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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-23
Tee and Green

Seventy-six enthusiastic golfers
braved the torrid heat Saturday and
played the game at the Country club.
There is an average OF about fifty
five out every day, and the days
that 1t rains, II seems as II the
moment that It ceases, devotees OF
the game get in their cars and roll
toward the club grounds for their
game.
The grounds are in a most excel
lent condition. and the green VIII
compare favorably with any in the
country and II may be said by
way OF parenthisis that any person
that thinks Bermuda will not make
trig looking and beautiful lawn.
should come out TO the country club
grounds and see the greens. They
would alter their opinion in this re.
spect then.
The ladies' room and loungins
saloon is nearing completion and
is being fitted up for them, is very
nicely decorated in cream and warm
olive colors.
There is quite waiting list for
membership. and the vacancies are
few, tho membership being limited.
Jack Collins returned from Chi
cago where he went TO Stoke to tahs
part in the tournament that is now
history, and he was one OF the un-
lucky ones that drew day when
a pair OF hip boots and skiff were
needed to play. Sam Kennedy re.
turned from Shawnee where he had
the luck to be pltted against Don
nelly the former professional OF
oklahoma City, and gave him a run
for his money.
II has been quitely suggested that
a ladies' tournament be given but
there is nothing authentic 10 be said
yet. The caddies are eagerly look
ing forward TO the time when they
will be allowed a chance too, and
they are getting 10 be n fairly
efficient lot ard we'll behaved TOO,
. a. -. l.. - -
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-23

ENID, July 22.--Warping OF rails
due to excessive heat caused the de-
railment OF three coaches on Frisco
passenger train No. Gil near Fair
mount this afternoon. Two passen-
ger cars and a combination pas
senger and baggage coach over
turned. No one was injured
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-23
hand, possibly his entire right arm.

might have to be amputated.
Lipps recently was snake bitten
when he took advantage OF "A day off
and went fishing near MuskoEee.
He played with the Okmulgee club
OF the western association last sea-
son and the early part of this year
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

that she displays, and a talent kept
well in hand. But praise must stop
at that point. Even so. that is vastly
more than can be said of most of
the current literary workmen.
This tale is very Welsh. All its
people are Welshmen and persist in
being Welshmen first and foremost,
in spite of Cambridge University
polish or adventures into the wider
world of London. Possibly no one
but a Welshman can judge abso-
lutely of their accuracy of portrayal,
but they are solidly convincing in ap-
pearance. The story treats of the
contrasting careers of two young
men, David and Adam, and of the
complementary women. David starts
out well enough, but steadily goes to
pieces. He is weak, though not al
together a bad lot-his downfall is
natural enough, and essentially
tragic. Being engaged to one girl, he
suddenly switches off and marries
another, which is fortunate escape
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

from some living model-a model
whom Mr.. Caine emphatically does
not love. He runs an extraordinary
art magazine for the cultured" pub
lie: to appear in his pages is an as
surance of success to artist or writer.
But he pays as little as possible and
is an expert in acquiring gems"
from the impecunious aspirant-
things that will one day be priceless
at absurdly small prices. Such a
proceeding is, in fact, not an un-
known thing. There is also a wicked
old baron, who is collector of all
sorts of things-at the lowest figures.
He happens also to be the uncle of
the little lady in the case. ito whose
mother he has been very cruel in the
past. And there are the officiating
geniuses: no less than three-3, count
'em, 3-including Mendoza, the very
much arrived genius, the greatest
living caricaturist," citizen of the
world, but also very Spanish. then
there is the little lady, IS years old,
an artist who does extremely small
black and white drawings of as
founding diableric in conception and
execution; and, finally, young Eng
Iish artist for the lady to fall in
love with. so that Mendoza, who, of
course, loves her, is driven to re-
nunciation and an ultimate retire
ment into his nobility.
Obviously the girl and the young
English genius fall into the clutches
of the exploiters, the baron and the
magazine owner. But the girl. at
least, is a very efficient, businesslike
young person, pretty well able to
take care of herself as well as to
look out for the amiable young
wool gathering artist. But there are
complications that are too much for
her and give Mendoza his chance to
intervene 1t all makes highly
colored, lifelike series of adventures
in poverty, Kindness and eventually
love. There is nothing too much
about any of it, and one accepts Mr..
Gaines youthful geniuses at their
face value-which is high. An ex
cellent piece of work.
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Il don't want ever to go home"
"Go now, Josie says
You mean never"
Now"
He kissed his No. No. down
against each of her eyelids."
Now these examples of catalogued
detail and dialogue are not unjust
tssMiss Hurst. On every page OF this
and her other books their like is to
be found: item heaped on item till
they read like an auction list; dia-
logue as true to life" as a recording
phonograph set down on any street
corner of the vertical city. If this
be realism" to the multitude. let
them revel in it, as they indubitably
do, never realizing that any realism
worthy of the name is as firmly
rooted in imagination as ''the ro-
mantle" nor ever realizing that i'm
agination in its last essence is SIM
ply fine selection from the material
of life.
There is no doubt that Miss Hurst
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

