New-York tribune., 1921-09-17

"The Saturday Evening Post" of
which it has been said that it is pala-
table sugar-coating of All earnest in
tention to be wholesome and helpful,
includes in to-day's issue the follow
ing contents:
"Malloy Campeador"-A short story
animated by girders, rivet-beams,
ground-derricks, tool-sheds, timber
skids, pay-rolls, blue-prints, clamps,
cables shackle plates and romance. Old
Gomez, the celebrated construction con-
tractor, loothes college men, but Pat
Malloy, the educated young engineer,
wins prizefght and also Miss Gomez,
despite the handicap of learning. He
makes love to Miss Gomez, "an earth
girl, firm and warm" as follows "Can-
tabrian foothills have put their high
land blond onto that Spanish head of
yours. Fire of Andalusia smolders in
your black eyes. The South to love
man with a love like old, strong wine,
drunk to the music of violins. The
North to mother men-children for him.
and daughters with hair of often gold.
Sometimes the flame in here flames up
SO white and clean at the thought of
you that I'd feel no shame to have you
see it, Natalia Gomez" r. G. Kirk is
the author, and he admits it.
"The Generation That's Next"-Irwin
$. Cobb meditates as humorously as al
ways, this time on the ornate, idle and
bumptious youth of the period, sus-
pecting it to be abhorrent. The article
ends on hopeful note, however, with
the admission that in the war the pam
pered sons of the rich were at hand.
as were their frivolous daughters.
"A sprig of Lemon Verbena''--In this
grave tale by Joseph Hergesheimer civ
lllzatlon changes in small town from
the tranquil innocence and simplicity
OF generation ago to present dissipa-
tions and vulgarities. 1t begins fra
grantly among the cool porches and
nasturtium beds Of the village Of
Eastlake, and it ends in a murderous
hard-llquor debauch. Mr.. Hergesheimer
seems to blame golf for this degenera-
tlon. At least, the troubles start on
an evening in the local apothecarv
shop' when the town dilettante suggests
the organization of country club.
"Fhe Young Man in Journalism"-
Those who aspire to eminence as her
aids OF this noisy world NAV bosom
up the counsel Of Chester S. Lord q !
sagaelous veteran of the New York edi-
torial sanctums. The kind of news for
which the people most pant, saws Mr..
Lord, is news of conhict-of a fight.
whether dog, prize, baseball, church
choir or kitchen cabinet. Thev also
like to read of war, dishonesty, the
downfall of public idols, gambling. the
tribulations of their neighbors. .cf the
weather and of the misbehaviors of
clergymen. Another great journalist
once SAID that stories of money and
women were all that were needed to
make great New York newspaper.
sCassidy's Job.-A fine performance
IN fiction by Will Irwin, describinp n
frontier scene, illustrating it's agree
aoie characters and relating its plausible
and interesting episode in the hest
manner. Cassidy, an Irishman and
poet, was keeping 8 winter vigil over
closed mine when the president Of the
company drifted in and was mistaken
by Cassidy for hold-up man. The
error did Cassidy no harm and at the
end he had been promoted and was
taking from the pretty waitress, Mary
Halloran, first kiss.
breaking Up''-The romance and
the intrigue which distinguish the
lives of the younglings in small town