The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-04
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN.

BY WALTER d. HICKMAN.
A MOTHER Indianapolis woman
IA has become an author. This
time it is Edith Ann Ulmer, a school
teacher who resigned to write books.
High Weeds" is the title and the
publisher is listed as the w. K.
Stewart Company of this city. 1t
sells for 50.
It's theme concerns the gin drink
ing, sex reckless youths of today who
go in for thrill. At times the
story becomes sex in most I'M
pleasant way.
The chief character Is Caroline
Hampton, a young social revolution
list, If such a dignified expression
can be used, who believes that she
should try out day and night
trial marriage with her boy friend,
who happens to be young college
professor some years her senior.
This experience of Cara, as her
friends call her, brings on dire re-
suits. After a trial on the mar
riage bed, the two go speeding in
the professors roadster and, of
course, there is an automobile &C
cident, the professors head being
more damaged than any part of
Cara.
The professor is out of his head
with pain and a doctor urges that
the two be married. They are.
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The author then tries to show
that Cara really begins to love the
professor and the two go to Maine
retreat where the professor starts
writing about Browning.
Cara and her husband are stran-
gers in their own household. He is
cold in his attitude toward her.
Trial marriage and the accident
. seemed to have changed some of
his ideas.
Then, as to be expected, the trial
night resulted in Cara becoming a
mother, but she will not tell her
husband. During snow storm at
the retreat in Maine, two men en-
ter the cottage when they become
snowbound, and Cara carries on a
wild Irritation.
When the men leave, the hus-
band becomes cheaply melodramatic
as he assumes the role of rapist
of his own wife. This is certainly
not pleasant reading or even pleas
ant writing.
The wife escapes in the snow
storm, has an accident-then the
hospital scene, her terrible suffering
when she loses the baby and then
the more terrible suffering when the
husband realizes what a fool he has
been.
High Weeds" has been better
written that the subject matter de-
serves. That is my opinion. I think
the theme is cheap You have your
own idea.
"Lances Down. by Richard Boles-
lavski in collaboration with Helen
Woodward (the authors of The
Way of The Lancer'D has Just been
published by Robbs- Merrill The
new book recites the experiences of
Boleslavski as a survivor of the ia
nous regiment of the Polish Lancers
during the Bolshevik revolution.
In the November Good House
keeping, Emily Newell Blair lists the
books that she wants her 4-year old
granddaughter to own now and
later Among the titles she has
selected for the child now are: The
Choosing Book" by Alice Dalgliesh;
1.-The Story of a Little Yellow Dog
and Little White Bear" by Dor
othy Sheriff.; Here, Bingo." by
Anne Stoddard "Raggedy Ann in
Cookie Land" by Johnny Gruelle;
Angus Lost" by Marjorie Flack.
and Johnny Goes to the Fair"
Have been advised by many peo-
pie that my political education was
not complete until I had read
washington Swindle Sheet, by Will
liam P. Helm, as published by Albert
and Charles Boni. 1t sells for $3.50.
I am glad that I read it, because
I have more knowledge of how SEN
ators and representatives legally
rob" the national treasury.
Right at the very beginning of
the book, read-"In fact, every
senator starts his public career by
perpetrating petty Swindle upon
the people of the United states. The
cheating begins when he hurries for
his train in Washington. The
swindle operates even before he
takes the oath of Office. 1t consists
OF his taking from the treasury. to
cover his trip, sum approximately
four times as much as his actual.
necessary travelling expenses. He
calls 1t mileage; but the public has
another name for it-graft.
Concerning Senator James Wat
son. Washington Swindle Sheet"
prints the following: Watson of
Indiana. majority leader in the sem
ate, lives in the town of Rushville.
Walk into the depot and price
tickets to Washington; the station
agent viii tell you that the fare
and lower birth both ways total
1882. Senator Watson drew s255 20
in mileage. trifie of $l96.6S in ex-
cess OF the actual fare"