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New-York tribune., 1921-05-03
Specsal Dispatch to The Tribune

NORTHAMPTON. Mass, May g..
Leaving message that she was dis
couraged because she had not been the
success in college nor the credit to her
parents she had hoped to be, Miss Har-
riet A. De Lancey, sophomore at
Smith College, hanged herself early
this morning from the iron railing at
one end of the old Hoe Company dam,
at the lower end Of Paradise Pond. Her
body was found shortly after noon by
two Smith College students, accom-
panied BY Dartmouth student. It was
suspended by a moose tied around the
neck and hung about twelve feet below
the railing, just clearing the water. On
top Of the dam near the body the
strollers Miss Louise Alone, Miss
Helen Standin and John Loeb found
the girls watch, several articles Of
jewelry and Tair Of spectacles
wrapped in towel,
note left Ia Mias Dc Lancey's diary
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New-York tribune., 1921-05-03
BRAND Urges
Joint Appeal
From Allies
Influence Of Hughes Is
Held to Have Delayed
Invasion of the Ruhr;
Believes Issue Is Vital

Copyrignt. 1Szl. New York Tribune Inc
LONDON. May 2. Premier
BRAND Of France will propose at
to-morrow's session Of the Supreme
Council that the Allies send a joint
note to the United States explaining
the procedure by which the present
decisions regarding Germany have
been reached and requesting the re-
instatement of American representa-
tives on the Supreme Council and
the Reparations Commission. This
was learned tonight by the cor
respondent Of The New York Tribune
on high authority.
This apparent shift in the view.
point Of Premier BRAND was brought
about by reports received this after
noon from the Allied ambassadors in
Washington that the American pub
lie is anxious that the Allies should
not make irreparable decisions now,
and that the United States is anx-
ious to aid in the collection Of Ger
man indemnities in every way pos
sible.
While it is impossible to say how
this will be received by the pre-
miers, it is noteworthy that Brands
intention first became known sfter
he had telephoned Louis Barthou,
French Minister Of War, at $3.50
O'Clock tonight ordering French
mobilization.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-03

rom 1he Iri0Hnc'S W0shin0toM RHyeas
| WASHINGTON. May 2.-The 1xvita.
tion to the United States to resume
membership in the Supreme 0.sncil
and the Reparations Commission prob
ably viii be accepted il extended. it
was learned here tonight. The Ad-
ministration takes this stand becsvse
of its feeling that the United States
has vital interest in the settlement
of the reparations question.
Flat denial was made at the Stasa
Department tonight that any new Ger,
man note had been received. 1t is alse
denied that any communication, formal
or otherwise, has been sent to BerIin
by this government since the receips
of the latest German proposals. With
regard to the reparations situation, for
the present this government Is mark
ing time, waiting on the action of the
Allied Council.
It is believed that, when the council
completes its present discussions, and
submits, as it is exected to do. an
ultimatum to Germany, this govern
ment will then acquaint the German
government informally with the fact
proposals sent from Berlin to Wash
ington.
Incidentally, it is believed here that
the very clear impression given BY
Secretary Hughes in his talks with the
Allied representatives here that this
government would prefer the settle-
ment Of the reparations question, il
possible, without the invasion of the
Ruhr by French troops had consider
able weight, if indeed it were not the
deciding factor, in persuading the
French to agree to postponemens
French Meant to Move Sunday
It is known that the French had
fully made mp their minds to 90 Ia on
May /. It also is known that the
French. were fully aware in advance Of
all the arguments the British and Itsl-
ians would make at the Supreme Coun-
Gil meeting. which began Saturday. It
is believed, therefore, that it WAS not
any British or Italian arguments which
finally persuaded the French to agree
to postponement.
This is the belief, despite the inn
preston that in agreeing to the post
ponement the French obtained from the
British stronger pledge not to oppose
the Ruhr occupation If at the end Of
the twelve days the Germans had not
acceded to the Allied demands.
1t is known shat Mr.. Hughes has
strongly opposed the French occnpa-
tion Of the Ruhr so long al there MAS
any possibility of getting the Germans
to agree to reparation te ms which
represent his estimate Z the limit the
Germans could pay and at the same
time 1hopefuily resume productive
On tha cortrarv the Frereh hav. -.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-03
20 Die in Jew.Arab Clash

JERUSALEM, May (By The Associ-
ated Press Twenty persons were
killed and 150 wounded II q clash be-
tween Jews and Arabs at JaTa Sunday.
Troops restored order witaout being
compelled TO fire pm the fighting crowds.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-03
Bandits Gel 62O. 900 Peso.

