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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-14
MISS CLARK GIVEN
SURPRISE PARTY

A surprise birthday party was
given by Margie Nix, Florence
Ramsey and Mrs. Sewer Clark in
honor of her daughter, Miss Eve
Ign Clark, at their home Thurs
day evening.
The house was beautifully dec
grated with honeysuckle and dog
wood, also other wild flowers. A
number of games were played and
enjoyed by all. The delightful
refreshments served were cocoa,
coffee and several different kinds
of cake. ~.
Guests attending the party
were: Ella Laughter, Gertrude
Clark, Roscoe Townsend, Eunice
Townsend, Geraldine Carlisle,
Marie LYDIA, Dorothea Mencken,
Ethlyn Rogers, Eleanor PRESLEY,
Ethan Presley, Nellie Nix, Mar
gle Nix, Ogram Lamb, Herdies
Brown, Weldon Stepp, Barney
McCrane, James PRESLEY, Broad
dus McCrane, Michael Laughter,
Clyde Laughter, Herbert Jones,
Staley Presley, James Hill, Ralph
Freeman, Junior PRESLEY, Floyd
Nesbitt, billiard Carlisle, Clarence
Clark, and Hoyle LYDIA.
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GOVERNMENT
OPERATION OF
RAILS IS HIT
Government Owned Road
In Alaska Costs Tax
Payers Over Million

SHEBOYGAN, Wis, May ID.
"For the seven-year period, 1926
1881, inclusive, the 801-mile gov
ernment-owned railroad in Alaska
showed operating deficits of ST.
365,427, or more than a million
dollars a year, which had to be
paid out of tax revenue, without
the receipt of dollar in taxes
from the railroad itself" declared
C. D. Morris, assistant to the
chairman of the Western Rail
ways Committee on Public Rela-
tions, Chicago, in an address on
the subject of "Government-Own-
ership,' before the Traffic club
here last night. "This result"
continued the speaker, sis on a
par with results whenever gov
eminent ownership has been tried
in this or any other country.
"When Mussolini became die
tator of Italy he undertook to
lease the government-owned rail-
road of that country, going so far
as to offer it for $l.00 year to
any reliable person or corpora
ton who would guarantee to con-
tinue its operation. The cars OPP
Grated under government owner
ship were filthy and the service
most unsatisfactory and the new
dictator determined to place the
operation of the road on a bust
ness basis. Canada took over 3D.
900 miles of railroad some years
ago at a cost of two billion dol
lars, has never received a dollar
in interest on its investment,
while the Dominion government
continues to meet annual deficits
of from 30 to rs million dollars
per year. Meanwhile the private
ly-owned Canadian Pacific pays
it's own way and. during the
greater portion of the time since
the government vert into the
business, has paid dividends to its
stockholders and has always paid
the interest on it's funded debt.
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stanter.
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP
GAL WAYS JUSTIFIED"

