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New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Door Of the Unreal
Gerald Bliss Gives Us {
Creepy Mystery Story

EMERALD Bliss, an English writer,
r modesty makes his bow to an
American public in The Door of
the Unreal (Pqtnam's), mystery story
which threatens to go rather deeply
INTO the lore of lyncanthropy but never
quite settles down to the task. The
reader escapes with little more than
a convenient homebrew recipe for
metamorphosing Sne's self into COM
plete werewolf.
For the benefit Of those who 70 in for
that sort of thing perhaps it is lust as
we'll to mention that into an old iron
pot pour two pints of pure spring
water Add two drachms of sulphur.
nall an ounce OF castorcum, six
drachms of opium, three drachms of
asafptida. Here-though there are still
several more drugs to be included-any
self-respectlng amateur chemist will
pause to. resent the asafntida, and
probably tear up the recipe and drop
1t IN the first wastepaper basket.
Apparently Mr.. Bliss gained his
knowledge of werewolves from hearsav
rather than from actual contact though
he succeeds in making his supernatural
creatures terrifying to the eye and
more convincing than some of his other
characters. The 1ictional qualities of
werowolves have never been questioned
in spite of there being many moderns
who confess scant belief in the possi-
blity of the human form changing into
beast of prey. Backed by several au-
thorities and the Chief of Scotland
Yard, Mr.. Bliss does his best to make
them appear credible.
In selecting an old German professor
and a maid servant, also of Tcutonic
stock, for the weird mctamorphosis, the
author has shown keen sense for the
value of things. When the moon is
full and the season ripe these two as
sumo the forms of wolves and prowl
the highways, making ravages that
thwart. discovery even by the clevcrcst
brains of Scotland Yard. Two double
murders are written down on the police
blotter with no solution in sight
1t takes wandering American-not
"the Yankee millionaire beloved of mu-
sical comedy and mclodrama," warns
Mr.. Bliss is his foreword-to trace the
crime to its proper source and to or
ganize a professional shooting party
for the determination of the treacher-
Gus wercwolves.
Thus the bulk Of the story develops
into an old-fashioned murder mystery,
often interesting, sometimes gripping,
and now and then marred by coniding
assurance Of the great things to come
in the latter pages of the book. cli-
max may lose its force where the ad-
vance notices are worded in too super
latlve terms.
Some Of the characterizations are ac-
complished with no visible display of
deftness. Little Ann Clyming, the in
genue of the company, comes in for
particular censure. On page 1873 she
is recorded as saying: ooh, shut up,
Line, hate YOU On page 143: "Shut
up and come and have game of bill
lizards" And again on page PIG she is
guilty of: Shut up, Line. You'll make
me bilious and unfit me for my arduous
duties"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Mr.. Agate in a New PLAY

James Z. Agate, author of Respon-
sibility Ooran), has achieved at an
carly age a distinction usually ac-
corded to those who have passed be-
yond the possibility Of law courts and
libel proceedings. He was recently the
hero or victim Of little play by Allan
Monkhouse, produced by Miss Horni-
man at her Repertory Theater in Man
chester. The actor who dared to put
him on the boards in the flesh also
dared to spend couple of days with
him~to study his personal mannerisms
and to borrow some of his more horsev
clothes. (Mr. Agate is we'll known
breeder of horses) Mr. Agate's criti-
cism of the performance is not on
record.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
ish Woman Novelist Who Lays Bare the Feminine Sou

a mirror of reality that Peter lives,
steps forth from the pages to shake
hands with us
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Kobiety a Psychological Study
Nine Nalkowska, the Author, Is Compared
With Marie BashkirtseH

