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Of the country. Much of his love for
the open and his familiarity for the
wild country is evidenced in the latter
writer's recent novel, The Sagebrush-
err Even the writer's love for sport
crops out. The heroine. who is blind,
goes fishing with the physician who
loves her, although she is married. The
story has a setting of the Western
mountains and valleys, and the charac-
tiers are real people, living real lives
in real country Our list of Ameri-
can writer's is all the better for men of
this type-strong, vital, simple and sin
cere-who write of what they see and
feel and know.
"I have made my fun capitalize my
work. said Emerson Hough not long
ago. My travel is velvet and money in
the bank for me, and it has been for
thirty years
"Not many Americans can san so
much as this in these days of high
priced travel, but that this author can
say it is due to the fact that he has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

men, each Of them mans man, al
though women read their books as we'll
as men. If you would go into the sane
tum of any of these men you would find
it not study or a boudoir but bust
ness office, and you would find the man
himself not an author but human
being, business man, with no hint of
fads or frills about him. He does his
professional work seriously. He is
above all things a simple and sincere
type of the better American business
man.
ut is surprising, also, how many Of
the leading authors are out-of- door
men. Robert W. Chambers is famous
as a depicter Of studio and boudoir
life, but his real great love in life is
that of angling with the artificial fly.
Rex Beach is sledge driver and big
game hunter, not in theory alone.
( Harry Leon Wilson is a ranchman and
mountain man. Emerson Hough is one
Of the most widely experienced big
game hunters and most ardent anglers
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been possessed not only of a love fo1
outdoor sports but Of the ability to
write of them entertainingly. Once
this was a vocation rather than an
avocation with him. Even to-day his
occasional unsigned articles in one OF
the large circulations interest a large
audience who do not know who writes
them, other than that it must be some
man who knows sport and knows Amer
lea.
when he was young man Mr..
Hough practiced law in New Mexico
His life in that country made an in
eradicable impression on him. He saw
the West when it was the West and he
proved his ability to get on there
Since those days not year has passed
in which he has not spent a part of his
time in some part of the West. He
knows his Sierras and Rockies. and he
knew the prairies before they had De-
come famous.
"Hough belongs to a select club of
wealthy men who own property on the
shores of Lake Henry. Idaho, in one of
the best sporting regions of America,
and this is his favorite place for a
summer rest-rest being understood to
mean, for him, strenuous angling and
mountain climbing.
1T was in his Western wanderings
that Hough got inspiration for his re-
cent novel, The Sagebrusher.' II is a
Western book and an American book.
Not war book, it is an after-th e-war
book, and touches some of the prob
lens of anarchism and Bolshevism in
this country"
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streets Anterior Place. Such is
fame.
There is little or no young love
interest in Mrs. Atherton's novels.
Would this affect their value for
motion picture plays? Mrs. Ather-
ton thought the director could east
ly supply what was essential in that
vein. For herself, she confessed
that young people did not begin to
interest her as characters for a
novel until they had passed their
teens.
Between twenty-four ana thirty
two is the most interesting age, I
think" she said. explaining. then
psychology begins. Until that time
the young person has been chiefly
interested in herself. After that
she begins to consider other people
and to think little
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house, his yard, his trees, his flow
ers and his kitchen garden.
The house is comfortable - he
SAID. Il have lived here for twenty
years. My wife died here. and I
shall die here myself. But what YOU
SAID just now, my dear friend, about
early marriages has set some ideas
working in my head. l am going
to tell you what they are.
Il bought this property in 9 me-
ment of enthusiasm. At that time
my wife and l worked hard. We
made money. We never took vaca-
lions. If anybody had talked then
about the English week he would
have been laughed at. One day
however, we determined to 90 on
little trlp-beyond the fortifica-
tlons. We got off the train at
Montgeron.
"Ah! my friends! Green fields.
Trees some COWS in a pasture. The
SKY above our heads and silence
about us! For two prisoners such
as we were, this countryside rep
resented paradise.
To have a little place hore /,
sighed my wife-'what a dream that
would bel!
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at that period, Georges, your
aunt had already begun to feel a
little worn out. She longed for
rest. myself dreamed of retiring
from business. Where else - in
what more lovely spot-could we
hope to be better suited?
Zone day I expressed aloud the
thought which had never ceased 70
haunt me: Why not live here?'
1T was too late. There was
Montgeron, on which | had spent
SO much money. Montgeron held
us fast in its claws. In place of
travelling before planting nv tent.
| had planted my tent before travel
ling
Fatal error,
To-day, Georges, you encounter
for the first time one of the innu-
merable visions of happiness, and
you think you will hold fast to it. I
would prefer that you had contem-
plated larger number of such
visions. The idea of happiness
which we construct for ourselves
changes SO often with the years."
l looked at young Georges Salars.
A shadow passed across his brow.
But he chased it away quickly, and
said in a clear voice:
"Cncle, your trout are delicious
May | have another oneo"
AS you wish. But after the
trout there will bs partridges. Of
which you are very fond, believe
l warn you because here, too, it is
prudent not to shut the door too
,soon."
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Mrs. AthertOn and
The MOUieS
n sideligI,t on a modern tendency

