Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-14
HEtlCON HALL.
Some Cositations on Sinclair's Haven Of Rest
and Perfect Peace.

HELIcoN HALL
Some Cogitations on Sinclair's Haven Of Rest
and Perfect Peace.
Brook Farm, long distinguished as
the most famous communistic enter.
prize in American annals, is booked
to receive the severest kind Of bump
ing. The star of George Ripley il in
for horrid dimming, and Hawthorne,
Alcott, Curtis and Margaret Fuller, 20
far as concerns their discipleship of
Fourier, are headed straight for obliv-
ions limbo.
Haven't you heard the cause Of
this? Have you not read the latest
news? Well, the Sinclsirites, the
followers OF him who wrote "The
Jungle" are to live in a colony-home,
known as Helicon Hall. It is located
at Englewood, N. J. Helicon Hall. I
will cay, for the benefit of the irrever.
ent and uninformed, has no etymolo.
gical connection with Avernus, Hades,
or the lower regions generally. 1t is a
name borrowed from Grecian mount,
storied in mythology as the home OF
the muses., and thus most appropriately
used, in more modern times, for the
home Of wisdom and culture in Amer.
ica. w. J. hampton, a newspaper
poet OF some celebrity, is one of those
who will live with leader Sinclair in
his cooperative haven of perfect
peace. w. ]. hampton graced Seattle
with his parsonage some years ago, you
will remember, and we can still read
some OF his verse.building which ap-
peared in the Post-Inteligencer, when
that journal was conducted by the
Pipers; but his sojourn in the Queen
City, as connected with that paper,
was OF brief period, and he soon re-
turned East again.
Professors Dewey, Noyes and Monti.
que, Of Columbia University. with
their wives, and . number of other
less widely known personages, includ-
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Bjorkman, for whom
it seems very lucky, indeed, that DIR.
Brander Matthews, another Columbia
professor, is not going along.
Admirable serenity is manifested by
the colonists in their new home, but
it is an open secret that many breast
is secretly torn by doubts, multifarious
and grave. For instance, there is the
question Of breakfast, which all the
Sinclairists will take together in the
Helicon commons. A close applica'
ton OF the cooperative principle to
dining-room functions would establish
the menu on a strict like it.or. lump.ii
basis.
Breakfast would be an occasion ol
absolute share and share e-alike, and
the devil take the hindmo.t. But
will this be real good policy2 Car
Sinclair expect Mr.. hampton to be
very we'll pleased If he has to break
fast on cold bread and bacon, when
bis soul yearns for broiled chicken
and waffles. and the price of them lays
snug in his waistcoat pocketf
And Mr.. Bjorkman with a B-sup
pose that the communistic schedule
yields nothing but soit.hoiled eggs
while his Scandinavian palate call
aloud for q succulent poach, with
toast, and would not be comiortet
otherwisef Could they reasonably asl
him just to sit tight and keep cheer
full? Will he not be justified in de
manding with simple bitterness
whether the ancient slogan. Eggs t.
order," is destined to perish from thu
face OF the Earth?
| Aud other questions arise, scarcel!
less weighty; fully as perplexing
May Professor Dewey work his graph
ophone of an evening against th'
wishes and inclinations Of Mrs. Noyes'
Let Mr.. Sinclair answer. May Mrs
Dewey do finger exercises on the
Helicon grand piano, when othe1
members of the group are passionatel!
endesvoring to fall asleepf What arr
the hours when Mrs. Montague ma.
feel free to sing Waiting at th'
Church." till her soul is sated? MAJ
Mr.. Hampton continue the recitation
of his "Yawps," if assured by two o.
more others that he is giving them {
headache? And in the matter of cry
ing, will Sinclairized children be re
quired to observe tho regulations o
the eight.hour day? Mr.. Sinclair
may answer these and similar burning
questions at his leisure. He is q we'll
meaning young man, with q nicc eye
for the appraisement of timed meats
but l foresee as plainly as possible
that Helicon Hall is going to let hin
in for . whole lot OF trouble.
LUE F. VERNON.
HALLoA, Bilkins! Who are yor