has a flair for life Nothing live
lier is being written to-day than her
stories. She writes indeed so close
to life and records its most splintery
detail so eagerly that one could wish
for her a remoter point of view, a
period of retreat perhaps TO the
highest tower room of the vertical
city and. after a due period of prayer
and fasting from life, reverent ap-
plication there of the really sacred
blue pencil to her myriad notes" Z"
She writes from the crowded pave
ment: even a cursory tourists trip
to the top of that "fifty-six story
rocco castle built from the five and
ten cent store earnings of a mer-
chant prince" might make for that
reflection which is the beginning of
selection. Focusing from that airy
height on her pavement folk much
of their ragtag of talk and clutter of
things might drop away. And far
away from them she might come
closer to them and so discover their
essential quality. She might even
discover that they are not really
worth the doing.
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New Fiction
Continued from Preceding Page.

to be raised" as a farmland. Here.
again, the portrayal of Soaroff. his
malicious. stupid wife. and the whole
farm environment is masterpiece.
Emmett runs away from the farmer
and is cared for by most remark
able old man, who is known as the
Faith Healer
Under the genial. kindly treatment
Of this singular recluse Emmett Is
able to give some rein to the dream
ing" side of him. to read and learn
much. The old man is a noble char
acter. eccentric but wholly lovable.
He is manifestly drawn from a once
living model. like nearly all the
people of the book. He is acci-
dentally killed. and Emmett is taken
into the family OF a well 10 do local
magnate. whose daughter. Effie, is
kind to the boy; but he does not stay
with them. After a brief interlude
as livery stable boy he is once
more taken in by kindly people, but
his benefactress, Ruth. dies. and he
is then finally adrift.
There follows an Odyssey of the
road. as hobo. circus performer and
prize fighter, which is--it is not too
much to say-the best picture of
such life that has as yet been drawn.
II 10 srfx he sx,
side, to a degree that exceeds any
thing that London, Royce or any of
the amateur tramps have produced
in the conviction of verisimilitude it
gives. 1t is Kaleidoscope series of
moving pictures of the underworld"
with insistence upon it's human quail
ity-grotesque, brutal figures, tragic
and for the most part futile. but al
together human Yet. in spite of its
brillianee. il becomes little monot-
onous toward the end, and one feels
that the perspective is not altogether
accurate.
But 1t is moving book-an addi-
ton of lasting value to the literature
of the day-and. one may safely add,
u could have been written by no one
except an Irish American of our own
era 1t is a natural birth of the
time as well as the strongly individ-
ualized voice of a remarkable per-
sonality. II leaves one looking for
next.
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for the number one lady. He takes
to petty theft and is caught, but
set on his feet again, only to get
himself into still worse scrapes. to
bring trouble to his wife and finally
TO end himself.
Adam. the other boy, starts with
a serious handicap of poverty. He
is a more intense, passionate erea-
ture, not altogether lovable but un-
usually interesting. He remains de-
voted to the others wife, and eventu-
ally wins sort of salvation for her
as well as himself. 1t is a skillfully
handled conflict of emotions, though
one feels sometimes that there is
bit too much eccentricity in the
action of the characters. But lovers
of psychological fiction will find the
story engrossingly interesting, and
truthful, so far as it goes, to an
unusual degree.
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faithfully and turns out two booka
which bring him favor. His pub
Usher is an elderly man whose mar
riage with wife considerably
younger has been entirely happy.
Torquil is charmed by her, but she
finds nothing in him to alter her
first impression, which was Of
something lacking" AS "TorQuiPs
success" begins to burgeon. he meets
a beautiful young aristocrat who
pulls to pieces some of his preju-
dices against "the highly born and
we'll connected" He falls in love
with her and she marries him, out Of
hand, to serve her own purposes, as
it afterward turns out. Another
publisher, of less high minded sort
than the man who took his first
