Show yo yol l Novelists Turn to Family From Prom Flaming Youth Old Institution Again Subject of Popular Authors Flaming youth was fun fUll while It I lasted but now tho the novelists have I gone one back to bedrock and that grand old Id institution tho the famil family is dissected dis- dis from flom California to New York and nd Chicago to the tho Blue Ridge with even ven a a. peck Into the tho Unknown Two books stand out Seed by Charles G G. Norris and This Day and nd Time by b Anne V. V Armstrong Mrs Armstrong hailed balled b by her publisher as a novelist considerably above bove the ordinary ordinary and and is pro is-pro- pro pro- vides ides an authentic picture of or life lite Inthe in inthe the le southern moun tams The heroic struggle of or a mountain woman oman Ivy In Ingoldsby to maintain her home her son and her love fora for or I Ia a wandering husband a against tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre i odds provides the situation against which Mrs Mis Armstrong delineates de- de her character Ivy never saw be beyond ond the tho horizon or of t the tho Blue Ridge e mountains of or Tennessee but her w vast s neither dull ull nor prosaic nor nOlO melancholy Somehow she managed to win But the price sh she p paid id would seem too oo dear to some Mrs Irs Armstrong has had first firsthand hand land opportunity the people In n the backwoods and obviously I made lade deal out of It I More ore urbane more sure of or technique tech tech- ique but no less sincere Is Mr Norris There Is some Breaching b by both sides Ides on birth control but it does docs not ot bobble the tho storys story's stead steady paco nor or its ls tender moments of or romance Back in the vigorous nineties when hen styles in families had only one no pattern Dan Carter married took ook a 1 ranch in California and turned from Crom nomadic ways was Ills His wife gave him hint nine children Relatives took adjoin adjoining in land raised and soon Carterville Carter was building under the gusty Dans Dan's reign A bullet sent Dan on his ed cd d way and tho the clans clan's decay started Peggy Pegs rind and Dans Dan's bo boy Bart wed and set sel off to New York Bart with unwritten novels in his hia heart Peggy with adoration in hers Five Fhe babies came but no novels The bitter blUer question of a family's size ize a more bitter tion ion Years rolled b by before reunion TIme The children were tall and amid sturdy And Bart who turned his strength to o novels and not husbandry found them hem better company for the gray ray years CalS than ever books could be |