BUEN0S AYRES, May 2.-Autono-
bile bandits to-day robbed the Custom
House paymaster Of valise containing
100000 pesos.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-03
Germany Gets Most of
Upper Silesia, Is Report
Allied Commission Said to Rule
Pless and Ryblaik Districts
Go to Poland

Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
BERLIN, May 2.-The Zeitunp am
Mittag says to-day that it learns au- .
thoritatively that the Inter-All;ed
Commission at Oppeln has forwarded
report to the Supreme Council at
London recommending that TJnner
Silesia be given to GERMANY. excent
for the Pless and Rybnik districts and
the eastern part Of the Kattowitz dis
trict, including the city Of Kattovitx.
These, 1t is recommended, should he
given to Poland in order to establish
= strategic frontier.
The Tarnowitz district. where tbe
Poles had majority month ago n
thu plehiscite to determine the wishes
sof the inhabitants as to which nation
SHOULD govern them, was included in
the territory accorded Germany IA the
commissions recommendation.
LONDoN, May z (By The Associ-
ated Press )A message from Katto-
witx reports that a strike has broken
out IN large part Of the Timer
Silesian coal fields because of 4 rennrt
that the Silesian industrial leaders
had decided, II the district should 81
assigned TO Poland, to destroy The
mines and blame the Poles for their
destruction "a ~
q The hHek WritluS l2ancrn aves - rxrxyvssx,
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
BY Samuel Abbott

MARTHA AND MARY BY Olive Sattet.
Published by G. z. Putnams Sons New
York
l4vIcE. BY Eunice riestens Published by
E3Ai & Liveright
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
The Story of the Flute
THE HISTORY OF TIE FLUTE BY D..
Ehrich. Published by d. Ehrlich, New
Yorls

THE HISTORY OF TIE FLUTE. BY D.
Ehrlich. Published by d. Ehrlich, New
York.
IN A pocket handbook on the flute
D. Ehrlich gives a condensed but
quite thorough history of the evolu-
ton Of the flute, from the days of it's
crude progentors, the primitive flutes
tf the Egyptians, the shofar of the
Bible and the wind instruments of the
Greeks. Continuing the story down to
the nineteenth century, the author
brings us to Theobald Bohm, the in
ventor of the famous, world-known
Bohm flute, now the accepted model
For all true flute players. There also
arc given in this booklet brief biog-
,aphics of all musicians who have been
intimately connected with the flute, as
developers of the instrumc cnt itself or
AS players of or composers of music
especially adapted to the flute
This little treatise contains num-
her of chapters that go quite complete
ly into the technique of flute mastery.
They are valuable for their sugges-
tons as to tone production, tone color
and proper methods of breathing.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
Youth to the Front

HARI.EQuINADE BY Holloway Horn.
Published by the Frederick A. Stokes
Company
Tflll revolt of young man against
the petty conventions of an Eng
lish middle class family is sketchcd
With realism and sympathy in this
novel. After leaving home, Maurice
Kennedy comes in contact with social
ISM, feminism and other heterodoy
IDEAS. chiefly through the instrumental
ty OF radical friend, Max Bateman
With the outbreak of the war he joins
The army and becomes extremely patri
otic. Bateman holds out for a time
cl.nging to his radical and pacihst
ideals, but finally he also hears the
call of patriotism, goes to the front and
loses his life. Kennedy is more for
lunate. He comes out of the war alive
and marries the girl with whom he has
fallen in love.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
Sordid Picture of F amily Life
Novel by Evelyn Scott Is Grim in It's Realistic
Effects

