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irn gnTTANOOGA NEWS CHATTANOOGA TENN SATURDAY AFRIL 9 1927 mm I i Conducted By Christine Noble Govern dear dear Jill who remain la the "THE OLD by Ann Douglas Sedgwick (Houghton-Mifflin) IN Old Miss Sedge wick haa written one of bar most fascinating stories Laid In a picturesque mountain village In France it has about it an air of secrecy of privacyj it Is of a little world all thq own whete love and jealousy supreme courage and sacrifice beyond the human conception take place on a small but exceedingly beautiful stage Jill Graham and her' husband ate staying at this little town while Dick paints the 1 surrounding scenery 'They become Acquainted with lb countess 1 1 swept away by tbs' murderous a solitary lonely old woman who oaa-1 venom of the old jealous not realise that her days as a co- Quette are over a vlvaclou selfish old woman 'who 4s capable of Intense jealousy and deep hatred She lives rags and her own peace of mind Is shattered beneath the storm of the oreature'a Wrath the portentioua darkness pervades the readers very of the and It has been written with real abUlty One feels somehow that thlsda not yet the best that Miss Comstock wiU do And yet it has enough of fin work ita it to make us know that aoms dan and perhaps very soon she will write a book that ta all that "Speak to th Earth" attempts to be (Th story Is Interesting' even sail railing and th great bare stage ot he prairie to capably held by the two actors Vie Trench discouraged ex-service man roman hater and sheep rancher and hi companion Effle Galpln the pathetic little "sucker" who thought Owensty Junction was a metropolis where she could make a fortune with bar vole In A vain attempt to escape reality Effle- fleeing from Newark fifed herself stranded tn an apparently endles waste known to her vaguely as "th west Penniless alone frightened to the Verge of Insanity she la picked up by Vic who has come to town to spend His last few dollars before west voluntarily in a more traglo sense The story of their mutual dependence their desperate struggle for the bare necessities of Ilf of what they learn about each other about the earth which nourishes them and about the greatness and pettiness of mankind in general forms a story that is not only vivid readable and entertaining but to strong and swift a story that Is decidedly "different" Flappers seeking th succulent passages where the stereotyped western hero with keen blue eyes and' ruddy lean countenance woos the bewitching dark-haired heroin with a sprained ankle and a sombrero had better turn "Speak to the dowri flat Vlo Is ugly both In physical make-up and disposition and there are nearly two hundred pages of story before he oven looks at Effle without scowling But people who appreciate res) men add women who like their books to be above the usual run of fiction and who can see beneath th surface of a narrative will find a great Heal of pleasure between the covers of thl CL FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS humorist author and edi- tor to probably best known at conductor of the column "The Conning Tower" He made a soor of 0 DONALD BORN la a member of the English department of th faculty of Northwestern university He made a score of General Quiz 1 What two of tho meet famous film start are married to each other? 1 Who gave away more money than any other Scotchman who over lived? A For whet purpose dot Tutey-foot" Johnson pussyfoot? A Who said: "Give me Liberty ot give me Th pre-Jtophaelitt school of art flourished in whet century? A Whet Biblical king of Babylon went mad and at grass? I What to a boomerang? fe What to the largest take la North America? a Between what countries Were th Punic wart fought? 10 Who was- th author ot both "Peter fend II Whet to th Mohammedan name tor the Supreme Being? 13 Of what British posses el on to Wellington th capital? 18 Who said: "Wt must all hang together or assuredly wo will all hang 14 For whom was th month ot July named? 