Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-02

brazen surface Of public notice. May
/ it not be that Mrs. Shaw has been the
making of her husband?
Since his marriage Shaw has chang
ed materially in his modes of life.
| though his habits and modes of
| thought-or, more properly, of express
sion-are the same as of old. Now he
wears clothing that is quite respect
| able: he eschews the tabloid and the
| cod liver oil, though still vegetarian,
and he appears now and then in So
ciety. Some time after his marriage
| his acQuaintanceS were amazed to find
him at reception wearing a boiled
shirt and n stiff collar and looking
quite comfortable. But Mr.. Shaw still
clings to the flannel shirt for ordinary
wear and no doubt retains all his early
disgust for starched linen.
my great idea of Clothes" he says,
sis that they should be clean and COM
Portable This of course excludes
starch. / couldn't wear a thing which.
after being made clean and sweet, is
filled with nasty white mud. ironed in
to a hard plate and made altogether
disgusting"
Then Mr.. Shaw has his fling ut femi-
nine apparel: ct is astonishing that
women put up with their present
clothes. Any animal with legs if fet-
tered with a petticoat, let alone sever
al. would eventually go mad, 1 should
have supposed 4 human figure with
curtain hung around it from the
shoulders to the ankles looks like
Tin holt
around your middle and you look like
sack with its neck in the wrong
place"
And here is something else he has
said since his marriage: There are
only two things really worth having.
They are property and family life.
Paradoxical to the last, l have won
that which / despise and like it i'm
menscly."
Yet he wrote to his American agent
who sent him Il large sum earned by
"Arms and the Man." his first play to
make hit in this country: You have
made me 60 to the miserable bother of
opening a bank account" That was
prior to the rare day in June when he
went to the registrars office with the
lady who seems to be responsible for
the partial tanning of the Shaw.
Kind TO Those In Distress.
Somebody has discovered that Mr..
Shaw made n good deal of money in
his twenty years of London labor be-
fore he arrived" and that he gave
nearly ali of it away. He could not
bear to see a poor devil in distress
without handing him out some cash.
This is one of the things that he never
shouted from his pedestal, which goes
to prove him the opposite of an often
sive egotist. 1t goes to prove also that
George Bernard Shay for all his Sar-
casm and slapdab knocking at things
in general wears under his flannel
shirt heart softer than the flannel,
which thumps with sympathy for the
under dog as violently as his pen
pounds against what he deems the fol-
lies of respectable humanity. One
might venture the observation that a
man who gives a pounding to a dead
poet with one hand while he gives
pound to Il live impecune with the
other is not such Il bad sort after ALL
even though. as he proclaims, he be an
atheist, fanatic and a fluent liar.
1t must not be forgotten that Mr.
Shaw also described himself as a hui
morist That he undoubtedly is Eng
land is short on humorists and never
could have produced one like this
Irishman. 1t is as humorist that Mr..
Shaw really excels, whether we find
him in the play. on the uniform or