Show Leah Morton Reveals Her Own I Heart and Soul in Late Work I By Don Howard t Leah Morton reveals many things in her latest book bool When Love Jomes to Woman but more than an anything she reveals the heart and soul and mind of a a. rare woman Woman- herself Intelligent far be beyond ond the average she average she a Jewess married a a. gentile thus drawing down on herself herself her her- self the criticism of two races she raised a family of and successfully sue lIe i conducted a 0 home and a aI I 1 I business Having a a. deep compassion compassion compas- compas sion slon for humanity she gave her time to social work Having an understanding heart and an active mind she he solved ithe the problems of many unfortunates and brought I some semblance of order and peace to tangled lives and loves And i in middle age she has written two books The first was Vas I Am a a. Woman Woman Wo Wo- man and a Jew the last the tino about which this review Is written Out of the thousands of cases f She slie has known intimately she picks but two to weave Into a book hook human human human hu hu- hu- hu man and tolerant revealing and startling One case is is- isa a young girl from a too-large too family in a a. factory town She left home on her own came to the city educated herself herself her her- self and found a certain beauty and steadfastness in life me She took a middle aged law lawyer er married and the and the father of a family as her lover She SheI I had a baby and the father discovered I ered in this illicit relationship by his wife deserted her Yet the girl still loved the father of her child and did her best to protect him him- and nd she f faced ced the world and tho those e who through their narrow- narrow mindedness sought to hurt her with complacency and courage The other case is a a. girl from a middle western town who lived In free union with her lover hover and also bore bOle a a. child The sordidness of her life Is sharply drawn yet her heroic struggles to keep leep her lover happy to l him interested In her and to keep their tiny home intact where other women women were concerned are told with tolerance and a a. deep Understanding understanding understanding un un- of what a woman will do when love enters her life ANOTHER GIRL There Is another girt girl in Leah Mortons Morton's book put Jut she isn't a case She Is the authors author's young daughter who has has- Just been married and is soon to have a a. baby The daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daugh daugh- ter's views on love and marriage are arc dul duly recorded with the understanding understand understand- ing that only a mother has of one that is her own own- flesh and blood Comparisons are arc drawn between the cases she knows and her OWl vi daughter and sometimes the cases are given the tile best of or it And Leah Mortons Morton's own case Is 5 set forth In no uncertain terms for forshe forshe forshe she d describes th the problems of her oldest son who made a a. miserable marriage and was divorced in a who fellIn fell fellin fellin year and of a younger son in love more than once he selected the girl who became his wife There are l poignant chapters chapter like mee the one which tells of the death II of her daughter In Itt childbirth There is humor and l pathos th s and drama Mama un unequalled unequalled unequalled un- un equalled in fiction and through It all aU there is the old age-old problem of the younger generation side by side with the problem of what the oldsters are going to do about do-about about It all Leah Morton l would let the youngsters youngsters young young- I Etel'S do just about as they pleased yet at the same time she would give them the intelligent counsel and the true facts of life that are b by rights their heritage herita-e. She would never preach preach preach-J. J. J H. H Scars Sears Co New lew ok |