books, make successful attempt to
profit by the increasing vogue of tho
young writer, but intimates to him
that it is no longer necessary for
him to work so hard upon his prod
uct, now that his popularity is
gained All the good influence ex-
erted upon Torquil by the wife Of
his earlier sponsor have now disap-
peared, and he turns out what he
knows TO be wretched stuff for the
sake of cheaper popularity and
greater money profit. In this book
y; 81, "a IN land~
him to lampoon many of his wife's
friends; as result they turn against
him and he also wins his wife's con-
tempt, for, although she is playing
fast and loose with him in their per-
sonal relations, she does not fail to
resent his exhibition of envious spite
toward her particular circle of inti-
mates Finally she taunts him with
the dubiety of his birth, whereupon
he rushes off to the place which was
his old home to clear up the mys
terry.
Perhaps It is scarcely fair not TO
let the reader find out for himself
the result of Torquil's return to tie
scenes of his boyhood. II is reason
able TO suppose that it would take
very lofty lineage to meet this young
mans conception of himself, ampli-
fed as il had become by his literary
conquests. 1t may be guessed that
he is not wholly satisfied with what
he discovers, and he returns to learn
that his wife has eloped with her
lover. and all her friends appear to
wonder how she contriv.d to wait
so long before doing it. Somewhat
verses in his career. he considers
Offering his fame, name and fortune
to the widow of his former publisher,
but finds this lady-a charming fig
ure in the book-contentedly mar
ried 10 another man.
Thus thrown back. and quite def
initely, on his own resources, and
the whole fabric of his life fallen
about his ears, Torquil decides that
his head is bloody but unbowed,"
and determines TO begin all over
again and this time write purely for
love of writing. SO it may be that
he becomes q great artist. Miss
Hine seems to wish us to think SC;
and maybe he did. A bred in the
bone bounder is not estopped by his
character from creating an illusion
of life among people who are not all
egotistical or raffish. Torquil was
stung deeply, and in the recoil lay his
chance to retrieve something. Like
many others, he did not wear his
success gracefully; to work against
pressure may have been what he
needed to bring out the best in him.
How good that best was is something
upon which opinions will vary.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19


Hurst. Harper & Brothers.
<l"HE Vertical City" is typi-
cally Fannie Hurstian,
six stories Of people mo-
tivated by the crudest of human in
stincts. reacting to stimuli as frankly
as frogs, set about with an elabo-
rate environment Of things" Mo-
torists enter a hotel with .'pigskin
and patent leather bags, hampers
and hat boxes, two golf bags. two
Pomeranians, a bull in a spiked col
lar, furs, leather coats, monogrammed
rugs, thermos bottles, air pillows
robes and an ensemble of fourteen
wardrobe trunks sent by express"
Ii one lives at the Bon Ton Hotel
one leaves behind "the lingo of the
fireside chair. parsley bed, servant
problem, cretonne shoe bags. hose
nozzle, striped awnings, attic trunks,
bird houses, ice cream salt, spare
room mattings, bungalow aprons,
mayonnaise recipe, fruit jars, spring
painting, summer covers. fall clean
ing, winter apples" Hattie's realities
were: Home. The new sandwich
cutters. Heart shape. Diamond shape.
Spade. The strip of hall carpet new
" discovered TO scour like new with
brush and soap and warm water.
EpStein's meat market throws in
free suet. The lamp with the opal
shade for Marcia's piano. White oil
cloth is cleaner than shelf paper"
Memories of childhood. the massacre
of Kishineff and menus Of feasts are
cataiogued ditto and as staccato.
Miss Hurst's outstanding resources
sRe detail and dialogue. both alike of
a quality TO be understood by all who
can read. Witness above and below:
I'm jealous Of every hour you
lived before i met you"
Big -bad-eat- t-Josie-up- boy"
II want to kiss your eyes till they
go in deep-through you-I don't
know-until they hurt-deep-I-
want-to hurt YOU"
'Oh, oh, Josie, scared"
You're like one OF those orange
Angora kittens. Yellow. Soft.
Deep"
II Nicky's pussy
II can see myself in your ewes.
shut me. up in them"
''Josie so tired.
"Of me?"
"Nicky 500 strong"
"Mv poor pussy, I didn't
mean
"Nicky-boy. go home like good
good Nieky.-
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

