The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-05

In Mr. Herrick's picture of the life COM
pick, one sees a young architect set
ting out with a genuine love of his art.
and a love of ease and high living, but
with little else. He marries girl of the
same level in society, girl of fine
ideals, but without means. Then begins
a struggle to live the life Of the smart
fort to keep in the whirl he is caught in
the vortex of graft" Only his wife's te-
nacity in holding to her ideals saves him
from irretrievable loss, and teaches him
that work is good in itself, not just
for the pay" that it is no disgrace to
| stay in the ranks, to work for the work 8
sake, to bear the common lot, which is
I to live hunnbly and labor" that 'it is bet
| ter to be in the ranks than to struggle to
lead and then lead falsely, trying for
| false things paying too much heed to
| the casual judgment Of ones fellowmen.
These are some of the rudiments of the
simple life as distinguished from the other
life, of which may be given this glimpse:
| Greed, greed! The spirit of greed had eaten
| him thru and thru, the lust for money, the
desire for the fat things of the world, the
ambition to ride high among his fellows. In
the world where he had lived this passion had
a dignihed name; it was called enterprise and
| ambition. But now he saw 1t for what 1t waE
of the city which he had breathed for eight years
l. In his pride he had justified knaver,
by success. He had judged himself mean ant
small merely because he had failed to cheat anc
steal and trick ''in a large way Only The
little and the weak need be honest; to the
strong all things were right-he had said glibly
Now, for the first day since the strength of hit
manhood, he saw acts, not blurred by his owr
passions. not shifting with the opinions of the
day; but he them fixed and hard-living
human acts, each one in it's own integrity, witt
it's own irrevocable fate; acts expressed ii
lowered eyelids Of consent, in shrugs, in mean
ingful broken phrases; acts unprofessional
sharp, dishonest, criminal.
TO turn from the complex in bust
ness to a like kind Of life in society, on
, gets this from one Of the smart set VIII
liked life very peppery:
"I'u tell you the reason why we sport. Weir
| dull and we're looking for some fun. The me-
get all the excitement they need scrambling TO
, money. Girls want to be sports, too, and the
can't do the money act So they sport-other
wise. That's the why" 80
Mr.. Herricks picture is true to life. I
shows an ugly phase of life, but it doe
not exaggerate. One need have had littl
experience of the world to recognize tn
accuracy of it's drawing and color. TIL
t characters lack complete portrayal, vivid
ness to the minds eye, but psychological
and logically they are human beings an
behave as such. So that the story as
whole is one Of deep human interest"
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Bright April smiles across her clingin
| tears
Il This radiant morn.
Z The tears are for her flowers Of othe
: The smiles for those new born.
Mildred I. 'McNeal, in Success Magazin
HOW GILBERT PARkER's 9TH
y RIGHT OF WAY" RAN AWAY WIT
l. HIM.-Sir Gilbert Parker tells an int!
.. esting story of his first conception Of thu
earlier success Of his, ''The Right
Way" says Current Literature for Apr
He had planned the story for about 40
n words, it seems, and had concentrated s
Is his effort on keeping it short. On a steam
l. er bound for America he met a memb
e Of the Harper firm, and described t!
r. story to him. They sat on deck most
one night talking over the character
or Charley Steele, as the author had studio
le the original. The story, then unname
re- was accepted then and there, and {
IS Gilbert hurried into the Canadian wilde
IN ness to write it. He expected to do it
Re a month, but as he worked the scher
changed, and before that time was pa
IL, there were more than the 1900 WORD
j. and the end was nowhere in sight.
8, wrote to the Harpers and explained tn
1e the story had taken the bit in its mou
Mt and was running away. They reptile
ty LET it rum The result was gre
as novel, more than 100000 words in lengt