The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-20

human body, and Socialism the cure for the numerous ailments that af- f1ict the body polite; the man whose
 wife desertd him for a tramp poet" the ground that he was eu ez- SentIal sen monogamIst the man T-ll.s---
 Sinclair. novelist aud reformer, iG to- day celebrating the rounding out oG thirty-f four as busy years as were ever spent by a, man of letters
 Baltimore was the Birthplace Of tha author of The Jungle" Upton B. anu Priscilla Hardon Sinclair were hig parents, and Sept 20, 1878. the date of his arrival in this capitaligttc world Upton secured his higher education a1 the College of the City Of New York.
 where he graduated as an A B. In 1879, and at Columbia Universitys where he served four years doins
 graduate work He was still unaef- going the educational process when he met and fell in love with Meta Full
 Ter of whom more anon
 When he left college Upton decided upon d. literary career and epfaaa--eEl-
 gagged at hundred do1larG a, week or therea bouts to write series of thrtl~
 ling boys stories for a nickel library These yarns dealt mainly with army
 and navy life. and what Upton didu'c know about the army and navy War
 more than made up Tor by the thrin8
 Writing nickel novels was easy toF
 Upton, and left him a. lot Of time for
 thought. Thus it came about that hs secured for his occupation. gave uD his comfortable job, and devoted him self to real literature Ills first novel
 "Sp9ingtime and Harvest" Writte1
 in 1911 created no tremendous demand
 and so on Upton found himself out
 of funds Rather than go back To
 the wilds of darkest Jersey, built a
 hut with his own hands, and there
 took up his abode with his young vile
 Tn the primeval wiIderness their frst
 his his literary work. writing '9Ths
 Journal of Arthur sterlins." which
 was published anonymously and Wi1esy successful. Prince Hagen" and
 '.Manassas'' followed, but brought TO large financial return, and the coupe lived from hand to mouth until lsoe- MT Sinclair had in the meantirre become an ardent Socialist. and had become known to the editor Of Socialist paper in Gfrard, Kan Ire latter had investigated the Cn1caeo stock yards, and wanted some aoie Socialist novelist to write noFo- about the conditions prevailing tness- portunity. and after several rnonrna | in Chicago, where he 1ived az work
 man in the stock yards and PacElris | house district, he wrote The JuuEle First published as a serial in me Socialist paper. this story was lsIeF brought out in book form. Inrne edlaLe- tfonaI fame and 8 considerable Tor | tune and all his subsequent ooo1s have been very successful, althouga | to a. Government fnvestig gatfon and many reforms In the meat packing business. ., s
 1 Faithful to her husband in nis daF of diversity, success turned the head l oe HTra Sinclair and last year she l left him to become the free connraee | of Harry Kemp, a Kansas poet Lne | irree-IIIar- alliance did not last long. | and Mrs. Sinclair soon returned 10 her parents. Beside his fiction Wor and Socialist propa ganda pooes. --I- Sinclair is the author of several works | on lfnaturaI healing and health topie1 and has been an earnest advocate ct | fbe fasting method of curing diaeaao7