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MEPFOHD MUTi'TRTBTjyTC, SiEDFOKDr ORF,fiONTt SUNDAY", SfARfU IS, 1328. PAGI3 THREE Book Review Graham-Paiges Attract Attention in Medford . By Aniro X. Pttugborn ART OF THK NIGHT, by Georgft I Jfan Nathan. Now York. Knopf. i The uM?r-crStlial Mr. Nathan has offered his Huper-critU'Bl best In "Art of the Nijrht," a croup of essays un the utaue, dealing with tubjvett, ranging from the tuugh ter of the actor, which is a realis tic as that of a horse, to. the pecii liar genius of Mr. Heinhardt. who pros titles his greatness by rating eauHApe for newspaper publicity. I Although many readers of Sir, Mencken and Mr, Nathan for Mencken cannot be loft out where Nathan 4a concerned do not agree trith their views, there are few ttho will not admf that ti:a two Ii&ve a discerning vision and a Ptyle that is striking. The subject matter of "4j$f of the Night" is a trifle less cdmroverslal than that usually dwelt upon by Nathan and the tyle is a trifle less splenetic than usual, consequently, the wit contains more of real humor. "Art of the Night does not necessarily GRAHAM-PAIGE FIVE-PASSENGER SEDAN, MODEL 629 1 The Graham-Paiae models 619 and 829 are now on display at the Crater Lake Automotive Company on South Riverside Avenue. ., Qlhnit its appeal tordent ploy-1 vuted reader. I " i . . M j WASHINGTON, D. C.t Mar. J?, jfHE CURSJ3 OK TARIFFS'? Discoveries which have led some j-.uward von Keyset-ling. Aew York. Macauluy. Where Moses Hl Forth jarcheologoists to accept the .view u An. air of rather declasse sophfs- thp Ajdden city of Petra. near j tlcallon marks the "The Course of l 11 ; Lreau-wi, is ui reai the rock-hewn Greek theater that seated some 5J0 spectators. Tem ples also are carved in the cliffs; but the most numerous of the Mount monuments are tombs Thousands the Tarniffs" by Kdouard von Key serling, which has just been re leased by Macau lay. The story which bears the book fitte is by far the best of the thiar stories included in the volume. Tt relates the amours of Gunthcr von Tarnlff with admirable restraint and a surprising use of colors in the depiction of the three women whose hearts he breaks. His wife is delicately portrayed with white and cream tints, his peasant sweet heart in vivid reds and brcut'ns and his mistress, beautiful swgrr, in blues and golds. Their relation ship with each other are well pic tured. "My Love Affair the second story of the .volume. Is less con vincing than the first and much less simply revealed. It becomes a boring triviality after a short time. The third tale, "Father and Son" is really a well-drawn character sketch and less of a narration than either of the other two stories. The adolescence of the boy is con vincinsr and not over-emuhafdzed. T1IE IMPERIAl! ORGY, by Edgar Saltus. New York. Modern library. . The burning pen of Edgar Sal tus was aimed in 19'JO at the Rus sian czars, whose long and ahntt unimpeded reign of horror and despotism has . just recently as history Is calculated weakened and toppled to earth with a crash that was heard thruout the world. Th Modern Library has repub lished the volume which was he result of Saltus scathing attacks, "The XiftperhU Orgy." Saltus .ruthlessly jerked the masks from the faces of those rul ers whom modern historians, hav ing been deadened by time to the j terror and . repulsion of human slaughter, have come to picture as great Ivan tho Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and the smaller "great" ones who fitted in between, strewing the land with their own poisoned despotism and their own subjects' heads. ' Saltus. of course, tells only cone side of the story; but It is a side that needs to be told and one that is seldom more than casually men tioned. "lfte Imperial Orgy" is a worthy addition to the, mounting list of volumes between the limp (bindings bearing the Modern 1.1 jbrary Colophon. Sinai" from which Moses obtained!01 u,om WUK UOWn n , T B j ..,.....1.., oiam, many snowing uie okotv