15 What pictures figure fit th early history of th western frontier later appeared In a traveling show which bore hi name? 1A Give th next line after: "It 'to aa ancient mariner" 17 Who wee Florence Rlthlngale? Me Bjr JUSTIN LUCIEN for th first time at a party where the guests are being diverted with boxing bouts th floodgate of living are loosened end eh to alive Her youth and early life have been spent In lethargy end now In middle eg the to caught In the maelstrom ot a most violent and destructive passion for a young pugilist And not -only their age separate them they are es far removed from on another socially as ths poles of th earth It to a situation original and interesting and not very ttcual in- literature But it to reasonable and real in this world wher love shows no consideration for hto victim and to every bit as malicious the Greeks ever Imagined him VS Tii ehsncter of th heroine and her actions and reactions In this peculiar love affair are psychologically and naturally real Bhe trie to keep bar dignity and self-respect In a degrading dilemma-- Th methods the to forced to us era pitiable and traglo But I am afraid that she will not be appreciated fully by aay on who has not himself been th victim of a humiliating passion 8he erics out 'T wish I were deed And then "es ah stood within a kiss' length of th youth she needed now ea much aa ah needed blood or breath a coldness descended upon her heart a severity cam into her face" Jimmy is an admirable character also as Integral and Self-contained as you would expect an uneducated uncultured boxer to be There seems to have been nothing attractive shout him except his prizefighting animalism But he wet certainly endowed with more 'than hto share of tax appeal Finally Sylvia von Gleichen appears on the seen and Jimmy at tost begins to react stirred for th first time by force outside of hi own passive self And he acts In such a way that all th complication! ere solved and th etory ends In a strain of high end pathetic comedy The style of the book 1 delightful About the author' cleverness I have spoken and tor tho desultory reader it may conceal some of th deeper value ot th book The only fault I am able to find to that Mr Golding's mind to 0 agile and leaps forward ao swiftly that he' to sometime a little obecur There are also a lew annottn fro-graphlcal error gg senses ths sense of Impending tragedy Is so strong aa to almost unbearable And yet again when Dick Graham all unwittingly oomes upon Martha Luderae standing by her bedroom window' at night her amazement her fear and her Intensely repressed love Dick's own passion and embarassment are told tn a few swift sure paragraphs that leavs -Ilia reader strongly moved Perhaps it Is not strange since Miss Sedgwick Is ftf mneb aa artist that oner feels so vividly tbs sweetness the i dearness and the honesty of J11L Martha Luderae with all her traglo Intensity all her brooding tenderness nil her courage and Infinite patience does not outshine Jill's steadfast goodness The countess with her fading beauty her wit and her egotism cannot best her Dick the artist ths lover the dreamer end philosopher Is after all only a little boy who turns to her In the night and leans upon her by day One feels that Miss Sedgwick must have loved Jill must have felt the wietfulness of that lonely little heart who gave up a permanent home and all the substantial dependable things that her British soul must have craved for art And one feels that with Mila Ludemo Martha Luderae "rather a heroic 'name Bather a cruel Strang name too gentle! and sword-like There's a sound In it of disaster and beauty" said Graham the first time heard it Disaster and beauty) She was to bring them both to their Dick's and' Jill's The disaster of a love that loves without recompense without concession and without hope and the beauty of -a character that could die for that Jove and die Joyously 4 41 Miss Sedgwick has ths gift Of making her -reader feel the atmosphere which' she presents as keenly as though he were actually i on the 1 acene 'which ahfe describes 'When Mile Luderae comes Jill 4hat rainy aa Jill la lying 'bw fore her email grate lire trying to solve the problems of their loves and loyalties ons feels all ths expectancy all the dread and the sudden horror with which Jill hears the French girl's' first Words' Step by step aa Answers to 1 Mary PlokfoM (18S-) and Douglas Fairbanks A Andrew Carnegie (1838-1918) Hto benefactions totaled over 8300000000 9 Tn the Interests of prohibition A Patrick Henry (X7S8-1700) 8 The nlnteenth century 6 Nebuchadnezzar (died 863 0) 7 A missile weapon used by Australian aborigines so constructed that it finally returns to tho thrower A Lake Superior 9 'Room and Carthage' 1A Georg Louis Palmtll Juston Du Mauri er (1834-1886) XL Allah 13 New EeelanA 18 Benjamin Franklin (1708-1780) 14 Calus Julius Caeear (100-44 C) 15 William Frederick Cody (1848-1817) 1A "And he etoppeth on of three Myron By DEAN PALES -(E Dattoa fe Co) This Is evidently first novel and to tn no way a very creditable one The author's use of language to exceedingly poor Borne of his sentences are es ingenuous and artless as those la the average composition by a high school