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Show A NEW BOOK "FIGHTING MODERN EVILS." ("Fighting Modern Evils That Destroy De-stroy Our Homes," by Fred S. Miller. The L W Walter Co., Chicago, 480 pp., 32 illus., $1 50 How homes are broken up and souls i destroyed through divorce, easy marriage mar-riage and the agency of the so ealld mystic religious cults, and by intemperance intem-perance is the subject of the present' volume. Mr. Fred S. Miller, the Chicago Chi-cago author, has had abundant evidence evi-dence at his command In the streets of his own city, and he has made use of it in a manner at once thrilling and convincing Besides the chapters chap-ters devoted to fact and illustration there are others that deal in narm-tive narm-tive which is more thrilling and fascinating fas-cinating than mere fact can be. For here are what are evidently stories taken from real life, presented in simple sim-ple pathos and with a sincerity that make us think they must be from the author's personal experience. Of these narrative portions the most effective is the 'Story of the Worthingtons." which runs through several chapters and has to do with a family of happy country people who came to Chicago because the mother and wife must needs seek a place in which they would have better "advantages' "ad-vantages' for the children. Poor mother, she was speedily deceived as to the success of her plan, for her eldest daughter way all but lured intoj the toils of a white slave den, and she alas was led away so that she fjuite forgot her wifely vows. We do not recall a more pathetic story ol' the danger which the city has for people peo-ple who seek it in the strange mistaken mis-taken idea that they will be any hap-oier hap-oier than they can be in the quiet country ways of home. Foreign re .igious cults which are imported bete from India are shown in this book to be produetive of much harm. Jt Is sensational reading, but it Is needed need-ed at this time. "Fighting Modern Evils" is true and timely. We pre diet for It a large sale. |