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The New York herald., 1921-08-14
Sisters as rivals

TOO OLD FOR DOLLS. BY Anthony
NJ. Ludovici. G. p. Putnam's Sons.
TIME rivalry of sisters is often a
terrible thing, and It may be
complicated by a mother who
does her best to appear young. In this
story Antonio Ludovici handles the
theme from a new angle. and although
his style Is brilliant, he verges on the
point OF farce. He tells the story OF a
girl who is rather peeved when her
younger sister steals man she Is try
ing 10 persuade herself into marrying
but is wrought up to the point OF at
tempting murder when her uncon-
scious rival seems on the point of de-
priving her of her real mate.
This Is not as melodramatic as Il
sounds, because the author is inter-
ested In the mental reactions which
cause the situation, and using his
hero. a psycho-analyzing lord, as his
mouthpiece, he shows us how the
wheels go round.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
A m 0 t h e r | y
c. alif Ornia i a n
THE CUSTARD CUP. ]
Bingham Livingston.
Darap Comnany

THE CUSTARD CUP. BY Florence
Bingham Livingston. George II.
Doran Company.
Californians are proverbially the
most cheerful of the sons Of men, and
so when a Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch is staged beneath the cerulean
skies of San Francisco the result Is
bit of optimism which would stagger
even Mark Tapley. This Is the story>of
a warm hearted woman who gave heed
to the woes and struggles of all the
people who resided in the little court
where she lived, and had an extraordi-
nary power for seeing the bright side
of things. She adopted several waits
of the human and canine species. and
one of the girls who joined her family
is one Of the best characters of the
kind since Dickens immortaliZed the
"slavey." 1t Is a book which seems
light and devoid of plot, but never
theless 1t fingers in the mind as an
enjoyable morsel long after reading.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
FICTION ANDPOETRY REVIEWS

by women this year-the play prize by
Zona Gale. the novel prize by Edith
Wharton. What do you think?
MORE NEW POETRY.
Tell her, for me.
Tell her, for me. that l have learned
city ways.
Tell her. for me. that ] know how to
forget.
Tell her, for me. that all her wrongs are
rights.
Tell her, for me. that soon she will be
happy again.
Tell her. for me. that | am not looking
to tomorrow.
Tell her, for me. that ! have learned
city ways.
Tell her, for me-
-"City Ways" By Jacques.
Tell her yourself.
I'm busy in the garden spraying bugs
To-morTolo's bad day, too; the ldwn
needs motoin0.
Tuesday I clean the car; It needs it
badly.
Wednesday play pinochie t0tth my
uncle.
Thursday Pm going TO try my luck at
fishing.
The rest Of the oeek I'm busy, too.
You'd better
Tell her yourself.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

A LANTERN OF LOVE. BY Della
Macleod. Houghton, Miffiin Company.
Reviewed by VIVIAN RADCLIFFE.
T~HE elusive melody which Diana
endeavors to play and sing
reminds one Of her friends of
"the Tai Mahal, India's white won
DER loves supreme monument to
human affection. Above the crypt
containing the heart dust of Shah Je-
han and the fair queen of his youth.
Mumtaz Mahal. hangs light that
illumines the shadows of night in that
tomb OF love-a lantern of love-" And
in answer to Diana's question What
is a lantern Of love?' the friend re-
plies, "In the beginning of life it is
hope. In the end a memory. 1t is
the beacon for the love that is to
come; the blessing from the love that
has gone"
What could be more beautiful
theme for story? Diana, the girl
with a voice. met Stephen, the hydro
graphic engineer, eleven years before
the story opens. In 1917 she begins
to tell of her love for this man, whom
she has seen but four times in those
eleven years. 1t is not an impossible,
fantastic story. 1t tells how small the
world Is when one has many friends
and ones work carries him from town
to town.
Dear old Confucius plays a very i'm
portant part in the story. The an
cient philosopher and the little Chi
nese lady link up the families of the
brother and sister who had been
parted for years.
How true Is the story to real life!
Hear Diana in a moment of discour-
agement when she has not been aole
to achieve the success for which she
hoped. II am sick in body and in
SOUL And tired. My thumbs are
down to Fate. / am beaten, and
know It," Then back she goes to the
old Mississippi plantation. to her
old uncle Bob, and there in her hours
Of despair the men she has known
pass before her, mentally, each offer
ing her what her heart desires
pleasures. no more struggles to earn
a living while studying, time between
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

