Show Big Blue Soldier Finds Place in Fiction By DAVE COLE COLEMAN AN A penniless doughboy h heart haart art weary and footsore a soldier ller home from the wars v.-ars Is the central figure fig fig- figure fig fig- ure tire at ot The Big Blue Soldier an entertaining tale b by Grace Livingston Livings ton Ion HilL lulL t Miss lIss Manila Chadwick a dear old lady who who Is eager to have hava a. a soldier resplendent in lit his IsIs uniform for tor h her hervery r very own asks her I nephew to visItS visit Isit 1 S I with her bel when she reads reads' of his prospective prospective pros pros- e return She arranges a big dinner dinnet and Is all flutter a for tor his coming But ho he doesn't come Instead she receives a wire containing curt and polite regrets Then Lyman Gage Cage comes into the story OJ Walking wearily down the ro load d with no place to go no friends to rejoice at athIs athis athis his safe sate return no mone money an and nothing nothing noth noth- ing lug to eat he 1 I is the picture of ot de- de Miss ManIla thinking perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps that her nephew has changed his mind and is coming coining anyway walks alks toward him but finds he be is a stranger Recollections of or the finely fine fine- ly h- roasted turlee turkey fairly begging for tor forthe forthe the inroads of hungry knives and allol folks Impell her bel Impulsively to invIte in invite in- in vite rite L Lyman man to share her feast Lyman consents but when Mary Iary Ambo Amber who has helped MaI Ma- Ma I LIla Ima with the dinner o of welcome is introduced resentful memories of or orthe the girl who deserted him when hen he was on the battlefields of France make him a reluctant guest lIe He Is presented as Miss ManIlas Manilla's nephew and andIan Mary Ian who ho has painful recollection recollection recollections tion tion of a youthful terror who wrought destruction with his every primitive e. boyish boIsh Idea is none too eager pager to 0 o make niche his acquaintance Lyman becomes ill III and Miss Ma- Ma grows to 10 love him him like a mother Ills His former fiancee tries to win him back a aud d thue are ale other interesting complications that en enliven enliven en- en liven lI the stor story A charming charming- little novel and one calculated to wil wile away a lonely hour CJ J. J B. B Lippincott company Philadelphia |