The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-06
With the Long Bow
Sturdy Anericanism of the Fathers Totterng to It's
Fall-Henry Afford Short Caught Redfooted with
HALF a Hundred Pairs of Shoes In His Room
''.sye uature,s walks, SHOOT foNy as e nia
yxYHEN the police searched the rooms occupied by

yx1HEN the police searched the rooms occupied by
w Henry Afford Short, the New Yorker Of such
" social prominence who arrested on GER
tain unspeakable charges, aftermath of the Stan.
ford White murder, they found over twenty OF his
suits of clothes and shoes enough to fit out eentlpede
This latter item makes out clear case OF luxury
against the prisoner. When man abandons his
sturdy Americansm and gets over the limit OF three
pairs of shoes, he is in the danger zone.
First, there the shoes you are wearing; second
the shoes for great events such trip out of town.
and third the winter shoes. 1t is also allowable to
have one pair of unpresentable shoes that may be
fishing. But when man forfeits the simple life
and begins to collect twenty to fifty pairs of shoes, he
is gone. Imperial Roman luxury steps in and our in
situations totter to their fall ... ~.
There are two things poor always longs for
with mighty longing but never accompishes, shirt
that really fits him and twenty pairs of shoes at once
To go back to Short, the other decorations of his
apartments besides the half hundred pairs of shoes,
rather homogeneous On the mantel large
portrait Of his father the late Professor Charles Short
Of Columbia, taken in his official robes. Professor
Short for years of the wardens Of St. Thomas
church. Over the head Of Shorts bed crayon
portrait of Bishop Potter and beneath it in an illu
minated scroll bible text. There also steel
engraving Of Salisbury cathedral Scattered about
the walls and mantes were photographs of nude
and actresses in light attire. In his bookcases
French novels and trashy literature sandwiched
with Bible and the Book Of Common Prayer. Letters
found in Shorts apartments are likely to lead to the
Of other Of equal social prominence. You
viii hear Of all this later if they do succeed in
suppressing it. But they will not be wise if they let
that matter Of fifty pairs of shoes get before jury
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The girls brought into the house from the library
The other day Of these novels called 'sThe
Fiery Chariot, - FThe Wheel of Fire. E'The Wheel
If Life, something like that. It is all the same
For it makes impression you at all, except pos.
,ibly Of distaste. These novels all well writ
Ten and show that the lady writer has drunk deep at
The fountain Of mag inary smart set far removed
from her personal observation. The novel begins no.
where and ends half way thru somewhere before the
beginning It is all up in the air and full of kind
If smart talk and doubtful ethics that makes a man
mad enough to strike aged relative We read eight
pages and then turned to the end to see the crime
Thence back to the bookcases where we dragged out
Great Expectations and F'Beak House, and read
until bedtime to get the taste out of the mouth Back
10 Dickens! - ''F ~~.~ +"..+.
--.-+ -. : "r!: = -" .~-,'.' $50 :
Nobody objects to touch of nice crime in a novel
but if the hero and the heavy villain are both degen
rates and if the heroine with her eyes opened both
1T last and at first to the terrible degeneracy Of her
husband, tells her gloom in forty SO lurd pages
and the book closes with the herone's father also
proven degenerate, and her son confirmed cigaret
lser, we do not wish to know all about it.
Thousands of nice people live in the United States
They have their loves hatreds, despars, adventures,
marriages and deaths. There folks enough
to fill in the chinks and you girls ought to write just
grand' novels about them without much Ibsenizng.
We appeal to the authors club. "A. J. R.