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Show King of Cultured Pearls T -- 'f I jt :i' UAXJJ (7 Cite XMi- - Ih X', I; m 1 t . it-'i Almost unknown, Kokichi Mikimoto of Japan is pearl king; 40 years ago ho found how to make the gemsirk oysters. by Ellnsa I2dnd the. West Winning ' The dime novels of Oeodle & Adams rcercntc a. vocished era MANY a blocks of hardwood, Just as Gutenberg had. This was the start of his lad, caught an "infamous" dime novel, 19th-centu- ry fabulous career. had his reading habits corrected with a sound shellacking. Time has vindicated his choice of literature. Today, the dime novel is a In collec- were issued by many pubiishers7 The first, most famous and most prolific was the house of Beadle & Adams. Their 'westerns' did much' v? Because of greater lung power, girls make the best divers; these ''women of the sea" start at 17, are "through" at 23. - - i n I r- . . tf.) 1 - eye-catchi- ng S-Sii.- 5 From deep ocean walers, oysters - to popularize the true life'ladven tures of the Western pioneers and frontiersmen. The Beadle & Adams novels were not history in the literal sense. But during his 30 years of exacting editorship, Orville J. Victor saw to it that the stories conformed with - what the East knew about Western frentier life. Today the tattered paperbacks give us a closer picture of the spe and customs of the pioneers than do more Xorinal;hlstQries''i'i Not the least of the books' attrac- - tions were - the lurid covers, featuring multicolored heroes and villains in the act of slaughter and defense. The house of Beadle was founded by Erastus Beadle, a onetime farm boy and miller's apprentice born in Otsego County, New York, in 1821. One day, needing some type to label bags of grain, he cut letters from are brought to pearl farms; periodically they're brought to surface to check their health. started his own printshop in Buffalo, where he issued his first publication, "The Youth's Casket." In 1856, he founded "The Home Monthly.'! Then two years later he moved to New York dime with his great plan-i-th-e. tors item. During their heyday, the thrillers I 1852, Beadle novel.' ; The first dime novel was Mrs. ;:Anns. Stephens the Indian Wife of the White Hunter," published in 1860. It ends with Malaeska revealing her true identity to her halfbreed son, who then accuses her of madness Only the original words can do justice to what happens next: "Mad, my son?" she said in a voice that thrilled with a sweet and ( broken earnestness en ?the shrill air. "It was a blessed madness the madness, of that forgot everything in the sweet impulse with which they clung together; it was madness which led your father to take the wild Indian girl to his bosomr when- - in-t- he bloom of early girlhood. Mad! Oh, I could go mad with very tenderness when I think of the time when your little form was first placed in my arms . . . Oh, it was a sweet madness. I would know it again." , MARCH 14, 154 FAMILY WEEKLY MAGAZINE 11 |