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YOUNG BOOTH HARRINGTON
AND SOME OF his OPINIONS

There isn't much art" In American
writing Just now. he thinks. THE great
est figure In prose mark Twain) has
gone. Mr.. Howells has not been publish
ing a great deal. Mr.. Riley has been
quiet the new figures have not emerged
clearly. Doubtless they will as time goes
on" But nevertheless he believes that
better writing 10 being done to-day than
ever before. He expects American fic-
ton to become In time wholly "un- 'Medi-
terranean'; Studies OF our people In the
language Of the people"
When asked what he thinks about the
promise OF the new men he says: mo
| don't see any rising stars. There are
probably some artists who will In time
prove themselves to be artists. There are
Americans who can write. Nobody is
star until he IL dead--a long time dead
IT he's starry too soon usually he doe sn't
remain 30. II you press me should have
to say that l CONSIDER the most inter
esting phenomenon In modern literature
TO be Its modernism. don't know ex-
ac.ly what ] mean by that, but il sounds
AZ II 1t meant something--and II does"
1t Is significant that he considers
Joseph Conrad IA very big mana won
derful man. He has a wonderful vision
and gives II to US In a strange way that
is full of beauty"
when one mentions Conrad, one thinks
OF open water, So II may rs well he
said here that Harrington has become
an enthusiastic motorboat man He has
traded his Old twenty foot dory for a
thirty footer ana is enjoying mild and
slow cruising. He has had a number
of automobiles at home and abroad, but,
they are now banished and he expects
to spend most OF his spare time on the
water henceforth. lie has never been
personally active In outdoor games.
though he Loyalty supported athletics at
college and he still usually gets to Prince
ton In the autumn for some Of the foot
bali
The average man is always interested
to know how the genius does It. MIR
Harrington rises at o'clock and II
hard at II In bathrObe at $3.50 lie
continues with as little food as possible
until evening, And sometimes he works
Eighteen hours AT stretch'--often I'll
after midnight. At any rate there is
work every day TN the task---novel. short
story or play--is done. 1t Is a relief to
know that there are vacations between
these periods OF fcverish activity lie
corroborates the word Of other novelist
drsmatists when he says that the writ
ng of play In comparatively easy.
But putting II on Ia another matter"
, And fiction. he feels. 10 his work.
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strong contrast to the century old ivy
stands the rectOry. a low. rambling house
built In the days when George l. was
Ming Ana there too lying at fun lenGth
upon the grass In the midst Of very
chaos Of toy engines forts and leaden
soldiers, was Mr. Wells. no whit less In.
terrsted than were his two sons. boys Of
some 10 and II years. who played beside
him.
Leaving the boys to their same Mr..
Wells took me 10 the house and together
we entered tho low. cool room that IL his
study Here by the open window stood
his desk and the breeze nuttered the
leaves ~ manuscript upon which he had
been working earlier In the day. Around
the walls were well stocked bookcases
WIN here and there a simply framed pic
ture.
During a shor, walk he showed mo tho
various things Of interest about the place
h. rd of gentle deer. quietly sraz,ne b.,
yond boundary fence. looked up In sud
zen alarm AT our approach. Just back OF
me rectory, but sheltered from view by
screen Of Gins, is the pond upon which Nj
Wells and his sons venture throughout
lo's summer afternoons, their GIsusy a
venerable punt
Later Mr.. Wells discussed hls literary
work lie said that MIR. Polly" was one
OF his faVorites though In England IL had
never been successful enough 10 soar be-
yond two shlAng edition
tie partially assrnted that much OF his
work is auiobiographiCai;
every novel is TO some degree auto
biographical tnasmuch as the author con.
sciously or unconsCiousiy puts into IL more
or less OF himself In regard to my own
work. much OF the early portions OF 'Tono-
Bunsay' and OF The New MachisyeIU
may be said TO be the result Of my own
experience, ! am not a university man
nor for the work In which have engaged
10 ! feel II to be a disadvantage Oxford
and Cambridge are institutions OF the psst
We need more OF the spirit OF to-day"
America he feels TO be the true expres.
sion OF this new phase. Not perhaps the
America OF to-day. but the America OF the
future, II must revisit the United States"
he said between pnrs at his brier. Even
since my last trip conditions have changed
beyond belief New forces are at work
You have space and you are stili young
You have hope"
lie Is an outdoors man. fond OF motor
ing ana cricket and keenly interested In
aviation. AS IL shown in hts hooks The
War N the Air THE First Men IN the
Moon" and The Sleeper Awakes" all cen.
tire about the conquest of the air. while
aviation Is included in The New Machia.
