The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-07
KEITH CLARK. TELLS
THE WOMAN OF 50
St. Paul Writer Discusses Her
Sex-News and Views of the
Books and Writers.

One of the leading articles in The
Reader for September is the Woman
of Thirty by Keith Clark, of ST Paul.
Miss Clark is a well known newspaper
woman and is possessed of knoWl-
edge of literature which is by no means
common. This is proven by a perusal
of the article in question, which shows
a wide acquaintance not only with
modern literature of this country and
England, but of foreign as WE'LL The
woman of thirty, Miss Clark thinks,
yields charm that is potent. She
says: 1.-The femme incomprise is the
woman of uncertain age. When one
knows the age of a woman one knows
the woman. The very fact that she
permits you to know her age exposits
her character. She no longer masque-
rades. She has lost a certain uncer-
tainty, an eVanescent delicacy, that
was irresistible charm. Women, like
philosophy, are divided into two classes,
the movable and the unknoWable.
Also like philosophy, it is the unknow-
able woman who is the Speculable.
Therefore to get at her highest capac-
ity, she must be unmarried and about
thirty" Miss Clark writes exceedingly
well and is very quotable, but space
limits our desires in this direction
While Miss Clark has a local fame
which is more than merely compliment
airy, it is pleasant to know that her
ability is being recognized in other and
possibly more literary places. The
Reader, which is a new effort in liter
airy publication, is already well known
and liked and is taking it's place among
our leading literary magazines.
In the same magazine the garden"
craze, which has now lasted a year or
two, is very cleverly parodied by Bert
Lesion Taylor He calls his para
graphs thought bulbs" and gardens
1 have thought in" here is a sample:
a. such weather as we have had the past
week. l am very fond of weather;
think it adds a great deal What
thought today while spraying some
Anemone Japonica alba, what should
we do without weather? How dull
would be a landscape without it. AS
for gardens, they could not exist. If
only we had climate, too! But, alas!
England has all the climate and we
must be content with weather. Con-
tent Magical word! And where shall
one find content save in a garden? 1
hope. 1 do hope, it exists somewhere;
but-ah, well, here at least 1 know it
may be found"
Who will deny that that sounds ex-
'actly like some garden books? The
craze is abating just the least bit, for
which many thanks, as the garden bus
mess has certainly been done to death.
Indeed. if small things show which
way the wind blows, it would seem as
as if we were to be deluged with books
about, for and against, socialism. Mr..
Dixon has written so decided a screed
against socialistic doctrines that it is
quite within probability at least that
some enthusiastic socialist will write
book proving, or trying to prove,
the exact opposite of Mr.. DiXon's con-
tentions. However, all these things
add to the gayety of nations and give
rejoice in literary fads and fuses of
any kind. The Book Lover.
The Captains Wife-By w Clark Rus
sell. l.. c. Page "a Co., Boston, Pub
fishers. For sale by st. Paul Book and
Stationery Company.
There are few writer's so sure of
their readers as Clark Russell is of his,
and the real lover of his variety of lit
erature does not mind in the least the
alarming sameneSs which those who
have no fondness for sea stories find in
his books. There is always the hero,
who is captain of the Ship or becomes
so after hazardous experiences; there
is the heroine, who, in this case, is the
heros wife and is so anxious to go
with him on this famous voyage that
she becomes a stowaway; the villain,
who attempts TO wreck the ship and
falls in love with the heroine; the
rough and ready sailors, who take too
much rum and shiver their timbers
with startling regularity; the voyage,
the wreck, the undoing of the villain,
and the final curtain upon the fortu-
nate captain, who will never have to
work again, and the heroine, who is so
happy she doesn't know what to do.
Take all this, mix thoroughly, sprinkle
with nautical terms in plenty and you
have Clark Russell sea story done to
turn and beloved of a certain class
of readers the world over. Those who
like this sort Of thing like it very much
indeed, and cry for more. Perhaps the