sophomore For Instance lesrn that Myron lived with his mother who was all thafcxthe name Implies and bis father wbe was a man of means' Moreover Mr Palo uses such gram mar as "ths headquarters was" end more active of the boys" referring in this totter instance to all the stu-fiei ta of a school His sty to shows such a conscious effort to be style that it cease to ha a style at all Especially to he fond of obeolete expressions such as "the new turn that was toward" and one aa nearly archaic and anyway aa unnatural aa the nonce" and "ear it wen that" Ha repeats words in tan annoying way a If whan ha ha got hold of one he to unable to turn tt loose He to as rack! bout th position of hta adverbs as Theodor Dreiser He uses relstlva clauses aa complete sentences And finally what tor me capped th climax was that one boy threw at another a "decayed egg" This to intended to be a red-btooded two-fisted he-man story and I cannot recommend it to any on who to not Interested in narrative of that type It to the Odyssey of Bill Myron start-log on a particular day when he does not know his arithmetic lesson in grammar School and following him through a varied and heroie career to at different time a gang leader a A man a mechanic a pu gUtot and ao on ad Infinitum HI outstanding characteristic to a superfluous share of th aau-aasartiv instinct and ha is always ready to use both his fists at th slightest provocation This tendenoy gets him into 11 sorts of trouble and to Ah causa of hi extraordinarily checkered course through Ilfs- Hi creator endeavors to endow a creature ao elemental with th highest and moat ldeaUatlo yearning and that to where Bill Myron though he may be Interesting to certainly Impoasible When he to a child he and he member of hit gang make a fetish out of their Honor" in a manner that anyone who has had much experience with schoolboys know to psychologically absurd This devotion to hie veracity when challenged on hto honor fellow him through Ufa though he can stand up and deliberately to hi father when that gentlemen neglect to ask him specifically for hto word of honor may be soms readers who will enjoy this book But they will be me who will read it for th story alone which as I havs said has a certain amount of Interest Moreover th character of BUI may appeal to some people tendencies to hero-worship or even to their suppressed desire The flyleaf announces that first edition of 'BlU Myron1 to limited to 300 copies non of which are for sals" I only hop that no misguided collector will treasure th volume In the 'expectation of making a fortune from it twenty-five years from now 4 a to th By SARAH COMSTOCK tDoubleday (waV THERE are a few pseudo-clever mechanisms in th style of this story such as on part of a chapter reading: "Silence 1 "Miles -V mu Mora atlenoe "Mora device that not only Is unoriginal hut which detracts from th natural dignity of the book and there are some conscious attempts at humor which fall flat But aside from this "Speak to the Earth" Is very nearly a great book If has a great the re-establlshment of the ex-servlc mam and th conquering the tenseness of jhvituaUon eases' she meant taj reader to know and after the pitiful confession and a sort cf sorrowful peace comes to them the reader is so absorbed that he forgets completely ths probably commonplace world about him Again when Jill calling oo the counteasTn the midst of a terrific thunder storm of Men" to to be published in Sweden by arrangement between th Viking Press and Hugo Gebert Verlag Negotiation ere being conducted looking to th publication of a Dano-Norweglan translation Padrtao Colum has tor tom time been broadcasting hto stortoa from WEAF It to aid and it can well be Imagined that hto programs give a great deal of pleasure Stephen Vincent -Benet to at work In Paris upon a long narrative poem th background for which to to be provided by the Civil war Benet winner ot a Guggenheim scholarship for a year hat asked for a six months extension in which to finish ditto poem which will be In 00 manuscript page Rafael Babatlnl to in England fishing th River Rye and John Drlnkwater to In Ireland spending hto time tat the same way on tho Blackwater Blarney and Ballyhooley rivers Ferris Greene-let of the Houghton Mifflin company to now abroad and expects to spend a ahort time with each Patrick Hamilton to On of thfe few English authors who does not claim a degree from Oxford or Cambridge-After preparatory school hs turned actor for a time and then went Into butlneaa living In lodging house and digging tat different sections of London He to a proficient In shorthand and typewriting