Nelli' "Tono- Bungay' and Marriage"
Wells Is a close friend of dunno, inventor
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IL you have good time in writing
! a book" he says. the chances are tina;
others Will enjoy II too. My rule 4. to
have the best time I can. The penalty
is that when the work IL finished you can,
enjoy IL. At least I cant | could no,
read book that | have written after
have corrected the page proofs You
see you can never forget the labor OF it.
You can never see anything but the ma
chinery. all the problems you've met and
some that you've left unsolved.
always TO me my work looks ANA
teurish when It's done. After II 10 In
print ] begin to see the faults and I
can't read H."
He Ia very serious when talking about
this side OF the writer's work. and his in
reviewer recalls that Mr.. Chambers once
said that he was a slow ard painstaking
workman and that for every 10000 or
lao, 600 words that saw print he had
written at least 800,
He says that hard work II common to
the writer's OF the day, since whatever
other faults there may be Technically
good work is now the rule rather than
the exception" lie adds that while his
great desire Is for good workmanship"
he doesn't like to see the technique stick
ing out The best. as every one knows
hides itself" he says.
Mr.. Chambers has said that he has Just
finished a series of short stories. "frivo-
lous things" he calls them. Its a bit
hard to tel why for presently he IL speak
ing OF the difficulty OF the technique OF
the short story. IT'S like the etcher's
work YOU can't make a mistake in the
plate" he saws "and you must be careful
to avoid faults that would be overlook ed
and forgotten In the novel"
OF his own methods OF work Mr.. Cham
beers SAYS that they consist simply OF
keeping at IL He goes TO his .office"
every day. sits down and doe. what he
can "Sometimes | accomplish something
and sometlm,s 1 don't" n. saw. hut /
am always there and irving TO write"
To the meagre information as TO Mr..
, Chambers's willing habits his puhllsher.
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COMMENTS ON WOMEN IN POPULAR NOVEL.
by CYRIL HARCOURr.

WONEN .nok
~ ho
uhoh
Of last
The
hr be Whsn
The
hat
H' terrible thing Tor GIRL
Personally ~oId ry be .a'd three ud
il
should be- remarked " suasnf for n'irhbors nd
The That Beathed before
Wor Da
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might venture a bigger Job-so l did All
the short stories, including Monsieur
Reaucaire,' had been rejected by several
magazines, and l had no idea that the
novel would get into print. or course /
hoped II might. I'd have written II just
The same II I'd been sure 1t wouldn I
Mr.. Mcclure took II. 1t was The Gentle-
man From Indiana"
With characteristic loyalty he adds: 81
had no real success until l struck In
diana subjects He is an Indianian FIRST
Of all.
lie was once elected to the Legislature
as q Republican. but speedily became an
insurgent. Many are the tales that are
tod about the political campaigning into
which he plunged with boysh zest Here
Is ono echo OF those stirring days which
he repeats himself with great gusto:
Going to vote for Harrington"
That actor fellow"
Yes, that acrobat"
''sure. I'm goin' to vote fer him Jes
winter see what the durn fooll do"
1t is interesting to note that OF thirteen
fsvorite authors which Mr.. Harrington
names no less than four are Frenchmen.
Cherbuliez, Daudct, Baizac and Dumas
he reads more autobiography, prefera-
My French, than anything else OF Eng
.ish authors he prefers Meredith. Steven
SOL. yimes, Wells, Bennett and Hardy
work of Mark Twain. Howells and Riley
and confesses spo cial fondness for THE
Hoss OF Little Already" by his friend
Harry Leon Wilson.
He has literary sversions. too. aplenty
and finds II hard to particulariss In 40
wide a field He says: Perhaps ! most
hate the kind OF literary thinking which
would hold the whole of the Illad,' for
instance, to be lit,rature--the kind OF
literary thinking which accepts the clas-
sizes ms sacred and unassaiiable. After
that I hate the sent m"ntalists. the In
enslsts and the baby talk school,
Most OF his critics have advised him
to stick to romHnticism. But he refuses
to pie.onhoie or be p'geonholed and
nalntaus that the only thing worth con
sideriug is how book II written. lie
saHs; 81 don't clrc to what so-called class
i is considered TO belong. But as a mat
ser 81 fact must 'romInticlsm' IL OF
"erE ntrrit. workmanship nowadays
IN" h"s. uuu don't seem Interested to do
4 'lI'c's ~ lIouuctiro forvenuy hope
that ~" last ~ those sentences applies to
Sir Harrington ns Iitile a. does the one
which Precious ~
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THE COMP EX PERSONALITY
OF HERBERT GEORGE WELLS

displayed an inventive talent. but the
discursve little sketches were limited AMI
affected.
