Show II 1 DIFFERENT I II I Arthur Stringers Stringer's The Prairie Mother Is 15 Absorbing Character Study Everyone who read The Tho Tho Prairie I I Wife b by Arthur Stringer will want to read The Prairie Mother the lat latest t I work from the pen of ot this this' author The new novel is distinctly different from I the tho general run of oC the da day Written in diary style It lends an In Intimate Sn- Sn Insight into the character of ot tho the I central figure lIgure on he ho whole an nn absorbing character stU study The story Is 10 lal laid l In the tho West and breathes the at atmo atmosphere atmosphere at- at mo phere which has hal become so BO popular In ill fiction Tho The heroine a n wife wilo and mother r of ot three children following a severe struggle tlc with the vicissitudes of oC the world suspects a titled English woman of oC alienating her het husbands husband's affections While the woman In question Is ready read to accomplish the tho suspected purpose the husband Is of ot a different terent mind He ne flirts with the temptress onh only to regain an estate lost lostIn lostIn lostin in a financial panic Aside from the tho many emotional complications corn com the tho book carries numerous vivid descriptions of ol encountered encountered In iii pioneering In the West The he heroIne heroine herome he- he roine rome is an undiluted American as S is ev- ev by b. by h her r retort to tI ncr her r rival when she speaks disparaging of oC the lack of culture in the United States She replies replica Wo Vo dont don't live livo for the moment its it's true But we live for Cor Tomorrow We Ve write epics In railway rallY lines Jines and Instead of working out sonnets we ue build new cities clUes and instead of sitting down under a a. palm tree treo and twiddling our thumbs v o turn turna a wilderness Into a no new neN nation and grow gram grain and give e bread to tho the hunGry hungry hungry hun hun- gry world where the gypsies don t seem quite able ahlo to make both ends meet Merrill Bobbe Bobbe company compan In Indianapolis In In- i |