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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-06
YOUR HEALTH
WHAT EVERY ONE OF US OWES
TO ALL THE REST OF
MANKIND.
BY Ryal :. Copeland, VI. D.. Com
missioner of Health, New
York [TfV

missioner of Health. New
York City.
You battle regularly brush your
teeth twice a dayt and pride your
self on your hygienic life.
Did you ever observe "a we'll
groOmed man ?" He is clean shaver.
his hair ia brushed smoothly. his
mustache shows evidence Of pain
stalking attention, his tie is exactly
right, his collar is immaculate. his
trousers are creased. and his shoes
reflect your face.
Whenever 1 see a man gotten up
this way / wonder if he takes the
same plains with his body. II re-
quires a lot OF time to prepare for
social inspection. The reward is the
commentator Of a hundred pairs of
admiring eyes.
Mind you'll admire the we'll
grOomed man and the weIl-dressed
woman. In the language Of the
street. they look good to me-"
But 10 be "well-dressed" ia one
thing. To be really hygienic is an
other. 1t is enough simply to battle
regularly. or to wear good clothes
gracefully. This is too much like
being "a whited sepuIchre. which.
indeed. appears beautiful outward.
but within is full Of dead mems
bones. and Of all uncleanness."
Cleanliness should not be for
show. Because it lengthens your
! life. hygienic living should become
instructive. The modern surgeon
/ is drilled so perfectly in his techni-
( que that surgical cleanliness be
/ comes an unfaiing habit.
10 takes time and patience to in
struct the prospecives so essential
/ 10 his safe handling Of broken
/ bodies The chief Of starr for
\ mulates rules of conduct for the
\ young hospital assistants. He pre-
|pares a carefully worked out meth
I Oh Of cleansing the hands for in
/ stance ON the wall OF the doctors
/ 'waSh-up room" right over the
/ basin he puts his instructions for
/ sCrubb.ng the hands 20 times with
. lime and soda. then with soap. etc.
After awhile the practice is 50
/ burned into the brain that the sur
/ geon instinctively does all these
/ things. They become part of his
life The lowered mortality from
. operations is the reward and al
mankind has protited by the per-
sonal hygiene Of the surgeons.
You may be reckless and indiffor-
ont so far as your own health is
. concerned. But surely YOU possess
enough OF the milk Of human kind
ness to be unwilling to hazard the
lives Of others by your own neglect
Society can be no more effective in
its fight against diseases than the
measure of the resistance and the
hyGicnic life OF the least OF its
members. For instance, YOU are
not safe from the possibility OF
yphus so long as the vermin-in-
tested person walks the streets.
A few days ago DR. Regina Id
Farrar died i'm Moscow. Russia OF
yphus He had been i'm Samara
lighting typhus for the League OF
Nations. and fell victim TO the dis
ease. not because OF his own lack OF
care but because the neglect OF
body cleanness Of some member OF
society had made il possible "a
carry 20 Or. Farrar an injecting in.
sect Of filth
You owe il 90 all mankind TO be
clean and free from diseases. When
YOU dress well YOU have not done
your whole part The body you
thus adorn should be clean through
. out
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-06

YOU and when It was bitter, Has
not Coo been speaking to YOU in all
this JOY. in all this sorrow? lie can
gently speak and loudly knock and
happy that man who has ears to
hear I'm every noble thought that
comes to YOU, i'm every yearning
after things better i'm every solemn
resolution YOU make for the future,
Chris; stands and knocks and says,
1T is J."
But how often the door remains
closed The voice and the knock
remain unheeded. Ii is i'm the power
of every man to close his ear TO them.
. Christ stands there and tries to make
Himself heard above the tumult and
/ commotiOn of life but he will not
f apply force 10 gain an entrance. 1t
+ is man himself who must open.
. There are times when we are not at
home TO the serious thought that
comes TO visit us. 10 the higher life
which Christ wishes to bring. And
it is then that we exercise that ire
mcnduous power which God has
given us. tho power of keeping that
/ door closed i'm the face OF the Al
mighty God.
Interesting Incident.
An interesting incident occurred
i'm England some time ago Two
young mon were sailing i'm a beauti-
full yacht off the coast of England.
They decided TO land I'm certain
sheltered NOOK and explore the hill
country. NiEht came ON before they
were aware of the fact that they had
. lost their way. Finally ar midnight.
they beheld tac cleaning light Of a
cottage lamp. They hurried TO the
hut and knocked at the door. a
Crun voice from within bade them in
no uncertain language &c move on.
The woung men passed on and COM
ing TO another cottage found a well
come shelter The next morning the
occupants i'm the inhospitable Gotta sc
heard something that filled them
with shame and regret and taught
them a lesson they we're likely never
TO forget The two young men who
had desired admittance TO their
I home were none other than Prince
George-the present king Of Eng
land and his brother How much
worse TO refuse admittance 10 Jesus
Christ. the prince OF princes and the
King of kings
I'm closing the sermon an appeal
was made 10 open the door OF the
heart 20 Jesus Christ And in an
swer to the question. how this could
best be accomplished. the attention
of the audience was called 10 that
Old hymn Of Liebich's
Here is my heart, Ny God I give
il Thee,
heard the call and say. Not 10 the
world
NY child but unto me- heard and
VIII obey
Here is loves offering TO my King,
Which a glad sacrifice. I bring.
Here is my heart. here - my heart.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-06