This inventive talent was shown In
much more perfected degree and form In
his following "scientifc" stories, The
First Men In the Moon" The Tim
Machine" "Dr. Moreaus Island But
there was nothing as yet creative In
spirstional or imaginative In them Wells
was lust clever workman, manufactur-
ing his stories pieccmeal out OF the store
house of his special and acquired knowi-
edge He was undeniAbly clever at his
job, much cleverer than jules Verne had
been before him, but he as yet evinced
no sign Of the divine spark" the real
creative gift which Is based on imagina-
ton
The first suggestion OF this quality
came with his The Wonderful Visit :.
and later. developing. with his The Food
OF the Gods" Then in "l\ipps' he showed
that ne could create o real. living. tn OBJ
bling segment OF life. genuine and signh-
cant and al the same time gentle as
though viewed by q tolerant understand
ing deity.
'Tono- Bungay' and The New Machi-
avelli' showed . powerful mentality In
complete control OF Itself and Of its cres.
ton, pushing forward every sort OF prob
lem. event. tangle and illusion that the
age has produced. Wells with his wide
knowledge. with his developed Intellect
with his tolerant understanding. had
climbed TO a high place and looked under
standingly down upon a fraii world while
The New Machiavelli IL most strikingy
\ political consideration Of present day
England and while ''Tono. Bungay" prom
inently sends shafts OF light on the M tn
DDS OF modern business, both Of these
books are great and significant and will
live because OF the absolute sincerity and
truth with which they reveal every phase
Of the life they portray.
Mr.. Wells has two new books for this
season. The World Set Free novel
embodying all his Characteristic assets.
and Social Forces In Europe and Amer
!ca." volume which Is exactly what It's
title implies
A writer for the Book Ne,ns Monthly
who has recently had the privilege OF
visiting Wells In HE home describes his
personal appearance and his home. We
are glad 10 quote;
Wells IL "a little man. lie Is thin and
~ Ia his hair. his eyes are unimpressive
and his mustache Is straggly. No one
failing To know MIN would guess the pr, S.
ence OF England's greatest writer.
: His eyes are brown and kindly and set
deeply beneath a forehead across which
unruly strands OF reddish brown hair per-
sist In etraying.
In Its white gables and awnings In
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For Sale By all Booksellers.

who would read II II 1t was done" ne
asks and ADDS. why should We want
TO 20 back anyway The newspapers
he suggests are picturinS New fofN NE
In a way TO Ill all wants.
Mr.. Chambers has linked his fingers
while working on his sketch and he voices
his opinion OF the pen 10 man VINO
comes In to inquire how the interview
IL progressing. During apologies FOR m"
m,sbehayinE pen and expressions OF Mr..
Chambers publishers wish that he would
illustrate his own work the fact comes 10
light that the man who often turns out
two novels a year does all his writing
in long hand NO. not with pen, ne
says. ey!ng ruefuily his Ink stained mn
gers; II work with a pencil"
And" nuts In the publishers ONCE
man as the interview ends, you are sub
iect TO writer's crsmp." He saws 1t re-
provingly and looks Indignantly al the
authors fingers as one might Al
precious doyar producing machine mat
sometimes gets out OF order
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|hERBERT GEORGE WELLS,
~ this sketch should be started on
in such a manner how many
readers would at once recognize the name
Of one OF the most talked OF writer's
OF the day? Herbert George Wells Il
also one OF the most modest retiring
writer's Of the day. fact which perhaps
accounts for the fact that his name
publicly has never got beyond tnat
shrunken II. Il. Wells. Indeed. Wells fire.
auently does not syn his name ut all to
business letters. letting the stamped I'd
dress On his stationery sui'ice.
Wells owes his career to i hemorrhage
~ tn. lungs, without which he would
now probably be professor Of biology.