L.
an his first report Mr.. East
man, Federal Co-ordinator of
t importation, appointed by
President Roosevelt, under the
so-called New Deal in govern
ment, recommends that we give
private ownership a further trial,
in the hope that it NAV Justify
itself. In the light of history
private ownership has always
Justified itself. From the stand
point of service and economy in
operation, this statement cam
not be refuted, albeit no indus
trv in America has been so hand
Iicapped in it's efforts as has that
of railroad transportation. This
fact is verified by every COM
parisen Of results from private
and public ownership whenever
and wherever made. Always it
has been shown that public
ownership and operation has re-
suited in less satisfactory SER
vice and higher costs than pri-
vate ownership. The demand for
government ownership. tn L e.
fore must come from the proven
bal tendency of the American
people, during times of financial
depression and hard times, to
seek some quack remedy for the
ills that confront us. So far in
our national history the quack
remedy has always proven to be
delusion and a snare when adj
ministrated.
"The solution Of our, present
Transportation problem will not
be found in government owner
ship, but rather in the determina-
ton Of the American people to
give the railroads, under private
ownership and operation, fair
chance to succeed. The most
serious financial problem now
confronting the nation is how to
save the government from bank
ruptcy, should we go on indefi-
nitely spending more money each
day than the people can pay N
taxes. Every effort the govern
ment has hitherto made to lower
transportation costs by provid-
ing competition for the railroads
has greatly increased the nations
Indebtedness and added materi-
ally to the tax burden Of the
people. We have subsidized,
through taxation, comm er C a ]
transport on interior rivers, on
the public highways and in the
air and have thus added enOr-
mously to the aggregate cost of
transportation and the end is not
yet. We are still demanding the
expenditure of more billions in
the same way without promise of
beneficial results. To assume,
in addition thereto, the purchase
price OF the railroads would be
to advertise ourselves as reck-
lessly inc upetent, unfit to
manage ouI own affairs, and to
Justify the assertion so frequ-
emily made that we deserve the
fate that will surely be ocrs I'M
don. cuob N prourar,, -
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PPU1aL
pQPncRaPAr

Mrs. C. P. Curry had as her
yuests on Saturday, Mesdames
Cecil Smathers, Pierce kinara'
loci Aiken. and Calvin klnard'
all of Greenwood, S. c., and Mrs.
Lewis Douglas, of Atlanta, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Fielder p anu
small daughter, and Miss h run
Weaver, all of Los Angeles, Cal.'
are guests of the formers par
ents Mr. and Mrs. r L. Fielder.
Rev Broadus Jones. OF CEDAR.
town. Ga, who filed the pulpit at
the First Baptist church yester-
dav was a dinner guest OF MI.
and Mrs. Fred Sudduth. he
stopped at the Skyland hotel ~niie
Mr. E Langdon Hanna, Oh
Charlotte. was here for the week
end and was accompanied by mrs,
Hanns who had been the gneSt
of her parents, DR.. and MRS. a. ~ ~
Sewer. for a delightful VISIT VI
two weeks. 49,, 1,os and
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Jones anu
children, Jean and Billy OF hleS lex
orv. were weekend guests OF rei,
st;ves here and were accompanies
home by Louise and Ceclie rev.
Who will visit them this week !,
Mrs. F. w. Dula returned 20
her home in Lenoir YESTERDAY al
ter a weeks visit to Mr. ana WIS :"
= K Hoover, who motored u
Marion for the day. VIZ,
Mr., and Mrs. Geo. W. Wheei,
er,s little daughter, who was 9 4o1
on Thursday, May 1G, at the pat.
ton Memorial hospital, has been
named Mary Elizabeth. =
Messrs. NJ. A. Kollock and ),
p Crye have returned to Raleigh
after spending the weekend with
/ their families here.
Mr.. and Mrs. F, NJ. Waters and
Mr. and Mrs. C. NJ. ogle spent
/ Sunday as guests Of Mr.. and Mrs
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COUNTRY CLUB DINNER
DANCE A SUCCESS

