Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-09

o sIrs w ~in 7S Mho r1a ass SO with SlE e
40 c%nnnrison between the work Of
SURPRISING thing about the former. who
Is only twenty.eiEht. is that she APP
b ps; to be s9n'aalil% ut home whether r,
f Eaas her rs "S nov IN IN
London. as in The paupcrs of Port
an SE%asS !" anS in % Hy ID
Eight Years in Germany"
The eight years treated of in the
Miss Wylic mostly in Karlsruhe. and.
when the war began, she was one of
hose mos; impressed with the mill ].
and most fearful that i, might tr
umph, She then remarked TO n friend
that. compared with the German sol
were mere carpet Knights" and no
Doubt il was with keen delight that
she lived 10 see her words disproved
by events.
NEVER SET FOOT IN
LAND NIVIDLY DESCRIBED
In spite OF the fact that she scored
her first success with 4 novel OF India.
up this success with another, Tho
Daughter of Brahma." one of her
closest friends tell me tina, Miss wylie
land she describes so graphically in
these TWO. novels, but that she got all
her e9 2sars from rienS W ShS
the late Alice and Claude Askew ever
been to the TranSvaai when the wrote
their most successful novel, Tho Shu-
nIni;s." which is ali about the Beers.
but they used their imagination TO
such effect that. Claude Askew once.
copies OF ".rhc ShulaInite" to their
friends at home one of the most
accurate pictures they know Of in the
form OF y novel Of the life out there.
hear, by the way. that the Amer
i ,S: weekly publication that ran Miss
has promised the authorizes $4,000 for
the serial rights OF her next novel.
Olive Wadsley. who is in hcr middle
twenties, has been back in literary
spending over two years at the front
as nurse. The sex element is greatly
res Snd It I SniRed so arKey she
her first success The Flame" that
several Of the publishers to whom it
When ii did finally appear. it had been
somewhat drasticaily modified. but its
success was instantaneous, Miss
writing a book dead secret from her
excellent mother, but when the first
copies of The Flame" were sent to
her. she carried one TO her parent. re-
marking. Here's book that will bring
as some money. mother"
MOTHER SCOLDED HER
AFTER READING BOOK
Mrs. Wadslcy started reading The
Flams, there and then her daughter
dict. it was speedily Forthcoming.
Mrs. Wadsley had read only few chap
ters when she shut the volume with a
bang.
What do YOU mean, Olive" she de-
ma nded seTerely. by writing such
think of it." Aud Mrs Wadsley in
hiEnan'ly consigned The Flame" TO
the other. flames that were blazing in
the drawing room hearth and watched
them enwrap it with undisguised sat
isfacticn.
That is all very well. mother" re-
marked her more practical daughter,
hut that book will bring us money.
and we need it," And the words that
then, AS the saying goes, she has never
looked back
There arc few things that induce
more Elccful chortle from a transat-
iantic bosom than the beiated d!scov-
expression which Phc hiEhbrowed and
intolerant type of British pcdant has
INCREASINGLY deridcd as 'Dorrid
hmcricansim" is in reality good old
English. The hiGhhrows in question
one instance among many being fur
nished by tho case of the word .'somc"
AS colloquially used.
When some" as an culogistic adjcc-
tive arrived from tho United states
few years ago. it made sclf-appointed
Undecided throw succession Of cat
fits. They had no words of denuncia-
t.. TOO whitening. for this latest
back several centuries. we're dug up