Show Mirandy Exhorts' Exhorts Is Amusing Philosophy i iBy I By EDITH M. M HINES I When one has been exhorted byi by MIrandy l on thirty-six thirty different subjects sub subi in Dorothy Dix new book M t randy Exhorts one feels at first as uncomfortable as ELS one might from haIng hav having having ha- ha ing partaken overindulgently of lt biscuit such as is possible to imagine Aunt Mirandy making were she other other oth oth- er child of ot Dorothy Dix Db marvelously marvelously marvelously mar- mar human mind I tt Each chapter of the worthwhile book bookis is complete in itself dealing with the subjects nearest Aunt dys heart and it to enjoy to the fullest her wholesome quaint or or over aggravated philosophising at ato ato dose rather might one take tale a Chapter a day and in the descanting melody d C native dialect which the author Is as assuredly assuredly assuredly as- as acquainted with and uses with picturesque effect could find thirty thirty- six days of delight mixed with argument argument argo- argo ment and philosophy applicable to toone's toone's toone's ones one's own joys and sorrows Aunt capacious figure figure- is a stroke of genius employed by theauthor theauthor the tho author In recalling to mind the Aunt MIrandy of many lives although she may have been known to others s as s Aunt Martha Aunt Rachel or some other name mame which brings almost the same tug at the heartstrings aa as Mother 1 1 neighbors relatives and church friends unceremoniously in introduced introduced introduced in- in with their typically African cognomens Gladys Maud Geraldine Sis Peruna Sis Malaria Sis doe Cloe Brer Moses and tle all suffering Buffering sometimes cantankerous Ike Mirandy's Mirandy's Mi- Mi randy's ole man step forts from tp pen of Dorothy Dix as real flesh ana and blood beings The darky humor not one whit of ot which has been lost through the tha theauthor's theauthor's authors author's telling convulses one at times Umes Just as her rich sympathy causes one ona oneto oneto to brush from the corner of the eye a a. atell atell tell tale tear when Aunt Mirandy's sayings como come a a. bit too close to home One critic has hns said that this same destroys the tho Il Illusion il ii- lusion and makes males one feel that t th tK author Is talking through MIrandy's personality but that critic has nev never r lived among mong real old southern darkles darkies or he lie would know that despite the hove lovo of ot the misuse of high sounding words word their Insight and ability to know real rea folk from veneer and real worth from sham is unequaled You will enjoy Aunt MIrandy l and If It you know Dorothy Dix you will find that In MIrandy 3 Exhorts she is la at ather ather ather her best In p putting tUng oVer with sugar sugarcoating sugarcoating coating a lesson or a philosophy Penn Publishing Co Philadelphia |