Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1921, Page 62

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.— ROTOGRAVURE SECTION—AUGUST 28, 1921 Among Us Mortals The Reading Public Copyright, 1921 Tomilions dos isia st e T % ¢ p 4 1 Mr. Hartley if! doing a little serious reading in tlfteTchlub“car.RHebY‘las ' 1 . e’s cau e mornin 4 - - i i i t t ) ic. editorial in a terrible misstatement and he’s going tg sit right dowg e . - been gazing for ten minutes at one paragraph o e New Repub'i : : : But it’s not the crisi Russia that holds Mr. Hartley’s attention—his and write the editor a scathing note full of the bitterest satire. thoughts are back in the office, wondering whether he ought not to have held the deal over until Monday and whether he could have held out for more money. He will come to in a minute and begin the article again. Mabel is one of those slow readers. To get through a mainzine story takes a lot of Mabel’s time, what with one interruption after another, so that long before Mabel has come to the part where the Duke crushes Lady Maude in a passionate embrace some one has gone off with the magazine. “Now you must stop me if I go too fast!” Mrs. Mink is reading aloud to her sister from the Life of Queen Victoria. Mrs. Mink doesn’t mind reading aloud a bit. What Mrs. Mink’s sister will hear will sound some- thing like this: “Viec- toria overcome by anew’n unimag’n ; ¢ (swallow) rev’lation’d There may be something after all in the kind of - K : : surrendered (gasp) ’er book one finds in_the average guest room. For - J ole sould t'er (swallow) instance, here’s Edgar (who ordinarily never ! { husband,” etc., etc. drops off until between two and three) sound ¥ uh;epkover Great Souls at Prayer long before 12 o’clock. % hborrowzd book h':n I:\o em;" of rough going. en it does get back to the own it 2 seldom does—itg:l sad specim:n. T%:e—l:gg iln - 3 - - 8 1 Almost any book from the library will do for Aunt Etta the picture is eating a nice ripe peach and read- \ o ot g 5 if it’s a clean one. No grimy, germ-laden novels for her: ing a borrowed copy of Little Miss Brave Heart, Aunt Etta is on her way home with a spic and span copy and most of the peach is going to stay with the | ! ; £ . of Byways and Highways of Old New England, and if book. Afterward the book will be lent to several | ! - . i ] s it's not exactly a sixth best seller it's at least sanitary other persons before the owner gets it back. i : . J from start to finish. Mrs. Pullet is strong on reading her letters aloud. She’ll dog yourt foot- - 2 No wonder the assistant book reviewer of The Daily Growl looks pop- steps all over the house till you hear what Cousin Lottic’s letter has to The man in the streetear who pounces on any discarded paper—almost any- eyed. You would, too, if you’d just got back from two weeks’ vacation say about the weather in Oswego, and how “Josie does wish you could thing will do so long as it. has printing on it—and reads it through, inside and found seven novels and a handbook on camping to be got out of the have seen Herbie’s face when he saw the roast veal brought in!”” If none and out. way before morning. of the family happens to be around, Annie, the cook, has to stand for it. 4 e ——————— — ——————— .