and aayt that hto recreation include cricket golf badminton chase and the movies In hto new novel "Craven House" published by Hcughton Mifflin company Mr Hamilton has given the English equivalent of tho mentality of Main street From Georgia" By FRANK STANTON (Byrd) ft TUST FROM GEORGIA" Is a I hook of poems by that much- loved poet Frank Btanton compiled by his daughter Marcella Stanton Megahee Dots of them are not really poems lota of them are not even good verse but they all reflect the spirit which made Frank Stanton a name which was loved by many and all are verses which appeal to tha people When yon atop to think that for thirty-eight years he was editor of th column "Just from Georgia" In the Atlanta Uonatltution th wonder to That he could each day produce any sort of verse at all It would not be quite fair to Judge hie ability as a poet by hie column verae His "Sweetest Feller" and "Just A-Weayyln for You" can stand with any of their kind These and "Keep are probably hie best known but be hate done some other thing that are fullyaa fine I think that hto "Only a Little Way" Is on of the moat touching love poem I have ever read and a Little Cabin" ha so maoh real beauty In it that 1 have crooned my babies to sleep toit many a night just for the love of the words I quote part of tt from memory and my diaifect may not he quit correct! Jee' a little alii ta ahadder dt slaw wife honqmidU end wtd aments'- felonr vIm Chilian ea dt fleP An' wemta la I do' Slaglnf ilnila' la dt uawnln' Jee fe little eehla wher firelight 1 eee welcome 'croei de eottoa llelda me where I roam Dare my home my home my hornet aa' stnria' to dt mawaia' a little satis wher dt Wa amoks rite and earl Can hoi tooush happiaoee to reach eroua' do wort Doy telle am dot I'ee po' But de la do ta la do mawaia There are several other verses but all contain that homely beauty of the south that essence of honeysuckle sunshine woodsmoka and tong that makes them at once elemental and vvV A By THE other day I was summoned to the telephone to answer a long distance call from Cleveland- I could recall no business with Any one in that great pity hut the local operator (rather unusually) spelled fend pronounced my nfeme correctly and so I put the receiver to my ear and waited Four of five minutes passed There was it appeared some (Sort of trouble on the line I could hear the local long operator howi- ing fet the Cleveland operator and the Cleveland operator whispering back At the end of nine minntes the Cleveland of By LOUII OOLDINQ (Alfred A Xaopf) CLEVERNESS seems to be the supreme desideratum of mod-ora fiction and attempts at It th bane of a reviewer's existence Almost all th writers who have any Intelligence or literary style whatsoever seem to have tha idea that to be auooesstul a' novel must be a string of epigrams fend satiric comments on the art of living rattled off by characters who consume cocktails and light cigarettes on every other page la other words tt Is Jiotblng If not modish and smart and acetlous And there are so Tew that are interested In probing th depths of modern life and capturing tor all time the Babbitts and other monstrosities that are the products of this age and the American and other kinds of tragedies that art th results of IL Hera however Is a story which combines a scintillating and cynical style with a certain profound charao-terlsatlon that the sustained brilliancy of the writing almost hides I knevrfes soon as I opened the cover even as soon as my fingers touched It that It held unusual delights' tn store and I selected tt avidly from among the hooka sent me for review to be read first It to the story of Mrs Horqham after hfe met Jimmy Burton the handsome young boxer from Bermondsey es th author informs in th first santeno Mrs Honbera to th mlddle-eged relict of a colorless husband who wee the most versatile inventor of patent medicine in Great Britain However himself was the only on Whom hto remedies failed to cure and for twenty year Mrs Horsham's "husband had been dead before ha died and the too wet a corpse by hit eld lfe their sshen bedroom" But when ah sees Jimmy A Servico Writer Pause n'd shed a you the passing of the Special European History 'x EDWIN A GROBVENOR he been professor of history and lotenuitlonxl I law at Amherdt college and national president ot Phi Beta Kappa He mad a score ot 8 1 whet was the tltl ot the rulers lmtodjnerly 40000AM people died? ot tha Venetian republic? A' Who wa Moxlmlllen Franooto Morel bldora Dobeeplem? What Important historical events took place In 1068 A 1 A What to the name given to ths great plague which swept Europe Asia and Africa In ths fourteenth century and through Which It has been estl- Answer to'Sparial Quiz 8 What wa th Inal ting Incident Which precipitated the World war? A What noble bout figure tn th "War of th 7 Who wee Grand A What Russian Zmpresa wa originally a peasant girl? 8 What waa Magna Chart? 