r
THE BEE: OMAHA,
NOVEMBER 191T.
t9
REAL ESTATE IMPR6VED
North.
NEAR KOUNTZE PARK.
. The very latest In a bungalow. Living
' A room ljxl7, aU other room ars estra
T lane and roomy, nearly all flntihed In
elect sk with ltt-lneh select oak
floors throughout. Several special built-in
features. Modern In every way. The en
tire boum la specially designed and excep
tionally well built: beautiful south front
lot; worth 16,000. but our pries for quick
sals U 14.176. Cash or terms. Act quick.
It wlU (0 quick.
RASP BROS., .(Realtors)
110-12-14 Keellns Bid. Tyler Til.
BARGAINS FOR CASH.
Equity in new modern bungalows, l-r.,
one floor; finished In oak and fir. oak
floors; good location, close to car, school
and boulevard. Boms bny at the bargain
price offered.
SEWARD BROS.,
Doug. IMO. Night Col. 41M.
NO CASH REQUIRED.
Brand new oak finished bnngalow,
$1,860. Will sell for nothing down and
130 per month or will rent tor tit.
BEDFORD-JOHNSTON CO.. REALTORS.
Douglas 1140,
GOOD t-r. modern house, up-to-date, In
Lothrop school district, for only 11.150.
W. H. OATE3, Omaha Nafl. Bk. Bldg.
, West.
3,lt0 WILL buy oak finished, very modern
bungalow with sleeping porch. 3621 Ham
ilton street. Easy terms.
JOHN W. RQBBIN3, 1803 FARNAM 8T.
. j -
REAL ESTATE SUBURBAN
Acreage.
Miscellaneous.
TWO REAL
,xvH0ME BARGAINS t
FIELD CLUB,
$6,500.
Eight rooms, beautiful oak and, white
enamel finish throughout, fireplace and
all built-in features, sunroom and sleep
ing porch, full brick foundation. This
is a real bargain.
BUNGALOW.
a
PRICE ONLY $2,850.
rive large rooms and bath, oak finish
and full brick foundation, choice east front
lot, one block to car, $590 down and $25
per month. Best buy In the city.
OSBORNE REALTY CO.,
701 Om. Nat. Bk. B!dg. Tyler 416.
NEW FIVE-ROOM HOUSE.
All modern, oak finish, price $2,760; $300
down, balance monthly. This Is a bargain.
See us at once. Will taks Liberty bonds
the same as cash.
TRAVER BROS.
tit First National Bank Bldg.
LET me show you my brand new stucco
bungalow; finely finished, excellent loca
tion. A real bargain at $3,850. Rea
sonable terms. Call owner, Douglas 1722.
FOR SALE One acre, 6-room modern house,
two blocks from school and street car;
14.500, terms. 8. 8. A R. 33. Montgomery,
hi City National.
W. FARNAM SMITH A Co.,
Real Estate and Insurance,
1120 Farnam St. Doug, 1084.
J. J. MULVIHILL,
Realtor,
200Brandels Theater Bldg. Doug. tt.
R. S. TRUMBULL,
.101 1st Nat Bk. Bldg. . D. 1714.
REAL ESTATE Unimproved
North.
MINNE LUSA Nice lot on Titus Aye., near
14th St, can be bought at a bargain; this
lot must bs sold. Call owner svsnlngs.
Walnut 7.
REAL ESTATE SUBURBAN
Dundee.
A New
Dundee '
Home
Stucco With Tile Roof
Six rooms, with sleeping porch,
at 10 per cent less than present cost
of materials and construction. Oak
and white enamel finisHand tastily
decorated. Large living room across
front and open stairway. Three bed1
.rooms, tiled bath and sleeping
porch on second floor. A classy
home' in a restricted district. 1
This best bargain Mill be sold
upon reasonable terms.
Slmler & Cary
t Realtors.
Xeeline Bldg.,
louglas 5074.
