Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1920 — LOVE AND ADVENTURE IN AN UNKNOWN LAND [ARTICLE]

LOVE AND ADVENTURE IN AN UNKNOWN LAND

Every American youngster with red blood and an imagination has day dreams of traveling to a strange land; of finding there a fair maiden ignorant of the world; of. bringing her home in triumph; of teaching her to live and love. And here you have the thrilling romance of such a man and maid—an American with “imagination, vigor and a laugh,” and 18-year-old Princess Helen of Tau' Kuan, Empire of the Yellow Sun, beyond the Great Wan of China, older than the Tower of Babel, hidden from the eyes of all the world. Adventure! It’s in every column of this strange journey on a strange quest through a strange land where the traders and thieves, despite their ancient blood-feud, are always in league against the traveler who would pass to the still stranger land of Tau Kuan, where a strange people worship the strange “Koresh,” with its odor of wine and cinnamon and its sleep with dreams of bliss. This is no travel guide-book. The characters are not automatons. The hero is sophisticated and very human. The heroine is unsophisticated and very unhappy. And there’s no chaperon in this story. Also, for good measure, there’s an Arab maiden, whose “lips are red and her robes but veils.” “What would you do?” is a question you will ask yourself more than once, be you man or woman reader.