The Washington times., 1921-05-01
And At the Same Time Go Back
On the Girl You
Love?

situation. He did not feel justife1
in waiting for the courts to de.
eide. Besides. his mother had mar
ried the man who killed his father.
too soon to make 1t entirely re-
spectacle, and Ophelia. his best
girl. became mad by reciting too
much modern poetry. Hamlet,
therefore. kills everybody. includ
ing himself. 1t was q splendid
proves that living with your
father-in-law under these circum-
stances may easily be more unen-
durable than death itself, and fully
as bad as living with your mother
in-law. He also stabbed Polonius,
fearful bore. thus establishing a
useful precedent.
After reading this one will discuss
Hamlet psychoanalytically with the
most highbrow Of literary ladies'
THE PRECOCIOUs GENERATION.
Ethel n Kelley. author Of Beauty
and Mary Blair" (Houghton-Mif-
fiin) says Old Man Grundy AYERS youth
10 in q bad way. The young folks
think the world war. suffrage. ETC.,
have given them the responsibilities
of maturity, and they are therefore
entitled to respectful treatment. Old
er people often do not reason the
same way, and the merry battle 10 on.
The youngsters say, Yes, we drink
and smoke. and what are you going
to do about it?'
That's about what Mary Blair
said, too and In pursuit of the fruits
OF her new freedom. Mary skated
on some pretty thin ice, SO that 1t re-
Quired quite . bit Of maneuver-
ing on the part of the author to save
Mary's reputation. The story 10
smartly told, with clever dialogue.
and Is intended for a serious dis
cussion Of the problems of the ro-
lationship of youth to its parents.
equipped for the task of handling 20
precocious q person as the eighteen
year-old Mary, with the result she
gees her own gait.
Our idea of the solution of the
problem would be to have Mary's
adenoids removed. and treat her to q
good. sound tAgashing, Alas, mayhap
we, too. are old-fashioned.
KYNE,S LITERARY MENTOR.
Peter B. Kynes little dedication at
the front Of Kindred of the Dust
has aroused the curiosity OF thou
sands Of readers-tens Of thousands.
perhaps, as the novel has now reached
a sale of 1876 900 copies and Is still
breaking records in many parts OF
the country. The dedication note
in question hints at some of the
secrets Of Captain Kyne's literary
workshop. 1t reads:
TO IRENE
Ny dear, tyrannical. practical little
FOSTER SISTER
without whose old and comfort, koots,
cheers and unauthorized striees, the
quantity and quality of my alleged
Kterary output toould be apprectobly
diminished, this book - o1eotioxatslv
dedicated.
The "tyrannical" foster sister is
Miss Irene d. Hodgdon. and, below,
she gets even by revealing the true
California workshop. Says Miss
Hodgdon:
"The woman pays and pays! That's
why / arm writing this instead of call
ing on Mrs. Kyne for the copy. After
seeing to 1t personally last year that
kindred of the Dust" in its entirety,
was on its way eastward. Mrs.Kyne,
in the hope Of forgetting for a time
the trials and tribulations Of an au-
thor's wife, departed for the Orient.
leaving to me the gigantic task of
seeing that the next novel was writ
ten and delivered to the editor in
time to commence serial publication
on schedule. When this new one Is
through, 4 trip to the Orient will not
be sufficient to bring me back to
my normal state. A wife can do so
much more than q mere sister Tor q
near sister, as the case is-and I'm
Just little fellow!
II anticipated a daily tussls with
this tempermental brother Of mine
until the novel was finished. I md
that I actually underestimate himi
When I think / have him cowed and
afraid to leave his typewriter while
go for a ride or a swim. I discover
that the aforesaid authoritative has
sneaked OF hunting or fishing. When
asked to explain he hangs his head