ACREAGE PROPERTY
Beautiful Twelve Acres
One mile and a quarter west of
Omaha limits; alt lays on a hill;
beautiful shade trees; 8 acres in al
falfa; small set of improvements;
you can stand on this ground and
overlook Benson and can see ten
miles in any direction. This is the
most beautiful 12 acres of ground
inDouglas county; price, $600 an
acre. Will carry back $4,500. 6
per cent. This 12 acres faces two
main roads, one of which is desig
nated as a boulevard, and there is
$750 worth of alfalfa now in shed on
place.
S. S. MONTGOMERY,
213 City National Bank Bldg.
, Omaha, Nebraska.
DUNDEE. PROPERTIES.
Well located lots on nsy terms., Mod
ern, attractive homes. Before buying be
sure and see
GEORGE & CO.. i
tot City Natlongl Bank Bldg.
HrtMES and home sites In Dundee.
8HULER CART, 204 Keellne. D. 1074.
ONE CHOICE ACRE
HIGH AND SIGHTLY
ONE BLOCK TO CAR LINE
$750 $10 Down, $10 Month
This acre la real rloh soil, sloping westJ
and fronting north. Is recatea in a new
growing addition in which thsrs are a
number of new homes pnvnhed for next
year. A Cathollo church and school Is
being built now; a grocery store is very
close at hand and but 60 far to town.
Act quickly buy now and prepare for
next year.
Call Tyler SO and ask to be shown this
piece,
-HASTINGS & HEYDEN,
(Realtors)
1814 Harney St.
Phone Tyler 80.
LARGE ACREAGE SNAP
Just listed ,20 acres with fair Improve
ments Juit west of Falracres. This land Is
well worth tl.OOO per acre, but owner
wants an offer. Would make good land
to be platted Into lots. Act qulok
Payne Investment Company
(Realtors)
til Omaha Nat. Bank Bldg. Doug. 1781.
CALDWELL ACRES.
Our new aoreaga addition southwest of
'the Field club. Acres, halt acres, quarter
acres; easy terms.
THE BYRON REED CO..
- Phone Douglas t7. tit B. 17th St
Miscellaneous.
200-FOOT frontage, three-fourths of an acre,
for S408. Terma $25 cash, $16 per month.
Tel. Walnut 3466.
REAL ESTATE Investment
BRICK FLATS, $8,800
If sold within the next five days ws can
offer a double brick flat of t rooms each,
vary well built and thoroughly modern,
located just two blocks from the Rome
Hotel. Rented chaply at tSO.OO a month
to permanent tenants. This la a bargain
and worth Immediate Investigation. Mort
gage M,000, 6 per cent; balance cash.
GLOVER & SPAIN,
(Realtors)
Douglas 1181.
tlf.JO City National
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Lyda M. Voorhles and husband to
Salma Realty Construction company.
Park avenue, 160 feet north of Wool
worth avenue, east side, 60xl4t . . . .11,000
William P. East and wifs to Elisa
beth A Tryon, Seventeenth street,
120 feet south of, Sprague street
east side. 40x160 M00
Sarah R. Teahon to Achlel Deeambsr
nd wife, Fortieth street, 200 feet
south of P street, east side, 40x
120 09
Elizabeth N. Graham et al, referees,
to Louis Romano, Twenty-sixth
street, 120 feet south of N street,
west side, 80x160 850
John E. Pltsenbarger and wife" to
Fred D. Wead, Park avenue, 161 I
feet south of Pacific street, east
aide, 60xl4t .000
John E. Pltssnbarger and wife to
Fred D. Wead; California street, 86 Vi
feet east of Thirty-third strset, south
aide, 4SWx80O - '
Alice Hulsm&n and husband to Fran.
