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Show "desert isle "in big city Woman Writer Satisfied With Her Res. idence In "Hei's Half Acre" In Philadelphia. Katharine I la lliiml Taylor, the nov elist, says she's tuiiml a desert Island ami peace right In the middle of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. It happened tillc accidentally. accident-ally. Itecently she went apartment hunting with very little knowledge ol the residential districts of Plulndel-u Plulndel-u i a. She loiiml an apartment and rented it because there were two limousines limou-sines out in tiont, and so she Judged that the street was nil right. One of thoc limousines belongs to a broker of rags and paper, she learned later, and the other to an Italian peanut tender. She had moved Into the his-toiie his-toiie district called "Hell's Half Acre." "I'.ut I'm glad I was misled," says MKs Taylor. "1 am not bothered by social obligat'ons and I have lots of time for 'work. We're never lioied. Shooilng i privileges go with every lease, ami lay tocahulnry Is enlarging all the time." Miss Taylor canrot be persuaded to move, for she Is louvluced that In litis jrcticat she wtll be able lo do more and better work than If s'ie were lit- 1 Ing !n a nelghhoibood socially "cor- 1 reel." |