TIVE NARROW HOUSE. BY. Evelyn Scott.
Published by Boni & Liveright.
-~HE NARROW HOUSE is the
story Of an abnormal family
whose secret thoughts and mo-
tives are laid bare by the re-
lcntless scalpel of the author. There
is no escaping her. Bit by bit she cuts
away their surface pretcnsions.
Essentially it is a revelation of the
ster which fed on pain" The house is
tomb in which the members of the
family are buried alive, doomed to die
hundred deaths, bound eternally to
each other. With the vivid realism Of
the Imagistes, Mrs Scott pictures her
characters and their surroundings, de-
tail upon sordid detail. until the reader
sickens, yet cannot shake off the feel
ing that there are really people like
that-not ones self, or ones friends,
oh, no!-but other people, men and
women, ycs-and children, too.
Even a rigidly unsentimcntal person
will feel the shock, but, discounting the
sbnormality Of the picture, he will rec
ognize it's artistry. At times there is a
tendency to multiply adjectives in de-
scribing the obvious until the effort
becomes tiresome. But it is precisely
by this meth cd that Mrs. Scott achieves
her effects:
There was almost a frenzy abou.
Mrs. Farley's attention to work. She
got up at $3.50 in the morning, and in
the still gray dawn, when the grass in
the back yard was silver with rimc, she
took out the ashes in big bucket and
emptied them into the bin in the alley.
The gray dust settled on her uncoy-
cred hair, but she did not seem to
know it. Stiff locks, sticky with dirt,
hung about her grimed face Her
flannel waist was half out of the band
of her draggled skirt. Her hands,
crimson at the knuckles and grained
with the filth Of labor, clutched the
nshcan stifHy.'
1t is the mother, posing as a martyr,
who forms the catch in the chain which
binds the family together. Her duties
are all the satisfaction she has in life
and she means to cling to them. In
which she is better off than the rest
of the family. Her son, married at
an early age, sees his prospects for
distinction in his profession recede
forever while he, hating the pretty
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
For Pottery Lovers
BEAUTIFUL volume,

A BEAUTIFUL volume. charminely
illustrated, that will be invaluable
to collectors and lovers Of pottery has
just been published by f. p. Dutton &:
Co. 1t deals with "Old Bristol Pot
teres' and tells the complete story of
the potteries of Bristol and Brislinp
ton and of those who made them for
TWO centuries from 1850 to 1850. IT
IS written by w. J. Pountncy. an au
thorlty upon the subject and de-
scendant of some of the famous not.
ters OF Bristol. and it has foreword
by r. l.. Hobson, of the British Museum
and an Introduction by Bernard Rack.
ham, of the Victoria and Albert alu-
scum, on The Place Of the Bristol
Potterlcs in the History of Ceramics"
There are nearly a hundred beautiful
in full page plates ON
special paper and particularly inter-
csting frontispiece in colors Of a poly
chrome bowl, dated 1909.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

fool who is his wife. is hound ~
by physical attractions. In spite Of the
noid sne has on her husband, Wjnnje
IS not satisfied. She disgusts her hus.
band and her children in ber cs.xa,..
demands Tor affection. Then there is
the father, weakly in love with an.
other woman, but making virtue os
the necessity that binds him to his
wife.
Most important of all, there is Alice
the daughter, pitifully conscious or
her ugly body and the hopelessness Of
her love for her employer.
In vain Alice struggles against bsr-
self. There is no help for her bnt for
the others she sees hope. When be,.
fatner's mistress comes to town Alice
ruthlessly. tears the veil of silence or
the subject and demands that he 90,
divorce and take the happiness tbs.
ne should have. But he had "n,,
tured his sclf-esteem on the verify Of
aDhegauon and 1t was hard for him
to accept as blessing the thing whjcb
1t had given him so much comfort q,
do without" so he lets the woman DE-
part IN terror Of seeing her too
clearly"
The sister meets the same resist
ance to life when, after Winnies death
sne urges her brother to go away. Her
efforts are futile. They are dead a.
ready and the tomb has engulfed them
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
Two Women and Man,
And Man and Two Wives
Modern Phases of Marital Problems Theme of
Two Interesting Novels

