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Show DESERT ISLE IN BIG CITY Woman Writer Satisfied With Her Residence Res-idence in "Hell's Half Acre" in Philadelphia. ' Katharine Haviland Taylor, the nov- ! elist, says she's found a desert island and peace right in the middle of l'hila-delphia. l'hila-delphia. It happened quite accidentally. accident-ally. Recently she went apartment hunting with very little knowledge of the residential districts of I'hiladel- i phia. She found an apartment anil j rented it because there were two limousines limou-sines out in front, and so she judged that the street was all right. One of those limousines belongs to a broker of rags and paper, she learned later, and the other to an Italian peanut vender. She had moved into the historic his-toric district called "Hell's Half Acre." ''But I'm glad 1 was misled." says Miss Taylor. "I am not bothered by social obligations and I have lots of time for work. We're never bored. Shooting privileges go with every lease, and lay vocabulary is enlarging all the lime." j Miss Taylor canrot be persuaded to I move, for she is convinced that in this retreat she will be able to do more and better work than if she were living liv-ing in a neighborhood socially "correct." |