J. Emerson, northeast corner Twenty-seventh
and C streets, 60x112... 1
Mary Schultz and husband to Omaha
& Council Bluffs Street Railway
company, Cuming street, SS1.S2 feet
west of Twenty-fifth avenus, south
aide, JSxlJB MOO
C. George Carlberg and wife to Olga
J. Moller, Twenty-fifth avenus, 245
fetat north of Arbor street, east side,
49x133 .T60
Mary Wise and husband to Michael
Beecham, Fifty-fifth street, 126 feet
south of Pratt street, west side, 63x
308 ,09
Ida A. Parsley and husband to Ter
renes McShane and wife, Twenty-
. first street, ISO feet south of O
street', east side, 60x130 2,600
Wilson T. Oraham, referee, to Charles
C. lavage, Cuming street 50 feet
west of Forty-ninth strsst north
side, 100x160; northwest corner
Forty-sixth and Isard streets, irreg
ular, approximately 16x,60
FARM LAND WANTED
FARMS WANTED.
Don't list your farm with us if you want
to keep it '
B. P. SNOWDEH SON,
421 8. 16th. Douglas ttTl.
, The Location
We have for immediate sale a $7,500 property over
looking the lake, in Miller Park and dose to the Prettiest
Mile club house. Thera is no prettier spo't in Omaha and as for
The House
Seven large rooms living room with 8 double side lights
on flush switch, f ire place, book case and recessed stairway.
Large dining room with $200 built-in buffet, window seat,
etc.; very large kitchen with butler's pantry, closet, etc.; four
large bedrooms, one with six big windows; finished attic;
complete basement. Quarter-sawed oak floors throughout
Plenty of wall plugs and other conveniences. "Better" plumb
ic Beautiful decorations. Double garage with solid cement
iriveway. And now,,
The Price 'and Terms
are so reasonable that you can't pass hit) up. $6,250, with
$1,000 cash to start it, balanct in monthly payments, which
-ill include interest. This property positively would cost
you more than $7,500 to build today. This Is a classy place
and we advise you to call us now.
Chas. W. Martin & Co.
FARM LAND WANTED
WANTED 1 acres Pierce county. Neb.
Owners only. ft tillable. Civs good de
scription, pries and terma toi Karbacb
Blk., O-iaha. Neb.
FARM AND RANCH LANDS
T
Colorado Lands.
LAND SEEKERS.
It will pay yoa to come at ones and see
what I have If you wish to file on govern
ment homesteads. M. 8TRAUSBERO. 1810
Stout St., Denver. Colorado, (formerly in
U. S. Land Office service).
Missouri Lands.
SMALL M ISSOCRPFARM.
$10 cash and tt monthly, no interest or
taxes; highly productive land; close tost
three big markets, Vt rite for photographs
and full Information. MI'NQER, A-llt,
N. T. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo.
Nebraska Lands.
TYLER 187.
742 Omaha Natl Bank Bldg.
RANCH '
l,720racre combination grain and
stock ranch, located in Cherry
county on Niobrara river, six miles
from railroad. 700 acres good level
bench farm land, 250 acres in culti
vation, cropped this year to corn,
wheat, oats, rye, millet, navy beans
and potatoes. 150 acres Niobrara
bottom, part of which is the best
of hay land, 100 acres good alfalfa
land. Balance of ranch rolling to
rough pasture, all well grassed.
Plenty of timber for fuel and fence
posts as well as affording protection
for stock during winter. Ranch
watered by river, Bear creek and
springs. Will run 250 head of cat
tle the year around. Improvements
located in fine native grove in the
valley and consist of six-room
house, two barns, silo and other
buildings. School house located on
ranch.
This is a genuine bargain at $15
per acre. One-third cash and will
carry balance to suit purchaser.
This territory has never been
boomed. By buying now you are
getting in at bedrock prices. '
Kloke Investment Company
Omaha, Nebraska.
845 Omaha Nat. Bk. Bldg. D. 1150.
1,720 ACRES on Niobrara river, six miles
from railroad town; 70S acres guoa, isvei
farm land; 260 acres In cultivation; 160
aores of Niobrara bottom, part of which
is ths best of hay land; balance of ranch
rolling to rough pasture, well grassed.