that she had planned before tbs
war. In her early writings she 5.a
made San Francisco almost r..
central figure of several books
Butte is the city she fixed upon !,
"Perch of the Devil" Shall 81.
go this winter to Hartford and write
novel there? That IS the CUES.
ton. She also has in mind the two
far western cities of Seattle and
Spokane. Chicago she has no in.
clination to grapple with. but sbe
did consider Detroit.
AS a matter of recording +bo
workings of the novelistic mind i
can be stated that Mrs. Atherton
went first to Detroit to write the
first of her series or American
cities. She had spent only twenty.
four hours in Butte. She then went
to Genoa to write her novel, and
found her hero developing into a
mining engineer, and packed bag
and baggage back to Butte. In re.
turn Butte has named one OF its
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ito be very enthusiastic over my mar
riage."
"See here!" cried FRANCOIS, in his
big, genial voice. II have never
criticised your choice. Your fancee
seems to be accomplished, judging
from the photograph you showed
me. She is very pretty girl. Don't
make me say what haven't said. +"
"But it's just what you haven't
said, uncle"
Il have said that I would make
the bride handsome present and
would go to Lyons for the wedding "
And l." retorted Georges. eek
pected real expression of pleas
Urea cry from the heart-and an
embrace"
"a cry from the heart Nonsense.
my boy! A cry from the heart /
You are twenty-three. And YOUR
fiancee is eighteen. Can't YOU i'm
aglne that that gives me something
to think about?"
believed it my duty to deliver
a little eulogy on early marriages.
Since Salars no longer entered OBJ
Jections, and I thought that the con-
versation on this subject was ended
l began to congratulate him on his
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WV WHETHER there is now, or
wv ever was, a general i'm
preston that an author
must Of professional ne
cessity go about in flowing locks
and low, expansive collars after the
fashion of those worn by the illus
trious Byron and other literary
celebrities, is open to dispute. But
laymen at least have heard of such
eccentricities, by reason of the very
conspicuous and somewhat roman
tic affiliations of articles of dress
with occupational vanity, or, let
us say, sacred rights of profess
sional individualism.
There was an ancient popular
impression to the effect mentioned,
says "The Boston TRANSCRIPT, :"
which paper wants to know what
has become of it, and goes into
the following discussions:
There was time when authors. or
at least some authors, felt it incumbent
upon themselves to be serious, to nose
to assume a distinction if they had it
not, even if that meant eccentricity in
dress or manners. Where are those
authors to-day? Would you find flow
ing ties, long hair and taper fingers
among such men as Rex Beach, Emer-
son Hough, Harry Leon Wilson, Will
1rwin-any of scores of the better
known American writer's? Not at ALL
Without exception they are simply
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we were discovering nature. With
out our noting or DISCUSSING If q
comparison imposed itself on rs no.
tween the large perspectives and
striking beauties Of those Noun
talns, smiling valleys and abundant
forests and our little BOURGEOIS
country seat, planted in the marshv
suburbs of Paris.
The next year we visited the
mediterranean. 1t was violent
shock! The light, the blue sea all
the unreasonable softness of that
dlvlne cllmate Sunshine, per-
tunes, flowers and. above all q
certain Joyousness and mellowness
Oh ll1e' a sensation of youth re-
newed, of relaxation and renose
1t was for both of US a marvellous
awakening! My wife took off her
shoes and ran along the yellow
sands. One had only to extend his
hand to pluck mmosas and roses
There were houses there to sell
white villas, with broad terraces
built among the orange trees and
rosebushes.
Without expressing our secret
thoughts my wife and l inspected
these houses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Cutting the
Bard

