New-York tribune., 1920-11-07

e~S "~EN'sos e4pIAina Spenleve,
mean. Of course, as far 40 Adslity and
maintenance were concs1ned) 70 an oe-
toroon in New Orleans.
Aboard = ship on which As 10 an
officer. Spenlove rnsets the daughter
who is going to Epsilon to meet her
father. She does not give the impress
sion OF sheer innocence and youth.
She Is fAted Tor love-but not mar
riage. Tho respectable but stiil re-
c~ptively inclined spsnlovs dees not
succumb at once, although tho girl
does not attempt TO conceal tho fact
that she Is interested In h!m.
Afterward. Spenlove explains In the
story Ne tells 70 His brother ofaeers
on the bridge Of the ship. no meets hsr
again In . sumptuous apartment in
London, in which she has been installed
BY Mr.. Kinaitsky-"I turned At the
sound Of voice and saw nor standing
in the doorway Of the next room, q
figure IN pale, shimmering gold, hold
ing back portiere Of heavy dark Blue
velvet. Holding IL back for me to en-
ter, and watching me with the old, de-
yis!ve, questioning emile. I
said I'd DO your FRIEND protested,
but sou didn't seem 70 think mo worth
while 'AwAys.' she Whispered,
regarding me, never mind what Asp-
pens7 'Yes!' said, putting
my arm around nor"
MeFes's Own vIswsf
Finally. the devoted Spenieve xoes to
Sa!oniki to sec the g!rl, and tt 10 then
We learn, through hie reflective com
nents on the customs and manners Of
the Turkish people, something Of the
difference between American and
Turkish ways and the shortcomings Of
the western nations In meters Of free
dom and Iowa As McFse's duties In
sex service during the war took rim
to Turkey, tho reader receives the im-
preston that much that Spenlove says
represents the auther's own views.
We are introduced to a family o.
the name Of Ssrafev, who once lived
in Brooklyn but have returned to Tur~
key:
They were astonishing. They sat
there, those three extremely handsome
females, easy and uncorseted, their
white teeth cleaning, their perfect
compiexions glowing. their dark eyes
and hair shining In the lAmplisht, and
contrAdieted all the conventional no.
tions I had ever held about American
emigrants. Liberty for them vas not
a frothy gable Of lns!nesre vsrhiase.
but clear and esncrete condition Of
body ana soul. Theis vitality, like che
vitality Of 20 many Of the people In
these regiens, was extraordinary.
They seemed Independent Of everything
peculiar to our bossted Western evil
izaeion. Neither patent medicines nor
cosmet'es ner municipsl enterprises
came into their lives 1t all. There
were no books in the house. They pro-
duced figs in syrup and shexbet and
cognsc, and 9 smooth red wine thet
was = most generous cordial. They
gave me bread and xaisins. They had
all the things wc read Of, and strive
to initiate, and which va imagine We
buy in cane.
They had ne manners, for they ate
with their fingers and licked them
vigorously afterward; yet they con-
veyed the impression that their civil
! ization was older than tho ruined tur-
rets above the city. They Get and
moved with the poised rhythm and
dignity of the larger carnivors. The
girls reelined with an easy and assured
relaxing Of the limbs upon q settee Of
violet plush and their grouping made
me think Of ancient seulptural forms" "
But there was something moro as
,tonishing in these Sarafovs than their
failure to use the immessurable advan-
tages Of existence In a Brooklyn apart
ment, where the breath Of life, warmed
beyond endurance, came up out Of mys-
terious grids In tho walls, and dried all
the vitality out Of them" For when
Mr.. Spenlove intimated that Captain
| Masedoine's daughter was guilty Of an
indlscreticn By living In Mr.. Kinaissky's
apartment, the good souls, mother and
daughters alike, registered emphatlc
dissent
The Turkish Viewpoint
For why7 They wexe unabls 70 un-
deYstan1 Thav IookeA ~ >erk A+A>~