MIRIAM: o all my life has listened for
thy step!
L1sLE; How have walked In glory un-
aware
3, let your dear soul forth stay II
not now!
MIRIAM: For thee alone came into this
world.
For thee this very hair grew glorious,
My eyes are OF this color for thy sake.
This moment is a deep inheriting,
And as the solemn coming to king
dom.
LIsLE Apart we two did wander in
land; now
Listen, the ocean OF infinity
Life hath no more in 1t.
MIRIAM My final peace
Phillips is a poet of air and fire.
If he is more restrained than Shelley,
whose spiritual brother he is, he is
also more concentrated. Yet in mood
and temper he is one with Keats and
Shelley and their brotherhood.
More than that of any one else his
times the hidden tumult of the sea
and its deep rhythmic vibrations. 1t
is so wondrously alive-ha.s in it such
deep awareness, runs such an enorm-
Gus gamut of spiritual emotion,
Again il seems TO mount upward like
the circlings of flame. Again IL seems
to be a voice made Of wind-or of the
still air But whatever its semblance,
always it carries the soul of per-
meating and distilled beauty. Perhaps
it is because Stephen Phillips lived
so very close to the centre of life.
Whatever the reason, there is in his
inspired utterance a lucidity Of
thought, a tenderness and compassion,
and / know not what prescience of
life and death and immortality, that
make his poetry one with all conscious
forms of life that move toward light.
No hungry generations will tread him
down. He is secure with Keats and
Shelley, with Blake and Milton and
all their shining company. His
genius, never fully recognized while
he was among us, is safe in the keep
ing of the centuries.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
Kidnapped and
rescued again

THE HOUSE OF NIGHT. BY Leslie
Howard Gordon. Boston Small
Maynard CO.
~ NE OF the incest plots is to get
1 your heroine kidnapped and
- then rescued by her lover. for
the reader always fears that rescue
will come too late. IL is rather diff
cult to envisage such situation in the
nineteenth century. but when Mexico
was in a state of anarchy the author
could always summon bandits. Mr..
Gordon has given new vitality to these
old themes. for he knows the locality,
and his portrait OF Pancho villa is
very convincing. Mr.. Gordon has lit
tie love for the "greaser." but his arch
villain, Webster Lowe. is a renegade
from the United States. His hero
King Cuird, the gunman, Is all that
can be expected In a wild western
story, and in his rescue OF Kathleen he
10 helped by Aquila the Navajo.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
Don Marquis right

Philip Hale in his column AS the
World Wags" notes this confederation
of the Old Soak's attitude.
Some days ago we quoted the re-
marks of Old Soak, reported faithfully
by Mr. Don Marquis. to the effect that
one of the evils brought upon tn~
United States by prohibition is the
falling off in religious interest. Old
Soak in the barroom was often asked
by Salvation Army girls for contri-
button. He gladly handed out ten
cents or a quarter, and as there were
appeals in the barroom for pecuniary
aid to other religious denominations.
he inevitably became interested in re-
ligion Of some sort.
Readers no doubt smiled or laughed
at this whimsical fancy of Mr.. Mar
quis and thought him extravagant in
testing.
Mr.. Elias Barncastle sends US an
issue of the Bristol OR. ~ PhoentT
containing an article on the Salvation
Army campaign. The writer says:
at is strange fact that this cam
paign form of raising money Is made
necessary by the coming of prohibit
ton. In the days when saloons were
open the Salvation Army lassies with
their tambourines collected in drink
ing places about three-quarters of the
money needed for the army relief
work. Men who frequented saloons
were generous and cheerful givers to
the cause, many of them having been
helped by the army's various forms OF
charity when they were down Now
this form OF revenue is cut off,"
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
Phillips a great dramatic poet

mer's Secret, Ulysses. the Sin of David,
Nero, Faust and Pietro of Siena. That
superb utterance Paola and Fran
cesca has unfortunately not been in
cluded in the volume.
Aylmer's Secret is the story of a
chemist who has labored for years to
discover and thus create the essence
Of life. His laboratory, where for
years he toiled upon human frame,
is filled with mortars batteries and
other scientific instruments. AT last
he wrings from them the very breath
of life The creature struggles slowly
into life. but he is despised and
Stunned by all. Only Miranda, the
chemists daughter. feels compassion
and does not turn aside from the love
which he proffers her. Aylmer, how
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
MIR. FLICK IN PRISON.