Never allow dead leaves 10 re-
main on your house plant They
should be cut of as soon as they APP
pear.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-06

Radishes. of which the native
country is unknown. were intro
dUced into Britain i'm 1854
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-06

When you say cigars-say Dutch
Masters 45-tf
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-06

Modern silk hat was FIRST worn in
England about 1910.
Wine output OF the world Is about
4.000.000000 gallons a year
Swi tzerland has Two women
judges.
Saddle horses were used by the
Ems Iish as long ago as 621.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-06
THE CLOSED DOOR
THEME OF SERMON
BY REV. GOFFENEY
Pastor of lions Evangelical
Church Appeals for Open
Door to Gods Heart.

The Closed Door" was the sub
ject of the sermon preached by Rev.
W Goneney at lions Evangelical
church Sunday morning The text
was based on the words found in
Revelations $3.50, Behold 1 stand at
the door and knock: if any man hear
my voice. and open the door. I viii
come i'm TO him. and Will sup with
him. and he with me-"
There is perhaps no greater illus
tration of Divine patience. than that
portrayed in the above text Christ
knocks at our door but if We open
not. ne does not leave us i'm sorrow
or disgust. If YOU called upon ac-
quaintances. and YOU knew that
they were at home. and were aware
of your presence. but refused to an
swer your summons. YOU would leave
their premises with the avowal upon
your lips. never 10 cross their TIRES
hold again.
Not so with Christ. althouSh
there is often sUfici,A cause at
hand. He knocks and receiving no
reply. he knocGs again as one who
will take no denial He comes with
+ a message so vital and important
I that He is willing 20 sacrifice His
/ dignity. standing there for days and
weeks. if only the message be de-
/ livered ultimately You have heard
+ the expression. eft is enough to try
I the patience of saint but Christ S
I capacity for patience is even greater
/ Take your own case for example
I l. o.
I admission before YOU even condo
/ scHded TO admit him We. like
+ some lazy servant imagined that il
we did not answer the knock. the
/ knocker would leave when ne was
weary. But here agaiu we misjudg-
ed the magnitude and the elasticity
/ OF Christ's patience
Christ Speaks.
: Christ not only knocks. he also
/ speaks II seems that when the
| door remains closed TO his knock
I ing he speaks in the hope that the
owner of that home hearing Hi,
Y voice and recognizing the one "a
/ whom il belongs and knowing the
mission on which he has come. wil.
I open wide the door. Will anyone
say that they have never heard thi.
I mysterious voice. Have YOU never
\ had time when you felt that God
was near YOU
/ "Assuredly YOU have You may
\ have missed their meaning altogeth.
\ err but they were there nevertheless
I times OF great sorrow or JOY. time,
when God had given YOU so much
/ and times when ne took from you
all that you possessed. time OF weary
sickness and unlocked for recovery
/ times when the world was sweet unto
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-06

Money makes the blind man see.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-06

Too many captains sink the ship.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Authors Works
and Their Ways

