The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-29

him to go towel, to go home. But
they listen-especially the lady. This
teaches the profound moral lesson that
it is now Just as hard to resist the
wiles OF polite. dress suited devil as
it was back in the naughty naughties,
when Eve listened to the more print
tive tempter of that time.
But this devil has no easy time in
| bringing his prospective victims to
| terminable argument but with little
| effect Then ne calls for a new deal and
| this time he plays trump card. 1t is
jealousy. The lady is content to stifle
| the sad, sweet secret of her heart, un-
| til another skirt appears on the hori-
ION and casts sleeps eyes at the ar
| fist. Then the plot begins to thicken.
and soon the devils broth is of the
/ consistency Of thick gravy.
! What follows is merely detail lead
ing up to the inevitable The play ends
with the enamored lady fiinging her
self upon the manly buzzom of the
temperamental paint-dauber. AS the
temporarily ecstatic couple, arms en-
twined, enter the artists bood-War,
the devil wipes his forehead with a
sigh of relief at good job we'll done.
Fine work." he softly murmurs
| Sure, and he is a fine devil-this
sleek, witty old gentleman in the dress
suit with the red lining and the fork ed
| tails. To most of us he appears as a
familiar acquaintance and recalls in
| terviews We have had with him and
faint memories of battles lost and won.
He has appeared to thousands of
young girls, called upon to decide be-
tween love and poverty on the one
hand, and wealth and luxury and fine
| raiment on the other. He has con-
| vinced them, as he convinced Jolan,
| that love is but a fond folly and that
| money is the only thing in life worth
| while. With shaft Of sarcasm he has
pierced their bubble of romance
Later, when his advice has been
acted upon, when the girl has dis
covered for herself the old truism
that money cannot buy happiness and
| that a fat purse is but a poor recon-
pense for a fairness of wit, the devil
again appears at the opportune moment
always at the opportune moment
Johnny on the- spot-ness is a charact-
| eristic Of all the devils l have ever
| known, and the number is not few
Then. with the lady safely married
to a fat BOBBY with big bank account,
| and all the fat apparently in the fire.
! the devil rewerses himself A consistent
devil would be unthinkable. He points
the ecstacies of love, the deliriums Of
passion-all those great emotions
which the woman might have known.
and has missed He sneers at wealth,
at conventions, at responsibility, and
| declares the world we'll lost for love-
| The devils argument is as old as
humanity, but to the listener it comes
as a new and unique message The
| birthright of virtue to which she was
| born becomes a hateful nightmare, the
! mess of cottage is near at hand, hui
! man nature is weak and-what would
you
But after all, we cannot help GER
tain sneaking sympathy for this devil,
an admiration that is akin to rever-
ence. He is the incarnate spirit of pro-
| test which inhabits the souls of all of
u.s. He is our double, our other side,
! our subconscious ego, perhaps kept al
| ways under control, but always seek
ing expression.
Many New Books.
This twenty ninth Of August, 1908
is an important one for the book trade
of New York. Over a score of new
books were placed on sale today, near
ly every important publishing house
adding it's share to the literary output
Of the day. Perhaps the most impor-
tant of the works of fiction is a new
novel by F. Hopkinson Smith, bearing
the title "Peter-a Novel of Which He
Is Not the Hero" The instead Of "a
hero is an old-schoOl banker, and his
excursions into Bohemia form the sub
ject of a very entertaining volume.
Another work of fiction published
today is Aedline Knapp's The Well In
the Desert" The central character is
cowboy who immuBes himself in an
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