"Just as / was going to write you
and ask why The Book Factory is de-
void of communications these days
from Mr.. Flick OF Buckets Bookshop,
writes Willis Steel, II picked up a
newspaper and read the following:
1.-The correct list of American pris-
oners in Russia is as follows: Mrs.
Marguerite e. Harrison OF Baltimore.
In Toheks prison; Hazelhurst and Kill
patrick of the American Red Cross, In
a hospital; Flick, Estes. Kolamatiano,
Lamaro. In Batirla prison
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
COLLECTED PLAYS. BY Stephen Phil
lips. The Macmillan Company.
Reviewed by MARY SIEGRIST.

N giving to the world the col
lected plays of Stephen Phillips,
the son of this man of such
lonely and towering genius has done
an inestimable service. The fact that
these plays were not collected by the
poet himself is typical of the impa-
tience of his spirit with whatever
savored of routine or decentralization
or tended In any degree to crystal
lie the liquid flow of his thought. He
was too much intoxicated with the
urgent fact of life itself. The great
business of his life was to make in
flame as nature makes" Like a fiery
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
Diana kept the light burning

studies to have friends and delve into
the beauties of life But for what has
she lit her lantern If not to keep it
burning for the one man-ror Ste
phen? And as Diana meets and mas
ters each struggle she begins to find
her peace with herself and with the
world.
The solution could not be other
than the happy meeting and under
standing between Stephen and Diana.
You expect it, but it is not book end
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
By EDWARD ANTHONY.
ON BEING ABUSED FOR
AN AMIABLE WEAKNESS.

Discredited. I hang my head,
A sorry lot Is prtnc.
Disdaansn0 all the tears I'De shed
"a barrel, optye),
nv critics persecute me still,
The younger radicals"
kill
am no longer pals.
I should have kno,on that blood toouId
fioto
That evening I declared
At Cecil Tedpot's Studio,
Where Ht'ry things are aired,
''You keep pour Dresser, Evefym Scott
And others as hysteric;;
There's room for 'em, as IKE as not.
But give me Leonard Mer7ick.
I'll tire Of sordid tales OF flats
And all their tenementors;
I'd rather read of Csechs or Onats
Or giant purple centdurs.
"God bless the poori I'm poor myself
(And / announce u proudly.
But stot1 those books upon the shelf
In ,ohich they groan too loudly"
should hdue been more careful.
Shotsld not hdve been so bold.
I should haze knoUn that In reply
The radicals toostld scold.
For MerTick Is "dmmsing," but
He doesn't understand"
SO they dismiss him tofth "tutp
In Melancholy Land,
Where sit e,lshrined that mighty clan,
The solemn gods of gloom,
Predicting death for eDery man,
A funeral and tomb;
Wheye Russian realism reins
And hunor enters not,
And anything that entertdins
Is classified as rot.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14


each other again and tries to send
the creature out into the street. Mi
randa will not suffer this. The crea-
ture upbraids his creator for with
holding from him the love necessary
TO his existence and pleads for death.
Aylmer refuses IL on the ground that
II would undo the work of all his
years. But the creature, bereft of love
and without hope OF immortality, then
expires with the now remorseful Ayl-
mer and his daughter bending over
him. His essential self is expressed
in these memorable lines:
Il could have forgot
The agones of birth, the wanderings;
But this ! cannot put away-forget.
As came into life with agony.
So ! am leaving II with ease. seem
To ebb away and you are growing dim"
The story Of Ulysses-of his wan
derings and his return-is so well
known that no outline is necessary.
Among the unforgettable lines are the
words Of Ulysses on sighting Ithaca
again:
Goddess. I cannot see for the great
tears.
There therei the very peak to which
she climbed
Waving a sea farewell with helpless
hands!
Q verdure to the sea man that's come
homei
Q light upon the earth where I was
born
o dear, dear Earth. thou warm mother
OF me-
Art glad. art glad In thy brown bosom !:
here ] fling me down
And roll and clasp and cover me with
thee r.
THE Sin OF David" centres about
the tragic theme OF lovers who are
drawn together by irresistible forces
against all outward circumstances
Miriam is the young wife OF Col
Mardyke, a man twice her years. She
despises yet fears him and longs to
know the meaning OF love. She meets
Sir Hubert Lisle and they are mutu-
ally enamored. Lisle, yielding to the
pressure of impulse, sends Mardyke to
lead an assault In n desperate battle
where death is inevitable. Later
Miriam and Lisle are married and a
child Is born to them. Suddenly one
day the child sickens and dies. The
parents see in his death the penalty
for their guilt, but are drawn together
by their loss into a deeper spiritual
companionship.
The play has lines OF rare beauty as
for example these:
LrstE: Then suddenly
Thy beauty like a tempest fell on me
And In one moment was rent and
riven:
Stunned is my life wander and
grope.
MY voice in tho council falters: In mid
act
This lifted arm falls at thy floating
To thee I pray, thee, thee with cries
beseeching.
am lost, lost
MIRIAM o would be 10 thee
AS gentle as the grass above the dead
And have I been but darkness and a
sword7
LrsIE; Not for revelation breaks from
thee,
Thou hast unlocked the loveliness OF
earth.
Leading me through thy beauty 70 all
beauty.
Thou hast admitted me 20 mystery.
Taught me the different souls OF all the
stars;
Through thee have inherited this air,
Discovered sudden riches at my feet.
And now on eyes long blinded flames
the world
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ing. There is too much of tire reality
Of life for you to feel that you are
reading a book.
You love old Bob, with his struggles
at the cotton plantation, and you boil
with resentment toward the digni-
taries who control the cotton situa-
ton"
We hope we shall have many more
books from the pen of this author.
She knows her people, the things
which her characters would do and
would read in real life, and she makes
them feel and talk as though they
were living, breathing. sorrowing,
happy, disappointed, discouraged.
cheered and encouraged men and
women.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
The Book Factory