0ldoS duu GIduh NUiiio i1S
Pit" are among the selections from
American literature which Maxim
Cork has included in his list of the
worlds best literature that he plans
to make accessible to Russians
through translation. The proper
tion of books chosen from leading
nations is interesting, if not fiatter-
ing, to Americans: Belgium, 1,
Portugal, 2: America, 3; Spain, 8;
Norway. Z; Denmark, s; Sweden, 8;
England, IA: Italy, Is: Germany,
%, and France, 3d."
"The Bracegirdle," by Burris Jen-
kins, just published. is the intimate
story Of Anne Bracegirdle, one of
the famous characters of the Lon
don stage in the seventeenth CEN
tury. Anne, who was commonly
called "The Darling" and the
Diana Of the English Stage" was
a player at the Theater Royal in
Drury Lane. London. Her beauty
and generosity, her resistless charm
and force of character, endeared
her to all who came under her spell
high and low, rich and poor. The
butchers and hucksters of Clare
Market were her sworn protectors,
and the mobiles of the court her per-
sistent suitors. Even King William
himself paid homage to her daunt-
less courage and brilliant mental
qualities.
Stephen French Whitman, whose
new novel, Sacrifice" was reviewed
two weeks ago in The NEW YORK
HERALD, is in Paris at present with
plans formed for going in the near
future to the Italian Riviera, to
Florence and to Rome for the gath
ering Of color" to be incorporated
in fictional efforts which will follow
lis Sacrifice In Paris he has
gathered material ''for an old pet,
romantic comedy" which he wishes
to do soon. Going behind the scenes
of both the Comedie Francois and
the Follies Bergeres in one evening
he reports as rather a contrast"
Under the auspices OF the Poets
Guild of Christodora House on
Tompkins Square, New York, a Sc
ries of Poets Readings will be given
on Monday evenings. March 13, 20
and 27, and April 8, 10 and IL at
$3.50. Each poet will read his own
verse and will give talk on the
art OF poetry. The poets reading
in this series are as follows:
Charles Hanson Towne, March 13:
Edwin Markham, March 20: Miss
Margaret Widdemer, March 27;
Mrs. Marguerite Wilkinson, April 3;
William Rose Benet, April 10; Miss
Angela Morgan. April II.
Henry Wysham Lanier, whose
"A Century of American Banking
is reviewed in this issue. began his
work as history of the oldest
trust company. He found he had
stumbled into a wealth of material
that reconstructed in detail the life
OF that strange little town, New
YORK., in 1922, when pigs jostled
the pedestrians on Wall street and
Washington Square was a potter's
field. But New York was doing
business. When he finished Mr..
Lanier had written a history of
New York's banking with all the
background of conditions and per-
sonalities from which 1t grew.
The buttons announce for early
publication the fourth and final
volume of the series of THE Social
Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero,"
which Clayton Hamilton has edited.
with intrOductions and critical and
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

1t was III the united states tnat MS
merit found recognition, and Mer-
rick is one Englishman who Is ap-
preciative. Eighteen months ago an
american writing man in London
saw much of Merrick. The two
dined together frequently, and Mer-
rick. invariably insisting on doing
more than his share OF the enter
tanning, met protest with the laugh
ing argument: This is American
money"
THERE are still a good many
4 persons unacquainted with, or
inadequately acquainted with, the
stories of Leonard Merrick, and to
write about his qualities as an en-
tertainer is not to exploit an indi-
vidual, but to offer suggestion that
is very much worth while. To illus
trate:: Suppose you were travelling
and fell in with a group OF English
people, none Of whom knew any
thing about the tales OF o. Henry.
Would it not be the natural and
friendly thing to tell them what
they had missed, and to talk little
glowingly about "a Municipal Re-
port" and "An Unfinished Story
and "The. Defeat OF the City" and
"The Rose OF Dixie" although the
last named story is one that no
English person could ever possibly
grasp? 1t is exactly in that spirit
that the admirer Of Merrick button
holes you to talk about "The
Bishops Comedy" which one of the
most popular of living American
novelists considers the best short
story written in the last thirty
years. or THE Tragedy OF Comic
Song" OF THE Back OF Bohemia"
or "The Prince in the Fairy Tale"
Just in that way and not by reviews
or publishers advertising has Mer-
rick's American popularity been
made. Four or FIVE men are sitting
about a table in a club, or in the
smoking room OF a transatlantic
liner. or as many women lounging
in easy chairs on hotel veranda.
/ sf,b ~, ,~@ ;,x,Io~ -aono l. ;xr,r.o$o~;,r
Some one asks: Have you read
Leonard Merriek?"-and then do
you remember, in Conrad?" or do
you recall the day that Tricotrin
spent in London?"
IF Mr.. MERRICK had created no
! other character, Tricotrin, who
has been called the most delightful
bohemian in the literature of the
last two decades" would entitle
him TO distinguished place in con-
temporary fiction. Americans were
I the first to recognize the charm of
George du Maurier's "Trilby," that
tale OF the Bohemia OF Paris
in the sixties; and Americans
were the first to acclaim Trico-
! trim. TricOtrin before the war
lived up six flights of stairs, in
an attic of Montmartre He was
poet whose poems were imprinted,
just as his friend Pitou was a musi
elan whose music was never played,
as his friend Flamont was a painter
whose paintings were never sold or
exhibited, and as his friend La
jeunie was playwright whose
pieces were never produced. Tri-
cOtrin had an uncle. a silk manu-
facturer of Lyons, who wished the
young man to embark in trade.
That was to be his eventual fate.
But in the meantime he preferred
tc remain in his attic. dining on a
herring. Haunting his long hair and
his shabby clothes on the boule
wards, and building fine dreams of
fortune and renown.
4
tTHERE was one tale in which
Il Tricotrin was pictured in the
brief enjoyment of little prosper
ity writing a weekly Paris theat-
rical letter for a newly established
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
CHRONICLE AND
COMMENT
/ 1R. pHILLIps oppENHElN.