I type, becomes feminine and coy and
says nothing. In fury he seizes her.
His rage is suffocating him; the
words stick in his throat. His knee is
pressed hard upon my bosom; his nails
dig deep into my flesh. With all my
strength l stihe a groan and wait. The
boat is careening over more and more
and begins to be water-Iogged.
"I shalls drown you See, the boat
is about to go down! Say yes!"
Janina is tickled pink and is busily
considering what lovely funeral they
will have when Janusz wcakens. And
, Janina, who, few pages before, has
been visioning herself as the super
woman, decides that she wants more
masterful man.
1t is strange conglomeration that
Nine Nalkowska has. given us in Ko-
biety. We have called it a novel, but
it has not the semblance of a plot.
More properly it might be called q
diary Of q woman's soul. In Europe
Marie Bashkirtsef, and now and then
one is inclined to agree with him. She
shows us, for instance, even though it
be- IN horid language, what woman
may feel who is wooed bv the hero of
many philanderings. Janina is about
to be kissed (this is not Janusz, but
another man. Janina never forgaye
him because little cold water ex-
tlngulshed the fame of his passion)
and she cares for him very much. But
she knows he is devil with the
ladies, so jnst before their lips meet:
"And then came the most astonish-
ing instant in my life. I had, to put
it simply, vision. Upon his lips |
saw blood-clotted, dried blood--the
ashes, as it were of thousands of
thousands of kisses. 1t was neither
loathing nor hatred that l felt; only
an exceeding horror for what is as
much against nature as was any elabo.
rate excruciating torture of medieval
tlmes->as a crime committed in secret
and hidden under flowers to conceal
its very trace. And from under these
fowers-a sea of them there vas
| seemed to hear the groans, as it were,
of those slainl at some banquet of
Hellogabalus; or rather, I heard
laughter, artificial, forced laughter
the laughter which women of that
sort always utter, it being the paid
merriment to which they arc bound;
such laugh as breaks off suddenly.
abruptly, as though startled at it's
own sound. And saw my white lilies
plunged in that sea of tainted blood!"
There are times when one is GER
tain that Nine. Nalkowska knows her
Nietzsche, and then again eve wonder
whether or not echoes of our own Marv
McLain may not have reached even to
far-off Poland. 1t may even be that
this vacillating in the philosophic
plane between the standard of the
famous Germans study and that of
Butte is what makes Kobietv the
extraordinary analysis Of feminine
psychology it is claimed to be. 1t is
not for mere man to say what NAV
be the gamut of woman's soul.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Biography Of the Next resident
One of the Two Books Here Reviewed Will Fill
the Bill

for the Presidency and other addresses
delivered before the Senate and various
organizations throughout the country.
There is one quotation which might
have appeared in either of the two
books.
at may be chat we shall yet discover
in this simple, plain Ohio newspaper
publisher one Of Americas historically
great men,
Theatergoers who see "The Bat" aye
asked not to reveal the identity of the
criminal to those who have not yet
been, and we shall not disclose from
which of the aforesaid volumes the
foregoing sentence is taken. 1t might
take the excitement out of the cam
paign.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
"Our Peter"
MI. Wooden a Master in
Depicting Background

NNE of the sweetest, most ovabe
stories that has come out of Eng
land in years. That's not too
much to say of George Wodens Our
Peter (Dutton). Bennett has his Five
Towns, Phillpotts his Cornwall, Sheila
Kaye-Smith her Sussex; and now Wooden
stands forth as the veritable interpreter
of the Midland Counties, the region ne.r
Birmingham. In many ways he re-
sembles the other three we have men
toned, especially in his keen sense Of
personality, his ability to create a living
man or woman in prose and maintain
the character true to its personal limita-
tions. But it is doubtful--there's
chance for argument here-if even Ar
mold Bennett excels him in meticulous
fashioning of physical backgrounds, in
the power to portray a scene with an
intimate hinterand of household and
scenic furniture that never intrudes
that gives just the right balance of nice
perspectives. "She ran out to meet him,
leaving the door open, showing the red
carpet on the STAIRS That bit of car
pet makes the picture appealingly hu-
man.
Peter Gayland's struggle from poverty
to position as a man of influence, fought
out in his own cambridge, is the theme
of Our Peter. And more manly type
of chap is not to be found anywhere in
modern fiction. Peter is clean, whimsi-
cal, observant, a chap with flavor of
the boy discoverable in him even to the
days of tragedy when his best friend,
Hilary Garden, totters on che brink of
calamitous friendship. And Peters
love story, his courtship of and mating
with Betty Robinson, is an idyll set
down in the framework of the novel;
men, women and children grouped
around and travelling with Peter, in the
drift Of his history, give tones to his
little drama, but Peter and Betty give
the constant, delightful thread Of un-
failing hue.
Our Peter needs no pages of passion,
no dramatic Incidents save one near It.
close, no discussions Of problems of sex.
1t is a genuinely honest and remarkably
successful history Of a boy growing to
be man, accomplished in a medium of
prose that approaches so near to being
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
The Little House
Coningsby Dawson Writes
a Delightful Love Story

