Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-08

that h would give Charles 10 unoer-
stand hat she was mot that sort OF
a girl" Nevertheless. h took dinner
at a Broadway restaurant with him
and though on page II h replied "
his request that she drain a Martini
mo, I touch liquor" she forth
with tossed it off like a major. Whether
1t was the Martini or a delicious sir
loin steak with mashed potatoes, as
paragus and peas that may nave
been responsible for her conduct, does
not appear; but although she felt post
tive that Charles was married she
found herself telling him during the
course of the meal that she would go
to the ends of the world with him.
1t suffices to Say that she went.
Florence had a sweetheart, a worthy
young lawyer, whom she declined to
marry because she did not love him.
She relates that this young lawyer.
when he found out that she would not
have him (even though he might be
worth a million) attempted to COM
NIT suicide in her presence. His method
was peculiar; he pulled his handker-
chief from his pocket and tightly
bound it around his neck. Florence
was in a frenzy at this desperate act.
How or when he unbound the handker-
chief does not appear. 1t does appear,
however, in the epilogue, that he lid
not commit suicide; that he was quite
ignorant of the attachment between
Charles and Florence, and that he was
able finally to furnish her a very happy
home. 1t takes 221 pages, however. Of
deep tribulation. for Florence to ar
rive at this state. What she thought
of Charles, the married man, may be
read upon page 81: "She smothered
his face with kisses and her tears fell
upon him like streams of molten lava.
Charles, it's the torture of hell to me-,
the thought of separation from you.
I'm all yours, body and soul. I'm for
you, you alone-your love, your love.
l would give my life a thousand times
for you. I would go to the ends of the
earth with you-liye in a love- with
you-yes. and be satisfied ven with
bread and water" Florence was In
the habit of cuddling up coyly TO
Charles, while Charles's wife merely
kept on calling him Pop" and un-
loosening his shoes and taking them
off, bringing him his slippers and his
house-coat and trying to make him
comfortable.
Query-If Charles had left his wife
and chung only to Florence would Flor
ence have followed suit--would h
have peer there with the slippers and
the coat? And. all the time?
Florence's mother vas not worried,
but her sister Paula, having no Charles
of her own, impresses herself into
service as a acknowledgements and
follows them. When she learns all she
Is unusually scandalized, but 1t was
not the sister, and 1t was not popular
opinion that came to their aid. II
was Conscience. Conscience did very
effective work within a very short
time. and we are glad to find Charles's
two boys ex%clairning finally on page
2f9: ooh, papa. we are so glad you are
are so glad to see you hug
and kiss mama
We suspect Mr.. See Barham Davis
of beng a ma We have to say OF
her that she has told a readable story
and that she knows how to tell one. We
believe that she has set forth with
reality the motives and the mental
struggles OF any right. minded. or
binary young husband who has gone
wrong. Florence was a little too pre-
cipitous and unouestionably she talked
too much. In the long Il 1t Is per-
haps far better to be called pop and
have your slippers and house coat pro-
duced with unwavering regularity thar
to be compelled to listen to Floren e
or to deliver the exalted sentiments
expressed by Charles himself, 1t is d
pity that the author does not see ut
to disclose the last anne of either
Charles or Florence. We should like
to know them both. The book
from the Stuyvesant Press and sells
for 81 net.
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WHAT ARE AUTHORS PAID?
This question is of considerable i'm
portance, il may be imagined, to the
author inc the publisher. 1t is a sub
ject in which the public at times con
descends to take a little interest, too.
1t is a complicated subject, too, for 1t