Show THE BETH BOOK NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR or OF THE HEAVENLY TWINS v it deals in plain terms with th tho 0 social moralities but it Is on an earnest look book closely thought out correspondence tribune new york nov 3 the many readers of 0 that founding astounding book bojok the heavenly tullis have all been aberly curious of course ever since the announce announcement ot of a new work by the author it seems it a to ne urne lime since the lite announcement was made more than a year perhaps but tile the advance streets sheets are procurable it at last and the novel will mill be by appleton co I 1 early next nest week neck it Is called the ileth beth nook book but if 11 a longer and alto altogether Sether larger work so ork than its predecessor which it re resembles m bb o however in many arlys aya this also la is ti a passionate protest against the ulon vi oneness griess of things in general toward woman heth beth says she reserves one comportment compartment of 0 her brain tor for consideration of 0 the sex problem end madam sarah grands readers are by tills this time thoroughly convinced that the rhe has determined ter mined to devote ner ncr entire strength to a pro prolonged longell struggle with nith tile the subject she urges the same moral standard for men as for woman nornan in n this new book an air in 1 ahe I lie heavenly im twins ins and I 1 the he goes further if possible in the frankness with which she he discus ses matters which have Irre been tabooed ted as unmentionable anti and the I 1 I 1 plainness with nith which she rho calls a sr spada aale a spade yet Y t there Is nothing for the i most fastidious to chillik from pro eded they have the courage to face the lite 1 necessary truth land and the tory story is absolutely I 1 sol fret free from coarseness in ebel ordinary acceptation dt 3 tho the term she says N what hat she his has to say bay Is ai a surgeon handles the knife at the rame fame time limp much that may be learned to advantage front from the pages ot of rl a book and even from a lery iery serious novel are not suited to n newspaper ew paper columns it Is therefore perhaps enough to lint hint at a nail if the story which deals most frankly with nith I a question which has recently discussed with grave alarm in bowland perfectly honest people have been advocating both sides aides with fill such euch earnestness such intense feeling that when ulten lady henry somerset toola a stand about I a fortnight ago it was thought to lo cn cri dinger the solidarity of organizations in ili this country as well as aa 11 in II england but the foreign press the lite medical med lm jur J ur nals and the bills introduced before parliament have told the acts of the situation more plainly than need be hinted at here and this crying sin 1 Is 13 3 merely one of 0 many that the beth nook II attacks lite life begins to go wrong with nth deth before she ehe Is born because her mother has ha more children than she can care for she was aas weak and ill III and anxious the mother of it rix fix children already and about to produce a bieve 1 ith on an in income that would lire been in n at for tour four it was ivna it a lec thin thing for a delicate 1 to do but she never thought of thal site she lived in the days when allen no one thought ot of the waste aste of women in dill I 1 and they had not baun to think hink tar lor themselves what she mile suffered buffered she tie capt ed cd as her lot or the will of god tile tho expression varied with the natu nature re of the trouble extreme pain aus aho a will ill ot of god but minor dim comforts w and worries were her lot that i tu aul tj the misery was nas perfectly preventable ll never occurred to her an binl 1 it if uny one had suggested such a thing she would have been hi en shocked the parson in the pulpit preached endurance unit site understood der ders stood toed that any anything thinK in the nature of 0 resistance tiny any discussion even ot of social problems would not only hive hilve been bec n a hying flying in tile face tu ot of providence but a most indecent proceeding ding with such I a welcome into the world reth deth makes her own owa way ns as well as she pile can there Is much food tor for reflection in the record of her growth tor for it could hardly be called roaring both beth was a a line rit rens five to a touch ind and conald tile the N way a Y she eho was harolld haroll hand lod d it would havo have been a wonder it if discordant effects had not been constantly produced man c n tier her hers here was I a nature with mith a wide aalde range it Is probable that every conceivable impulse lin pule was latent in her every bossi MIRY of 0 good or evil exactly 1 which would predominate depended upon the influences of these early 1 cars cara and almost all tho the influences slit came under were haphazard there waa no intelli glint direction of her thoughts ts no systematic training to lorm form rood habits i tier her brothers were ant bont to chool as soon boon as they were old noush and so had the advantage of regular loutine and strict discipline from the first but it a couple of hours houra a day for lessons was considered enough for or the little girls ind and for the rest of tile the time thile so long ions saw tt l they were on the promises slid and not naughty that Is t to ray ay gave cave no trouble it was waa taken for glinted kian ed that they wore ere sate safe morally and physically in this connection there Is a vivid portrayal of 0 the In flunce flurick tor for e evil i 1 exerted by a ser servant a too loo widely bort td fit force that parents too rarely take cognizance of 0 tile the story atory follows follow belli E it h a turbulent arid and an ve to an uncongenial marriage into which rb ahr enters rather rat ier y 1 I said bald I 1 want te lb mar ried beth belli blurted out beth said ald her mother it t Is nothing hut but perverse ineas unites you say such things thin I 1 know girls they all want to to be niarra flarried d and they E all L 11 pretend creten I they dont why when I 1 ot of ing N was ats a girt I 1 thought lt i vou had nothing else to think about ventured deth and what else have you to think about aboul pray never be no fla tally again you must be married now liow ou know when a