10 Who waa king of Frono at the outbreak of th French revolution? SPAFFOSa ESTYi FANKUN ADAMS IS What to th English equivalent Of th Latin expression sine qua non? 1A Who to tho present ruler of Belgium? 30' Nam th longest river in Alaska 31 What have th following in common: (a) Franklin Pierce Adams (b) Haywood Broun (c) Jay Jouse (d) Ted Robinson: Jake Falstaff (f) Keith Preston (g) Edward Hope (h) I Phillip? S3 Who sculptured Civic Virtue the statu in City Hall park Mew York city? SA What famous author was onca a pilot on a river steamer? 3A For what to the Church of the Rosary at Lourdes famous? SA Name th king 'Of Sparta who defended the pass at Thermopylae against tha Persian army In 480 General Quiz (From th Rime of tho Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) 17 An Sngllah philanthropist especially celebrated a a hospital nurse durit th Crimean war 17 "Without which not" an Indispensable condition 18 Alberti 80 The Yukon (3000 mUts) 81 They era newspaper oolumnltU (a) New York World (b) New- York World (o) Philadelphia Public Ledger (d) Cleveland Plain Dealer (e) Akron Beacon- Journal (f) Chtoago Dally News: (f) New York Herald Tribune (h) New York Sun 33 Frederick WllUem MacUonnls 83 "Mark Twain1 the pceudoym ot Samuel longhorn Clemen (1833-1810) 8A It to a shrine noted for tf" 'miraculous cures reported by pilgrim 33 Leonidas (died 480 C) Sarajevo Bosnia Juno 1A 181A 8 Tho Houao of York whew insignia waa a whit rose won tho throne from tho House of Lancaster whose insignia waa a rod rose during th fifteenth oenturv 7 Louis XIV of Prune (1838-1716) 8 Catherine I (about 1038-1737) fe Tbo groat charter of English personal and political liberty obtained from King John by th barons fen 1313 10 Louis XVI (1764-1783) (Copyright 1837 by th Viking Prose) present tulera 1 Boms of tho figures were pitifully old and haggard looking aa though thsy had in truth experienced all th vlctoe sltudea and tribulation that history tails us were theirs but tbo psrky who-but-m expression upon th waxen face of others called up a smile ovw -th nothingness of tit pomp and resettle of life In a small room arranged as a study Charles Dickens sat at hto desk busily writing and just bar it may be apropros to Atsta that MUm Tusmud waa this great author1 Inspiration for Mrs Jerley whoa immortalised thl Old Curiosity shop Singly or tot groups tha whol world of bygone notables seemed ranged about one Thee were ruler and potentates ot every na tion warriors statesmen eminent divines actors doctor lawyers authors Bingen and artists together with fe number of our own president Reclining upon a lounge near fe group of royal parsonages wag th figure of Mm fit Amaranth mad from lit a few months before her execution Bhe was very th widow of a lleutenant-oolonel of the bodyguard ot Louis VL snd was guillotined whan but 33 year of age Th Illusion that sh bad just fallen asleep was heightened by a skilfully arranged piece ot mechanism which caused the lac of her night dree to rise and fall over her bosom as it would havt don from regular' breathing Close beeld her clad to somber gar- ments and a black bonnet on her head stood th tiny foundress ot all of thin Her hands were folded and on would scarcely have marveled to hear her express tha satisfaction which must have been hers over what sh had attained'1 Th bust of Voltatro modeled front life by Mm Tuasaud waa aald to have been th finest to her collection For an extra aixpeno on was admitted into what waa known as the "Chamber of truly a place worthy of ts namsl In it were the wax figure ot all th noted murderers thugs robbers maniac etc that have tombed th earth and there aleo woe to be eeen what waa termed th most extraordinary tello In th world Thl woe the original knlf and the identical Instrument which deoapl-tated 33000 person (among th number telng th unfortunate joule XVt Mari Antoinette and Mm Elizabeth) during the reign of tenor thus th ending at tb tom time the worst es well aa th bluett blood of Franca Thl guillotine was bought by Mm Tuasfeud from Benson the grandeon of the original executioner Qulllotln a French physician was it invento end for Mm it we norasA HERE AND THERE- By THE CRITI4 ON THB HEARTH Sherwood Anderson who he just returned from France to hto Ism In Virginia taye that the title