4 PRETTY fantasy, wartime love
~ story, is The Little House, by
Coningsby Dawson, the John
Lane Company, publishers. The house
tells the story and, as the dominating
personality of the book, wins its
listeners to sense Of coziness and
ompanionshjp. On that very luxury
of panionship hangs the love story
After some reminiscence and nice
personification, expressing the fond
ness many of us have for old houses
and. furniture which have been con-
nected with the lives of generations,
the story opens its happenings during
an air raid in London. Deserted a.
this time, the little house offers shell
ter to 4 lonely frightened lady and
her two children. The horror over
head continues, and another person
accepts the houses invitation to pro-
lection, lonely American officer.
But the love story does not start
right off from there. The little house
is more subtle than that. While the
soldier is out at the war the lady and
her children actually come to live in
the little house. AS matchmaker
when the officer returns after the wal
the honey little place proves itself
worthy of the years of observation Of
human ways it has experienced. Like
the artist it is, it makes everything
come out right, with slightly theat-
rical touch, on Christmas Eve.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
0 IT has come to this,
h Just now I was thinking how

no 1T has come to this
u Just now + was thinking how
l should like to lock Janusz up
to myself. I should give him plenty of
BOD, but neither let him read (that
prohibition he would not find very
hard) nor talk to any one so that he,
with all his treasures of vitality,
might be mine alone And occasionally
! should enter the cage
Run, boys. It's the cave woman. She
speaks her desires through the mouth
OF Janina, heroine Of Kobety, novel
of Polish life by Sofia Rygier- Nalkow-
ska, published in this country by G. P.
Putnams Sons. Kobiety is Polish for
women, so we are led to infer that
Janina is speaking for the female of
the species.
Maybe it is only the Polish species,
however. Possibly it is in Poland alone
that the woman dreams of husband
who is only a bird in d gilded cage
But we are notoriously ignorant of the
ways of the rest of the world any pro
ponent of the League of Nations will
tell you that Well may Harold shud.
der, for even as his chest expands its
fully two inches as he watches the hero
Of the films manhandle his lady love
and bear her away to the cabin on
lonely crag, the fair maiden at his
side may be laying her plans to in
carcerate him in some rent profiteer's
SIS a month cage in Harlem.
But one moment, please. Janusz is
just as ignorant as we of the trend Of
the times and still believes that the
cave stuff is the masculine preroga-
tive. He has taken Janina for boat
ride for the purpose of proposing to
her, not knowing, poor boob, that she
already has decided what kind of hang
ings she will use on the walls of his
cell and how she will arrange it's
furnishings. So he goes ahead with
his proposal; and she, reverting to
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Alaska Mans Luck
The First Book of an Un.
lettered Man
NHE preface to Alaska Mans T.,

II '"''""i hhtIeDeck fBori l.
LiverighD, states that i /. -.
first book of Comparatively ma.
Gated man who hopes to write
many more books. Il also sns.hs
the unusual manner in which ,bsho,
is written. but there is really notb;.
unusual about the diary form 7.
merely not the best form. bu, ona 81.
may be Chosen by writer who ,s -.
an experienced tecnnician. o.
.deal Of trouble in the matter ~ g.
struction can be escaped by tell;rr
story in the diary form. On the Oh
question. that of the book being sr..
attempt on the part of a comuarst;,.,,..
uneducated man, Dane writing 3,
strange language that he has no.
learned under trained teachers. tb.r.
is internal evidence.
1t is q good thing TO have th.,.
questions settled before readinc -.
book, to accept the preface as stats.
ment of fact. as otherwise the hoo.
cannot be thoroughly enjoyed. Il ),
not good fiction, but it IS highly inter
esting as an account of actual advsr.
lures in Alaska and it seems probable
that such adventures could have taken
place. Moreover. they are told in t..
way that the man who had them migb,
be expected to tel them, and # he had
really harbored for many years the an.
bition to write book he might have
kept a diary. Mr.. Rutzebeck's next
book will give better line on him. and
in the mean time this one is we'll worth
reading.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

CON-VHE MAN. BY Roger w. Babson.
Published by BMntanos.
REDEDICATINC AMERICA. Tho Life
and Recent Speeches OF Warren C.
Harding. BY Frederick e. SchOrtemeer.
Published by Bobbs- Merrill
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
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A Play by A. A. Milne