BY William Caine. c. p. Putnam's
Sons
n EADERS who have pleasant
IN memories of The Strange
ness of Noel Carton"-and
doubtless they are many-will well
come this tale with hearty anticipa-
tion. nor will they be disappointed.
There is less strangeness about it,
less of the bizarre. but its people are
none of them commonplace, and they
are, all of them, truly fascinating
personalities 1t is very good com
edy using that word in its primary
meaning. with touch of tears and
true romance added. Mendoza him
self is an automatically romantic con-
ception, drawn with no small sub
tlety, and the other people are also
well individualized, definite entities.
very far from being stock figures.
although they belong 10 the much
treated world of the studios and are,
in way, old friends in fiction.
The story is thickly populated with
geniuses and unusual people. There
is wonderful magazine proprietor
and exploiter of art and letters whose
picture il drawn with such loving
and minute attention to detail that
one can't help suspeeting ne is taken
The New York herald., 1922-03-19
ToRQUILS SUCCESS. BY Muriel
Hine. Dodd, Mead & co.


Hine. Dodd, Mead & Co.
N HUR1EL HINE Is born story
N teller. She never loses the
thread of her narrative. She
creates atmosphere, and to her grace
of style she often adds great skill in
characterization. Her women are
better than her men, the latter are
sometimes wooden. But Torquil, the
enamelcd hero of her new book called
"Torquil's Success" is better than
usual: The best composed man char
actcr she has accomplished.
This man Torquil-a pen name
assumed with a haughtiness which
is quite absurd-is rather an un-
worthy-say, unbecoming-subje
for such creative skill and complete
devotion as she expends upon his
figure. Torquil is a bounder, to be-
gin with and always, first and last,
and Miss Hine has undertaken to
make a silk purse out of definitely
inferior material. His bounderhood
vasive that an education at Cam
bridge could motor did not
sweeten him. Miss Hine has tried
to make a great writer out of this
fustian, and somehow the book gives
you the impression that she f1atters
herself she is succeeding. But even
if she has persuaded herself of sue
cess in this achievement, it is not
likely, that she will so persuade all
of her readers. For she shows you
too much of the man in his ingrained
characteristics to permit you to be
convinced of a superior quality in
him for a single minute. Torquil re-
mains a bounder from the first page
to the last. You may have sympa-
thetic moments with him: he lies
under his fate, and his efforts to es-
cape have a certain appeal. at times:
but Miss Hine never fools you, even
if Torquil carries the suspicion that
he sometimes fools her.
This is no detective story; it's
structure has nothing inherently in
dividual about it, and its interest lies
mainly in the great charm of Miss
Hines story telling. She draws an
arrogant, self-confident young man
of obscure parentage who has So
cialist leanings and cherishes bitter
resentment against the privileged
classes. alone in London, poor and
savage as he pours the pages out of
/ his pen. He is determined to write
masterpieces of fiction, and though
he wants both fame and money, he
has certain degree of literary rec
| titude. He assumes the name Tor
quiz because he more than sus-
poets that his birth was irregular,
and believes himself 10 be a child of
distinguished ancestry. So he carries
the idea of adopting an arbitrary
and distinctive name and making il
| famous: ne will create great writer
AMI great individual. and do il
+. himself, name and all. He iahors
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