RGING utmost discretion in
"cutting' Shaksspeare's
plays for stage productions
Mr.. William Archer, who admits
that they probably must be eut to
suit popular" taste, has the follow
ing to say in The Fortnightly
Review:
There 10 abundant evidence that
cutting was the commoaest o; practices
in Shakespeare's time, and there would
be no difficulty whatever in conceiv-
ing that he habitually wrote more than
he intended or wished 10 he spoken on
the stage, but for one culious circum-
stance namely, ms carelessness as 20
the publication or his WORKS. Tat ne
ever intended the Hamlet OF me
Folio to be acted entire is iaconeeiV-
able. He simply poured all his
thoughts into it, regardless OF time
or stage conditions But WY, then
did he not publish 1t in d carefully cor
rected edition. Faust and Peer Gynt
are manifestly written wiln TO Yiew
to the limits of the theatre; but
we cannot conceive Goethe or l5sea
making d stage version of his work
and then taking no trouble as 70 the
publication of the complete text. We
must admit that this conduct on
shakespeare's part is puzzlins. we
can only imagine that he proposed 70
superintend at leisure the publication
II his works. and that his early death
frustrated his intention. There IS
nothing improbable in this theory;
whereas i is utterly ,p'nossible tha'
Hamlet or even 'Othello,' Lear or
'Coriolanus' can have been presented
entire on the ordinary Elizabethan
STAGE"
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And l agreed with her.

anu agreed WIN ner.
You know how Parisiars are.
they have a mania to own a little
piece of land No matter what it
ls-even rabbit warren! And the
first bit of country they visit--it
is revelation to them.
"a week later we returned to
Montgeron and an opportunity pre-
sented itself. An opportunity al
ways presents itself in such cases.
l bought this little property-'on
tempting terms, as you may mag
inc.
"Afterward, through enlarge
ments and improvements, repairs
and alterations, I sank a consider
able amount of money in it. But
was doing we'll, and had no re-
grets.
"A day arrived when, being less
eied up with business, I became con-
sclous of the fact that | had never
travelled. thought that we-mv
"l1e and Ought, at least, to make
ourselves acquainted with France.
Brittany, with it's infinite poetry!
iouraine, with it's regal associa-
lions! Dauphiny, grandiose and
amazing! We were carried away.
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7 INNING real nOvel1StS TO
MN write motion pictures has
taken a long time and a
hard pull. Many have
tried it and only one has taken to
it. Now lot of them have sudden
ly followed Rex Beach into the fold,
and from report spend days doing
nothing but sign checks of large de-
nomination. Gertrude Anterior,
who wrote "The Conqueror," "The
Tower Of Ivory" "Perch of the
Devil" 'The Living Present" and
who is one of the recent devotees
before the film shrine, does not in
tend to reform the new art, but she
has some ideas Of her own about
the most popular of modern enter
tainments.
Mrs. Anterior likes New York as
a summer residence. She is now
living within a stones throw of Co.
lumbia University. 1t was there the
author, who had recently expressed
her resentment of the highbrow at
titude taken toward motion pict-
ures by second rate "intellectuals,"
talked interestingly of this and that.
Mrs. Anterior, with the proven
bal ribbon of deep blue velvet about
her throat, spoke of the advantages
which the "movies" have come to
possess. 81 go to the picture play
| house about once a week." she said.
II am not exactly a movie fan, but
| do enjoy pictures. A story we'll
told is story still, whether it is
told in words or photograph And
authors to-day should be grateful to
have their novels on the screen in
these days, when books have been
almost showed out of existence bv
the popular magazines. Personally
I am delighted at the opportunity
to reach millions instead Of thou
sands"
When one of Mrs. Atherton's
novels was recently produced in
pictures she discovered that the
star was playing three roles
daughter, mother and grandmother.
Only one had been noticeable to the
author in the book. However, that
was a legitimate exercise of director
and actor imagination. Mrs. Ather-
ton was much more intrigued to
think that "Perch of the Devil" had
never been produced, although
much considered. The trouble with
it, she discovered, was that she had
developed two leading women in the
novel. No star in pictures would
consent to play with a rival figure
throwing as long a shadow in the
silent drama But now that the
story is to be the star, perch of
the Devil will, it is understood,
probably get screening.
Perch of the Devil" Mrs. Ather-
ton intimated, was the first of
series of books on American cities
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
T WASN'T the first time that
/ had visited my old friend
Francois Salars at the charm

