Ainslee's Magazine, February 1913 — page 170: what you’re looking at

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160 other magazines that they should have been in Arnsee’s before this. Probably no writer better_understands or more delightfully interprets the heart of a child than does Ethel Train. “The Star Child,” in our March issue, possesses the same whimsical tenderness and delicate min- gling of pathos and humor that give this author’s book, “Son,” its rare appeal. No introduction to readers of AINSLEE’S could insure John Fleming Wilson a warmer welcome than “The Girl Who Never Grew Old.” It’s a story that proves afresh the truth of the old paradox: idealism is more real than realism. Ww T will be good news to followers of F. Berkeley Smith’s colorful French tales to know that his publishers have brought out a second volume made up for the most part of his contributions to AINSsLEE’s. ‘The Street of the Two Friends” is its title. Mr. Smith’s next story, “To Please Mother,” will be printed in our March issue. The same number will contain one of the strongest stories that Constance Skinner has given us, a story dealing with the problems arising in the life of a conventionally reared country girl, who is married to a brilliant young actor. “Her Rightful Place” is the name of it. AINSLEE’S Prejudices were stronger a generation ago than they are to-day. The owner of one of the most widely read periodicals of our fathers’ time was strongly averse to second marriages. As a consequence it was one of the editorial rules of his publication that it must print no fiction containing step-parents with amiable characteristics. Second mar- riages were bad; therefore stepmothers had to be cruel—at least in this very particu- lar periodical. It is fortunate for the read- ing Dublic that Helen Baker Parker lives in this more enlightened age. Otherwise a charming little story of hers, “His New Day,” which you will find in the coming AINSLEE’S, might never have seen type. For the lonely boy who chooses a new mother— incidentally his father has already chosen her—is such an attractive little chap that no stepmother could possibly have the heart to be cruel to him, even to comply with cast- iron editorial rules. The fourth adventure in Anna Alice Chapin’s appealing series, “The Woman With a Past,” is called “Renaissance.” The remainder of the fiction in this un- usually attractive number will be made up from characteristic stories by such writers as May Futrelle, Horace Fish, Gerald Vil- liers-Stuart, Edgar Saltus, and Ada Wood- ruff Anderson, NOOK (C@