ViSltlng our shores, mas Deen
asked why he was not lecturing.
His explanation, Because I have
nothing to say" naturally elected
the retort. But that should not de
ter you." Allusion has already been
made In these paragraphs to certain
OF our lecturing English literary
visitors of the present moment, aud
also to the visits OF Thackeray and
Dickens. Let us not forget an
other lecturing visit that, just forty
years ago. really stirred the coun-
try. Early in 1882 Oscar Wilde.
sunfower and all, came over to tell
US all about department and to
warn us against the crudities OF
life.
"A RRIvING by the steamship Ari
zona, Wilde was met ar the
New York Quarantine by the ubi.
uuitous reporter and furnished
columns of copy for the newspapers
throughout the country the follow
ing morning. His first lecture, on
The English Renaissance" was de-
liverei at Chickering Hall. New
York city. He was attired in short
breeches and silk stockings, but he
did not carry the expected sun.
flower OF lily. OF the lecture a
writer in the New York Nation
said. "Mr. Wilde is essentially a
foreign product and can hardly sue
eeed in this country. What he has
to say is not new. and his extrava-
gance is not extraordinary enough
TO amuse the average American au-
dience. His knee breeches and long
hair are good as far as they go; but
Bunthorne has really spoiled the
public for Wilde"
T was in Boston that Wilde mad
the adventure that has eften
been retold. The audience at his
first lecture there was large, but not
exactly a representative one. 1t was
made up mostly of the curious, who
had been attracted by the announce.
ment that group of Harvard un-
siergraduates, dressed up in a bur-
lesque of the aesthetic costume, .
were to be present. The masquer-
aders waited till Wilde had reached
the platform and then trooped in in
single file. There were sixty youths
in the procession. and all were
dressed in swallowtail coats, knee
breeches. Rowing wigs and green
ties. They all wore large lilies in
their buttonholes, and every man
carried huge sunflower as he
hmped along.
CtIXTY front seats had been re-
~ served for the Harvard contin-
gent, and 20 general shout sof
laughter thew filed into their
places. The effect that they
wished TO produce was. however,
somewhat spoiled by the fact
that Wilde had for that oeca-
sion discarded his eccentric cos
tune and appeared in ordinary
evening dress. so that those of the
Audience to whom his usual appear
anee was not familiar entirely
missed the point that the Harvard
students wished to make. In addi-
ton. Wilde completely turned the
tables by proceeding with his Ice
ture with great dignity. He crowned
his triumph by Offering the Har
ward students a statue of Greek
athlete to stand in the Harvard
gymnasium.
~ me Mans View" is the recent
dudltlon 10 the new edition
OF the works OF Leonard Merrick
that is being issued, volume by vol
ume, by the Z. p Dutton Company.
While perhaps not to be compared.
with Conrad in Quest of HE
Youth" "The Position of Peggy
Harper" or "The Actor Manager,
"One Mans View" is a fine novel.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