Flick has his faults. but I'm sorry
to see him in Jail. What has he done?
And can / help you get him out?"
Immediately on receipt of Mr.. Steell's
communication we called up Mr.
Bucket and learned to our dismay that
the Flick in prison Is the same Flick
who, has acted as head clerk of Buckel's
Bookshop for several years past
When vacation time rolled around"
Mr.. Bucket told us with a sob. Flick
announced that he was going to spend
three weeks in Russia to gather ma
terial for book. He thought a book
on Russia would be a novelty. / nat
urally considered the idea an original
one and agreed. How did he get into
trouble? 1t seems that to show he was
in sympathy with the Bolshevik re-
gime he threw away his white linen
handkerchiefs and replaced them with
red bandannas. 1t did not dawn upon
him that when he was seen blowing his
nose In a red handkerchief this would
be construed as an insult. He was i'm
mediately arrested. have taken the
matter up with Washington and hope
to secure his early release"
We are doing everything in our
power to help Mr. Bucket in his ef-
forts to have the unfortunate head
clerk freed. We know a Congressman,
Sheriff and an Alderman and have
instructed them to go the limit.
ENTERING TILE LISTS.
Ever since John O'London's Weekly
ran a list of the forty leading con-
temporary English writer's. as selected
by the readers of that publication. lit
erary list-nhaking has been fashion
able. For the last few weeks we have
been canvassing our friends with the
idea of getting up an American list
although we did not follow the forty
best" plan. We asked those canvassed
to name the fifteen leading male In
habitants OF Americas present day
Grub Street and the fifteen leading
women. This gives an opportunity to
start an argument as to whether the
men or the women are stronger in
American letters to-day. We love lit'ry
arguments.
We have tabulated the results and
find these men TO be the first fifteen on
the list (the order In which the names
are submitted does not signify any
thing) Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Sherwood Anderson, Floyd Dell. Booth
Harrington, Joseph Hergesheimer,
Sinclair Lewis. Robert Frost, Edgar
Lee Masters. Ernest Poole. Theodore
Dresser. James Branch Cabell, II. l..
Mencken, Frederick O'Brien, George
Edward Woodberry and Eugene O'Neill.
Here is the women's list: Sara Teas
dale. Dorothy Garfield. Edith Wharton,
Zona Gale. Amy Lowell, Margaret De-
land, Edna st. Vincent Millay, Ger
trude Atherton, Mary wilkins Free
man. Clare Hummer Mary Roberts
Rinehart. Fannie Hurst, Rachel Croth-
ers, Agnes Repplier and Edna Ferber.
These selections are good but not in
our inexpert opinion, as good as they
might be. Some day we are going to
make up lists OF our own. Among
others the mems list will include
George AIDE, Edward Lucas White and
John Dewey. Our women's list will in
clude Susan Glaspell. who seems to us
a much better playwright than Rachel
Crothers.
OF the two lists submitted the mems,
we prejudicedly believe, is stronger
To which the ladies' will probably reply
L. Ia
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

Romer Wilson, author of "The Death
of Society" (Doran), reviewed in THE
HERALD of July "a, has been awarded
the Hawthornden prize of f100 for the
best imaginative work of the year by
a writer under forty.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
YOUNG GRANDEE
OF MODERN SPAIN
GOES WANDERING

A SON OF THE HIDALGOS. BY
Ricardo Leon. Translated by Cata-
lima Paez. Doubleday, Page & Co.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

OF the two lists submitted. the mems
we prejudicedly believe, is stronger
To which the ladies will probably reply
and the argument has its merits
hat both Pulitzer awards were won
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

