SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1923
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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To Read or Not to Read
Book Reviews
MR. DELL DISCUSSES
MARRIAGE
JANE MARCH, by Floyd Dell. (Al-
fred A. Knopf, $2.50).
Janet March was the great-grand-
daughter of a Minnesota pioneer, a
man who tried many jobs and suc-
ceeded at none. His son Andrew, on
the other hand, was one of those econ-
omical, intelligent, and hardworking
men of the 'sixties who, because they
were intelligent and economical and
industrious, became wealthy. And-
rew March creatd the elevator bus-
iness and became wealthy; merged
his company into a combine managed
by eastern capitalists and became
more so. He put his sons into the
business and then, in the panic of the
nineties, saw the fortune he had made
dwindle. Not that the Marches ever
were poor; they simply were not too
rich. There we have them at the real
beginning of the story.
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Bradford March, youngest son of viks, or real radicals of any sort.' er' were to be abandoned in favor of
Andrew, was at once a practical hand Rather, they were serious, kindly folk 'Pen' and 'Brad'.
and a dreamer. Ie fell in love with a of the sort that read, and even con-
girl who was working her way tribute to, the New Republic and the Janet, the first child to live beyond
through college, thh daughter of a Christian Century. Perhaps they oc- 1 the age of six, was allowed to do pret-
Swedish housewife and a futile Yan- casionally glanced at the Nation and ty much as she pleased. As a little
kee druggist. Bradford's sister did ,the Liberator, but not often or ser- girl she played mostly with boys;
not quite approve of this, for there iously. Pen taught Sunday-school, growing older she confined herself al-
was little about Penelope to socially and Brad was a trustee of the college most exclusively to tfeir sports. Be-
grace the March fortune, yet she did where he had met his wife. They cause Pen insisted on treating her as
not object. If Brad was willing to were not revolutionaires. a girl, she turned her attentions to
wait five years to marry such a girl Brad's home training had been Brad, and became his comrade in all
she was not going to take the matter narred by undue emphasis on the ex sorts of ventures. In a day when it
to heart. Of course it was rank fool- cellence ankgeneral superiority of his was proper for little girls to wear pig-
ishness, but. . . . father. Andrew March dominated his tails and play with dolls she wore
As a matter of fact, there was noth- bobs and knickers, and spent her time
children because tliaer never got to know rwn rpaigbl.A tdn
ing foolish about it. Penelope had them, andithey were taught to look up rowing or playing bail, As a student
common sense and ideals that would to him as to a hero. Pen's father had in high school she accepted feminine
have been hard to find among the tried the same thing, but was too diversions, but with a masculine
friends of Dolly March. She, like her weak to succeed. To both of them, vigor. She smoked, drank, and pet-
husband, was ahead of her generation therefore, that manner of training a ted, for they were the proper things
-the kind of person whom we used youngster did pot appeaL Their cit- to do. Yet she was not silly, and saw
to call "queer" or "advanced", and in dren should not be forced to look up the absurdity of many things she did
our present poverty of thought and to them, but rather to be comrades. for the brief ton they gave her.
language, "bolshevik". Not, of course, Even those time-worn symbols of hon-
that Pen and Brad were real Bolshe- or and inferiority, 'father' and 'moth- It is plain that neither by birth nor
training was Janet an ordinary gir.
On the other hand, Mr. Dell makes it
- plain that she was not a brilliantly
intellectual one. She frankly admit-
ted that poetry was beyond her, and
ffp a much serious prose as well. Her
principal endowment was good cot-
mon sense, coupled with confidence in
herself, and ability to analyze. Dr
ing the war she had had opportunity
The 0hopof Stisfcction to observe love, and to wonder aso;t
it.,When she left college.she ?ante
118 MAIN STREET to experiment with it. Her introduc-
tion came through an idealistic dis-
ciple of the modern theater, whose art
may have been good, but whose phil-
- osophy was 84mmed up in a parroting
the -as n 's of the phrase "It's a crazy world"
Janet liked him, and be lPves her,.
They experimented folly, and Janet
at M odesdscoered'tatthugh toeworld
- ight be ray, it was no place for
. carelessness. She had investigated
ntic styles is upheld in this show- love withogt' caution and, though she
Winter Coat here, you choose bad no regret so far asher.own slir
it was concerned,.the materigl reaults
best modes, personally selected .)appared undesirable. Janet saw no
he prices quoted will also in- tsgrace in bearing an 'llegtimatt'
e child, but she saw also that the world
electio easy because of the all held a quite different view,. sil ws
able to enforce it. With the help of a
cousin of' ense and' courfe, and a
phyeician who was above the pettiness
ad dirt-made possible by law, she es-
ats...apdw o $ 25t00 to $ 7dwith harm. But it was a
~J.SJ o ~ ' ,risky veture nevertheless, and soar-
oats .......$ 49.50 to $150.00 ed her. . . .
s ......... $100.00 to $49500 'Janet's next move was to New York.
She like the city, and some of the peo-
ple she met, bt she saw little to the
famous Greenwich Village. At the
F best, it was. a rather commonplace
Prices Feature These district, flooded with folks seeking
what did not exist, and feeliag very
O and Velvet Dresses *wicked over nothing "t all Anyho
V>Vl.'j the Village was not the real cause of
her coming-the real cause was a
man named Roger Leland: He had
tat they are sufficiently charming for afternoon, the matinee or seen her in the west, appeared to
Features, as side drapes, wrap around effects, tucks, pleats are know her, and had-written a note ask-
accentuate the numerous smart styles. ing her-to meet him when she came tO
isNew York. He ran a Village book-
store, so Janet met him promptly and
thereon hangs the rest of the tale.
sses $19.75 to $50.00 If Janet was the child' of a genera-
s .9$tion that has succeeded, Roger sprung
ow$37.50 to $751from one that had shriveled and al-
OWfs .7.0 most died His boyhood was spent in
....... .$25.00 to $a southern town where Yankees had
. . . . $9.0J won out over the original inhabitants,
and were proud of their advantage.
There was no neighborly kindness or
experienced saleswomen to assist you~ in your selections, sales- even toleration; religion had sunk to
mere fear of the devil and deter-rin-
ather than sell you the wrong garment. ation that others should suffer hia
wrath. Roger determined to escape,
ideavor to give you entire satisfaction with your purchase. and of course first rebelled against
the morality of the village. Here,
however, he was not successful, for
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