River and Bear creek furnish an abun
dance of stock water, plenty of timber tor
fuel and fence posts, as well as affording
protection for stock.
Improvements located In fins natlvs
grove In ths valley and oonslst of t-roora
house, two barns, silo and other buildings.
School house locatsd on ranch.
This Is a wall-balancsd ranch.
Our prlos tit per acre; easy terma
KLOKE INVESTMENT CO.,
146 Omaha-Nat Bk. BIdg Omaha.
SMALL Nebraska farm on easy payments
4 acres up. We farm the farm ws sell
you. The Hungerford Potato Growers'
association, 16th and Howard Sts., Omaha.
Douglss 8371,
GOOD FARM FOR SALE.
Quarter section, nine miles from Qrd,
well Improved, Price 116,000, terms to
suit For particulars writ
W. L. M'NUTT, Ord, Neb.
40 ACRES Irrigated land, every acre first-
class; all fenced and in crop, will deal
for a new clear residence. Price 84,000.
Box 206, Oakland, Neb.
FOR SALE 1,126-acre ranch. Improved, tO
miles northwest from Sargent, iseo. ror
pries and terma write D. F. Yalbreath.
wner, Harrop, Neb.
LIST your lands for quick results with C
J. Canan, tlO McCague Bldg.. Omaha.
Oregon Lands.
"Heart of the Range."
Jordan valley projeot, Oregon, 44.000
aores Irrigated land. Free map and bul
letin. Next excursion November 30th.
HARLEY J. HOOKER.
t40 First Nat. Bank Bldg., Omaha. Neb.
Texas Lands.
LANDS at fair value assured by Chamber
of Commerce. New plans to -settle and
develop the most fertile lands of South
Texas, Immediately adjacent fine mar
ket Farming and dairying demonstra
tion under our direction. Only Improved
lands offered for sale. If you want to
own a farm, write for Booklet J, Agricul
tural Dept., Chamber of Commerce, Hous
ton, Tex.
OOCD corn land, East Texas. $26 an acre.
wet my irev oooit.
W. 8. FRANK, 201 Neville Block. Omaha.
SEE! us for Texas land. Ws furnish cattle.
Ton pay from profits. Thomas uison, oi
Karbaoh Bldg.
Wyoming Lands.
WHEATLAND Wyoming farms, ISO per a..
Including paid-up water rights. Henry
Levi ACM. Rylander. 164 Omaha Nafl.
AUTOMOBILES
AUTOMOBILES
BUY A USED CAR NOW
$100 to $1,000
CHALMERS' SALE.
Due to the. increased cost of materials, prices
are rapidly advancing on new cars.
Prices willvadvance in the near future on all
used cars. You can buy a good used car from
us right now and have a years' use of it and get
almost as much as you paid for it at the end of
.that time.
1 85-A 1017 Chalmers
Roadster. . 1
7 3 5 A 1917 Five-Passenger
Touring.
1 2 6-A Chalmers.
1 Model K vTruck, Chal
mers. 1 7-Passenger 1916-17
Mitchell, very good condition.
Good as new.
1 7-Passenger 1915-16
Mitchell.
1 1916 Maxwell, 5-Passen-ger
Touring.
11913 Cadillac.
1 8-Cylinder Oldsmobile,
1916.
Three or four other cars of
different makes.
. FROM $100 UP TO $1000.
These cars were taken on purchases of new , Chalmers.
They come from private owners and are in excellent me
chanical condition. As priced here they are splendid values.
Call or phone for demonstration.
WESTERN MOTOR CAR CO.
Distributors
Chalmers Motor Cars.
Douglas 4903. 2054 Farnam St
Omaha, Neb.
Rebuilt
Overland Automobiles
ARE SAFE
CARS TO BUY.