ot hto next book may be House" He cald reoently when he stopped off in New York that he was in the throes of writing thinking and throwing ewey th lint though he admit that he to not on to stuff much Hto new book New TfettamenV to to be published this eetaon and th proofs are now in-Mr Anderson's hand for reading Robert Nathan Write that he thinks "Black April" by -Julia Peterkln on ot th outstanding book of th year "It hat immense reality ha a great power of life" Mr and Mrs Duboat Heyward have tailed for an extended vacation in England They call it a vacation but in the next brefeth announce that Mr Heyward to at work upon a novel which will be much longer than either "Angel" or "Porgy" Wt found new word today new to Ut anyway Gelid Meaning cold or frozen and pronounced very much like JeUledT On of tho joy of being ignorant to th constant tang ot discovery The word by tho way' wee used to compare th art in Georg book of poetry Whit to Hart Crane's "White Buildings being a country cricket wa prefer roosters to buildings ourselves and were therefore glad to learn that "Georg O'NtU' mastery of language and brilliance of technique make Hart Crane's verbal architectonic (anotlter nice word) look absolutely gelid" to blackberry wlntof wt ere having Mrs Nextdoor I tm to chilled I feel raeltlvely gelid) Elisabeth Madox "Th Time iJ O' i I Will Raze Humble Cottage That Inspired Payne To Write Famed Svveet By JAMESOWERS Easthampton I) April who still are at MENCKEN the attendant swearing: 10040 years In helL Of late a new complication Is Invented bore Instructs his secretary to call up l)ls chosen victim and the secretary asks the switchboard operator to get his number When the victim gets to the telephone he finds that he Is talking to ths operator and so he has a double watt while the operator gets ths secretary and while the secretary gets the hors It frequently happens that the hors forgets ths call In the meanwhile and cannot he found Or he has gone Into conference Or he Is operating upon some other victim and his line Is thus busy 1 Naturally enough such elaborate hocus-pocus Js mainly practiced by third-rate that is by the sort whose calls arc seldom of any Importance The secretary fever noW rages tn the United States and every white collar slave has one They transact indeed nltte-tenths of the business of ths country One of the chief occupations of these Secretaries is calling up people who want to' be called Their Idiot employers obviously get magnificent satisfaction out of this privilege It makes them seenl busy and Important It puts them on footing of equality with their betters So the bells jangle all day long and men with actual work to do are driven half frantle The schemes that have been proposed for getting rid of the nuisance are all full of defects There la for example the plan of putting in a so-called silent that Is one whosd number Is not listed in the book But It has the disadvantage of cutting off many calls that are really necessary and would be welcome moreover It does not impede the bores for all the true professional know every silent number for miles around There Is again' ths plan of Having no telephone at all But that Is cutting off one's nos to spite one's face The telephone' In the modern World Is far more than mere convenience It la an absolute necessity Without it ons wastes more time than It ever wabtes Itself even when It ring? all day And one -misses many charming contact and many fewest titbits of gossip Ths true remedy' I think' lies In other dlrectlonn What la needed Is a national organization with members bound by a bloody oath to avoid telephone calls whenever possible and to boycott all persons who make them unnecessarily Even without this Seoret organisation much could bs accomplished On July 1 next at noon precisely I shall put Into effect a little plan of my own From that instant I shall answsr no calls at all This scheme to be cure will annoy many of my friends but I am sure that they will bear with me they must suffer that I may survive at all I am as busy as they are and yet I never make telephone calls by way of secretary Whenever I wish to call any on I make the call myself and am at the telephone ready for discourse the Instant the party called responds This seems to ms to be only common politeness Never thelees it appears to be somewhat rare In the world and especially In New York Very often so calling a man I find him-surprised Into temporary epeechlessness by the fact that I am talking to him myself He expects a preliminary parley with a secretary He Is prepared to give his full name and address