Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-06
NOTES

Harold MacGrath's favorite pastime
Is riding horseback. He and his brown
mare are the best Of comrades. They
60 off together for week at time.
There IS much about this fine sport i'll
all OF MacGrath's popular novels.
The city of Minneapolis is now claim
Ing to have wiped Indianapolis off tn.
map as II literary center. 1t is reported
by the state library commission that
Minnesota has go living writer's. OF
whom $50 live in Minneapolis. Prob
ably the most famous poet in the state
IS Arthur Upton, author of The Tides
of Spring" and many other remarkable
pieces of verse. Mr.. Epson Is u teacher
at the University of Minnesota. Among
the authors of popular fiction claimed
by Minnesota are Justus Miles Forman,
author OF "A Stumbling Block" Alice
Anles Winter, author of THE Prize 10
the Hardy and Jewel Weed" and
Katherine Evans Blake. author OF
Hearts Haven" Thus is the literary
center moving westward.
The same words on the lips of May
Sinclair and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
when the question is the marriage
question, are especially eloquent The
Judgment of Eve MASS Sinclair named
her last novel, which dealt with tie
physical AS well as the spiritual bur
den of the woman in marriage cases,
and which WAS hailed az the other side
OF race suicide. Mrs. Phelps, writing
OF the various popular ideas Of possible
heaven In Harper's Bazaar, has used this
phrase with intensity. saying that this
Judgment of Eve vii be one of the
firSt tragedies which another life, liz
ynu for ba MN ha "a. 90
and rectify.
These biographies are pathetioally
numerous among women-the simple,
domestic women, householding, home
keeping, the wives of husbands, the
mothers of children" writes Mrs.
Phelps. mo woman who has ever re-
ceiyed the confidence of her sex can
recall without emotion the confessions
OF these women, tied to traditions
which they dare not question, broken
on the wheels of drudgery whose iron
revolutions crush Individual gifts out
Of the soul, and personal powers out Of
the life. There will be no happier
class of citizens in the heavenly coup
try than these prisoners of sex.
DIR. Bernard Shaw recently returned
to Golfers Weekly a check for $1,000.
which he had as plainly earned as Il
il had been a. payment of SO for wash
ing the windows OF the building in
which that magazine is published. AS
we understand the matter, he wrote n
story for Golfers and received his
price. He seems not to have known
that the magazine makes a practice OF
paying a bonus of $1,000 for what It's
editors consider the best story that has
appeared during given interval. APP
plying their usual tests, they decided
that his story was the best and award
ed him the bonus, which he promptly
returned to them, saying that they had
insuited him and all their other coh.
tributors. AS they had paid him n
special price for his story. he argued
that tboy had deliberately purchased
X what they knew to be best. Then
he argued that they did not know 1t
Z was best because they We're neither the
verdict OF history" nor ''posterity"
Again. he argued that since they did
know IL was best they had cheated the
4 other contributors. Somewhere in the
y course OF the letter he threw out a rne-
torical inquiry as to the reason why he
was paid twice for an article: sone-
+ where else he implied that he was ih-
suited; and in the end he protested a
desire to subscribe handsomely for tho
erection OF n tombstone to Collier
4 Weekly Magazine. Now Il goes with
out saying that any man. whether au.
thor or windOw-washer, may find II his
i duty TO return 10 n Publisher n portion
4 OF what he has received Nor Ia there
4 any question that the unexpected
4 thousand vii do more for mankind il
: left with Golfers Weekly than II trans
return OF the money he was right. II