ing little house which he owned
at Montgeron, on the outskirts of
Paris.
Tall, broad shouldered, in his
prime at fifty, Salars received me
with jovial bonhomie. He presented
at once his young nephew, Georges
Salars, who had arrived the night
before to spend a few days at Mont
geron.
my nephew lives at Lyons" said
FRANCOIS. "He has come here to
announce his engagement. He is
twenty-three and has his eye fixed
on the future. You will see that
my brothers son is a very serious
person."
was struck by the tone of play
full sarcasm which Salars assumed,
SO | looked the young man over. He
seemed to possess sympathetic
personality. His eyes were full Of
intelligence. He had a frank and
open countenance, and, perhaps be-
cause of his happy prospects, an air
of Juvenile confidence and an alac-
rlty which were highly attractive.
We seated ourselves at the dinner
table. | offered the fiance my con-
gNatulations.
81 thank you, monsieur" said
Georges, at the same time casting
a mischievous glance at his uncle.
"But I must tell you that one thing
here has given me certain an
noyance. My uncle doesn't appear
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That's why she come here.
in TIL house.
He's in terrible tew now, they say.
Eighty year old and al'ays respectable.
1t do seem hard"
Glow does T.isha take 1t?
He's one O. them husbands as sets
store by their wives.
I remember his courtin'.
He'd ha' pulled the stars out O. tn sky
To lay a path SOS Claribel could step
easy"
"He won't hear a word agin her now.
Says twas his fault fer bein' way
when twas born.
Eben said he jest bust out cryin'
When they tell'd him the baby want
his"
~Travels, don't he?"
Eyes, stoves.
DOM elegant
Only, o'course, it takes him way most
O. tn time"
"She should ha' come home fer her
layin' in,
"I dunno.
Tain't in mater to leave yer own home
When a baby's comm"
"But she did leave her home. didn't
she?
Went to a hospital or something"
well, she had ter do that
Jest at the last.
Lisha was off West, you see,
An somebody had to tend her"
"My! Amt it shamei
Poor little thing!
Eff she'd ha' sent for me
I'D gone right down to Boston next
train"
Anybody would.
But she was alays as proud as Lucifer.
Was Clariber.
An that baby comm made her proudern
ever.
Why the letters she writ bout It'll
declare they sounded like the Bible.
She was all keyed up,
Seemed she want steppin' on no COM
mon earth,
An she most sewed her eyes out
Maxim the clo'es.
She didn't need nobody
But Jest her thouphts
Shed KEEP that baby on her mind 60
long
1t went all to shivers when Their want
none"
THE Almighty's ways do be past
understandin'.
Why couldn't her baby ha' lived. I
wonder?
Most of em do"
Seems she slipped on tn ice or
somernin.
Anyway the baby was born dead.
They do say she took on bout it
somethin' awful.
An she wouldn't let nobody write to
'Lisha
That doctor said they oughtn't never
TO ha' let her out O. tn hospital
alone
But they did,
An she was walkin' home
When she seed baby carriage settin'
outside . drugstore
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- AA/ her, do you think,
Mirandy?"
do you mean prison?
No, guess not.
That doctor from Boston said she
want no ways responsible"
"She's over to the 'sylum, amt she ?"
eyes, but the doctor said she'd be
right as trivet
In q month or two"
II never seed the child but once,
But now I mind, it 'peared awful big
fer five weeks, ter me-"
"You may say so, 'Melia.
Eff you was a married woman
You'd ha' sensed right off
Somethin' was wrong.
Why twas all of year an more.
l guess that was the reason she let you
see it.
You not bein' KNOWN in such things.
/ asst her ter le' me look at it hun
der'd times.
But she al'ays put me off
One way or another.
Bless you. She was as nervous as
witch
Fear o. bein' found out"
cole man Drew wouldn't think nothin'
O. course"
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|Amd Pity IT'S
IT'S True
I is
BY Amy Lowell
. "The To2achstone"

