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‘Some Days Were Happy' Looks at Past When Life Was Simple and Future Bright

"SOME DAYS WERE HAPPY." By Louis Sobol. Foreword by Gene Fowler, House, $2.75. : By HENRY BUTLER THE WORD “nostalgic” is taking a beating. overtime In reviews of the current series of reminiscence books. Louis Sobol's “Some Days Were Happy” is the latest of that series | lawns and delivered papers to It has genuine merit, as might be expected from its Broadway-columnist their spending money. author, that now seem to have been hap-

It's Being worked [the family,

tp ens —————— | Flyers Of magic lanterns. They

pler, more innocent, it is nostalgic. flickers seem immensely exciting.| ttaded little pictures of movie stars bars ”

. | Things would be improved. Career|8nd ball players that came with BUT LIKE all other books that possibilities were endless, with alll penny candy, Mr, Sobol recaptures evoke homesickness for the past, sorts of opportunities for getting in| With a wealth of detall the halfit deals in illusion. Mr, Sobol him- on the ground floor. forgotten atmosphere of a vanished self admits the deceptive quality] We still cling to. some of our era. 2 of recollection. Few things can belearlier optimism, But the world] more disappointing than the home picture is grim, and there's anl BETWEEN HIS chapters of recoltown revisited, as he indicates here increasingly widespread suspicion '¢¢Hon, he includes a number of and there in his book. One of the that, in Oscar Wilde's phrase, our Vignettes, some of which originally worst penalties of age is the fad- future is behind us. Hence the *Ppeared in the New York Journaling of rose-colored glasses. appeal of books like Mr, Sobols, American, His sketches. of New What makes memories seem ¥ 8 mn |York life combine vividness with brighter than current experience? PRE-WORLD WAR I Waterbury|/ust the degree of sentimentality It's an important question, and Iland New Haven, Conn. where Mr |'D8t makes such writing immensely think most reminiscence books fall |g vol |popular,

grew up, will remind his|

New York, Random! functioned between 1869 and 1907, the Davenport that was my na-|

{spent on new shoes or clothing for| nanigans that we have to know i

They sent| And in the sense that it will start.readers thinking of years In soap wrappers to get Flexible

to answer it. Our youthful past

Success has not turned Mr. Sobol's

seems to have had vitality. Our readers of their own home towns.

head. Candid though his book is,

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“THE TRUE AND SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF HOWE AND fives. By Richard H. Rovers, New York, Farrar, Straus, "ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DOLLAR.” Philadelphia, Lippencott, $2.50. Here are two highly interesting, even thrilling American careers; if you had the choice of hearing about only one, which would you choose? The one telling how an honest, energetic American lad made his way as grocery clerk, haberdasher’s errand boy and trolley car conductor, or the one*telling how two crooked lawyers got rich in New York deals with a young woman, a pro-

levying hush money, cooking SUH 12 Ponder The aad spocketel $ ow” t : essor of crimin C who up divorces and defending image by “honest” citizens—furors| my airs} Puayehology vile murderers? swayed by emotional theatrics, of s #8 » Yes, 1 thought so—you want to|flcers and court attaches bought by] HER CRIME is almost perfect, hear about the lawyers. Well, so|dirty dollars. The shysters succeed |the murder is almost written off as do IL ; {only ‘too often because of the itch-| an accident when a clever criminal It may be a sad commentary on|ing palm. lawyer smells murder. The plot beour intelligence and upbringing| . I {comes complex as. the lawyer, a that we would rather hear about| LET'S GO on to the American close friend of the deceased, falls

of right and wrong will be.

By John T. Winterich,| The two latest novels I've read

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ELIZABETH ’ Just how a new baby feels, At least that is impression the reader gets as he t the pages of

in Wonderland—and creep into the skin of an infant, From that vantage point, she gives forth “inside information” - concerning juvenile reactions, I For example, she explains that a baby cries in different tones to convey different wishes. Crying is his only way of “talking” at a very early age. He sneezes often not be-| new book on child-care, "Let's cause he is taking cold but to clear

his nose. He positively hates th Talk About Children.’ " ve. e feel of a spoon in his mouth the ‘Ne Parents. He would divide it

50-50 between the mother and first time he is fed from one. father on the one hand and thy AND he has only three para-

child on the other. But C mount needs—love, food and sleep.| children are not able to plan “But the greatest of these is love,” Wisely and think things through Mrs, Bradford would tell you as|he directs his counsel to adults. do the scriptures. Love gives the, Dr. Bauer analyzes the who

baby a sense of security and fur. domestic picture which lies behind

Ge hl ® ON CHILD -CARE—Elizabeth Bradford, Maine radio commentator and author of a