girl lei lots a man klas kiss tier her she eho has to marry him beth hal had been w watch itching lne tier her rn mothers others findeis as she knitted until s she he was halt half mesmerized by tire the bright glint ot of the needles but now she wake up and burst out laughing it if that be the cast cade she fihe said bald he la Is vot biot the ony only one that I 1 shall have to marry mrs caldwelle cald Cal dwells we irs hands dropped on her tat lap and she all e looked up at both in dismay what wit at do you mean she said just that bath answered do you mean 0 a tell me you vol t have allowed men to kiss hiss you mrs cald will cried licila looked up as it if trying to keep hot her countenance you i m icken girl how low dare you 71 well tv ou 11 mammal mamma if 1 it were wicked why ully you warn tile me beth belli said bald how was nas i I 1 to know from the mothers incapable hands deth pases to the worse influence ot of an unscrupulous husband a doctor who ellms alms at success regardless 0 of ways end arid means the effect upon the girl ot of the discovery ot of the character of the hospital conducted by her husband Is vividly shown shon and tle conver conversation lu atlon between in pon them on the subject m mill ill not be r readily ea dily forgotten by tho the reader beth belli does not belong to tire the days ot of brave endurance when women mee meekly kly allowing themselves wo to lie be clausen with etli children and idiots exacted a no respect res hect and received none no to woman docent decent or olbern otherwise ise being bate are from insult in tile the public streets when they were mere expected to do difficult and clity for their husbands such as canvassing ing at elections without acknowledgment know their wit and capacity being traded upon without scruple to obtain from men the votes which they wiro not wise and worthy enough to have themselves tile the days day I 1 when hen they gave all and received nothing in save doles ot of bread arid and contempt failed by such caresses lis as I a good dog doff gets when hla his master la Is in the mood that was waa tile hie day before woman til lien began it to question the wisdom and goodness good nesa of man his justice slid and generosity ills his right to matte make a allu c f wal wallowing lonIng ution ihen he choye chose to wallow avallon and hla his disinterestedness and discretion when he also arrogated 1 himself to order all things a it la Is it a long closely written closely thought story and cannot be adequately followed throughout its course on almost every page may be found paragraphs that stand island out and clutch the memory whether they convince or not hot any attempt to separate the interest of the sexes as 09 women here tier and there and men generally would have them separated la Is fatal to the welfare ot of the whole race this woman m movement la Is toward the perfecting of life riot not the disruption of it it la is an erf ort of 0 the race to raise itself it a step higher in the settle seal of 0 being see what it 11 resolves itself into men res respond to ahat w hat women expect ot of them when warriors wai warr Tlora ioro were womans comans ideal men were warriors when women preferred knights priests and troubadours dours a mans ambition was to be a knight k n ight a driest or a troubadour when n women thought drunkenness fine roen men were mere drunken now women want h husbands of 0 a nobler noble r nature strong in all tile the attributes moral and physical of 0 the perfect man that their children may be noble too and thus the a aisch scent nt of man to allther I 1 rh er planes ot of being becomes assured women aro arct their own worst enemies lust just now they dont follow their leaders loyally and consistently they have little idea ot of discipline their tendency Is to go oft off on side aids issues and break into little cliques they are largely actuated by petty personal per nonal motives rno tives by petty jealousies by bettl nesses of all 11 kinds one of t them will arise here and thero there and do something great that Is an honor to them all but they do not 11 honor onor her for it per perhaps hapit because something in the way ay rho dresses or w rome ome trl trick e k 0 f manner does doca not meet int with nith the th e approval 0 of the majority women are 0 r forever aliw over eifling t details d e t ails to prove themselves right pleases them better than to arrive at ait the truth and a vulgar cheh personal lers onal triumph ariti m Is 0 of more account than the triumph t of a ii great cause lV women orrien who a lie work tor for women in the pi pres Client eat period of our progress I 1 menu mean the women who bri brine g about the changes that benidt ahn their air sex mut must resign to martyrdom rd orn only tit th martyr spirit will milt ca ethem them through men aien wilt will often help and and respect thern them but other women momen especially the lie workers eulth methods of their own will make their lives a burden to them with pin pricks of ariti clean and every petty hindrance they can put nut in their way there la is little union between women workers and less les tolerance each bach leader thinks think R her own idea the only rood good one and disapproves cip or of every other they seldom see lire that all must be working lit in many davs to complete the work anil and as to in tho th bulk of women thone thome who nho will b nent by our dei deletion littlon they bespatter us with ined stone piano us ua us u us and even c in tue the act 0 of taking advantage vantage id ot or tile changes we have brought about ignore us slight us push puh Us ua aside and step over our boi bodies aca to secure the ihn benefits which I 1 aich our endeavors have enabled them to c en joy I 1 ian i jave lave worked for these n mown own n tin flit ie as mani man i it an aal I 1 i ull ald i hw how you rny my bf heart art you um uld IQ and it with vi ith real rai tatt scare ecart of 0 lila wounds with cah velch acl they jeward me it Is rather a hopel Rs showing ill as such have always been and berh perhaps aps n III hl always be yet tile book as a whole la is riot not melancholy re reading adini and many planks of 0 both and tier her brothers ra will n all recall recal tile the lloa wenlY enins tv ing nancy NANCT BANKS |