and to answer Various other question When' I bust in upon him at once be is somehow shocked But life In this grand and Incomparable republio would be far more comfortable If such shock were so common that they ceased to shock at all The telephone le undoubtedly the most valuable of Amerloan Inventions It I worth a doxefi airplane radios and talking machines It ranks perhaps with synthetlo gin the movie and the bichloride tablet But her again ono more and doubly damned we become elave to a machine What I propose Is simply a war of liberation (Copyright 1027 Chicago Tribune) operator whispering back At the end of aloe minutes the Cleveland operator addressed me directly She was sorry ahs said but ths call eould not be completed The unknown In Cleveland growing tired of wait-'ing on his end had gone out to lunch What Is to hs made of such manners? Hers was a man who summoned me Uninvited from my work let me wait with a telephone tn my ear for ten minutes and then calmly walked off Who he waS I know and shall probably nevsr know for I served notloe on tho telephone company on thfe spot that no long distance call from Cleveland Would be answered at my bouse for six months But though one town le thus shut off all ths rest remain oped and regular Intervals TU hear from them On days when I am hard at work againsttime and making heavy weather of It TU be hauled to the telephone to watt upon the peppery dialogues 'of long distance operators and the pleasure bounders I don't know and don't want to know Idiots who If they wrote me letters would get no answers and who If they came to my bouse would be kicked out by my chaplain will bo free to call mo up day or night and If the experience of the past counts far anything scores of them will do It 1 The thing indeed becomes aa unmitigated curse The telephone has beoome as great a boon to bores aa the movies are to morons It enables them to practice their depressing art and mystery upon any ons who has a telephone in' his -house whether they know him or not and they take advantage of the privilege up to the extreme limit of human endurance It baa bsen rarely during the last few years that 1 have sat down to a meal at home without eufferlng their intrusion: It has literally never happened that I have escaped them during two conseoutlve hqurs of work st'' My home la In Baltimor and 'my emce Is In New York In the latter city the excessive number of calls especially during the morning hours make the service very bad but the fact doesn't seem to discourage the town nuisances In ths slightest Ths moment get to ray office lfe the morning the shrilling of the bell be- gins and It keeps up without pause until late In the afternoon Often It Is so bad that I find It almost Impossible to get through my malt As for any work requiring greater alertness and concentration It is wholly out of the question Day after day I am forced to flee to my hotel for enough quiet to get through the banal eperatlons whereby I make living There are of court devices tor escaping this barrage Many men have secretaries to take their telephone calls When call comes In' the secretary finds out who le calling and then asks for instructions It Is not until after that that ths boes himself Is reached I practice the scheme myself but It bas many disadvantages For ons thins the secretary's report on a call Is almost as distracting an Interruption as- the eall would have 'been Itself For another thing the secretary of a man Who does any actual work in his office Is very busy herself and the calls greatly Interrupt and Impede her work And tor third thing It seems to me to be grossly Impolite to fores man 'making A legitimate call to Walt why Its legitimacy le being discussed' But In New York I fear politeness Is a lost art It Is the almost universal custom in the town to relay calls through secretaries One nears that one Is wanted by Mr Blank and then one discovers that one Is talking to his secretary While she goes to fetch him ons Waits At least twp times out of seven In my experience the ponnectlon Is broken while he Is being sought and so the Whole business Is In vain Five minutes later the secretary calls again and It Is repeated I have had as many aa four such calls In rowv Time twelve minutes Penalty for 1 Doge of Venloe tho offle wa first- instituted about TOO A The tost dogs abdicated in 1787 A A French revolutionary leader who caused- thousands to bo guillotined and finally was guillotined himself William Duke of Normandy conquered England defeating Earl Harold at tha battle of Hastings A Tho black death' Tho assassination of tho Crown Fylnco Frans