her sleeves rolled up, and with a re-
lentless decision to paint the perturba
tions, passions and sufferings of man
when faced by the varying devices of
a homely. dreamless Martha and a
vagrant. fervently imaginative Mary.
with an illicit streak in her blood.
There are bits of rare sex insight in
this novel
While the struggle of three char
acters in Jake is Hellenic in its
stark presentments on bare stage,
tie atmosphere is of the United
States, definitely OF that elastic
country we term the "Middlc West"
The sullen Mississippi :. tawny stream,
appears for an interval in the books
opening chapters, to be succeeded by a
setting obviously near or within the
area of the Indiana sand dunes of Lake
Michigan. although no geographical tag
= affixed to the intimately accurxe
Here is a book in which the primary
plottings OF persons and circumstance
are so graphic that the reader senses
catastrophe almost at The rise of the
OF the stage, for Jake has tremendous
TRAGEDY in its current Of Narrative and
talk, ameliorated by gentle comedy
that dares to flash into overt humor at
times, only to be gcstured aside as the
tense moments become more frequent
and dynamic. The novel is the life
story Of Jake Gilroy viewed and re-
corded by his friend Ruth. Jake. met
for tho first time by Ruth when boy
of odd Jobs for miserable, cruel
farmer, touches a fine, sympathetic
note in Ruth. Something tells her
that this weak -mouthcd little chap with
tho deep eyes OF dreamer is out Of
his native element. The years go by.
The two meet again; this time with
Jake as illustrator for bic metropoli-
tan daily and Ruth the contcntcd wife
of happy boysh Charley.
SO far light comedy, with parti-
COIOTcQ scenery. NON IOI ti0SSuS
with black settings. Jake, ignorant Of
women. meets an adventurous Carla
and marrcs her. His mother, a white
haired but rather spinal woman, with
a peculiar vocal use OF Biblical text,
has always been Jake's mentor. At
once. as though by decree of Fate,
war is opened between Carla and
Mother Gilroy. 1t is not mere femi-
nine fcud; it is combat to finish,
wagcd by two women whose tongues
become shattered with fame. Jake,
weak, hesitant. is dummy
of coat and trousers on the firing line
between the wife and the mother.
In the end Mrs. Gilroy dies, and in
dying wins what she could not gain in
lifc-4a victory over Carla in Jakc's
swift revolt. spurred by an almost
fanatical devotion to his mothers
memory. Carla disappears but returns
whom too late to be Of any creditable
service. The darkness Of a mild in
sanity settles upon Jake. Atropos,
with her shears, sits at the door. You
realize that you have been reading
book Just thing of paper and ink
and have not been watching the pup
pets of an Eschylus moving and
mouthing on modern stage.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

NITALIC BREATHING BY Thomas r.
Gaines Published b. the Reilly G. Lee
Company, Chicago.
4 NEW method of breathing is ad-
~ vocated by Mr.. Gaines as
panacea for human ills with
all the ardor of a prophet or sales
man. This method, which the author
calls vitalic breathing, is defined as
"inhalng in shifts and forcibly ex-
haling." Mr.. Gaines asserts that this
method develops certain chest muscles
which are ordinarily not exercised and
insures large supply Of oxygen for
the lung cells.
He eloqucntly describes the benefits
which accrue to all parts of the body
as result of this increased quantity
of oxygen. Developing his scheme
further, he illustrates with diagrams
a number Of physical exercises which
should prove helpful to individuals suf-
ferng from various forms of disease.
Vitalic breathing is warmly recon-
mended to sick and we'll alike as
body builder
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
By Gertrude Atllerton
.iNthor Of Sisters IN LGlu

