Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-30 | Page 4 | Julia Peterkin Writes Forceful Negro Story

Julia a Writes Forc Forceful ful Negro Story Julia Juli Peter kin author of Black April has written a a forceful and moving story of the Gullah Gulah negroes on the Blue Brook Brool plantation in Scarlet Sister Mary Bobbs Dobbs Merrill Men Mer Ier- Ier rill nIl The simplicity of Its is telling lends tends power to this account of ot the life of Mary Iary who married when she was 15 the handsomest young buck on the tho plantation After the birth of 0 their thir child July leaves her to go off oU with wih another woman who puts a acham charm cham on him and after fer grieving gie for or him loins until life le hot hotels no meaning for her Mary decides deides that she sie has hasa a life le without him From then on her years are marked off by the bearing bearing- of ot on one child right after aCte another In spite of her scarlet sins she Is happy happ rich with wih love and with her understandIng understand understand- In of fellows Ing nj her The appeal of Scarlet Sister Mary Is not confined to those Interested In- In In th the life me of or negroes roes on a plantation plantation-It It It has universal elements ele elo- dc- dc ments that make 1310 It vastly more important important im Im- im- im than that that