The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

world and it's inhabitants is partly due
 to the fact that she has not been taught in schools. Most of her child
 hood was spent abroad with govern ess, and rubbing up with many diff ferent types and nationalities went a long way toward developing a strong latent power of observation. Incidentally, she is determined to stand on her own legs. the last thing she Is prepared to do being to trade on her fathers distinguished position. With this firm determination. she re- gently came to London to live and work
 alone, and it was in quite a modest
 tbachelor-girls' establishment that she was found, the other day. T think" she said, that all women ought to come in contact with actual
 life, as Independent personalities. So many women are all their lives long mere accessories of their relations - their fathers or husbands. as the case may be. They are welcomed and made
 much of largely because they are the
 daughters of somebody or the wives of somebody. Since I have come to Lon don I have discovered how very diff ferentIy one is treated by strangers
 when all social supports are taken
 away. It is not pleasant realization, | but it is an extremely interesting and instructive one"
 Miss Murray mentions her pink and | blue theory briefly in her last book,
 and the interviewer asked her to be
 good enough to eXpound it. The girl
 authoress laughed.
 | of course one can't take al idea
 like that absolutely seriously" she said,
 but I always in my own mind, divide
 people into two classes-pinl1 and blue.
 No, it has nothing to do with auras 1 or astral bodies or anything theo-
 sophical.
 Briefly. blue people are the un-
 derstanding' people. They are sensi-
 tive and imaginative and are easily
 upset by trif1es, but you know that whatever you say to them you will
 never be misunderstood. Big trage-
 dies do not trouble them so much, per l haps because they are able to get out side themselves and view their own
 sorrows as an interesting spectacle
 The pink person, on the contrary, is
 not much disturbed by little things, but very much by big things. The blue per son is more variable and uncertain
 than the pink. You can never tell what
 a blue will do in given circums tances. 1 The blue can sink to greater depths
 than the pink, but he can also rise to
 greater heights. Both pink and blue
 may be poseurs. but whereas the blue pose to themselves and deceive them- selves the pink pose to other people. Both, also, may be emotional; but | the emotion of the pink person is more | sentimental than that of the blue. eAmericans2 Oh. Americans are blue,
 unquestionably. The English are, as a whole, pink, especially women, but when an English person is blue he is | bluer than anybody"
 1 Miss Murray Is at work on another novel, but its readers will have to de- eide for themselves what color the | characters are. Now that her iiscov- | cry has been made public perhaps
 some one will produce a pale pill' for consumption by pink people" Mean while, the works of our leading humor- ists will continue to be advertised as
 "a sure cure for the blues"
 Maurice Hewlett took the chair at a big dinner of the Society of Authors ! this week, and made witty speech which fact reminds one that an anus
 ing story is going the rounds at the expense of the author of Richard Yea
 and Nay" Though some of the me
 diaeval cahracters he writes about are
 a bit shady of character, Hewlett him self is one of the most eminently re- | spectacle of men, yet the breath of scandal came near touching him re- gently The scene was another literary
 dinner, whereat Francis Gribble. who l himself occasionally writes about !
 cred speech on Maurice Hewlett and His Works" At the end there was discussion, and Gribble was asked
 among other questions, if he did not
 thing that, i'll "The Queens Quair."
 its author had been just a bit indeli-
 cate. Gribble pointed out that the period in which the Queens Quair is laid was none too strait-laced a one, and said
 he thought. on the contrary, that IIew-
 lett had handled his theme with uncom-
 mon propriety. So the matter passed 1 off
 1 After the dinner there was a "con-
 versazione," and Gribble declares that,
 as the evening pr5ceeded, he could not fail to notice the propensity of a lady of uncertain age, whom he had noticed
 at the table, but who was unknown to | him personally, to hover in his neigh borhood. It was pretty obvious that she desired to engage him in conversa-
 tion, and eventually she came along side. Dear Mir. Gribble," she purred q
 want so much to ask a question" Then
 she lowered her voice. What was it
 that MT. Hewlett did in Queens Square?"
 | Gribble says that he only could mur- mur. "Hush,' in a shocked whisper,
 after which he fled.
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