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10 \\'H :\!FTTE UFF. FRID.\Y. OCTOBER 31 ·192-l .ghtni·ng w.·ll Not H it Ll A Man When He's Down " Li g htn ing i, a g t?r: t't·m: n ;·nd o:J ~ c rn·s th e ru l e ~ o t t he :\l arq u1 s o t 'lu . l' tl ~ h nr~ - it won 't , tn k \' a man whl'll ht·', do wn ." acconltng 1<1 cle ~ tr ical t· n~inccr ~ who It ~ ' e ~ xpen mcnted with m a n -ma de h t! htn111 g. TIH' po .,;ihilities . arl' that a man , t a ndin~ d iret· t ' y under a _s: orm. cloud would lw struck tiitet·n t111ll~ 111 one hundred ~trokl',;. wh ile a man rlat ~n the ground would he struc k once 111 a hundred stroke s. they , a y. Two million ,·olt.; o f electririry ha,·ing characteristic s oi lightn inl{ ha'e been made hy the engineers. _for experimental purpose s. Lightnm~ has a voltage oi 100.000.000 o r ahout one million times the ,·oltagc of a house lighting circuit. A bolt of lig~1tnin~ represents enou~h l'nergy to dn\·e an automobile fin· miles or to operate a toaster for one day, the l'Xpcriments have disclosed . He attribute s th=s I() thr fact tha~ Although l;oth cars are of :\mericans 1·sc the. left car a .l mo.st s1ze, con.stant use of the kit rxdusi,·ely for h earmg O\'er tcfepho!le tel.ephomng has !Jlade it lllor rrcrivers. fic1ent than the rlf!ht one. t I. ' ' :\l arktcka ·· I y St·lm a l.a ge r :o i. cOnic, ill and need~ protcct iun . D o uldt((ay Page a nd r o mpa ny . And in n ·turn she ~ an s his soul If in ":\1 arha c ka· · ) u u hope to find ' ~ i nce ior hL'f ~ akc hc learn s what what thc ner -lruthful .co'er c ha r: it i" 10 l>c hungry ami dirty and a actt· r iz e~ a\ the "autolnog raphy ol ih(· ··soul of · Selma Lage rloi" I fe a r hwnclc ss tramp. ~· o u will he sadly disappoi ntl·d . For Th e re i, a conflict hetwet·n two ;m·,' the ~n ul of elma Lag-t·rloi t' tllcr~ t~· p e~ of lo,·e. One which, perhaps tit · -. tory not at all: lf o n th e <:thcr stri c ti\·. i, n o t lon: at all, hut which ltand you a~~ Iookmg f.or a delt g ht - . ' tl;e call of ad\'cnture and freeful -ton· of :\1 arhacka . th c hom e ofd Ita ·' h . · · l ' ltt. . 1 ·· Atldy's · · I 1 · 1· 1 · 0111 anu t n 11 111 11· ~ " · !'elma .alfcr ot . a s ~ory .\1 11 c. ~ ll 11·c, Tl · · ·e Jer more tranquil the atmo,phere of Swed1 sh htc . ,·ou Je ot 1 tcr 1" a 0 t I · . ' II 1 11 · · fi 1 p 1 ·· · sort when~ the ad,·enturc ts not outWI H ' we sat IS ('(. cr lap ~ It I~ I I . d It call~ for a th ·"'out of Marhacka " which i here. "~r ~ ·ut lnwar · . , .. ,· . .. . but J rather think it is something ~ pmtual courage. Tim 1 ~ .R .aphad s. t'H' II more du s ive than that- it is an But it i, no t in the confltrt tltat the atr11osphcre , a breath, a clinging importance ?i ."I s le of Thorn," lies . tradition . \Ve have ~a1d 1t was sheer . r o111!lncc. We hear of ~[arhacka irom the ~t is ~n .earlier. work. of M ~~~ .Kaye time or the first residents who "must Smith'· JUH retss ued 111 Arncnca , and have come from some ,·illagc where !la s. the. mark~ of a_ n e~rly ~v~rk, ~loth there were too many occupant s in 111 1ts 1ncon~t s tencte s and 1b ch~rm . <·very cottage ' and not cnough land Perhaps when_ one ha3 hif~ all. of J·.t.lgundcr cultivation to yield bread -food lan.d and halt of A!llertca d!scussmg for all." So they went forth into the we1g.hty ~:.ol>lems w1th or~e: tt wou~d wilds to find for themselves a home . he tmpos:sthle to be qUJtc carefree Generation after generation add s again. :;omcthing of permanence to Mar For those who liH in cities and hacka until it hecomes a tim· and ex- tread much troddcn ways, "Isle of lensiye farm. Thorns" is an escape . lts nature deThe characters of the story we see scriptions ha1·e the lyric quality which as one who is accustomed to ,it often i~ one of the ddights of Miss Kayebefore a crrtain window, sees the Smith's work. passersby. Some pas s only once, a ;;.