r T WAS amiable Of one Of my critics
/. to intimate that | wrote Sisters
in Law with the laudablc inten-
ton of doing for my native city what
so many other writer's have done for
New York, Boston, Chicago and the
ubiquitous small town, the intimation
being that I had put San Francisco on
the map. l must be frank and admit
that no such lofty impulse directed my
humble effort, my impression being
that San Francisco was already on the
map, drawn with indeliblc red ink. /
merely had a story to tell and the
scene out of which it grew naturally
was San Francisco (although ! will adj
nit that this is now the only locale
that does not bore mc).
AS to its society, that has, so far as
I know, not been written about by any
one but myself, but l have used it as
background a good many times be-
fore, beginning with the far off '60s,
not from any sense of patriotic
duty (I have indeed reduced it to a
state of spcechlcss fury more than
once, for society anywhere is a scnsi-
tive body and wants nothing less than
to be handled veraciously), but be-
cause, with its odd wild history, it is
even to this day productive of inter
esting personalities and conditions. On
the surface, of course, in its fine
houses, its entertainments, the fashion
sble wardrobes of its women, it strikes
the casual observer as being much like
any other society with wealth enough
to enjoy itself; but within it is an ex-
traordinary mixture of Victorian
ism (for so young state), possessing
al: intense and ingenious caste con-
sclousness, but with the simplest and
, klndest manners possible (these arc the
descendants of old Southern, New York
and New England families prominent
III the 'o0s and '60s); of people whose
fortunes were made in the Bonanza
eOs, and who are now as intrenched
and mortally respectable as if their
progress through the sacred portals
mad not been disputed inch by inch;
ana newer, gayer set that CANDLES
furlously, divorces merrily, does every-
lhlng else that stamps it as up to date,
including indifference to scandal. still
drinks too much, makes up brazenlv
but nevertheless has remarkable num-
Der OF members who, whatever thew
may look like on the surface, exercise
ali the good old bourgeois virtues in
the home.
The most remarkable point about San
Francisco society, however--now firm
~ welded into whole, for the older
crowd has got over being Mortified
is its complete lack of moncycd AFRO
gance or self-consciousncss, I fancy
that everybody who has met them has
gone away with the impression that
they are the incest rich people in the
world. They are also intensely loval.
O'd members whom reduced crcum-
stances" have forced to drop out are
never forgotten when great ball ia
given and side by side with blazinp
mllllonaircsses you may see old GOV
elnesses and school teachers, beloved
OF the hostess. San Franciscans eniov
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
'riangle Portrayed in Fiction and on the Stage

tnke, with none Of the agonized weigh
ing Of pros and cons or dramatic res
ignations Of the old Dolls House days.
but in this she differs from the mod
ern young women Of other climcs in
the lack of hardness Of surface and
in complete retention of good man
ncrs. The San Francisco girl of
wealth and position may be frivolous,
extravagant, ruthless, self-willed, spoilt
o, extremely naughty but she rarely
.oses her charm Of manner. The wild
ness Of those old gambling days has
fingered on in a sort of partnership
with the electric climate, but the high
breeding of the Southerners who
founded the society Of the city still
pcrmeatcs the atmosphere like an
aroma.
The Socialist Kirkpa trick noted and
ctived notions of Bourgeois Society,""
They conquered him in spite Of himself
The San Franciscan Gas distinguished
from the more generic Californian) has
many other distinguishing character
istics which l have no space for here
II in my novel I have succeeded in
giving the Eastern and mid Western
sections of the country some idea of
this odd society Of paradoxes on the
edge of the Pacific I shall not have
lived in vain, even if that were not my
enc and only reason for writing the
book.
Reprinted bY special arrangement from
Byentdno's Book Chat
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
An Odd Society Of aradoxes
On the Edge Of the Pacific
Mrs. Atherton in New Novel Portrays Social
Foibles and Mannerisms of the San Franciscan

money but do not PROSTATE themselves
before it,
Moreover, the most devoted gamblers
arc often the hardest readers and the
most educated in art and music, and
generous to the many charities. The
older and more serious set showed
their sense of responsibility to the
Worlds War, even before the United
States entered it, running branches Of
muvrcs for their friends in Paris and
contributing heavily to the Red Cross
Many of them sit regularly on the
local charity boards Oike Alex
ina's sister, Mrs. Abbott) and take
their responsibilities to the unfortu-
rate very seriously. A fair number OF
the fashionable women arc members
of a political society formed shortly
after the passage Of the suffrage bill
il California, which, composed of
women of all ranks, meets regularly
to discuss the affairs of the day. Re
Gently another large club has been
formed, composed entirely Of the
"ohHeH VI soclcty, WHICH lHciuueS inc
study Of arts and letters and is ad-
dressed by every man or woman of
note who visits the city.
Alcxina typtics the modern spirit
superimposed on the old conservative
element that was her birthright, and
is the daughter and granddaughter of
two pillars of the old regime who are
characters in my next novel. Her will
is ruthless but subtly expressed, her
modernism so complete and so natural
that she goes about the rcmaking of
her life after the usual youthful mis-