He was born about forty-seNen years ago
at Bromley, Kent In the south of Eng
land. and at an early age showed a de-
sire for scientific study. He studied At
the Royal College OF Science, took tho
degree Of Il. SC. at the University Of
London and for several years taught
biology at the University Tutoriai Col
lege in Red Lion Square. He wrote h
text book on biology which attracted 90
much attention that 1t Was even tranJ-
lated into Chinese
II seemed that his life work was
mapped out along definite lines when sud
denly came severe hemorrhage. He
recognized its warning and knew that
he must give up. at least for a time. his
educational work and seek something en-.
tirely sedentary. lie began writing ar.
ticles for various London newspapers. and
his work attracted the attention Of
IL. Il. Marriott Watson. Through Mr..
Watson ne made the acquaintance Of
w. r. Henley. who was glad 10 advise
and help him toward a literary future.
Soon he began to write books, aclieving
success In more varying directions than
perhaps any other English writer The
reading public has not yet recovered from
Amusement at the latitude OF his themes
and methods and his complete mastery
over each.
lie is not. however. creature Of
moods and shifting personalities he In
made up OF many separate characters
within himself and IL Is the development
OF each OF these that has combined To
make the great Wells OF to-day. a master
exponent OF liberalism In Its broadcast
sense. His nest Is To study and snalyze
all the tendencies Of the time and n
reveals all OF them iliumnatingiy, crisply
and tolerantly. His present personality
compactly displays all those varying. In
dividual personalities which he first.
when developing and assembling his
strength. displayed ono by one
Nearly twenty years ago In his Sc
iect Conversations with an Uncle" he
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lighted up when he was questioned about
his kind.
81 lived on the old frontier as a boy"
he says. my people established II. From
the time l was q boy I've listened to
the local history Of our neighborhooi
around Broadalbin. Fulton county. and
picked up arrow heads there. II seemed
to mo that the stories needed to round
them GU. an account Of the expedition
that went through the Indian country.
and so l wrote it,
Mr.. Chambers Ii reminded that since
Cardigan" published in 1901. he has be-
come. In the popular mind at least, the
foremost exponent Of the art OF pro-
questions about the happy ending" and
''giving the public what II wants"
He doesn't get angry. but he says quite
seriously that no doesn't try to write
best sellers and that he never tried to
write a popular novel; but once.
NO one can tell what the popular de-
mand Is" he says. THE publ. shers think
they know sometimes. but do ,hey9 II
you attempt to conform to what you be-
lieve to be the popular demand that's the
beginning OF your downfall You cant
fulhl any imaginary demand.
Mind you. l don't mean to say that
I'd be above trying for IL II I knew how.
did try Just once to write a popular
book. II was a great failure"
But this doesn't mean that Mr.. Cham
bers doesn't work hard at his Job OF story
telling. He confssses to an everlasting
dissatisfaction with all ne writes.
Perhaps next year l could do II all
better" he says. "But II / waited until
was satisfied l would have TO go on for
ever tearing up what l have written. and
then l couldn't make a living. II you
. trlr 70 Lon
II that's the best you can do"
He disclaims all responsibility for the
happy ending" saying that In his
books and short stories things happen As
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AUTHORS WHO ARE POPULAR IN DIVERSIFIED FIELDS

use you. but a man founded upon your
salient traits The way to use a model
Ia to keep barking back to 1t and com
pairing TO see that the picture isn't over
drawn"
or present day Developments In life and
the writing about 1t Mr. Chambers stys
People are becoming less and less
AFRAID or the truth That seems to me
the biggest thing about the present and
the most interesting"
But he doesn't admit that he is trying
10 take any part in the truth telling he
has no doctrine To preach. 70 particular
in his novels.
Not that he believes that .he prob
lem novel or the move! with . purpose
10 an unspeskable thing. He says:
Il have no particular regard or rever-
encs for the novel tt people want ~
% preached at Or to In q novel. there are
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they do because IL seems natural
"Catastrophes are rather rare In real life.
don't you Think" he questions. There
are vast numbers OF people who have
no great happenings In their lives
And he adds that the best a writer
can do is to try to satisfy himself that
his work rings true. This reminds Mr..
Chambers that my critics find many
things In my books that I never thought
Of" hui he says 1t spontaneously. Next
moment Mr.. Chambers Is denying that he
Is a realist and IL saying.