Quite a large number attended
the beautiful dinner-dance at the
Country Club on Saturday even
ing. Mrs. George n. Moland had
as her guests her sister, Mrs.
Ernest G. Parker, Miss Mary
Brooks and Corneha Archer. Mr..
Oliver Fuller entertained Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick Mohr and Mrs. H.
Walter Fuller.
A party of young people in
clude6 Misses Ruth Patterson,
Anne Anderson, Mary Biggers
and Alex Ragin of South Caro-
lima, Miss Winona Ewbank, Mr..
and Mrs. Jonathan Jackson.
MessrS. ]. T. Fain, Jr., Sam Few
ell, Bill Keith, Marvin Suther-
land. and Donald Keith. Other
persons attending were Mr.. and
Mrs. Milo Strong, Mr.. and Mrs.
f. R. Sutherland, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Anders, Mr.. and Mrs. Wade
H. Allen, Mr.. and Mrs. James P.
Grey, Jr.
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Similar results have always char
acterized government ownership
and operation in France.
ALWAYS RESULTS IN
POLITICAL OPERATION
Experience has always and
everywhere proven that govern
ment ownership means political
operation. No finer illustration Of
this fact could be found than our
own experience during the war,
when the government assumed OPP
Grating control of United States
railroads as a war measure. Dur
ing a period of &c months, under
government operation, the month
" loss to the government was 80
million dollars. Men who were
engaged in shipping during that
period and who arc shippers to-
day universally declare that the
service furnished did not compare
with that under private operation,
while the number of employees was
almost 100000 in excess of those
employed in any one year under
private operation up until that
time and for two years after
wards, while the total wages paid
out in 1920, under the schedules
fixed by the director general of
railroads, far exceeded those paid
in any one other year in the his
tory of private operation. Operat-
ing expenses in 1920 were more
than a billion dollars more than
in 1926, 1927, 1928 or 1929, not
withstanding the freight carried
in each of these four years was
many billions Of ton-mileS in eX-
cess of that carried in 1920. In
deed, considered from the stand
point of either service or economy
no justification whatever can be
found for government ownership.
an spite of these well-known
facts, however, there are those
among US who are urging govern
! ment ownership as the solution IF
our railroad troubles, although
they admit that, because of finaa-
cial conditions, the time is not
opportune. At a time when gov
eminent indebtedness is the high
est in history, it being now in
excess of what it was at the close
of the World war, it would be
somewhat of a task even for the
government to raise 26 billion
dollars, the approximate sum it
would be necessary to raise in or
der to pay for the railroads. But
for this situation we would doubt
less be confronted today with a
pressing demand from many of
our fellow citizens that the gov
ernment buy the railroads in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-14

Justice, and has since grown to
be one of the outstanding coun-
try churches in the denomination
in Western North Carolina.
The church is not holding en-
observance on it's anniversary
day, but on the first Sunday in
June it has arranged to conduct
a homecoming and charter-mem-
Der day. Rev. Mr.. Justice has
been invited to preach the sermon
for the occasion, which will be at
the II q. m. service, June 3.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-14
TROTSKY WANDERING
HOMELESS In FRANCE

ANNECY, France, May Ia
(UP)-Leon Trotsky, exiled Rus
sian leader, presently forced 10
wander about France for want OF
a place to make his home, lele
Vallorcine in Haute-Savoie ae-
partment yesterday. 1t was pc
lieved he was en- route to S"iIAei
land. :,rllItdHs o.
1t was learned Trotsky spent
the weekend incognito at Cha-
monk.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-14
RADIO STOLEN FROM
W. B. HODGES AUTO

An Atwater-Kent radio was sto-
len from the automobile of W. b.
Hodges while it was parked IN
front of his Fifth avenue resi-
dence on Thursday night or early
Friday morning. 81.
Citv officers were conducting
an investigation in an attempt to
find the party or parties respon-
sible.
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PRESBYTERIAN YOUNG
PEOPLES PARTY

The young people of the Pres
byterian church, ii years of age
and over, are cordially invited to
attend a weiner roast at the home
of their councillor, Mrs. j. S. Hun
ter, this afternoon. Five-thirty S
the time they are asked to gather
there and a delightful time is IN
store for those who attend.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-14
BILLY MEDLIN SHOWS
BIG EGG in TOWN

Billy Medlin of S26 Kanuga
road Displayed at The Times
News office Saturday an egg
which measured 6 1-2 inches
around the short way, and z 3-4
inches round the long way. The
egg weighed little over three
ounces, and was believed to be
from a Rhode Island Red in his
flock.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-14

tifully arranged with a handsome
lace cloth, a silver centerpiece
which held yellow and white
snapdragons conferred with laven-
der stock. At intervals silver can
dlesticks with cleaning yellow
taperS added a pleasing note.
About so attended this delightful
affair. Other out-of-town guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin G.
Adams and Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil
Hoskins of ASheville.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-14
THEATRE GUILD =
DEEERS MEETING