“The True and Scandalous History poy, a _|in love with the professor.and asks of<Howe and Hummel,” by Richard, | Hi pane is John T. Winte het aid in solving the murder, H. Rowe, than John T. Winte- | an report is called “An-| prom then on the reader is un- | rich's account of his boyish pranks other Day, Another Dollar,” but to|equivocally on the side of the mur-| and embarrassment in “Another you and me he is our past. He js) devean. You worry With hes as Day, Another Dollar.” Not that we| ‘ {new clues pop up, you nce as ignore the human appeal in John's| POY We Were—il not in thei. nayes a slip, you cross your story. But Howe & Hummel, who [Providence that John knew, then fingers as she cleverly leads the investigator farther and farther from | got away with so many legal she- tive city. ; | the truth. Maybe you didn’t work for the! It isn't fair to remove every ele-| how the public—which includes 838 company and go tremblingly!' ment of mystery from a “whodunit” | lves—was fooled. So we'll start/Into basements, looking at meters|so I'll save the ending. The most

| ourse | Youngsters shoveled snow, Wed Howe & Hummel and then(and getting bawled out by a ten-|important thing about the novel, is

proceed to the Winterich chronicle. ant who knows that the gas pipe however, not the plot or the end- | » on 8 {leaks. Maybe you never had aling but the policy of booing the, EVEN TODAY, in the Centre st. ‘transportation career”—that is, you| victim and cheering the killer. | and around the criminal/did not run a trolley car, as John ¥ » =n courts, New York lawyers talk with did. But probably, if you were a| FROM THE first chapter of “The |awe of the spectacular careers of regular American boy, you got busy Four Witnesses” there’s no doubt Howe & Hummel, which they at one job or another. Many of us about who's going to be murdered. bracket with the antics of the great carried papers, and I got my first|After the second there's no doubt| mouthpiece, Bill Fallon. William whiff of printer's ink from the about who's going to do it and in| F. Howe was deep chested and lion sheets fresh off the flatbed press, the third the deed is done. headed, with a walrus mustache which made music for my ears. The reader witnesses the murder, and diamonds on fingers, watch The progress of the -American knows who the culprit is and] chain and cuff links; Abe H. Hum- boy is usually a subject for good- incidentally, strongly sympathizes| mel was a five-foot shrimp, with natured kidding, but John doesn’t with the guy who pulled the trigger. | a pear shaped bald head and a make fun of the boy he used to be.| From there on all the admirable black mustache. A lawyer once He describes his mishaps cheerfully characters in the novel set about boasted that he had Abe Hummel enough, but never makes him a co-|to throw police off the track of the in his pocket. The latter retorted: median. And he follows him right'murderer. The only guys who try “Then he's got more brains in hisjup to maturity. In fact he became | conscientiously to trap the guilty pocket than he ever had in his a trolley car conductor, at 21% cents one automatically become louses. |per hour, the day after he received | Finally it comes to a successful These: two men, in the 1880s and his degree as bachelor of arts at ending in short the murderer goes

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thers his growth and welfare. With- | stealing, lying, insecurity, a de out it, he is a pitiable object. to show off and the discipline of Children thrive.on rules because|children, and offers a sensik they too, give that feeling of se- Course of procedure. ‘Juvenile de curity, solid ground on Which to|linquency comes in for full and stand. thoughtful treatment with paren In fact, Mrs. Bradford, herself Shown to be at fault. the mother of two children, touches| Amusing cartoons illustrate Dr. many of the points which long have Bauer's cleverly made points. - And baffled parents. Some of these are/Anne Bauer's evaluation of he fears, habits, discipline, disease, mother and father fills the family recreation, schedules and|chapter of the book. It is given how to guard against injury by ac- she wrote it without editing. cidents. The author is the father of thr In the end she strikes an ideal- children, director of the bureau of istic’ note with these words: [nealth education of the American “Faith in God is not a crutch, a Medical association and associa refuge for the weak. It is a wa editor of Hygeia. He is a lecturer, of living. Tt has nothing to do radio speaker and author of man with creed or color or race.. It articles and books. is universal. Most of us are liv-| . ing the lives of spiritual semi-| invalids and we are teaching our| children to do the same. Let us start now to make our religion a living, growing part of our lives.”

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middle-aged present is humdrum, Life was simple. Money was scarce, It is also modest. I think his recolDespite ribald folklore, the differ- but prices were low. Mr. Sobol's/lections are superior in literary ence is not merely biological. mother managed the household style to his professional writings as . x» economy with a crude but effectivela columnist. They're simpler, less EVEN ALLOWING for our tend- teapot-and-sugar-bowl b u d g e t/mannered. ency to glamorize the past, life in system, skimping here and there to| “Some Days Were Happy” 1s America 35 years ago certainly had'bulld up little funds periodically thoroughly enjoyable reading. qualities it lacks today. For one RR ————————— ——————— thing, it had a vastly more promising future. Seen through 1913 eyes, the brilliant mirage of progress made sooty, smelly railroad trains, balky gas-buggies and nickelodeon

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