got the big idea, the biggest l ever
had" was the burden Of all he had
to say for many day after.
~ URING Frank Norris's last year
~ in New York one Of his close
friends was Edwin Lefevre, the
author Of "Wall Street Stories" 1t
was at one time agreed that Mr..
Lefevre should revise the proofs Of
1.-THE Pit" in all the chapters relat-
ing to the wheat market. FIRE.
quently, at Norris's request, Lefevre
explained the intricacies Of stock
markets, and one night he found
himself launched upon a description
Of a panic. He pictured the pan
dem0nium on the floor OF the ex-
change, the groups Of frenzied, yell
ing brokers. the haggard faces of
men to whom the next change OF a
point meant ruin. Then ne followed
one man in particular through the
day. and showed him cropping his
way blindly out of the gallery
broken, ruined man. So far Lefevre
had told only what he had often
seen. But at this point, carried
away by the story. he invented a
dramatic conclusion, and told how
the man was SSH striding rest
lessly, aimlessly along the corridor
when the elevator shot past MIN
and some one shouted Down." and
the ruined man, his mind still bent
upon the falling market, continued
his nervous striding. gesticulating
fiercely and repeating. Down.
down! down." There you are!"
Interrupted Norris. ''That Is one of
the things that no novelist could
invent" "Yet," said Lefevre in
telling the story, 1T was the one
bit of fake in the whole descrip-
tion."
A 7 II years Of age Frank Norris.
a intending to be an artist, went
to France and enrolled as a student
in the "Atelier Julien" in Paris.
There he remained two years and
became absorbed not in art but in
chivalry. The reading Of Froissart's
CHRONICLES" was his daily recrea-
tiOn. He became SO imbued with
the spirit of medievalism that once
he pointed out an error in Scott's
"Ivanhoe" in which one Of the char
acters is described as wearing a
kind of armor that was not in use
until a hundred years later, mis-
take that was as obvious to him as
if some one to-day should depict
Louis XIV. in top Rat and frock
coat. 1t was in those Paris days
that Frank Norris began to write.
According to the author of Brass"
the early writing ventures we're
more to provide vehicle for his
illustrations than for any interest
he had in writing itself Thus it
was that Franks first novel, Rob
ert d'Artois.". was written.
THE rest OF the Norris family re-
J. turned to California, leaving
Frank to follow his art studies in
Paris. Correspondence between
Frank and Charles took the form OF
a novel written by Frank in which
all their favorite characters ap-
peared revolving about Charles, who
was described as the nephew of the
Duke of Burgundy. The story was
written in the second person, on
closely ruled note paper. 1t was
sent to America in chapters, rolled
up inside French newspapers, to
save postage. Every installment
/ was pr0fuSely illustrated with pencil
sketches, mostly Of Charles as an
esquire, man-at-arms, an equerry,
and finally as a knight. Plots and
episodes from the works OF Scott,
Stockton and others were lifted
bodily: sometimes the actual word
ing was borrowed. There was one
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

III me Mans View" is the recent
addition to the new edition
OF the works OF Leonard Merrick
that is being issued, volume by vol
ume, by the Z. p. Dutton Company.
While perhaps not to be compared.
with Conrad in Quest of HE
Youth. ''The Position of Peggy
Harper" or "The Actor Manager" /"
"One Mans View is fine novel.
for with the possible exception
Of The House of Lynch" or
''Lynch's Daughter" (both titles
have been used) Leonard Merrick
never wrote novel that was not a
fine novel. Many years ago DR..
flater Sir William) Robertson
Nicoll said. "A new book by Leon
ard Merrick is literary event. !"
Yet the English reading public. pre-
ferring Garvice and finding the in
tellectual stimulation 1t needed in
the London newspaper called the
Nescs OF the World, condemned
Nerrick to an existence only a little
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

"Cyt1erea, Joseph Herges-
heimer's novel, has been sent to
press for its seventh printing by
the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf,
making a total of $4,000 COPIES
since publication January 3.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

THERE was another member of
L the Norris family who should
not be forgotten. the brilliant Frank
Norris. who wrote "McTeague,"
moran OF the Lady Lefty The
Octopus" and The Pit" and who
died almost twenty years ago. when
he was barely beyond his thirtieth
year. The last two books belonged
to a trilogy, but he did not live to
write The Wolf," which was to
show the wheat that had been gath.
cred in "The Octopus" and sold in
1.-THE Pit" reaching its destination
in hungry Europe. Frank Norris
was an avowed disciple of Zola.
He insisted upon some great central
symbol that would bind a novel to-
gether into one firmly knit whole.
In "McTeague" the symbol is gold:
the whole book is filled with q
food of yellow light. "McTeague"
was a California novel, and gold
the most fitting symbol the author
could devise for that State. Later
he grew more ambitious. A single
State no longer satisfied him. He
wanted a symbol that would sum up
American life. His friends used to
tell of the day when he came to his
Office trembling with excitement, in
capacitated for work, his brain con-
eentrated on a single thought, his
STriology Of the Wheat" Il have
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

A NNOUNCEMENT has just been
"A made of the o. Henry Memo
rial Award for the short stories of
1921. Sixteen short stories were
selected by the Society of Arts and
Sciences. From these were eho-
sen, as the winner of the first
prize of $500. "The Heart OF Little
Shikara," by Edison Marshall. and
as winner of the second prize of
$3.50, "The Man Who Cursed the
Lilies" by Charles Tenney Jack
son. This department of THE HER.
AID Book Section will discuss these
stories and others in the collected
volume in a later issue.