Penthouse in Bogotá

IN 1932 the AP sent the Harners to Bogotá, high up in the Andes, and for two years they lived there with their infant son, the appealing “Don Mikey.” How, with the help of Jorge, Harner’s Colombian assistant, they found a house just to their liking -— a house which had been built right up on the roof of a former newspaper shop; how they wheedled the necessary repairs out of the unwilling owner; how they bargained for furniture and finally settled in with the help of their three recently acquired and very energetic muchachas — all this Virginia Paxton (Hamer) tells in sprightly detail. The book is a breezy and friendly account of housekeeping in a foreign land. Many American housewives — who can’t go and do likewise — will read it with keen enjoyment.