10 lilt Model IS Tourings.
4 11I Model 75-B Tourings.
1 lilt Modelg.76 Roadster.
1 1916 Model80 Coupe.
1 ltlt Model 76 Light Delivery.
1 1916 Model 76 All-Tear top.
1 1917 Model t8-4 Wlllys-Knlxht Touring.
All the above cars have been rebuilt and
are In perfect mechanical shape. Many
havs been repainted.
Our stock at thts time Includes tt
othsr ears, such as Hudsons, Brlscoes,
Saxons, Fords, Chandlers, Chalmers, Metis,
Paiges, Auburns; all In first class shaps,
but not rebuilt.
Terms to responsible parties.
U8ED CAR DEPARTMENT,
WILLYS-OVERLAND, INC.,
I04T Farnam. Douglas till.
DRIVE IT YOURSELF.
RENT A FORD. 1
It Payt Every Day
To Use Ford Livei, Co.'s '
10-cents a mile, drive it
yourself service.
Doctors, lawyers, tnsurancs
men, real estate men, loan com
panies, retail and wholesal- firms
EVERYBODY who has to
travel about to do business are
Gains; oar service, saving -money
and time, aid doing mors busi
ness. Especially Is our service a
BAD WEATHER proposition.
Our ears are snug and comfort
able and travel just the same.
Ost busy with this Ford LI v.
ery Co.'s service early In ths '
mornings.
Minimum charge 1 60 pa - hour,
sxoept Sundays and holidays,
when It Is 60 cents.
, FORD LIVERY CO.,
1114-11 Howard St
Douglas 8623.
Ws Never Close.
DRIVE IT YOURSELF.
1116 CHEVROLET, all overhauled and
new tires '
1911 seven-passenger Hudson .., 625
1917 Maxwell, slightly used 436
1916 Overland, Al condition 266
Also Cars Bought and Exchanged.
1206 Harney. Douglas 8108.
NEW 117 Ford roadster .....tlOO
worth of extras t326
Brand new touring body 173.00
ltlt Chassis .' 1160.00
CROSSTOWN OARAGE,
14 S. 24th Bt. Doug. 4411.
ALL hinds of cars for hire, with or With
out driver, by the mile or by the hour.
Fords, lOo per mile. Douglas 7190. Ne
braska Service Oafage.
QUALITY USED CARS.
' Studebaker Wilson, Inc.
Ws havs ths best bargains. Ses us at
nee. Harney 871. Farnam at 16th Ave,
AUTOMOBILE FOR 8ALE.
Whits 40, In first class condition, 360, If
taken soon. Will demonstrate. Frank H.
Jackson, Red Oak, la., Phone 91.
WANTED FOR SPOT CASH, 100 USED
CARS: aulck action: no delay. Auto Ex
change Co., 1107 Farnam Bt. Doug. 6036,
OAKLAND aenslbla Six.
MARSH OAKLAND CO.,
2200 Farnam St.
BAROALNS in used cars.
ORR MOTOR BALES CO.,
40th and Farnam, Harney 414.
GUARANTEE? TIRE AND VULCANIZINd
CO., all kinds of tlrs repairing and work
guaranteed, Douglaa 7662. not Douglas Bt.
NEW ltlt FORDS, Deliveries today.
Ona ltlt Ford touring, 1186.
4001 S. 14th Bt. Phons South 4160.
"T"
- An Exceptional Offer .
The Lasater-Miller Co of Falf urrias, Texas, are ,
owners of 360,000 acres.of the finest land in Texas, for
dairying, fruit raising, truck gardening. We are divid
ing this great tract into smaller farms and making the
price and terms so easy that it should all be sold
within the next few months- We will sell you any
" number of acres at $40 per acre and arrange terms to,
suit your means. ,..
We will stocky your farm with Hereford cattle
, and let you pay for them from their own earnings.
