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...rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week. The full moon with Venus, Mars and Saturn accompanying swelled pompously across the midnight sky. And in a lamplit farmhouse near Callander a buxom French-Canadian woman of 24 whimpered with the unusual fullness of her womb. She, too, had three attendants-her aunt, another goodwife who had borne 17 children, and her husband Ovila Dionne. Upstairs in bed were the two boys and three girls of the Dionnes. Four years in his grave lay their sixth...
...where Elzire Dionne lay. "Ça me fait mal," she wept. Ovila Dionne surmised that his wife was complaining about the swelling of her legs. But the goodwives knew that Elzire Dionne was on the verge of bearing her seventh child, perhaps twins. They dispatched Ovila down the rocky, forest-edged road to Dr. Dafoe's, placed kettles and pots of water to boil, laid out clean towels and a bottle of olive oil on the new bedroom bureau, lined a wicker clothesbasket with pads and sheets to receive the newcomer, washed their hands, and composed themselves to watch...
...which an exhibition distillery was humming. Most of last year's real fun was to be had in the ribald Streets of Paris and in the Belgian and Midget Villages. Last week's Fair vistors found no dearth of villages-American Colonial. Old English, Spanish, German Black Forest, Mexican, Dutch, Italian, Tunisian, Swiss, Irish, Oases, Shanghai. All Villages were run by U. S. citizens. The Midway had been moved to the Island. The side, peep-and girl-shows which opened many a rural eye last year were back in reduced numbers. Again the Fair tried to keep them...
...forest ranger in the middle of the main street of Tonto Basin, Ariz, frantically flagged an approaching automobile. To its passengers he explained that his 15-year-old half-breed wife was in her 24th hour of labor. Out from the car climbed Arizona's Physician-Governor Benjamin B. Moeur, followed the ranger to his house. Few minutes later the Physician-Governor delivered the mother of a 7-lb. baby...
...unco-highbrows, should be grateful for the reassuringly human voice of Critic Van Wyck Brooks. He is known by the minority that reads him as a sound, tonic, unacademic observer whose interest in the tall trees of literary criticism has not blinded him to the more important U. S. forest. These Three Essays on America, originally published separately (1915, 1918, 1921), are as pertinent now as when they were first written...