Show Prairie e Romance Offers Plenty I of Sentiment Gir Girls Girl's s R Return turn t to d Scenes Reveals New Pathway PathS Path'S Pathway Path Path- S 'S way way to Happiness By L L. L J. J F. F The Rim pf gf the Prairie calls a aln to ones one's mind that greatest of all American achievements the conquest of a mighty continent nt It Itis Itis itIs is reminiscent re cent of those days when strong rong men and gentle women possessed possessed possessed pos pos- of nothing but their faith in each other and In the future grappled with the virgin soil fight s ing nature herself hersel in all nil her prim prim- and winning in the end a n glorious victory for civilization What a heritage those conquerors left let to the new generation Maple City on the edge of the great Nebraska prairie With all Its Us sordid commonplaceness and its modern cynicism cannot kill l the spirit of romance which floats Inon Inon In ln on the winds from the prairie prairie- and wander wanders at will down its Main street which was once a great buffalo feb falo talo train draIn Pretty Nancy Moore a step door-step baby of some eighteen years ago Igo In In high dud dudgeon eon at having been In Informed Informed Informed In- In formed of ot this fact and realizing that she Is of ot age takes takE's her small inheritance left by h r unknown parents and leaves Maple City for for- ever Four Faur years years' rs' rs absence howeVEr however however how how- ever tends to make her regret her hasty act and In a very contrite frame m of ml mind she hc re returns to her herold herold old home o seeking ek reconciliation CI with the the Uncle Judd and Aunt the only parents she has ever known They welcome her with open arms but with some tags when she tells them she Is only going to tay a II couple of months because c she Is going l to do be married r to a very y r wealthy tg man ga t the father rather of ot her dearest friend at whose house she has been a con con- Ch Chicago go dl hn i Vet et start visitor during curing her stay In InCh Ch Chicago lea pro Aunt asks gak If It she Is sure that she he loves this fiance of hers and Nancy replies s that these thue days love loveis loveis loveIs is a matter of the head and ana not of the heart a matter of oC providing for tor oneself and of oC course she will willbe willbe willbe be happy but in the meantime she doesn't want to think about It it Aunt whose love has withstood the thet t test lt of flood and fire tire of or frontier life liCe at Its hardest insists that love loveIs Is the force which drives s the world that without o It life Is blank Warner Field a yoting tnt ia man n with broken illusions mUllions and a big debt both th the heritage e from a D. father who committed suicide finds In Nan Nancy y a balm for his wounded spirit and anda a source of inspiration to him to pick up tip a discarded l writers writer's career and make good Nancys Nancy's two months lE lengthen when she Is given an opportunity t to fill 1111 a vacancy as teacher In the very school she used to attend Here she finds that It 1 is 19 service for others that brings the real Joy In Incidentally Incidentally In- In she finds too that she has a heart Warner Field has helped her to 10 make this discovery Aunt Is right There are things thing's that money cant can't buy Of course the he author provides provide a arIch arich arich rich rival al for tor Nancy as well as for tor Warner Varner and the reader wonders how how- the 11 little blind god Is t tO 5 suc suc- uc- uc A timely tornado brings brines them around to the point of view that neither In la life nor death will they be parted The spirit of the tho ho prairie still lIve lives lies To the sentimentally Inclined the Rim nim Of the Prairie will wm undoubtedly edly make snake a strong appeal but to those who prefer their sentiment In small quantities It undoubtedly I will l be regarded r as an overdose D. D J PI Ic dC Co New ew wo York I e |