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RECENT U READABLE I
Some people like to read historical
novels, others prefer fiction but every-
one likes to read. This week we are
reviewing two new novels received re-
cently at the Wingham Public Lib-
rary.
3/LITTER by Daphne Rooke
Mittee stands out in print, as she
did in life, from the more stolid and
envious girls who watched nor un-
usual drama unfold. "A sparkling
girl, perhaps too fine in build, for
the taste of some," she was as quick
and light in temper as in body, as
Selina knew only too well, Selina,
colored and gentle friend and servant.
In the rich South African house-
holds Selina waited on young Mittee,
Over the veldt in the rolling wagons
the girls journeyed together to "Mit-
tee's home, to her dashing fiance,
Paul, who rode out to meet his bride.
Selina was always there, sombre pet
of Mittee's bursting gaiety, sometime
exile of Mittee's displeasure, always
friend of Mittee's trouble,
And in Selina's telling of their story,
for it is she who narrates these
events, we see how closely these three
people are bound in destiny. For Se-
lina, bound since childhood in service
to Mittee, Is also bound in love to
Paul, Mittee's aristocratic husband,
proud husband to Mittee, contempt-
uous master to Selina.
Under the high African say, to the
night noises of wild beasts, wagons,
love songs and lament, With a back-
ground of unusual people, their story
unfolds, and at the end both liaittee
and Selina +can look 'Me% at many
violent events from the peaceful and
hard-won vantage point of love.
Mittee has all the vitality and exotic
background which are part of the
South African scene, as well as the
season's most unusual heroine.
JEFFERSON SELLECH
by Carl ,Jonas
Up to the time of his heart attack,
Thomas Jefferson Selleck seemed to
himself and others to be an ordinary
small manufacturer, who lived in
Gateway City, somewhere in the
Middle West. He was a partner in the
Yaw-Et-Ag Mfg. Co, (Gateway spelled
backwards), makers of automobile
horns which played popular tunes. He
golfed at the Sleepy Hollow Country
Club and read almost no fiction with
the exception of the Mr. Glencannon
stories in the Saturday Evening Post.
He lunched, hunted and drank with
the members of the Chowder and
Marching Society. He was a Republic-
can, although, as he admits, he was
always "of the more charitable school
which considered Franklin Roosevelt
a gifted madman," He was sure that
"straight shooting" fair play, good
humor, taking the rough with the
smooth, the hard with the easy, these
are the things which all of us believe
in,"
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Put when his physical system went
on a sit-down strike, 'he found these
beliefs pretty inadequate for the bleak
future, two one-ounce drinks a clay,
no golf, no hunting, no business, no
'phone calls, And he decided to take
stock, to find out where be had bc"fl,
where he was and where he hoped to
go,
Dictating qco a tape-recorder which
his son, Torn, bad given Min for
Christmas, Jeff Bailees begins to look
back on his life, He tells about his
first love, Helen Flanagan, who be-
came his secretary and saved his
business. And about Gertrude McCul-
lough, who married him, but, he learn-
ed on his wedding night, was
love with Henry Button. Be describes
the big elk hunt in the Gunnison
River country and his friendship with
the cowboy, January. Be relates how
he came to be in charge of noise for
Bob Taft at the '48 Republican Con-
vention in Philadelphia, how he saved
his son, Torn, from "itty bitty" Dolores
in New York City and how his daugh-
ter, Tinker, married successful George
Manche, the only man who could
ever make her behave, He reveals how
his partner, Jake Brawn, got tired of
making auto horns and invented a
guided missile, and what this meant
to a man like himself who still be-
longed to and could only be at home
in the pre-atomic world.
After Jeff's death, Doc Crocker, his
lifelong friend and physician, under-
took to dit these memoirs despite cer-
certain objections on the part of Mrs.
Selleck. And Doc Crocker's under-
standing and sometimes dryly amused
comments enable as to see Scoff Sell-
eek through a second, unbiased pair
of eyes,
Carl Jonas's novel will remind the
reader of John P. Marquand's The
Late George Apley, for it is the same
kind of intensely personal revelation,
is at once an affectionate portrait and
a revealing satire. In both his
strengths and his weaknesses, Jeffer-
son Selleck epitomizes a phase of
Middle West culture. He is Sinclair
Lewis's Babbitt thirty years later, a
wiser and sadder and mellower Bab-
bitt who was compelled to think about
his life, and who, at the end, "was
arriving at some kind of answer to all
the intangibles which oppressed hir,i,"
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writes books of all types and preaches
the New Agriculture. Practises it too,
we might add.
Louis spoke recently in Canada, pri
one of his whirlwind tours, and he
astounded the farmers with his state-
ment that 30% of farmers hate their
land, and dislike their livestock. And
he went on to say that in the States,
50c/5 of the population is fed by 10%
of the farmers. The other 30% are fed
by about 30% of the farmers, who are
moderately successful. The remaining
60% of the Farming population in the
States, produces little more than it
consumes, and hi invariably the class
which has to be supported and main-
tained by floor and support prices.
The productive 40% are the fellows
who like their land, their livestock,
and the business of farming. They
make farming a business. Louis
Bromfield, farmer, author, conserva-
tion man, touches here, the hard, bare
truth, the reason why so many of our
young fellows and girls leave the
farm, They hate the farm, because
they have learned to accept it as a
drudgery, a sort of dog-eat-dog busi-
ness, We need to find some way to
make these fellows happier,
Thank goodness for spring, because
it gives us all an opportunity to ap-
preciate beauty, whether it be the
farmer looking at his greening fields,
or the farm boy staring, misty-eyed at
the School Marm. . .
"In the spring a young man's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love" If
you think that isn't so, just observe
the actions a the new wood on your
family tree as he goes moonstruck
around . the premises, feeding the
same cow twice, and forgetting to
milk the Jersey altogether. These are
things that happen every spring. They
happened thousands of years ago,
when man first began to appreciate
woman as a little more than a beast
of burden, and decided that, here was
a "handy little thing on a fifty acre
farm."
But spring means more than love
sick youth, taffy pulls in the sugar
bush, and new buds on the trees. It
means seeding, when the farmers be-
gin to clean the seed, treat it for
smut, and the other many and "varied
diseases that seem to multiply each
year. It means that Bad will have to
get out the grease gun, and the oil
can, and pull the seed drill out from
underneath the hay rack and the
extension ladder, and get it ready for
the busy season, There will be bruised
knuckles, dirty hands, muddy boots,
and sore backs for the next couple of
weeks, as the family attempts to be-
come acclimatized to the new season.
Likely as not, one of the first pro-
blems will be how to get the warp
out of the , seed drill tongue, a con-
dition that came about as a result of
a snow drift that blew in a crack in
the, drive shed door, and stayed
around till long after the winter had
passed. But, throw the lever in an-
other notch this spring, and you'll
never know the difference.
I've been reading about Louis
Bromfield's Malabar farms these past
few weeks in my spare time, and it's
amazing how Louis can paint a beaet-
iful picture of just about every job
around the farm. Sure, I know that
his name will bring comments from
many. The Conservationalists will say
"Hallelujah!" the Theory boys will
say "Baloney," and some of the farm-
ers will say "Who the beck is Louis
Bromfield?" Louis is the boy who
lives down hi the State of 'Shio, on
Malabar Farm, in Pleasant Valley,