Ferdinand ot Austria at By PAULINE SHACKLEFORD COLYAE THE announcement some months ago Of ths destruction by fir Of Maa Tusaaud's was works In wax- So skillful did she become that she was engaged by Mm Elisabeth (sister of th ill-fated Louis XVI) to instruct her in this art and ahs resided during th time with this lovable princess at th Tullerles a well aa Versailles 8h there became acquainted with all persons of not at th court of Louis XVI and Maria Antoinette but during theMHTors of ths revolution tho wee made to drink deep ot tho cup of sorrow and humiliation -being compelled' to rnak death masks ot both Louis XVI and Marls Antolnett-thosa heplses sovereigns Who had sBown her so much kindness Just attar they were executed Deprived ot her position by th revolution she left Franca and established herself in England wher her collection of figures attracted much attention Bhe exhibited them In all ths prlnolpal cities of th United Kingdom and ultimately located In London wher her exhibition was Justly considered on of tho sights of th metropolis At the time that It waa destroyed this art muesum was located on Mar-ylebona rood Just ott Baker street and was housed In a big building bearing hug electrto sign- upon ita front Upon entering her on wa confronted by numerous wax figure ranged about th walls and at tbo top of a1 broad stairway leading to tha next floor sot young lifelike ao demure to natural ot pose that many mistook her for a living breathing entity and paused at her table to secure on of th many catalogue' upon It The lower end of an tanmetit hall contained th figure of dead and gone monarch who hsd ruled over England John of Magna Cherts fame the old Bluebeard Henry VIII with his belt dozen wives Bloody Mary Qussq Elisabeth Cbsrles I when ho still ear-lifed hto head upon hi royal shoulders numerous George 'much-beloved they were all there and under a great canopy decked In their royal robes and seated upon an Imposing throne were Georg and Mary the A v- vs AV 5 Hi homed i i i -x In thii quaint' Long Island village stained house tucked away at Jhe foot of rolling Shinnecock Mils Jg the little vine-covered cottage that inspired the writing of Sweet Few persons know of Its existence It Id the John Howard Payne homettead' Following the death of Buek who found the house almost in ruins and restored it this shrine aoon i to go under the hammer so Its price pan be divided among twelve heirs The little cottage is doomed to be dismantled to make room tot a country estate in keeping with the fine manaions of its aristocratic neighbors 1 VV It was of this humble cottage that Payne 1 wrote when trended in gay feway from all that was dear to him homesick for scenes of his childhood he penned his poenjs charm from the skies seems to hallow ns Which seek through the world is met with elsewhere Home home sweet sweet home Be It ever so humble no place like' nV The song swept the world sweet' strains are sung In every known land It brought the author no financial reward but it flooded the globe with sektiment Of the failure of his work to put money in his pocket Payne said often-1 have been In the heart of Paris Berlin London or some other city and have heard persons singing or hand organs playing Sweet Home without having shilling to buy myself the next meal or a place to Ijay my He never saw his Easthampton birthplace again and died in bitterness of spirit alone in Tnnis i This spring the Buek estate which "includes the Payne homestead will he settled It is valued at $250000 end the Payne property is listed at $100000 1 Buek found the house by chance just as it was about to he demolished Ib Was in a dilapidated condition but love skill and persistence worked wonders Today It is a perfect type of Pilgrim architecture dating back to the sixteenth century The house Is filled with treasuresof colonial days On the broad chimney hangs the Willard portrait of Payne which Buek found in dingy basement shop in Boston A spinet piano with time-stained ivory keys and many other quaintly beautiful furnishings are there What a picture the home makes in the springtime es one passes' down the long elm-shaded street on the road to the old ducking pond! There is no sign to mark the just an unpretentious little cottage nestling under the overhanging tree tops that caress Its roof half hidden by an abundance vef golden white honeysuckle blossoms through which shine Us neatly polished windows "home home sweet 1 There it stands wailing for the auctioneer and demolition if with its i jutt an unpretentious little eottaOA nestling under th Ing tree top home sweet hame i I.