A. A. Mines play, "Mr. PIN Passes
BY which has had a years run in
London, is announced among this
years productions by the New York
Iheater Guild. On his recent visit in
london George H. Doran arranged for
the publication of Mr.. Mines plav in
this country. 1t wiki be ready in the
early spring, about the time the guild
Is planning to present the play.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

TIME Presidential candidates pass
in solemn review in current
publications. Brentano's have
brought forward Cox - The
Man, by Roger W. Babson; Bobbs- Mer-
Fill present Rededicating America, The
Life and Recent Speeches Of Warren G..
Harding, by Frederick E. Schortemeer.
While it is entirely fitting that these
biographies should be published at this
time, there is some likelihood that the
popularity of one or the other of the
books will experience a decided slump
after the November polls. Judging
purely from the size Of the books, Bobbs-
Merrill have the greater confidence in
their man.
Roger w. Babson disclaims any per-
sonal friendship for Governor Cox in
acting as his biographer He suggests
that he has gone about the task as y
recorder of "facts with which the
American public should be familiar
not opinions about Cox, not words
surrounding Cox, but the facts in
herent in Cox, what he said, what he
did, what life he has lived to this day."
Even from we'll known statistician.
professional! dealer in facts, this is
more than one can expect during the
heat and blaze of political campaign.
Opinion and prejudice are inseparably
linked with fact III the measure of any
man competing for national distinctions.
So it is not surprising to run on phrases
such as:
Liberal leaders are proud of Cox's
war record. l am proud 'of
Governor Cox's record on prohibition.
In addition to possessing great
integrity and courage, Mr.. Cox is a
wonderful student of human nature
James M. Cox is the nearest approach
to Grover Cleveland that the Demo-
cratic party has had since the famous
Cleveland Administration. If
were ina Office to-day, there would be
fewer labor troubles, the cost of living
would be lower, and every one could be
healthier, happier and more prosperous" :"
Perhaps all these statements are
true. The point is, in strict analysis
would they not be considered opinions
rather than facts? We contend that a
straight biography of a Presidential
candidate is an impossible achievement.
IL must be eulogy or invectivc There
is no middle ground.
The Harding book is a different
proposition. Approved by the candi-
date, indorsed by the National Com
mittee, with preface by Will H. Hays.
it offers no apologies for publication
other than an interest in Senator War
rem G. Harding The book is edited by
Frederick E. Schortemeier, former pri-
vate secretary to Senator Harry S.
New, now secretary of the Indiana
Republican State Committee.
Mr.. Schortemeier condenscs the life
of Harding to fit into a single brief
chapter. The balance of the book is
made up of Senator Harding's speeches,
including his speech of acceptance on
formal notification Of his nomination
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-31
A NURSERIES NURSERY

1t has never been easy, in this
country, at least, to secure an ideal
nurse for ones children. When one
comes to think of it, the qualifica-
items demanded are rather severe.
Efficiency must be combined with
gcntleness; discipline with patience;
and neatness and a knowledge of
sewing must be added to the other
virtues. Next to general house
workers, a nurses position is the
most difficult to fill in these days.
Careful mothers are more than ever
taking over the personal charge of
their children. That this has many
advantages no one can deny, and
these advantages can be increased by
thought On the part of the mother.
Size can train the children in such
4 way as will tighten her ~ tasks
as well as encourage them in indie
~pcndence and self reliance. It may
seem easier to dress a child as n
would a doll than to sit by and let
the little creature struggle for it
self but each struggle successfully
carried through means just so much
mental as we'll as physical develop
ment. The furnishing of d nur-
scry should be done with an eye to
making it possible for children to do
much for themselves. a low table,
the top of which should be covered
with cnameled cloth. is more con-
r~enient for a child than a wash stand
Any enamelcd ware bowl and pitcher
which cannot be broken and which IS
light enough to be easily managed
by small hands makes it quite posi-
bic for a child to accomplish its own
additions. In many families the
evening meal Of young children IS
served in the nursery and an outfit
of enamled ware plates. cups and
Saucers or mugs will be tound very
useful. Provided with these. the
children can wait upon themselves
or each other with 10 danger of
hreakare. There is no reason why
this enamcled ware equipment
SHOULD not be pretty as we'll as use
full, as it can be procured in coiors
to suit the color scheme Of the nur-
sery. W. are told that the best
/ help we can give anyone is to teach
him to help himself and the chlld
learns that lesson MUCH more quickly
and easily than if it be left to later
life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-31
PROHIBITION HITS LOBSTER