The Theatre Guild meeting
scheduled for tonight has been
postponed until next Monday
night. The Guild will meet at
Miss Elsie Fickers at 7:30 Mon
day. Nav 21st.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-14

l.. C. Clifford in Hickory.
Mrs. ]. B. Creech is spending
this week in Greenville, S. c.,
with relatives.
Albert Fielder, of Newberry, S.
c., was a weekend guest of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Eel
der, at the Fielder House.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-14
AaNlNG AFFAIR
4 VISITORS

!. All Mrs. c. X. Hoover en-
lsi Il Saturday evening at
Tay iance in honor of Mr..
! Us Raw Hanson of AShe-
g,o were married recently,
y. Yrs. Hoover'S sister, Mrs.
y Dl.a. Of Lenoir, who was
] house guest. Lavender, yell
El white were featured eff
lGe.g IN the floral decora-
} ne yellow azalea and Law
, rs being used principally.
midnight a buffet supper
Served The table was beau
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-14
Mt. Carmel Will
|HaveHomecoming

Announcement was made Sat-
urday that it was the 49th ami
versary of the founding of the
Mount Carmel Baptist church in
Buncombe county. The church
was, organized by the Rev. A. !.
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to for Old Dame Fashion In this
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To simple OF model
lear out this sketch BOYD 1O3 PARK AVE.
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sheet Of YOUR NAME FULL
ADDRESS, YOUR SIZE, THE NUMBER OF THIS PATEEfN
and mentio NAME OF THIS NEWSPAPER
Address YOUR envelope Julia Boyd The TmesNews Fashion
Bureau lO3 Park Avenue New York Y.
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NJ. c. r. McMsnaway
Society Editor
o. Before IL Noos
r.l.TEA
~ EVENT

fsIY EVENT -.
,,sicale-tea, given by the
E ~, Music Club, as the
''a l.sr. OF Music Week. was
. en- affair. The Woman S
a.,r, the affair was stag
VIZ, e,r,.;stically lovely with a
\: :; MS in several shades IN
. =. and others. Mrs.
Sa,.~e was chairman of ar
-; for the week and was
- 81 M NeSdames 0. Y.
=. and Michael Schenck
|T \. Mary Brooks. ,
{. Morrow, Jr., and
-, received the guests
5,1r and presented them
PAYNE and Miss Brooks
.,arn,rglv informal way.
p.'rrree was in charge of
..rcb bowl and was assisted
Emo Inc refreshing bever-
AMI waters by Mesdames
i. Shepherd and W. w.
ysry attractive program,
,rmbry Of which was out
Nv and thoroughly enjoy
mas opened with a musical
h. bv Mrs. Joel Aiken of
-To5i. 5. {. Mrs. Ernest
/, Parker of Atlanta, Ga,
.br guest of her sister,
George y. holland, and
| Jacksonville claims part
her own. gave three vocal
Is with Miss Brooks as her
tranis:. The piano solos of
Ea:hyyu CogginS of Forest
were followed by three vo-
s,yc,.onS by Mrs. SmatherS
who was accom-
\ 5y Miss Kate DotSon. The
h numbers on the lovely
lam consisted of some clever
4 readings by Mrs. Aiken.
! special guests from out of
we're Mrs. kinard of Green
!, and Mrs. Lewis Douglas of
ta.
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thtlcal Announcement
FOR LEGISLATURE

aeyeoy announce my candi-
E FOR representative from
.sS0n county in the Lower
/ OF the next General As
|E subject to the action of
Democratic primary June 2,
E lour support will be ap-
|t,ei.
". VI. SHERARD.
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METHODIST CIRCLE
Mo = tn MEET