(No interest). Mr. Lasater's Jerseys won all. first
prizes at Waterloo, la.
I Come down and see this prosperous country.
Land adjoining ours is selling at $250 to $500 per acre.
For full particulars and date of excursions phone or
write , ,
Thomas Olson
407-8 Karbach Block, Omaha, Neb. "Douglas 6514.
STANDARD MOTOR CO.
Ons Allen touring car, good shape.
1020 Farnam St. Carl Chanastrom.
BARGAINS IN USED FORD CARi;
McCaffrey Motor Co.,
10th and Howard. Ford Agents. Doug. tllO
USED CAR DEPT.
WILLYS-OVBRLAND, INC..
1047 Farnam St. Doug. Iltt-L.
FOR SALli Service car, garage and tilling
station, account of sickness. 1316 Main
bi riorence.
SLIGHTLY uad Ford delivery top. Good as
new. Only 166. Nelson Harris. Belgrade,
Neb.
UERTSCHY "Kan-Flx It." Southeast ear-
ner zutn and Harney Bta. Douglas 1661.
ilx-lifty-four!
WINTER top for Hudson
cheap. 1110 Farnam.
BATTERIES CHARGED AND REPAIRED!
Kvsrreaay Battery Station, HQS Farnam.
Auto ooaies.
SPECIAL FORD SEDAN BODIES.
WM. TFE1FFER AUTO A CARR1AOB WKS.
16Ih Ave, and Leavenworth St. Tyler 701
Repairing and Painting,
RADIATOR.
LAMP AND WINIlHHtIft.li umintua
Night and day service. Out-of-town work
given prompt attention.
BOYLAN AUTO RADIATOR
REPAIR CO.
Douglas 1914. 1816 Davenport Bt.
Starters and Generators Repaired.
We repair any storage battery, guaran
teeing same for six months.
OMAHA BATTERY AND SERVICB CO.,
1211 Harney St. Tyler Itt4.
Tires and Supplies.
"GUARANTEED TIRES
tt PRICE.
Mads with two old tires, fOxt, 11.60:
tOxlU, 17.16; ISxlH, 18.16.
"2-In-l" Vulcanizing Co.,
1616 Davenport St. Agents Wanted.
Douglas 1914.
TIRES AND TUUKS AT HALF FRICR "
New 10x1 Firestone, 17.90; lOxlH, til.
New 10xm nonektd Lea or Firestone, $11.
Kalmsn's Tire Shop, 1711 Cuming. D. 6861.
TIRE price wreckers. This is no 1 In 1 tlrs
fflMRmiTION TIBS! llfrniiv
1108V4 Jackson. Agts. wanted. Omaha, Neb
BUY Lee Punoture-proof Pneumatla Tires
nu eumineie your lire irouoies, roWIU
Supply Co.. 1061 Farnam Bt.
TTI!l.- half nrl
O. A O. Tlrs Co., 1411 Leavenworth Sfc
Tyler llfll-W,
Auto Repairing and Painting.
EDWARDS, E. S., 1616 N. 19th 8t. Web
ster not. For best results with repair
work consult us.
a 1 00 ravipH fnr m..n.tn w. mo.' ,.n.l.
Colls repaired. Baysdorfer, 110 N. lith.
Magazine Notes.
"The Sawmill With a Plaster" Is an
interesting Thanksgiving story in the
November issue of the AnTcrican Boy
Magazine. This magazine alto con
tains Surgeon General W. C. Braist
ed's article entitled, "The Military
"Surgeon in War," in which he de
scribes the many duties of military
surgeons and doctors during war
times, t
An interesting, gay novel, complete
in the November issue of McClure's
Magazine, is "A Bleecker Street
Bleeckcr," by W. B. Trites. "The
Full Measure of Devotion" is a wsfr
story by Dana Gatlin, also appearing
in this issue. Other stories are, "Von
Edelstein's Mistake," by George A.
Birmingham; "Wild Apples," by C. E.