I'm not certain but that imaginative
work is Just as valuable as the realistic"
and then. for Mr. Chambers Is never die
tatorial and to interview him Is to be
interviewed, comes the Inevitable:
What do you Think
The discussion OF this leads on to other
topics and finally to Mr. Chambers's creed
OF art, 20 far a. he seems to have one
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entity those ready to listen. Personally
have no desire to preach and very
little patience to listen to preaching"
They don't talk much nowadays about
the great American novel;" but the
subject comes up and Is dismissed with
a contemptuous wave OF the monocl"
which Mr.. Chambers has stuck into his
right eye to study pen and pencil
sketch he has been making. He appsr-
entity believes there "aint no SIGH an an
nlmile" and never will be I'm the sense
In which II used to he talked of. He
In Also impatient with the theory that
there ought to be some one ~ 90 for
New York what Dickens did for London"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29
ne total number of hirths reported

the total number of births reported
for the same Years was 62.l57: and
inasmuch as We only learn By experi-
ence, II is we'll 10 recall the tact thal
dulng the years 18s5-ls56 anti-to1in
ioi diphtheria was ont nsed ia Okla
homa ANA the percentage of deaths
from diphtneria OF the total number
Of deaths tor This period OF ls95-1S96
Was l-2 per cent. today, nineteen
year. later, ae are reaping The bene-
fills from his gfeat remedy sgiene
has gwen us. Out OF the tofal nun
Der ar deaths OF 1887, we have 2,S
deaths from diph heria. which is ~
per cent OF all deaths The present
method o. treating diphiheria has re-
iueed the death rate Of this disease
from : IL per cent to l-2 per
cent IN Oklahoma.
The scientists ioay with the labo
raioy ana microscope are giving us
many life saving agents that if We
only avail ourselves OF these benefits
many lives will be saved tha' would
otherwise be- LOST. One narrow
minded skeptic or fanatic in a neigh
horhood can be- and frequently is
responsible Tor the loss OF more lives
iaan they bring into the world
Anii-toNin is not The only discovery /
about the disease controlling agents !
ihat has been given to MS during the /
past twenty years. We know more !
about The causrs Of diseases than we /
Enew nineteen years aso. Nineteen |
resrs ago W. believed the canse for
malaria To be- q miasfna aud hat liy-
ing in dug outs of sod-houses. and
'ur,ing over the virgin soil decsying
segetable matter on the lowlands AMI
roeka resuliing from excessive rain
.aii. were he causes OF malaria To-
fsv we know that the mosquito II the
cause OF this disease and the mos
quito mMst bi'e an individual vita
Malaria ana transfer this poison from
IN infected individual to a non-in-
.cted individual We are learning
-ow 20 ferret on sni locate the cause
Il typhoid fever aud We have k0nwn
1r years what caused smallpox. Many
hsldren we're treated for cstsrrh ana
ost their hearing together with i'm
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he stated tnat they were mucn
nee1ed III collecting reliable data per
tanning 10 our diseases. their yiru-
ithte. resistance iataA5s a. compared
win Kindred diseases III the STATES,
togetner with such general mfolma-
non AZ mighI develop any Influence
9ur clmsle may have on disease IA
'A@ absence OF provisions such as We
onW have. the doctor collected g'ais-
iic- ios tno years from correspond
ence @iih The diiierent doctors then
lrartlcins in oklahoma Territory
oklahoma aas diYilod at that slime
inio twentF-iNo counties. WITH q
population oil 30 2py peoplc Ills re-
port shows that for the two Years
ls'7 and $50. thar here WAS total
nambtf Of deaths reported of 73s from
ali canses and 2S15 births. The
af,fase nfimhef of births each month
n Oklahoma 'olay is s.GGi. deaths
ier month STA. from population OF
$50. GOO neople The total number
Of deaths from all canses dnr.ne the
years 1912 and 1913 was 1887. ana
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-29

Nineteen years ago me Territorial
Superintendent Of Public hsalln. d.
c. D. Arnold. of Fl Reno, made re-
port 10 has exceilenly. 81 henffo'
Governor of Oklahoma Teu1oll, ana
the fourth legislative assembly OF tAe
Territory OF Oklahoma There arr "a
great many thinss la inls report tla
are very interesting. hecommenda-
tions were made a. TO iefi.la ion snd
these same recommendations are auii
being made TO eacA legislature IN
Oklahoma Had ihese recommends
tions been recognized and ina lesis-
lature have enacted law resulatne
The practice % midwifery q isffe per
ceniaee Of The mothers who have died
during The past nineteen years from
child he'd fever might possibly be liy-
ing TO-DAY
The superintendent oi health at
that time iamen'ei 'he fact That
there was no adeaia,e provision Tor
the registering OF vital statistics ana
10 show The neeessi;r for he same