Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-27

teetotaler, had a horror of alcoholic ex-
cess, which he never failed to denounce
to the many Bohemians who besieged
his door,"
lola felt, and perhaps not unjustly,
great bitterness toward America. says
his friend, Mr.. Stanton: His dlssat-
isfaction with America was not due
simply to the printed edition of his
books. He told me ON one occasion
that tales of which he never wrote a
line We're foisted on the American pub
| lie as his, and, he added, L fear and
tremble lest my enemies here bring
them out in French dress When IN
recent years two reputable New YORK
publishers issued authorized editions OF
some of his novels lola was mcuh
pleased, not so much on account OF the
money as because he felt his more dig
nified position in America. Conse-
quently he was the more deeply wound
ed when this past season the proofs OF
his forthcoming story We're declined
both in New York and Philadelphia
However immoral and unwholesome
his work may be, the man Iola had ms
virtues, for which we gladly give credit
1t is something for Frenchman-one
who has lived his life in Paris, con-
stantly searching and thinking OF the
foul material he Incorporates into ms
work--to say of him that his private
life was practically blameless, that he
was kind husband, and generous to
sothers in thought and deed, that he
,t
his life was in having none of his own.
The Paris correspondent OF the Times
says the great pleasure of his life was.
whenever he could spare q haif DAY
from his work, to carry toys to bevy
of children whom he had in sense
adopted, and adds: 1T led to GER
tain estrangement from Nine. Zola IN
recent years, but the tragic phases OF
the Dreyfus affair, with the exile and
conturlely which lola endured in con-
sequence. brought about that complete
reconciliation between them of Whlch
the last moments of the novelists life
supplied so moving a picture
If the dispatches are correct, Eliza
BETH will leave her German garden by
the sea next summer long enough for
a visit to the United States. Well, 1t is
the least she could do to show her
gratitude for American appreciation.
for doubt whether her own country
men have q finer appreciation for her
books than our people. And unless she
comes by proxy, we shall at last have
the chance to learn who this famous
woman is--if woman she be at ALL The
three years, and now the Pail Mall Ga
zette announces positively that the
anonymous elizabeth" is the English
born wife of Count Won Arnim, an old
name long known in Prussian diplo-
macy 1t is said theirs has been a real
life romance, much of it to be found In
Elizabeth's books. We suspected as
much on reading her works.
The Gazette says: she was staying
in Rome, and her habit was to go often
to one of the Roman churches to play
the organ when there was no service.
Count Arnin. passing one day, heard
the organ and went in to listen. he
loved music, and presently came to love
the organist They We're married, and
the German took his English wife to
live in Berlin in a stately but sombre
palace, and amid a stately but sombre
society which she did not like. Her
Heart was in the country with the flow
ers and blue skies and fine forests.
Then it appeared that Count Arnim had
an estate in the north, not far from the
Baltic--a palace, to his mind, quite I'M
inhabitable. Thither they journeyed to
have a look at it, when 10! to her mind
n
there as an experiment, and finally
stayed, as the home both liked best
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