaneous,
courageous young woman telling readers Of a
rich existence that began 80 years ago
THE YOUNG PIONEER. By Thomas Marion
Hamilton, Captain U. S. A (retired). Wash
ington: The Library Press.
n\h/HAT next Uncle Tom?" Such the
w nightly prod of small nieces and neph-
ews as Uncle Tom no less ready than they,
opened up the budget of recollections, built by
the years as his past.
True stories, these, therefore. "Just-So"
stories And that is their outstanding effect,
were to the eager young listeners.
A pioneer" at 10, or thereabout when Wis
consin was frontier, with a line of slim States
in its immediate rear, the wilderness before it.
Indians living in the forest near to the settle
ment. And to these, young Tom betook himself
under an incipient heros deepest degradation,
a spanking. So Tom away to the Indians
of whom now-sitting here in the Book Room
he has only kindly memories and understanding
words
From these tales-many of them in The
Young Pioneer" some of them told in abusive
brevity beside me here-it appears that once
on his way in fight from the disciplinary rigors
of home, Thomas Hamilton made no very long
stops anywhere. Out yonder, clearly the goal
of this lad. Soldier, miner, rancher, all-around
adventurer wherever the far halloo of action
sounded where hazard challenged, indeed where
anything different from the stodgy three meals
and then to bed held out its lure, right there
he longed to be and was, in so far as he could
make It,
stories that carry over into the belief and enjoy
ment Of readers, young and not so young read
ers Understanding and tolerant from the
beginning, it appears, it Is not only the
Indians that get the good word from Capt
Hamilton, but many another outlaw TO the
great traditions Of respectability today receive
a word Of wise consideration from him as he
sits here talking, minute Of the seven
SEAS" the next of some sinner In high places
who today has not been able to resist life and
the devil and himself.
You are going to like THE Young Pioneer"
LIVE OR DIE. BY John x. Loughran, author
of Goth Century Health Science" etc. New
York: Rudor Publishing Co.
A PRACTICAL book. Its demand no greater
than the average can meet. A fair knowl-
edge of the human body, slightly nearer touch
with ones own constitution and habit and need,
a bit of courage, modicum Of persistence and
to an appreciable degree Live or Die" becomes
a matter of choice to man. Right here the
lteralist is going to begin, We'll you certainly
do not mean-?" Certainly not. But john
Loughran and others of his clan know that the
great majority of us can live, really live, If we
take the business of living in hand many years
longer than is commonly supposed.
The object Of this concise and sane study Is
to call general attention to powers within us by
means of which we may draw away from dis
ease, from too-early age from death Science
has demonstrated that the essential tissues Of
the human body-nerve and muscle cells, heart
and kidney cellS-are potentially, if not actually,
immortal. So, it is habit, custom, outlook, these
that have doomed man, rather than the truth
OF his own body recognized and sustained. In
this modern day Of new knowledge the sun
Is the great physician the air the great renewer.
Re-educate the diaphragm, this doctor tells us,
and get to work as he moves on to THE Decline
OF La1ness" and the bodily benefits to be de-
rived from the new era of activity, body and
mind in partnership of productive and agree
able action. "Food-the Secret of Youth in
vtes to a study of food values, since these ac-
count, in the long rum for body values And
here the author counts body values specifically
in terms of fruits and vegetables and milk and
meat. Mental attitude and nutrition" becomes
important, and interesting here. Effects Of
worry on the teeth" sounds add, but it is alto