, With the baby in it.
The mother'd gone inside fer mint,
An fore she knowed what she was
dom
She had the baby in her arms an was
cuddlin' it.
She's born mother, is Claribel,
An her milk want dry,
An I guess she jest couldn't put it
down.
It's wicked to think O. what she must
ha' suffered
To do such a thing;
But she took that baby of homo with
her,
And she lowed to 'Lisha twas her own
She'd brought from tn hospital
'Lisha was new to babies,
An he didn't think nothin' bout its
size"
"I wonder why she come up here?"
ITO git farther away, guess.
Twas all right an proper
To bring the baby home to visit with
her grandsir for a spell,
An she never fggered as they could
trace her up here.
When anybody wanted to see the baby
She'd say she didn't want it should
be walked up.
1t might ha' gone on It'll the Day O.
Judgment.
Eff the Sheriff hadn't been q family
man."
'You don't say!"
eyes. You see the other mother was
right down sick with fussin',
Naturally.
An she an her husband got the perlice
on it.
An they sent all over the state,
An to New York.
! guess they spent mint O. money
Eff you was to count it.
Sheriff, he read the papers,
An one day he seed Claribel
In the village
Wheeln' the baby.
1t looked awful large ter him,
An he stopped an asst heap O. ques-
tions.
Claribel was at her wits ends,
An bimeby she muddled herself bout
somethin',
An he took her right into Coles store
An had good look at the baby.
That settled it.
They do say that Claribel most killed
the Sheriff
With pitchfolk was standin' Their
Fore they got the baby from her.
I dunno's blame her.
She's got mother in her blood"
BLAINE herl Mirandy, you'd do the
same.
So would l eff the Lord had seed fit
ter gi' me a child"
"Ther's the other woman, 'Melia."
eyes, that's so.
My! But the ways of the Almighty do
beat all,
An I al'ays says so.
Why, it's only a week ago I SAYS to
Parson Davis,
'Parson,' says l, 'ther amt no man.
ner O. use
You expounding Scripture the way
you do,
| Day in an day out.
Well niver understand says,
Not till GabriePs trump starts US all
putin on our bunnits for the
Resurrection.
| Mirandy, d you s'pose Claribel d care
for one O. my spice cakes?
She used to be real partial to 'em.
Jason could drive over to the 'sylum
with one most any day,
Now tn apples is picked"
$50 do, so do, 'Melia.
An I'll jest slip some O. them new jars
O. ounce conserve into a basket
An send 'em along too.
| T v>Iov
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translated by William L. Mcpherson
Copyright, 1919, Neau York Tribune Inc

Cygb N York Tribune
of
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N ILL they do ss think with s sss7 ss n.. t.
Nv An flores knowed "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
A Little Treatise on Long Hair

wv 7HETHER there is now, or
wv ever was, a general i'm
preston that an author
Gilpin observer., 1919-05-01
WALK MUCH AND LIVE LONG
Overwhelming Evidences That Pedes-
trIanIsm 10 by Long Odds the
Best Form Of Exercise.

''Walk, walk. walk, every day. and
while walking give the arms full
play. BY SO doing the bones, blood,
muscles, nerves and brain will be
kept in healthy activity. Moreover,
never mind the weather. Take your
exercise, be the day wet or fine, hot
or cold. Above all. avoid sitting over
fire. Nothing is more conducive
to senility." This is the prescription
of Sir Herman Weber, the eminent
European physician, who died at the
age of ninety-five years. Certainly
there could be no better recommenda-
tion of the virtues Of walking than the
life Of Sir Herman.
Walking Is something that cannot
be overdone, and at the same time
much out of fashion at the present
time. In this day Of automobiles the
man who walks is the exception, and
while the man in the motorcar de-
rives vast amount of benefit from
his trips into the country and
through getting his lungs pumped
full of fresh air, he does not obtain
the great variety of health-giving fea-
lures that come with walking.