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Show "The Splendid Idle Forties" by Gertrude Ath- IB erton, published by The KaeMillan Company of SB New York, a story baaed on the early California IH days, a rtfiujcrnatjon of short stories called IH "Before the Ortago CfuaeV Is placed in southern i HH .California ii the days wa the picturesque Mexl- SH cans inhabited the land of sunshine and flower; H Igneraiit of modernisms, but clamoring in tht H resplendent lore of old Mexico days when Cortex SH represented the acme of chivalry and the poetry SH of the land of duTce far niente. The story is SH warm, in fact lnrid at times and while in detail SH rather infringes on modern credulity, is dean in SH sentiment, and presents a fair portraiture of the SH womankind of young Californian days, SH |