Circle No. z of the First NJ. Z.
church will meet at 1880 o'clock
this evening at the home of Mrs.
Charles Cheves in Flat Rock.
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EASTERN STAR TO MEET

Hendersonville chapter No. 81,
o. E. s., willsmeet tomorrow eve
ming at 8 o'clock at the Masonic
hall.
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". VI. SHERARD.
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and they do
something like
that to mellow
good tobaccos

TVIHERE THE RARE WINES come
w from they know that the two
most important things in wine-mak-
ing are the selection of the grapes
and the long years of ageing in the
wine cellars.
IT'S VERY MUCH THE SAME in
the making of a cigarette. You have
to get the right tobaccos, then put
them away to age and mellow in
wooden casks.
You can't make a good cigarette
like Chesterfield in a day. 1t takes
over two years to age the tobaccos
for your Chesterfelds-but it adds
something to the taste and makes
them milder.
Evening star., 1934-01-21

(The City against Tammany, 1882" anothee
"On the Burning Of the Books, Berlin, May
1888" which Is addressed to German students
and inscribed to Helen Keller. Among the
memorial poems are Woodrow Wilson," read
at the town han Of Posnan, Poland, July 4
1881 as part Of the ceremonies Of the dedica-
ton Of the statue by Borglum, given by Pade1.
ewsh; ITO the Memory of Richard Watson
Glider" and Edmund Clarence Stedman," On
the centenary Of his birth. Poems In honor al
living friends are Henry van Dyke at Eighty.s
Elmer Ellsworth Brown" on his retirement q
chancellor Of New York University, ITO Mich
olas Murray Butler" and ITO Richard r. Bow
ker at 85." Some OF the more imaginative
poems are in the groups, Poems Of Meryan
Valley" "sonnets on Age,n "poems oi Love-
and Poems of the Lighter Touch" MI John.
son Is no novice as poet. He has previously
published Poems Of Fifty Years." "The Pact
Of Honor" Poems Of the Longer Flight" and
Poems Of the Lighter Touch Including Songs
for Music" He handles his metres with sure.
ness end Is versatile in his phrasing. His spirn
Of all his poetry Is idealistic.
Evening star., 1934-01-21
THIS OUR HERITAGE. By Diana Patrick

new YORK: E p Dutton & Co
DROLOGUE-a handsome, adventurous young
man, Orme Barclay, comes to the sleepy
market town of Troom and starts its first movie
theater in an empty building. soon goes bank
rupt, consultS Shrewd old DR.. Mark Chandos
about nervous affection of his eyes, hears
from him (to the doctors later regret) that the
owner and manager of Bullingbrooks bookshop
young woman and two months later marries
Iris BullingbrooR, who finds herself "unbelieva-
bly, happy" Twenty years later in the draw
ing room of their luxurious apartment in the
upper floors of the old residences whose
ground floors house the bookshop. Iris reveals to
her husband and two children that DR.. Chan
dos, who has just died, has left her fortune
which, added to what she already possesses
from her fathers estate and business, makes
her wealthy woman. The greed of the three,
accustomed to look to her to supply all their
extravagant wants, is whetted by the prospec.
of the satisfaction of more demands.
Immediately Orme and the children. Cham
dos and Priscilla, unite in the effort to make
is the best part of her life. Their snobbish-
ness has always rebeled at the thought Of Iris as
a shopkeeper. Now, in DR.. Chandos' handsome old
they can really entertain" says Priscilla, men
tally checking the names Of the daughters Of
titled fathers whom she has cultivated at her
fashionable boarding school. Other demands
from the three crowd upon the bewildered Iris,
who, strangely has never before realized their
npacity. One wishes she would pension them
Evening star., 1934-01-21

