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The White Fla 
by Gene Stratton-Porter 
^Author of: 
LADDIE FRECKLES 
HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER 
MICHAEL O HALLORAN 
StC. 
Seventeen years ago, Gene 
Stratton-Porter published her 
first novel. Since then her 
books have sold 10,000,000 — 
more than a copy a minute. 
Ten years ago everyone who 
liked a good book was read¬ 
ing LADDIE. Two years 
ago HER F A T H E R’S 
DAUGHTER was selling 
1,500 copies a day. 50,000,- 
000 is the estimate of the 
people who have read and 
loved Gene Stratton-Porter’s 
books. That is about one 
half of the population of the 
United States. 
The Limberlost country of Mrs. Porter’s earlier 
stories and nature studies is the scene of this new 
novel. It is the country where she grew up and 
learned to see in the beauty of nature and in the char¬ 
acter of the Hoosier countrymen—the heart of 
America. 
The White Flag is the story that Mrs. Porter has 
carried in a corner of her memory all her life. It is 
the story of the emblem of purity, and those who pass 
under it to become clean of heart. The people of the 
story are a girl who was true to herself, 
and two men both innately fine, but who 
grew so that one was warped by selfish¬ 
ness while the other knew the meaning 
of goodness. Mahala, the little girl 
has something of the qualities of that 
other little Hoosier girl, who became 
one of the famous women of the world. 
Here is a book that, like Freckles and 
Laddie, should be in every home. 
zAt all bookstores. Fnce, $2.00 
Published by Doubleday, Page & Co. 
Garden City, New York In Canada: 25 Richmond St., W., Toronto 
