Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
V7ILTON LACKAYE, actor with shrewd
" view and scalpel tongue, glanced keenly at

proclaimed himself Bohemian" "You only imagine
that, said Laekaye, his heavy lidded eyes Sitting with
skepc1sm Your exterior diSqualifies you. You don't
look the part. Your fngernas are clean; is your
collar; your shoes polished; your hat is brushed
there dandrf moted hair your coat you have
decidedly washed look; you diuse aroma of stale
acquaintance You're not Bohemian, Son. Forget it,!
Max Beerbohm the English pen puncturist expressed
the thing in his aiterative fashion awhile ago.
To Beerbohn, too vealy youth Dragging of be-
ing Bohemian
Don't be that whatever else you be-" beseeched
Beerbohm, with mock earnestness eff YOU feel that
you must be something beginning with B, be Boeo-
tan or Brobdingnagan, Berserk, Bill Skies,
Billken, or even a bath taker Anything but b.
combe, blk, and top ALL Bedlam. Er-why not take
the Kings shilling, enlist, and be somebody?'
bit offhand, perhaps this pair of announcements,
the rough and ready dcta of epigram makers are
likely be; but the essence of the newer saner view
of Bohemia and Bohemianism is in both of them
Bohemia and Boeotia bracketed! Truly It's cono-
elastic era well age of aviation!
But if two No Such Lands purely fictitious and
the other or less NEUROLOGICAL actually do
respond to the general description what poor
but honest maker of epgrams to do except bracket
them" couple them in the betting, as it were9
Boeota's memory survives through the ages solely
because of the reputed dizziness and stupidity of its in
habitants. "Bohemia-well. the simple truth is that
the beautiful land of Bohemia" as it used to be
mawkishly alluded to by the shoddy shabby crowd who
practised Bohemianisnl- Bohemia" has been found
OUT and not alone by the coiners of derisve phrases
but by the worth while world in general.
Bohemia has been explored fore and aft not only by
plain men, but by keen eyed, Unconditional analysts
with the 'show me- habit of taking observations and
soundings and making sketch maps and the beautiful
land has been found to be bleak and barren region
of sticks and stones and stmps breathed upon by
Eoian zephyrs, but wrapped in fog of hunbug
and tO1nmyrot.
Until little while ago of us sheltered in a dim
Granny OF our sort of holdout dream
that perhaps despite the promptngs of commonsense
the North Pole when discovered might be found loom
ing over palmy, peoped land. Now know how
childish that conjecture Thus Bohemia with the
searchlights of many explorers thrown upon it. b.
hernia, unlike the Pole, isn't drifting ice; but
there's powerful sight of drifting there and the paths
of Bohemia uncommonly slippery under the pale
light of the filtered moonshine that family, not say
phosphorescently, ilumines that waste land.
Bohemia is the Already of the Adolescent the Para
disc of the Pif1ers. There's a reason"
Its Effect upon Women
A LITTLE while ago, under the caption, 1.-THE Studio
Girl, one of the cleverest women writer's in America
Who after skirting the coast of Bohemia had with
mendabe elaboration withdrawn her craft from that lee
shore, described the effects of Bohemiansm upon the
character and mental health of women 1t was vivid
grsly, perfectly dspassionate but absolutely faithful
portrayal of the warped Womanhood of Bohemian
But the writer of 1.-The Studio Girl" expressed. one
view that is wide open to argument She maintained
that Bohemiansm far from being so baneful or
gernicous in its effects upon it upon