many showing the unique city a new interest. A bu0 -emooraio una exqumtc carwn. letin from the Washington. I. C, headquarters of the National Geo- ! "I'etra haVbcen called by poets time. Its deeplycolored walls rose, purple, yellihf, crimson are graphic society tells of Ietra and) jits unusual site. I -peira is like a fairy city hid flen in a mountain," says the bul letin. "It is as though a huge peak had been disemboweled and the ancient Qty set down in the chasm. ' Enter Through Canyon "The old entrance to tho city which was an important factor in its strength From a semi-desert plain one enters a narrow canyon which is indeed beautiful; and the skillful use of the colored strata in the carvings show's that the P?1!! artists made the most of the aesthetic possibilities. But Petra did not exist for beauty alone. If it $&d possessed a chamber of commerce in its heyday of impor- can be used today: j ance- tmU organisation could have 'the world's premier distributing red sandstone. Along the bottom clearings' ran into many hundreds of this canyon a little stream flows. The high, jugged walls, at many places overhanging, give the passage a gloom even at midday. At one poiu the floor of the can yon narrows to twelve feet, and at no place is it wider than 40 feet, ... - "After one has followed this tortuous chasm for two miles he comes out unexpectedly into an open plain, approximately a mile across, entirely surrounded by sheer cliffs and precipitous slopes. Through the center winds the little Ktronnt i. Mstf nirii,il tt-nlnc tziitittlt? ages ago. On the level ground mil01 f Kgypt. each side of thcstream rose tho I of talents. O j "The city was the Suez and Pan lanui of its day, a meeting place for the chief trade routes. Incense, j spices, and other treasures of the j iCast came from India, Persia, and 1 farther Arabia to this 'safety dc- posit city of the desert. From i there goods were distributed to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, and through Tyre and Sidon to the Mediterranean countries to - the west. An important special traffic of the city whs the furnishing of J Dead Sea bitumen to tho embalm- married and disprove this idea. Transforming a modern five room apartment into a home is no slight task, and to reproduce one of the vintage of '71 In those five rooms is nothing less than magic, but when two young heads with but a single thought start to ac complish asuciyi transf or niation, something is Ojjound xo happen, especially when one of the two is a hattdy-nmn. Jt seemed no trick at all for him to turn an old walnut washstand upside down, set it on Wpr old wahut tabw legs, refinish Tfie out side and produce a china cabinet for the dining room. There is the d rawer for 1 n and two iittie doors to ojM?n, revealing old china. No trouble at ail to tie aa an cient, moldy gate-leg table to the back of the iMgit roadster when one iaeutioing a Illinois, espe cially i someone allows t$ explore the depths of their cellar and drag it to the light, "That old thingryhey say. "Why, that has been down there for years. and It's a sight. The young couple nomcem- are hoping they will not want it back when they come to visit and see it tn their dining room. The handsome old chest that had been in the carpenter's shop so Jong was a tough proposition. especially tho tp drawer, w here i the obi man kpt his lunch, and Hhe m!r had nibbled holes in it. jNow it holds the family linen ami is an imp&misg jtUve of furnitar in the living room with the tapes try above it.. An expensive tapes try bought to hang sbove the in xpexivs chvKi it wa a Imrgam, i you kftstw, because these young folks wor vMHomkal. you say. i Oh, no, the flapper shopped yntit ihe fouml a lovely gmy-Krn jh hair r'j;viait, with silver thread woven mm it. tihe bound this with a wid- sii'sp uUhlatk saiin, and the . tri-k was( turiitHl. i You are id-fifjhkmci yourself it you titink anyotie with bobbed hair and vhort skirts wotiM fail to think of putting a .tint old-fashioned.