Chambers, and "Over-Reached," by
Sophie Kerr.
Interesting stories in the Woman's
Home Companion for November. are
"An Old Debt," by Alice Brown;
"Joe's Mother," a story for real Amer
icans, by Anne Shannon Monroe;
"Thanksgiving Crossroads," by Mary
E. Wilkins Freeman. It also con
tains an article entitled "Voluntary
Rationing," by Victoria French
Allen; "Suggestions for Red Cross
Knitting," and a wealth of new; hour-a-day
ideas for patriotic service by
Mrs. Anna Seese Richardson, in an
swer to other women's letters.
In the October issue of Books and
Reading, a review of occasional issue
devoted to studies or undivided na
tional and world problems from an
American point of view, the general
theme deals with the question so vast
ly important at this time of our entry
into the great European war in What
Is Americanism?" under the following
sub-titles: "Washington's Philosophy
of Americanism," "The Builders of
the State, The Social Significance of
the Discovery of America," "The Spir
itual Import of American Institu
tions," "England and America in the
Year '61," "Heredity a Chief Factor
in. Americanism. The Negro Race
in America'' and "Our Treatment of
the immigrant, ,
Am sheltered women strongest in
a crisis? i the problem put up by
Alice Duer Miller in her latest story,
"The Happiest Time of Their Lives."
the opening chapters of which appear
in the. November Century. It is w;
respective families of Peter Wayne
and Matilda severance work out
their engagement. Other stories an
pearing in this issue are "Square
Edge and Sound, by trie Johnston
Helen R. Hull's "The Fire," and the
concluding chapters of Phyllis Bot-
tome s new story, I he second ! id
die." Articles of interest are "Ab
sorbing the Alien." by M. E.
Ravaae;" "Kaiser and Volk," by Sam
uel r. Orth; "Sledge Traveling," by
Robert E. Peary.
Fiction.
THS KAfJTO STONE. By Blanche Elisabeth
Wade, Bully A KISlatsleh, 11.
A wonder story which because of its.
boy hero, and the boys which appear
in the course of the volume, is de
signed to make even boys like fairy
stories. It tells not only of "the
magic stone, but also of the lucky
spider, the meadow of joy, the brook
of the happy voice, the enchanted
forest, the key to a little house, and,
of course, about Christopher himself.
THREE'S A CROWD. By William Cains.
Houghton, Mifflin Co. 61.60.
Doll Brackett and her mother are
rich Americans. While traveling in
Europe, Doll marries George Match,
an English portrait painter and a
fine fellow. Things go well until Mrs.
Brackett's attempts to make Doll
happy begin to conflict with the same
efforts of George, who cannot under
stand why his wife should have at
once the freedom of the "new woman"
and the coddling which belong to the
"clinging vine."
ALT, IN IT. JC-l CARRIES ON. By Ian
Hay. Houghton, Mifflin Co. tl.SB.
This is the continued narrative of
the exploits of "K-l promised by
Captain Beith in "The First Hundred
Thousand," "if Providence wills," Be
sides stories of actual fighting, there
are descriptions of the work of field
telephone men and pthets.
LITTLE STAR OAZERS. By Julia Augusta
Sch warts. Frederick A. Stokes Co. 11.
Stories of how other children in
other ages have looked up in wonder
at the same stars. They will doubt
less arrest the notice of the modern
child more impressively than a mere
recountal of astronomical facts and
figures.
OT'R SQUARE AND THE PEOPLK IN IT.
By Samuel Hopkins Adams. Houghton,
Mifflin Co. 11.60
This book contains tales of human
joys and sorrows of love, adventure,
ambition, comedy and tragedy, which
take place in a quaint corner of New
York City., l
MR. TURTLE'S FLY I NO ADVENTURE. By
Albert Blgelow Paine. Harpers 4k Broth
ers. 60 cents.
The contents of' this book, which
will prove very interesting to littU
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