The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29

| was perfect.
| Thus this unfortunate fellow, whom
DR.. Lyon and DR.. Austin Flint, ST.,
of Bloomingdale, DR.. Charles F. Nc
Donald and DR.. NJ. Allen Starr had
declared was progressively and in
curably insane" felt confident of his
right to return to Virginia.
What an eventful five years it had
been since he left the valley of the
Blue Ridge.
| His Eating Mechanical.
That Chaloner is at least physical
| ly peculiar even his true friends will
| admit, and he even acknowledges, and
says he regrets it. For instance he
does not arise till noon and eats but
| two meals each day. These meals are
| simple affairs, consisting mostly of
unbuttered bread with salt sprinkled
over it and water. Occasionally Chal-
oner adds a little chocolate candy,
| bit of fruit or cake to his meal. but
never anything more, except twice a
| week when he eats a small piece or
meat. This menu was not adopted be-
cause Chaloner likes it. but to pre-
vent him from getting govt, an all
ment he inherited from ancestors ac-
customed to putting two bottles of
Madeira under their belts before leav-
| ing the table.
| Eating Is most trying ordeal for
Chaloner and he takes a unique way
of trying to make it pleasant. His
bread he cuts into 6ubes and then ne
covers the plate with book or illus
trated paper. He reads as he lunches
and being absorbed in his reading, his
eating becomes mechanical and thus
| loses it horror.
He always answers his mail, a two
hours task, before breakfast, after
which meal he goes for a nine mile
ride on horseback. His hours of work
are from ten at night till three in the
morning. He follows the same pro-
gram daily. save that on Sunday he
does not work
!, While in Bloomingdale Chaloner
says that the ability came to him to
/, write and now he is indulging this
talent, spending much of his time in
the preparation of sonnets. of the
Shakespearean style. Critics who
have passed on the sonnets say they
, are works of a genius.
> Into his sonnets Chaloner has intro
duced what he terms the quality of at
subjects, and gentle sonnets for gentle
! subjects. Should he succeed in recov-
ering his fortune he intends to publish
, sonnet quarterly, which will fiercely,
/ yet, he says impartially, play the role
of critic of those in the church, state
and public press. Chaloner intends
to hurl fiery broadsides at the vel
| low journals.
| A few of Chaloner's characteristic
sonnets are here given. The first one
| on The Poetry of Business" was sug-
gested by the deadly cares, horrible
, anxieties and terrible temptations In
modern business, linked with the large
number Of failures. The sonnet fol
5 lows:
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The poetry of business is my theme
/ And bloody epics doth her womb at
/ ford.
5 Weird as the evolutions of a dream,
1 Restless as edge of conquering sword,
Dark as the forehead of a coming
i storm,
Bright and deadly as that storms rec
levin;
Her vast Satanic brain with plots doth
II swarm
Plots black as hell, but orderly as
heaven.
On her dark battlefield doth brain
=, meet brain,
, Intellect, intellect, in deadly shock,
q No quarter there is ever giv'n or ta'en
That struggles to the death twixt
hearts of rock.
balance thrown
Fame, Home and little ones with de.
feat go down.
S A sonnet on Divorce" was suggest
j. ed by the increasing tendency Of the
I protestant churches to follow the leat
i of the Roman Catholic church in re.
: stricting divorce. The sonnet is also
: defense of his own legal separation
5 although Chaloner says that he die
l. not intend 1t as such.
The sonnet follows:
n Copyright by Palmetto Press.)
S *Love alone santifies the Marriage tie
: Sans love mere yelled prostitution
a reigns.
n Note en- the church can sanctify lie
y her love feigns
Such marriages do deep degrade tn,
r. Chrch.
And make ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pro
:, curess play.
ri Such marriages do Womanhood be
v smirch.
j. Such marriages are solemnized ev'r.
/ day.
u And equal degradation doth set In
Once *"love is dead-for any cause a
j. at all
= And the Church doth but abet foul
v deadly sin
d When She against Divorce lets canol
= fall.
e This only did Christ say: Who shall
5, put away
'Gainst mutual Divorce naught did H.
d say.
n ~Love accompanied by at least civil
It marriage.
. *sLoye on both sides Is here meant