The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-06-04
TURNING The PAGES
BY
E. u. Osborn
ocpyrisht, 1921. By the Pros Publ .hins o..
the New York Evening World.


nine
We think IL so queer that her birth
day is mine!
What puzzles as most Is that tohc
tcds three
Ny sister toas sir, ,ohich tods jus
double me;
But nert year. u Hilda and ar
oitUe,
She'H be ten. and 1t scents tho
ought to be fUe."
A perfectly logical wonder ex
Celestial Circus" (Cornhill Company
BOSTON,, a book of rhymes by Co..
nelia Walter McCleary.
Many children among us, year
older than Betty. have been Devil
dered by mathematics far less com
phcated than those OF Mnstains
A World Of Naughty Ladies --.
Scandal" by Florence Guy Wool
ston. set forth on a page Of Harper
Magazine for June:
-Four times as many books have
been written In the past ten years
about Lucretia Borgia as about
splendid Susan B. Anthony. Cleo
patra has ten times as much space
given to her as admirable Clara
barton. In fact, a whole box Is
filled with her miodoings.
Good queens, Louise of Prussia
and Victoria. haven't the ghost OF
chance In competition with Cath
crime de Medici or Catherine OF
Russia, and Florence Nightingale.
Frances Willard and Martha Wash
ington fade into a hazy background
as Helen OF Troy, Ninon de LEN
clos or Madame Pompadour come
forth.
-, Consider women authors: Take
Elsie books like hardy ANIMALS. Al
most nothing Is known OF her.
But George Sand. who wrote far
less innocent books. has never
ceased to be an object Of atten-
ical play more than forty years
after her death. Neither little
Elsie nor her creator has had any
such notice.
Truly. we live in a naughty worlc
Nevertheless
There is Joan of Arc, who ha
made as much history and inspire
possibly as many books as any c
Miss Woolstons famous ladies.
And there are others for a list
robuttal.
The Anti.Hum of Humdrum -.
"Humdrum isn't where you live
It's what you are" says Harold MAJ
Grath in his new romance, The Pa
gan Madonna" Doubleday, Page
Coz. And he continues:
Perhaps you are one OF those
whose lives are bound by neigh
borly interests.
Imaginatively. you never seek
what lies under a gorgeous sum
set; you are never stirred by any
longing to investigate the ends Of
rainbows.
You are more concerned by what
your neighbor does every day than
by what he might do II he were
suddenly spun. whirled. jolted out
OF his poky orbit
You never stop to coittder that
It is only by chance that YOU leave
home and arrive at the office alive
millions and millions Of you, poor
old stick in the muds!
Because this or that haen't hap
pened to you. you can't believe that
1t might have happened to some
one else.
And the poor humdrum has n
even the excuse that his weakness
hereditary.
Did not the very first pair eat
apple in the spirit of adventure?
When Carrotty Nan Is Tipsy...
Patrick Chalmers. British poet,
Pipes and Tabors," sings thus
Carrotty Nan:
And When she tds tipSy, as likely
She'd tell you Of beaches, blue, steaI
ing and hot,
OF monkeys, and murders, pc
parrots, and ,creckS,
And tDhsfe rum, and sunshine, q
blood on the decks.
All right. But why penalize us,
the people all the time, under d
laws. to save Carrotty Nan from h
occasional visions in high eolor7
Civility Versus Rush HOUR.
A paragraph by the way out of
Rabindranath Tagore's THE Poe
Religion" in the June Century:
Civility is beauty OF behavior. Il
requires for its perfection patience
sen -control. and an environment o
leisure: To- genuine courtesy Is ,
creation. like pictures. like music
It Is harmonious Blending o
voice, gesture. and movement
words and action. in which gener,
osity of conduct Is expressed. Il
reveals the man himself and hal
no ulterio: purpose.
In these few words our East yns5
poet explains with lucidity the /,
pressive rarity of civility in a ",
York rush hour.
Behind each rushcr is the ufterj
purpose of getting somewhere else
And tho Harmonious blendSnx,
voice, gesture and movement" is 10
perforce, TO the platform man w
pushes 'em aboard,
The Matter Of Managing Father . -
A little mother-and daughter ~
rom Alice Adams" Do1rbleds
new novel:
THERE'S one thing 7 don't unasr>.
stand about either OF you" Aiice
get married they can do anyth2ns
they want to with each otheI-
Why can't they do the same thiDo
after they're married? When YOU
and papa were young people, and en-.
gagged. he'd have done anything you
wanted him to: That must havs
manage him then. Why cant wS
go at him the same way now?s
MIS-. Adams sighed again and
laughed little, making no other
response but Alice persisted
Wei. why can't you? Why csn1
you ask him to do things the way
Just In love with each other? WHY
don't you anyhow try il, masnn,al
instead of ding-donging at him?'
Perhaps you will understand