The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-03

logue." 1t sells for So.
TTAVE just met a new friend in a
Ii book and I want you to meet
him because he has solved a prob
lem-How to be Happy on Nothing
a Year.
And that is the name Of the book,
'How to Be Happy on Nothing a
Year" and its daddy is Charles A.
David of Greenville, South Caro-
lima.
Here is not a sermon but just a
little 191-paged chat with a man
who has found happiness in life
without a bankroll.
At the beginning, he tells you that
at am forced, therefore, to conclude
that the Golden Key to happiness
IeposeS within us. 1t is not in bank
vaults nor in our tangible possessions
but is in our minds and hearts"
And he takes the optimistic
viewpoint that as he has found this
Golden Key within himself that
you and 1 may find it.
Then he asks you to witness the
miracles in his yard and he tells
you that he has a "dyed-in-the-
wool, bred-in-the-bonc optimist'
right in his back yar1 He is re-
ferring to the blue jay. You meet
the hen and the rooster, the cat
bird and the squirrel-all in his
back yard.
And very suddenly he gives you
this thought: I'm q world where
there are people, in a world where
there are flowers, and birds, and
animals, and mountains, in a world
where there are friendship and
love, in a world where there are
changing seasons, in a world where
there are problems to be solved
and hundreds of books yet to be
read, 1 will not be unhappy"
In the days when he was a clerk
in a small-town store, David goes
back to the times when a lady would
not use the term "petticoat" to a
male clerk.
He admits that I'VE we're not pre-
sumed to know even that women
had feet, let alone legs. Indeed, leg
was a bad word, and I have known
more than one person to have hel
character questioned by using it,"
These Main Street memories are
made even more delightful by the
authors picture of a real old-fash-
toned camp meeting.
1 really loved the passages de-
voted to his daily journey to the
livery stables which were the CEN
teps of male social life"
And so it is easy to believe that
David had a curious but a grand
assortment of friends. Those who
love birds will 60 wild over the
chapter on Backyard Comedies ir
which the bluejay becomes a Won
derful comedian as we'll as a mimic
But just wait until he takes you
fishing, even with no fish biting
Here is beauty of writing and OBJ
servation that we seldom encounter
l hope you want to say "Howdy'
and shake David'S hand in How TT
Be Happy on Nothing a Year" 1t il
published by the BobbS-Merri
: Company and sells for $1.50.
What are they reading all owe,
the country: Brentano'S reports TIT
best fiction sellers as Ann Wick.
ers" by Sinclair Lewis; One Mort
Spring" by Robert Nathan; PA.
geant,' by C. B. Lancaster; "Th,
Provincial Lady in London" by E
NJ. Delafeld; "Mulliner Nights b,
P. G.. Wodehouse, and, limitation
OF Life" by Fannie Hurst.
In Superstition" the author
Stephen McKenna, explores man,
hidden chambers of the human
mind and takes the reader very ia
into the mysterious regions of tn
occult.
If you talk books very much ant
love to get into heated argument
about this book and that author,
suggest that you at once get holt
OF The Adventures of The BlacI
Girl in Her Search For God" Q
course it is by Bernard Shaw, pub
lished by Dodd. Mead and Compan.
and sells for Sl.50. This girl give
up the struggle Ito spend her lf
imagining she can find a complet
+. explanation of the universe by lay
ing about with her knobkerry." AM
so she pays lot of attention to tn
health of her garden as we'll as he