Show Bread and Jam Depicts Career of Madcap Life Lif Nalbro Bartley Leaves in n Novel Novel No No No- vel Little out but a Sense of Irritation By ATHENE FARNSWORTH Give us this day our dally daily bread breal brealand and and jam insisted the youthful Betsey Fletcher in her nightly prayers I dont don't like hike bread without Jam So the Jam must be forthcoming forth forth- coming True except for he the he few brief months of honeymoon with her rich husband Jerome Satterfield before he lost all l his s money and found himself himself Betsey Betsey has to supply most of ot the jam of ot life liCe through her own efforts in selling life Ilfe insurance still jam she provides not only for tor herself but for her husband and baby son Jerry Bread and Jam this modern novel of youthful married life liCe by Nalbro Bartley depicts the settling molding processes of ot life on two youthful madcap children of Jazz Betsey Fletcher marries Jerome Satterfield because he is wealthy and can give her the Jam of ot life with which genteel poverty has forced her to be skimpy and and be be because cause she loves him This spoiled darling of the rich chooses Betsey because the right kind of a a. mother and because and because he love loves her Following a glorious orgy of buyIng buying buy buy- Ing and home furnishing and after the baby comes these two thoughtless thought though less youngsters begin to see things as they are Jerome discovers that he has but one all ahl Interest interest interest Inter inter- est In life life to to go back to college and take out a degree in medicine which will take six years of intensive study to the exclusion of practically every other thing He loses hoses all his mone money but a tiny bit of capital and he and he-and Betsey arid and their infant Jerry move to a tiny flat which has been built bunt i in what was formerly the barn dC Of his his' fathers father's mansion And still l I he must pursue his course of discovering discovering ering himself at all costs Betsey accepts the situation and encourages her husband sell all h hi be beloved oved Jam in the form of ot furnishings furnish ings jewels and clothes Jerome Jeromo must have his chance Baby Jerry gets diphtheria arid and Betsey becomes a willing slave q his needs but Jerome cant can't miss school He moves to the dormitory where he can study without Interruption Inter and where he thoroughly thorough enjoys himself And yet et in his hla thoughts his wife is oh Is-oh oh so sup superficial superficial super super- erN so selfish because she objects objects ob ob- ob to unceasing drudgery an and ana irksome monotony even if t n h years year's years hence she may again enjoy the Jam her husband may be able to provide for her This state of not of-not not interrupting Jerome In his studies studies seems seems to be bethe bethe bethe the background for the remainder of the story Betsey cant can't even ex exPress express express ex- ex press an upsetting thought thought not not even to tell him she is planning to marry another man man Wait Walt until Jerome is graduated Through Betsey's efforts and brilliancy bril brn haney at selling life Insurance work which she takes up in self self- defense and to supply the necessary Jam Jerome's career is made possible ble bhe yet when he has his degree and can blossom forth a professional man man man-he he calmly tells her she must put aside her playing at work and andI I be his wife She must take more personal care of their home and have more children hildren HE is ready to settle down and supply the jam now All this Just when Betsey has lias made a name for herself and has begun to appreciate the thrill of personal accomplishment This story leaves little but a no sense sensa of irritation The hero is selfish sometimes very much a g cad always a consummate egoist Betsey's plea to her mother for her right to divorce Jerome is scorned but not convincingly One Is inclined to conclude Just the contrary after the tho arguments have been presented but still she submits One cannot but doubt the outcome George Ceorge George H H. Daran Doran Do Do- ran New York |