all Off. not too generously, and turn them out
Instead, she yields in most respects. With the
family settled on the country estate Hockbeare
Court, which Orme has persuaded her to buy
Tor him, she develops poor health for the first
time in her life and is obliged to go away for a
holiday. The south of France brings her to
life. She finds herself admired, comes to the
realization that at 40 she is a handsome, at
tractive woman, an individual, not Just success
full business woman. and an imposed-upon wife
and mother There she accidentally meets her
husbands cousin, Sir liver Barclay, who is a very
different person from her "bounder" husband,
and the romance which follows is the brief
glowing Indian Summer of her life. All the
personalities in This Our Heritage" "of
laughter and tears" to complete the quotation,
are developed by Diana Patrick with delicate
understanding of human perplexities and needs
The character Of Iris is unfolded with skill and
sympathy and the growing tenderness between
her and her son is the happiest phase of the
family story.
Evening star., 1934-01-21
IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS WITH
FRANKLIN By William Cabell Bruce.
New York: G. P. PutnamS Sons.

\h/AL1ER SAVAGE LANDOR in his
Imaginary Conversations" examples Of
the finest English prose, expressed the ideas he
imagined various famous personages ancient
and modern, might have had on important
subjects-thus becoming a forefather of mod
ern fictionized biography. If this reviewer re-
members correctly, in one of the conversations
PericleS and Aspasia discussed their personal
affairs and the state of Athens Whether or
not former Senator Bruce of Maryland had in
mind Landor's Conversations when he chose
the form of this book, he has produced some
thing similar in spirit. There are nine CONVEX
sations, taking place during the later years of
FTankllns life variously, in the house of M. de
Chaumont at PaSsy at the court of Versailles,
at the home of NJ Brillon near Paris. in the
grounds OF the chateau of the ComteSSe
dHoudetot at Sanois, at the Star Inn, South
ampton, England; at Franklins home Mar
ket street, Philadelphia, and in the Hall Of the
Federal Constitutional Convention
Franklin is the DR. johnson of each conver-
sation; the other participants are all his Bos-
wells Among them Silas Deane and Ar
thur Lee, American ENJOYS to France: William
Temple Franklin, DR.. Frankins grandson;
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Nine. Lafay-
cite, John and Abigail Adams and George
washington. washington presiding over the
Constitutional Convention, speaks only to say:
DR. Franklin, that was a telling speech of
yours - Franklin, his native perspicacity
seasoned by experience into wisdom, discourses
on harmony and patriotism the financial affairs
OF his country in its relation to France Penn
sylvania happenings scientific questions social
life. The conversations reveal his wise bal
ance Of Judgment, his broad outlook his hu-
manitarian interests, his worldly knowledge his
social popularity and his susceptibility TO
feminine charm Senator Bruce has given
them veriSimilitude.
written by the author in his 8Oth and 81st
years, in supplement to his Poems of Fifty
years" BY Robert Underwood Johnson
New York: Published by the author 745
Fifth avenue.
THERE is no evidence of declining powers in
these poems of veteran author and editor
rather there is mellowness and philosophical
outlook, which belle in Mr.. Johnson's case
Matthew Arnold's poem Growing Old" The
poems included in the volume have great va
riety; some are scientific political, philosoph-
ical, some are inspired by nature, love- friend
ship, comradeship, are in memoriam
and some are light and gay. We are impressed by
the close touch of Mr. Johnson with current
public affairs which is shown in his poems.
One is "Augllste Picard Pioneer of the Strato-
sphere" another Is la Guardia, the Guardian
Evening star., 1934-01-21
% SARAH Q. BOWERMAN
Pearl s. BuckS Latest Mo0elof ChineseL Life
II Thrilling Brazilian Ad0entue.
And Other Nezv Books.

ming again Mrs. Bucks knowledge of the Chi
neR scene about which she writes is so thor
ough that every detail enhances the vigor and
intensity of her story. The effectiveness of
style lies in its perfect simplicity, its chronicle
quality perhaps partly derived from her study
of the Chinese classics.