- clock on an apartment window slU for decorative fur poses.. An aurspcns hot comfortable overstuffed chctir can be made to iook very .ouafiut when a business girl becomes a bride. With a yard or two of, red and iahlte toile, she takes neotile. thread and scissors to ffliifee a sliiAer for it. Then, tuo, you Atve no idea how falch ing a pper looks curlew up in the cornore of an old Virginia sofa, stitching a fine seam by the light of two glsss tamps with orgamUe shades. These sere piaccd on small tnbles at either side of the sofa. The background of two big windows curtained with gray-green theatrical gauze was perfcot. Thte gir know a thing or two. They are smart enough. A littie denk fashioned from an other old " washstand tthe kind that bans tho handles was stand ing in front f lovely homemade screen, the original of which sells for a handsome sum, and even grandmother "s old red tablecloth was In evidence as it blushlngly trled to hide n ugly, modern radi ator. The brH bucket which could tell many interesting tales of feast days had Pa corner too, while ret3$itthcd chairs, quaint "quaint old tables and ilctures completed tho living room furnish ings. Oils almost expect to Jtear H for the warming pan as ih brtdi ushers them Into the front htHlrmim with its fuur-isoster bed otjvercd witfc the camllewick spread- A dressing table had been made from a box and looked very 4Usint in its dress of printed rniieo edged with organdie ruffies. There was a lamp thadti o titatch and oval rae rups on the fltsr, Tho ld mahogany ahtg table iwhi its bit f fiewlng proudly mni tho ladles with full skirts in the Uodey j fcook prints on tho wall itemed smireiy a? no me in Uieir sor- iven the wjrar? iH-ir4Mioi with its Jfimy J.itul bl itixvritl &$th a pink ibeI jjiit." UnJL the old chs in pUH'e tsf r-tti, brtnmht for'.h esrlsmatjuii sf d?- a 3aMY, ICverythlng was sjm a4 span. The cue taln mt-re heM iKu-fe trimly with thseis wf lass aiui gating a esssiisa gux4 bbo invrv n-siaiiwi &niy tne helf xa hbi a bit of chlsa. ea VUchw to h wein. So by this inwicinv a thing? aades evbleet t hw in- oar sraiHtivmilwM ib rai.-. $&,&m?M S & f if m m. ra new ah op izrr .fop Q waus ilov. far Vvi Into atitUfUlty is "HnildiiiRH" Carved tvtun CliffH i ,t Iltf,tHlV b a reaches back I not knowg, but ;t least known ; 'w.i-iv -jit i. nor. nf u s sketchiiy from about BOu u, C, t structures that rose on tho plain I11 ls lu scsted that the more, have disappeared. But against the ncientHown- may have served as cliff walls remains a unique, and a d!ji,,ibu!i' centor for tlie religi almost imperishable I'etra. One- ous iaea of thc l&iit aH Uii suc" piece 'buildings have been can.ed ; cessor s ved. in forwarding Kasi o of the solid Mndstnn and riern S0 rt '. almost us well preserved today as when the chisels of their "creators fterc laid down. ;,. "One of the most striking of these creations is the so-called 'Treasury of Pharaoh a product of t$e (Jreek perbl several een- j turies before Christ. The front of! There are those who will teli the edifice stands in deep relief, ;you tho modern flapper hosioth its pillars, capitals, pediment, and; lag beneath her slick bobbed hair superstructure intuct. A doorway j except a vacuum, ad that when a leads Into the cliff fromvhleh giii enters the business world her rooms were hollowed. J domestic instincts vanish forever. "Another ptirved masterpiece is so it remained for one such to get A Flapper Gems to Hcfjsekmping VILLA NURSERIES GROWEES OP CHOICEST TreaE5 Shrub Plants ami Vines We carry a complete stock of aJ varieties of Par, Plum, Prune, Apple, Peach, Apricot, Cherry, Walnut, FU bert, Almond and all other kinds of trees. Largest assortment of Ornamental Tree smd Shrub )n Oreflsn; Plenty sf Rose Bushes, Climbing Rose and Vinee, Rhii barb and Asparagus Roots. 