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THE RICH LITTLE POOR GIRL
“The Golden Cocoon” is a good book
to read when you are feeling satis
fied with life in general and do not
wish to be disturbed by any doubts
as to the justification of such a feel
ing. This novel by Ruth Cross is en
tertaining and interesting but not
gripping or disturbing. The story of
Molly Shannon, one of “the shiftless
Shannons,” will certainly seem very
realistic to you, partly because you
are more than likely to sympathize
with her and admire her brave fight
to face facts squarely and do some
thing about them, and partly because
Miss Cross tells the story y convincing
ly. Nevertheless, “The Golden Co
coon” is not the sort of book that
disturbs one’s philosophy or leaves
one asking himself questions about
the scheme of things. In other words,
it is not strongly impressive.
Molly was the eldest girl in the
large family of “shiftless Shannons.”
The poverty in which her family eked
out its existence and the cruelly hard
work caused her to hate their way
of living with all the bitterness a
young girl could hate it. Molly had an
unusual kind of beauty together with
brains, imagination, and the desire
for a fuller life. Her winning a
scholarship to the state university was
a turning point in her life. At the
university she met that “charming
cad,” Stephen Renfro, and became en
gaged to him, and her bitter disil
lusionment caused by Stephen’s mar
rying a rich girl and suddenly leaving
town without telling any one caused
Molly to attempt suicide. Quite for
tunately, however (for all this hap
pened before the book is half done)
Molly was rescued by the man she
afterwards marries, a man who is a
silent power in the state and who
later becomes governor. For some
unexplainable reason, Miss Cross is
not satisfied to let Molly stop and
enjoy the happiness which Molly de
served. As the charming mistress
of the governor’s mansion she seems
to have reached all that a poor little
country girl could ever have desired,
but she had not yet realized her am
bition to have her writing published.
A ghost of the past rises up to con
front Molly and jeopardize her hus
band’s future success, but she rises
very superbly to the demands of the
occasion, and after a melodramatic
flight to New York and a stay of two
years there, during which her play is
published; she returns to the state
capital as suddenly as she left. The
reunion of Molly and her husband is
a very happy ending to the story.
The International and Great North
ern Railway is demolishing one cf
its station waiting-rooms, said to be
one of the oldest in existence. Al
though the operation is being care
fully watched, no traces of fossilized
passengers have yet come to light.
Devoted Suitor: “I’ll give you a
quarter, Tommy, if you’ll get me a
lock of your sister’s hair.”
Tommy: “Make it a dollar and I’ll
get you a whole wad of it, I know
where she hangs it.”
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