The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-15
"rhc Substance OF Hi. House,

''rhc Substance OF His House."
BY Ruth Holt Boucicault. Little.
Brown q Company.
Many waters cannot quench love.
neither can the floods drown it; il a
man would give all the substance of
his house for love, it would be utterly
condemned"
Mary reads and fully agrees, and be-
cause she is ''weli-grounded in the ten
cts OF her religion" she slips from hey
kneeiing position. and merciful sleep
comes TO her at last You see. she
feels that she has discovered certain
ghostly conformation of her love for the
wrong man
Mary Is the wife OF Sir Arthur Stan
hope mcEiber OF Parliament. but in
| spite OF her pious communings with
her soul and her deeply religious con-
victions. she cannot remain blind to
the manifold attractions of one Philip
| Carmichael. who. in the ribald Ian
guage of the street. is certainly Some
man Indeed. this Philip is so much
OF IA man-that is, of a lady's man
that ono woman feels compelled to
cIy to him:
God. What is there in YOU. Philip
! Carmichael. that two strong women
and one little child--should have given
you much?"
But this Is long after Sir Arthur
! has entered the conservatory cot
course, II was conservatory and dis
/ covered Mary III Philips arms: long
after Sir Arthur suggested to Mary
that she get a divorce and marry
/ Philip, which. by the way, she refuses
| 10 do because she is so religious or
something: long after Sir Arthur has
| died of an opportunc hemorrhage. and
/ even long after that affecting mo-
ment in the church when Mary and
/ n L. hRf
the author observes. What they said
! In their two hearts only God knows
! What mixture of human worship with
! divine He saw in the two souls bare
before Him. who can tell? But be-
iore they left His altar the sense of
bcncdiction was upon them both"
Indeed. 1t WINS after Mary and Philip
had been married in California by n
justice of the peace tina, a woman
named Shcclah, an actress. came for
ward, claimed to be Philips com
mon law wife, offered a boy in evil
dencc and mcrnorialized him in the cry
quoted above about the two strong
wonderland one child"
AS may have been gathered from
! the foregoing. The Substance OF His
! House" is a story all about love.
"The Foothills of Pnrnussus.r
! BY John Kendrick Bangs. The Mac
milan Company.
! Under this whimsical title are col
/ lcctcd many vaErant bits of verse by
that cheerful philosopher. John Ken
drick BanEs--may he live long and his
writings live after him, If there are
those who have failed to read within
! his humorous verse the clearly evident
| fact that he Is much more than Il come
| dian. they are invited 10 pcruse that
section of his book devoted TO The
| Deeper Note" or TO listen to his gentle
view OF humor:
! liumor dwells with sanity,
! Truth, and common sense.
! Humor is humanity,
| sympathy intense.
! "Iiumor always laughs with you,
| Never at you: she
| Loves the fun that's sweet and true.
| And Of malice free.
"Iiumor paints the dying fad
Folly of the day,
! A. II is the good or bad.
In n kindly way.
There behind her smiling mien,
In her twinklinE eyes.
Purpose true is ever seen
Seriousness lies.
Hers the tender nlother-touch
Easing all distress:
| Teaching cen tho smiling much.
holding with caress."