GOLD-KILLER. BY John Prosper.
George II. Doran Company.
Mr.. PROSPER is more am
IV bilious in workmanship as
well as more careful in the
structure of his plot than is usually
the case in the current variety Of mys-
terry yarn. This is quite the best
thing of its kind among the very
many examples recently issued. The
book is dedicated 10 Mrs. Rhinehart.
not Without justification, as the
author makes use of technic in
some ways similar TO her admirable,
orderly method He even follows her
in making his amateur detective
hero a medical student and in MAX
ing clever use of hospital as an
accessory He parts company with
his model in The use of superscience
and wonderful discoveries, but he
does not abuse the privilege that
writer's of such fiction have OF
anticipating future marvels of sci
ence. His astonishingly potent drug
will serve quite well enough for the
purpose.
IL will not do at all to summarize
entertainment in unraveling il for
himself 1t is inseniously built
making free use OF many of the
tested familiar devices, but using
them skillfully He includes among
these the recognition OF an under
The New York herald., 1922-03-19
THE pHARISEES. BY M Morgan
Gibbon. Doubleday. Page & Co.

Gibbon. Doubleday. Page & Co.
N n ISS GIBBONS work is solid,
M 'nsosn''"' and oDs.rv."'. ;. want.
and also unhurried. 1t is
smoothly finished in texture, and has
alluring qualities OF manner; def
nitely individual manner, but with
out any preciosity or affectation. She
also has firm hold on realities; a
clear seeing, calm insight that is
not at all a common attribute of
most modern women writer's. She is
able to deal with tragedy, even with
soiled, s6fdid tragedy, without any
hysterical emphasis, and she has not
. little Satire humor. She also has
great skill in narrative; again of an
unhurried orderly variety that moves
steadily, like well arranged river.
without rapids. but also. possibly. of
no very great volume or depth. Add
ing all these qualities together one
is a little surprised to find that the
total does not produce a greater re-
suit. III is talent Of very high order
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

THE VERTICAL CITY. BY Fannie
Hurst. Harper & Brothers.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

MENDOZA AND A LITTLE LADY.
BY William Caine G. p. Putnam's
Sons
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

GOLD-KILLER. BY John Prosper.
George II. Doran Company.
The New York herald., 1922-06-28
AMBUSHED MEN KILL
AND INJURE IN MINE WAR
200 Miners Also Terrorize
District Near Pittsburgh.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
BRIDGEPORT, Ohio. June 27.--One man
was killed and two were wounded in an
attack to-day upon an automobile in
which three men were riding to work
at the stripping mine of the Union Coal
Stripping and Mining Company.
John r. Major of Fairview was killed
when a party of ambushed men, sup
posed to be striking miners. fired.
Clyde Major, nephew of the dead man.
was slightly wounded, but the fate of a
man named Downey who was in the
car has not been learned.
Marching through Roberts Hollow,
near Pittsburgh. 200 miners, armed with
clubs and other weapons, tsrrorized that
district for several hours to-day and
succeeded in stopping the operation of
four wagon mines after threatening to
kill the non-union miners IL they should
return to work.
The New York herald., 1922-06-28
HOOVER WOULD ABOLISH
CHILD LABOR AS BLIGHT
Urges Effort by All the States
to Enact LaUs.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., June PA final
effort to bring all the States into line
to abolish child labor was urged by
Secretary Hoover in an address here to-
night before the National Conference of
Social Work. Failing this he decla ced,
amendment to the Federal Constitution
was the only alternative to overcome "a
blight that in its measure is more de.
plorable than war"
Responsibility for TIE prevention of
child labor was placei upon the in
div.duai States by Mr. Hoover who de-
clared that while the majority had
forward looking laws IN child protec-
tion there was a minority still in the
Middle Ages in their attitude toward
childhood"
Decrying the constant resort to Fed
cral control as und ,-mining the sense
OF local responsib ity. he asserted
there was nothing more disheartenmg
than the impulse given to the centraliza-
tiv., by continuous failure of local gov
eminent in matters affecting the natior.
nj n whole