TOO OLD FOR DOLLS. BY Anthony
NJ. Ludovici G. p. Putnams Sons.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-17

Eday However he has d few fdeus
abput the general subject d link
ing 70 VII:
Now says he, When 4 was q
boy ana in school and really had
come brain work TO do / always felt
that i was best at It In the morn
ing at about nine and ten o'clock.
But now, especially In the summer
time my brain Is almost useless for
anything heavier than poetry and
you know that 1t takes very little
brain work to write my stuff"
Another very interesting brain in
town Is that OF Sam r. Nuzum.
The amateur scientist trailed him
around this morning for several
hours but could never get close
enough to ask him the uestions. Al
though he was not able to talk to
Sam the psychologist gathered
these conclusions. From the fact
that Sam R. did not get TO his office
until late It would seem that he
does great deal OF thinking at
night and takes his rest in the morn
ing.
City Water Commissioner j.
Clyde Morris admits that he quit
thinking some time back; now he
only feels. The fact that he is living
at a camp up the river where he
recently contracted a sever case Of
Ivy poisoning may account for that.
However, when he is in thinking
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SEEN IN TIE Shops
By DIXIE NORTH.

/ had a ride today in the incest
moderat ely priced automobile ! ey-
er rode in, and the beauty OF II is
that 1t has the appearance and
equipment and rides as smooth and
easily as a car which would cost
twice as much. 1t is a Sheridan
and II you arc wanting a car ! GER
tainly would advise you seeing and
trying out this one before you buy.
It is roomy, comfortable, luxurious,
beautifully equipped on the inside
and presents an unusually hand
some exterior. 1t Is very easy to
operate too, and wish you could
see 1t take the hills on high" The
five passenger model in which
rode sells for only 1886. c. l..
Musgraye is the dealer and John
Robey is the salesman. 1t can be
seen at 206 Monroe street.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-17

Hartley's June sale of dress es is
on and scores OF women and girls
have outfitted themselves for the
season there. / was on hand bright
and early and came away with two
beauties. Silks and cottons in a
variety Of colors, styles and mater
ials Miss Montgomery personally
selected. The dresses are grouped
as to price and while all are SPLEEN
did values, the group which SEEM
ed to be even a bit better than the
others were priced at s11.75 and in
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-17

You can't have too many silk
stockings when you start on your
Vacation trip, as you don't want TO
stop your fun to darn, so am sure
you will be interested in learning
that shurtleff & Welton have a sale
OF lovely silk hosiery on today and
tomorrow during which they will
sell hosiery which formerly sold a.
from $3.50 to $3.50 for only 50 per
pair. The sale will include all sizes
in black, brown, tan and white.
with number OF pairs of lace
striped ones among them.
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.FR|I|I'.ICKL
Don't Hide Them With a Veil: Re.
fttove Them With othine-
Double Strength. q

This preparation fol- the removal
Of freckles Is usually so successful
N removing heckies and giving a
clear, beautiful complexion that 1t
is sold under guarantee to refund
the money. Il It fails.
Don't hide your freckles under a
Veil get an ounce OF ,Othlne ano
remove them. Even the first few
applications should show wonder
ttlS Improvement, some OF the light.
81 frecklss vanishing entirely.
Be sure 70 ask the druggist for
the double strength othine; 1t is
this that Is sold on the money.bacls
guarantee.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-17

Your clothing will always look
better for a good "whisking' to
say nothing OF your upholsteries,
but did you ever notice that when
you want the "whisk" broom down
stairs, 1t is always up stairs and
vice versa. The only way I know
to remedy this and at the same time
keep clothing and upholsteries in
good condition, Is to provide 4
"whisk" broom for both upstairs
and down, or even noe for each
room. You can afford to do this too
II you get those fine brooms l saw
today at Cranes drug store for 25
cents.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-17
Notes and Personals.

Mrs. Frank Bennett was shop.
ping in Fairmont.
Mrs. Robert Hooton. OF Clarks.
burg, was here last night TO meet
with the Pythian Sisters.
Ed, Smith, Of Boothsville, was
here attending the funeral Of Mrs.
McCracken, yesterday.
A dance was held at Traction
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-17

marx last night by Roy Addis o.
Fairmont
Nj. and Mrs. Andrew 5uhnson
have named their new baby Alice
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.MoNoNGAH
Monongah Wins.

The game at Traction park be
tween Enterprise u. e. and Moucn-
gah n. E. resulted In a score OF
"a in favor Of Monongah NJ. E. (.