4 i f; - ; -'v STRAWBERRIES Vb have the famous Progressive and Improved New Oregon strawberry plants on hand, Sig stock of bulbs of all kinds. LANDSCAPING FREE We are at your service and will bt glad to help you plan and select what you need free sf charge. Sales Yard Cor. 6th & Grapt, Medford. Phone NEW HUDSON P1.ICES (IMM chaiitl Coach ... $US Coupe ... (Rumble Stmt nM , Sedan ... Uli Standard Sedan . Custom Victoria 3 CustBm Laadau Sedan CMgom Sedan 19 5 Suytn eon bj im vat mtt cf nam auwMflct " s t The consistent of Hudson leadership Is but the performaJtce of its first principle, resolu tion and tradition to always led to value. Thus it was the first car moderate price to give truly great performance, smoothness and reliability the industry's standard today. Thus it was the first in the developjaent of American closed cars, and such smart turnouts as the Town Car and Speedster. The Coach a Hudson invention turned the entire industry closed cars. The Supcr-S8t principle and iticompanion in vention that turns waste heat to power, is the most efficient combination in developmentand transmission of power, within our knowledge. In the beautifully designed and luxuriously finished bodies that feature the new Hudson Super-Sixes the same relation ajf values obtain as made the Super-Six tiiasskPfamous. ARMSTRONG MOTORS, INC. 101 S, RiTerd Am Phone 18 f 'rrus c: ibury. Nf LOCK, by eff 1 ork. THK TICK OF K Herbert Asbury, Macy-Maslup. Tho bloodthirsty Mr. Asbury has at last completed his second detec tive yarn ami has surprised many of the kftaders of hiB first tale by his evident chance of heart. As- bury's first mystery novel. "The Devil of Pei-L.ing," published a few months aso, Was filled with 'gore and pehenna so much of it. in fact, that Anbury munt have himself become satiated. The pres ent story is much Icssz-vanguine; what it has lost (n hluodrhowevcr, it has not lost in Interest, for It is as readable or even niore so than its forerunner. 0 Inspector Conroy Is given a bet ter chance to solve the mystery of "Tho Tick of the Clock" than he was to solve that of the previous book. Thc mystery in this instance surrounds the murder of James H. i Walton. The clues, as In all good detective novels., are slender, and the problem seems completely Im possible of solution. The reader is introduced to tho culprit and convinced that he could not have had anything to do with the crime untUffthc denouement. Asmr-'s literary prestige lies a considerable distance behind his entrance in the field1 of detective fiction. He will be remembered by even casual readers as the man whose article 'Hatnck' in !Sg to ban thc whole Issue of the mag- j uaino from the city a few seasons ; back. ! A 'daUGIITKK OF VKNICK. by Vsabet DcWitte. New Yoi k. Hay D, Hcnkle. I liiancu Cappetln was an out standing character of the six-; .teenth century, a wonjatf who "left j her mark" on the stories of Venice and Florence, JFho her de scendants are proud recall her title of "A Daughter of Venice", ' not all of her escapades arc rccog jtlzed by her pratlclan family, and i possibly some of her "affairs" still ; are suppressed. 1 Tho story Is ft romance In the ; grand manner, full of action, run ning through a series of tavern brawls, &bductk, midnight en counters, secret duohga.rdcn ro mances and involving princes, and paupers, cardinals, priests, patri cians, ptebians, soldiers of state and soldiers of fortune and chief f all rtlanra Cappello and Fran- cesca de Medici, the great Duke of , Florence. Miss DeWitt) has captured the atmosphere of the period of her tale, and throughout Its pages one 1 glories In the achievement of h?ri btruttibg cbaructciii. I IftL I J SI, 4 Have It Mended and Save t he Differee Dn't thro articles avay tlw a little rf&aiu trealtl s gaunt m. tfm t mmtm cm EPAIBJNQ -JNINQ MODELING We give your furg expert treatment WE "MEND IT" WardWellFurCo. (Formerly Bartlett's) 41 S. CENTRAL Phone 120-X ALL MAKES OfATCHBI, AMERICAN AND SiS3 and ALL MAKES OF CLOCKS OUR W0RKMNjt)RE EXPERTS All repairing done In our own shop. We manufacture, repair and remod Q jewelry. Diamond mounting a specialty. 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