Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 4 | Difficult Mental Feat of Gaining Child's Viewpoint Achieved in Book

Difficulty Difficult Mental Feat of Gaining Childs Child's Viewpoint Achieved in Book I Growing young with ones one's chilI chil- chil I dren Is not easily accomplished but Tacy Tacy Stokes Paxton whose first novel has just been published pub pub- has done something even more difficult in projecting herself back into her childhood But first Mrs Paxton greW up with her own children Playing with I I them through grammar school and high school was fine but when the time game came for the son and daughter to enter college she felt that she would be left behind for in her day girls were more mOle apt to marry young than to spend four years ears In a uni- uni There Was nothing to do except to go to college with the children To tun a household smoothly keep up ones one's social activitIes see that ones one's husband is not neglected help hep solve the problems of a college son and daughter and focus a mind long unused to academic exercises is a a task k that would appall mont mott wom n but not Mrs Paxton When I her daughter entered college e the mother entered with her bel and took her degree not so ninny many seasons later in tIme the class of her son Then jhen she set about writing with her characterIstic characteristic char char- deter Two To summers under the Influence of Robert Gay and Grant Overton were wele time the beginning of success n l' l first ventures were 1 lyrics for dill dill- dren and her first novel It Is a stor story of subtlety charm charn and genuine understanding It was a difficult mental feat Ceat that Mrs Paxton accomplished In recapturing re- re capturing her own childhood To remember objectively the of moving stones IU In order to find nice wormy places for the liens hens to scratch testing the ridge pole of If the barn riding the pIg or 01 the genthe gen gen- the old bull was easy as But Mrs l Paxton lm's hs done more mOIe She has reproduced the essence tf d the child mind and In doing so RO has told tolda a famil family drama seen indistinctly bY the child but perfectly evl evident ent to the I