The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-27
CALL THEMSELVES PURITANS
nj MOTHER NAVE MIGHT FIT
THESE LITERARY NOBODIES.

re, Follow the Lead Of " q. vIereck.
VINO writes Of Essential Jndecency'
and IL FuI % His subJect-Lunch To-
xether and stand Each Others Talk.
t,srv fellow down at our club thinks that
.ysry other fellow IA a devil Of a fellow
hut he ISN'T The Henrietta.
Wherefore when the "Puritans': A Mill
,ant club for lunch and letters composed
Sntirely of "wickedly interesting and clever
oeople, got under way at q Second ven
restaurant yesterday at Don N was 40
oiled with the spirit Of gay deviltry all
srounh that ~involuntarily one cried aloud.
'Oh. talcum POWDER
very youthful person named q Viereck,
Who works in an Office at - West Twenty
s,x,b street and writes or draws or hoes
something. organized the club. When
n. can get I'D to It. q Viereck says. hs
hopesto establish devil worship In America.
Already he is 10 devilish that he says that
a, some coming meeting OF the club he is
going to bring a goat. From the positive
tone in which young Viereck said this it's
evident that he hasn't given thought to
the possibility that. even IL the 8. p. c. A.
dcesn't step in to prevent II. perhaps the
eost will get rambunctious and refuse
n attend. Some goats are particular
about the company they keep. Any goat
rill 60 some place, but every goat won't
20 every place.
All the town the geniusee OF tne
town, at least has been flooded with type
written invitations rooently that read:
r.. -
u.,,.u, rh,b low I.ncA and Letter.
Feeding time. 1918 every Friday,
Ladies' Day, the First Friday In the Month.
DEAR SIR: You are requested to Join the
-Puritans. a club for the encouragement OF
literature ana iuncheohs IN Amelica'
YOU "m I,eauenss sn -. hsTI,an, ara
gSnp,"ni n.onis Won would uhs 40 meet
IN Inc course OF a busy workaday. This IL
the solution: Meet them ct the Luncheon.
The bylaws Of the Puritan Lunch Club
are as follows:
There shan DE no oues Oh sny k,no.
H. Every man. woman y onlu' DnSann
guess, pays ..as,,na and cIeysr
nnnnIa srs adnittad 20 msmbershin re- The
nsr,akers OF the nrst three Iuncheons shall
be known as charter members v. A table
no topic shall be tsbooed. VI. Young poets
will kindly refrain from reading their verse
or secretly concealins manuscripts OF what
ever ns,ure upon .heT VIZ, ~
nrse rriusy "a ,soSau.d :, w rnas,,ns
ueor'd,na ,hsv srs trns lover. ~ Rohemia
IN philistines without muzzles not allowed
at large. TX. After the establishment Of the
club the government will be abolished.
The best government Tor the artist is no
government at all
fleaSe iet US SNOW wnetneL We may oou"'
v" .
Well. after this you 9 the names OF
q. Viereok ana q mar named Il. Aooott'
and the address Of the Once wnere tne'r
desks are the ADDRESS OF tine restaurant
Then II you are wickedly Interested enough
you decide to take a mel ana 60
As many as thirteen geniuseS were on
the job yesterday at meh noon. Ihcy SAT
at the right OF a large picture OF Admiral
Dewey. who was Autographed looming 70
The left ana far away When u 'iereck
finished telling a NUMBER OF eAtremeiy
interesting thines ABOUT nimsen tne young
man named ABBOTT toid IN 8 sentence me-
personal history, I've never written
anything, said Mr.. Aooott, out hopeto'
that's a matter OF the future. ,
ms much peing settleu MI ApDo't anu
Mr.. Viereck kindly told who was VINO. IL
was learned early that next TO @. Viereck
the tbyee hi rest noises of the club are
pIw,.s pua.eu who onca birsd q hau ard
hn'nunu russo"' u
played Hdrntef. as all New iork reniem-
bers; Richard lie Gallienne, a poet whose
work has often been compared favorably
- tina, ~ MIA Wheeler wilcox. and Upton
90 ..Ao- = r.. "a
s'nciair' u YOUNG au'"o, ~ h~ 10Y
articles published IN tine fndependen'
Upton hasn't lunched with the club so far,
bI, he has written a note signed with his
:, a,.or..,h ~ vh;ch n. .sv. be,. for n
" au'os,ap" n."""n ~.
No mas Edmuhu HusSon, ~Ii''cn ou ~
delightful Russell note paper on which is a
photograph Of the distinguished man.
Even Richard Le CalHenne didn't attend
nss,a.Ia.. v,a.s.L "a I,Ao,t nat,,r.uv
yes'eruay' '"feoA anu n - "1'-"'
ieel certain however that nAcharon con,e.
But there are others. Around the table
Yesterday were E T.. Slosson. who must
not he con fused with George slosson. the
lm.'r 1870 r,a.s.re., - ,wn
hihisru snark' n uu''erman' WhY wv
members said is a poet; a young mar named
Jackson. who once had a story In the Red
Book. c. White. a photographer OF much
tara vi.uoaL ia. s.,, SNorIf who Ia n