====:;:;:,::;:;:;~:;:;:;:;~ t1eeting moment in one's consciousnes~. Others pass often. and gradually, spectator of strange little happenings, one comes to know them. On thi"' fnlil th··ead hangs the lntimatcly, yet remotely- always with <1+-~:~liny of a woman's hono·· and the pane of glass between .. When a woman's love in Selma reappears in the story it is with a start of surprise that we see her, and a feeling "Well, I wonder where she has been all this time." ntiJH'allng love story Or. "She looks just the same after all." But the very remoteness. the very ease with whi.ch the character~ slip Tht'l'.. Wt'l ' <' two men. two in and out of our vision speaks of a tdncl;; of love and a gil·l who life in which there were no newspaper headlines. One did not ha ,·e ·t··l:li r .. rl both. and the .story Is to murder three people and commit told b~· tht' author or "Joanna suicide to achievc promincnrc. Life t:o<lden ." ran along like clear water o,·er $2.(h) in book store '>mooth stones. The humour of the hoo~ is ext-:. 1·. DL"I"I'O:'II Ill. (.'0,, l'ubliKioPrM (Juisitc. The incongruity of the names of the workmen's houses makes a whole chapter delicious. Lieutenant Lagerlof had facetiously named them after the principal cities of Europe, and the men therefore were called accordingly. "Lars of London, Magnus of Vienna, Johan of Prague and By Honon· 'VIIIsie Monow Sven of Paris now opened their food Another l.Jook uy the author bundles." . And soon Per of Berlin who knows ~;o Wl:'ll how to t ~·krs out his plug of tohacco and t>Voke the thrill nud my~:~te1·y of (.· arvcs off a slice. It is not a humour easy to impart but easy to enjoy. adventure. For those who have known Miss l<'o·· thut<t' who love a gripping Lagerlof's earlier works and for those story herl' is ont.> thrown al(lLinst who have not "Marbacka" is a dethe backK··ound of tht· Wyoming lightful experience. Guarantee Nokol is guaranteed. It gives guarantees of combus. tion efficiency approached by no other hom~heatina device-85% by the Orsat Test. Before Nokol is installed a careful survey is made of your heating plant. And where Nokol is installed it is· guaranteed to keep your home heated to within 2 degrees of the temperature you like in weather 10 degrees below zero, automatically, without attention. The Nokol guarantee is bonded by the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, a $30,000,000 in· surance company. This corporation issues a policy to the buyer with every Nokolsold. Finally Nokol is guaranteed by six yean of success with its owners. Today there are more than 20,000 of them who couldn't be driven back to coaL TbeNokol LEFT EAR KEENER Left ears are becoming more ef ficient than those on the right of tht.' head, according to a ilrof~~.or' of the Yale Medical School. MARK TWAJN·s AUTOBIOGRAPHY "l'··obably the most lnto.>restlng- ~;tot·~· of the twt>ntleth centur·y." OIL HEATING COMPANY 215 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago Evanston Branch, 1579 Maple Street · Tel. Uni'Yeraity 74Zt HAHPEH A DHOTHBK~ t·ul·ll·htor· A KISS 11ak· Dookbuylug a -at- Pl·a·are BRENTANO'S Houkort'lltor· to the " ' orld 21H Su. \\' aba·h .-\·n·,. ('hlealfO Tested and Li1Ud a· Sccandc.l'cl b)' Undel'wricnl' 'Lcaboratorict SHEILA KAYE-SMim' S ISLE OF THORNS RE-ELECT THE DEVONSHERS Hock lea. "Islt- of Thorns" by Sheila KayeSmith. E. P. Dutton and company. Sheila Kaye-Smith has dropped her tluitcase of serious problems and., a knapsack on her shoulder, has taken to the open road. "Isle of Thorns" is a romance. It appeals to all the ,vast majority who in their happiest moments are spiritual inhabitants of "Vagabondia." But Sally Odiarne was not satisfied to be a spiritual inhahitant only. She had more courage than · tht· rest of us. Fearing that London Life is stifling her soul, Sally breaks all the slender honds which hold her to the civilized world and takes to the open road. But she finds after a few trials that yawning star-lit skies and dark barns empty save for scuttling rat~ are not quite to her liking after all. So she joins a traveling show which with its scr~eching calliopes goes about from village to village in the fair English spring. She meets Andy nainl who travels with the show, a sort or hybrid journalist-tramp whom ~ally adopts as a pal. She meets Raphael Moore when in the early morning she invades his . act' d ht'me at h\e of Thorns. Sally shocks Raphael and she wants to. 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