Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

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that refuses to let them ignore the rules in playing the
game, they become Bohemians.
Becoming Bohemian is the easiest little way of an
nouncing oneself to be fourth fth-rate human be-
ing, and failure, that know Of suppose know
have known, several thousands of men Qeaving
out of consideration who classed themselves as 3D.
hemians. l should have trouble in remembering as
many as half dozen of them who were not in their
relation to the activities of the professions they'd picked
out for themselves rank stark failures One and all they
rallied at the world for passing them BY. You might
consider this odd If you not familiar with the
pendous the mammoth the monolithic conceit of most
Bohemians) Yet of them had done none of them
has done since the slightest imaginable thing give the
world for hating its progress take notice
of Them much less to pet and praise and pamper them
Great Men Would Scorn 1t
THE writer of 1.-THE Studio Girl" wrote this: at
Gmeanlng Bohemanism) produces great editors,
artists, musicians playwrights, sometimes rarely
great men,.
through many years. to meet up with sles and sathers
of great editors artists, musicians, playwrghts, and
great all-round men, None of them that can recall
at this moment Bohemian. Everyone of them,
think, would have resented being called Bohemian.
They all too much in rapport with the world to be
Bohemans. They were all too busy to be Bohemans.
They all too intensely absorbed in the struggle of
doing and achieving things to align themselves with
queruous clique the members of which do little else
except cheapy CRITICIZE and grd at the work OF head
hand of non Bohemians
Most of the Bohemian editors that l have known
have been editors perennally of work. The artists
of my acquaintance who ranged themselves with b.
henans generally have been nothing but maybe artists.
What tirStrate musician living in the world is
Bohemian? Every topnotch playwright that l
met would have bridled and said "Faugh!" or some
thing worse, to the charge of being Bohemian. For,
you see, whatever Bohemianism may have meant and
stood for at other periods the time of Henri Mir
ger, for exampe,-the swing of the human pendulum
toward nornality and wholesomeness has forced the
"Bohemanism of this epoch to and to stand for
a certain mental moral and spiritual obliquity, not to
say opacity.
There time-a time that has been long dim
ming-when your true blue Bohemian whatever
else he might have BEEN proficient in other of
great in the matter of personal achievement that is
but he authority his subject. He worked
and starved to attain proficiency. He did not affect to
criticize the world the flesh, and the DEVIL but the
thing that he knew about, that he knew almost all
about. First and ALL he laborer the vineyard;
then he specialist; eventually he threw off certain
shackles which, binding other men, he did not consider
binding upon him account of the removed domain
he had chosen for himself His lack of allegiance to the
more rigid tenets regulating universal society not
matter of criticism with him. it affair of con-
venence He entirely willing to let the general
world 60 hum, long it did not hum too loudly to
permit him to do his chosen, his beloved, work, and
long it did not seek to impose upon him conditions
that variance with his almost necessary way of
living He was never in the vaguest Pharisee
He proselytizer. All that he asked of the
general world to be let alone and allowed to work
out his destiny matter how unsuccessful and obscure
that destiny promised to be.
The Bohemian of today however, sort of crude
dilletante in many fields that thoroughly worked