The day of the lobster az a favorite
.aible and diversion is past, according
10 Mr.. Mann, chef of re Clar!dge
Hotel, who should kno Y since ne ia:
teer among the foremost Of the pur-
veyors to the pampaced taste on the
now gay "white way.
Adopting the popular habit Of blam-
ing everything that goes wrong OH
prohibition Heineman, Maitre d'hotel
there, attributes the decrease in de-
mand for c~rustaceans to just that. He
explains that from the first symp-
toms of the great drought to the OBJ
/ soquies of king barleycorn the restau-
rant decreased its supply of the deli
cacies from 50 to so per cent.
The lobster was the first to feel
the public displeasure, for who will
eat it without its logical accompanl-
ment.
"Where it will end l don't know
said Mr.. Mann, raising eyes and
hands. "Those people who a year ago
were our most faithful patrons seem
likely to starve themselves. 1t would
be most amusing, were it not actually
alarming, to see the man who former
~ ordered as an a%fterdinner bite
lobster, terrapin or welsh rabbit, with
drinks before and after, now content
himself with a club on cheese sandwich
with milk or coffee.
"By the way. the demand for tea
and coffee has increased 100 per cent.
in the last few months.
"Our patronage has not only fallen
off at the supper hour" he continued,
but there is a remarkable change in
the food chosen by people for their
chief meals. No longer do we get many
s;x-course dinner orders. People are
eliminating the hor %d'oeuvres, the
heavy desserts and salads. They are
stocking to plain foods. The majority
OF u dinner orders consist Of one
meat course, one or two vegetables
and a salad or sweet."-New York
Tribune.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-31

Advertise your warts in the Ga
Tbs Gazetts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-31
Another Increase
Granted Viva. Rwy. Go.
nnntinned from Page One)

CONTINUED from Page one)
tiers Association will soon call a
meeting for further action in the
matter.
The ticket which they propose to
increase is one Of the most popular
tickets sold on the lire, Icing good
for families and the increase will
make the fare for the rca"a tip ex-
actly thirty-two cents. The saving.
therefore, will be only three cents
on the round trip by purchasing a
twenty-five trip book.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-08-23
CAN lOl PROVE
 NOUR BIRTH RIGHT?

rur right Co vote Is only one ot many mporm, rgh,, wmcl may be difficult to prove ui,hou, legal rvi- d,ucc. Because a birth record Is the best evidence ot agr, paontagr and ct. u-h:p, amt because ot the import au,. {, ,hc ina,tdua. ,nd ., -oe... ~ of ca.,'u, birth records, the ChiIdren's rucrus Q, ,uo |. <. Department of Labor ru a pumpnic. .cyou,.y issued recommends better birth registration as thc first measure m a Crlidrvu.s Year foIlow-up program.
 Only 2& States amt the Dj,tr.,; of CoumDra oou keep birth records with sarCl,icu, accuracy aud completeness, to admit them ,o the L. x. birth regis tat.ou area. These States wc Ca,j1or- uta. Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas. Kentucky, Maine, Naylaud Na>sa- cuu,ctt~, Michigan Minnesota, New Hampshire. New No.k. North Caro- l,na, Ohio. Oregon. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, south Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia. Washington, and Wisconsin, They represented. in 1919, 5>4 per cent ot tho population of the country.
 Children now being born in the remaining 25 States representing al- most half of the population may br seriously embarrassed in uot possess inr birth certificate when ,ho time com,s to prove that they are old
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-08-23
GOVERNMENT GOING AFTER
 RCN RUNNERS ROUGHSilOD

WASHINGTON, Aug 2& - WhiS- key Smug@'ing into the United States from Canada and Mexico has reached such proportions that a large traffic in other illegal commodities is fol- lowing in its wake, the Treasury Department said today in announc- ing that a series of plans is now be
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-08-23

states in the birth registration area. In communities in which there K a good law, not sufficiently enforced, a birth egi,tration test k recommend cd. ln States where there k no cdc- ouatc law. campaigns for better lcgiS lation should be wagcd.