Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-19
YOUNG AUTHORS GIVEN
{ SOME DRASTIC ADVICE.
Charles Norris, Who Wrote Brass, Says 'Sct Fire to
All Your Ships, Resign Your Posi-
ton and Write,''
ny tho Rnok Worn,

~ you personally wahtJto discover
America for yourself by motoring
ii,,i New York to I>os Angeles. Nina
WILCOX Putnam youches for It that
you can do u by following the path
OF Marie I.a Tour In West Broad
way" Consider how pleasant an i'd
.dition West Broadway" would be
TO tho usual store OF road maps ana
guido books. Not to mention get
ting your directions In Maric's pic
turcsgue Language. Her earlier Jour-
ney from Avenue a to Riverside
Drive must have been an oven more
dramatic story. Perhaps Mrs. Put
nam. may still tell 1t. Certainly In
these days of fevcrish revelation
Marie's domestic probities should
have healthful influence at Holly
wood.
Gertrude Athertons thirty-nrst
novel. sleeping Fires" appears
simultaneously with a new edition OF
THE ConUucror." her famous story
of Alexander Hamilton. Her bound
less vitality is unchanged This is
story Of the days when "thc hot
little city Of San Francisco was the
last stronghold Of the aristocratlc
Southwhcn Alexina Groomc's grand
mother was still IL social arbiter,
when manners aud customs were
very different, but men and women
not 20 inherent. In those days Made
leine Talbot loved Langdon Masters,
who was expected to add more glory
to san Francisco than even Bret
liarte has bestowed upon her, but
MADELEINE Talbots HUSBAND found
out. An old. old situat ton. but Mrs
Atherton's solution liz not old am
not sure that any woman OF Made
leine Talbots caliber ever lived such
a solution, but l am quite certain
that no novelist has EiveD this par
ticular twist to the story. And who
else could ever describe so deliciously
tho precious inauiarity Of that carly
san Francisco? Crawford might have
pronounced Judgment as seriously.
Hfar Mrs. forba: We may no lon
Ger have II In our power 10 punish
Mrs. Iangdon Masters. burt at least
we shall punish others who violate
our code. even as we have done In
tho past. San Francisco society shall
always be a model to the rest OF the
world"
Advice TO Young Authors.
Charles Norris. author OF "Brass."
and husband of Kathleen. gives dras-
tic advice To some young authors.
set IRE TO all your ships. sell out
your business. resign your position
do th!s-no matter how many other
people are dependent upon you
nothing on Gods green earth can
stop you It's good advice. II you
go after anything with all tho energy
OF your heart and mind ana soul
particularly II you know you have
TO Ect II In order to eat again-thc
chances arc you will got II. Never
theless. " you can-have your con-
Migration before you have your de-
pendants. 1t Will he 80 much pleas
anter for the dependents
In a Tiny book called "Cotswold
Characters" John Drinkwater. au-
thor of abraham Lincoln" Describes
some OF his neighhors In the Cots
wolds. lie says: The country bred
great race Of masons and the stock
has never died out am myself the
tenant OF small cottage on by
way that Is passed by stranger
hardly once week. II is four rooms
big. Eighty years ago two Of them
were built by local craftsman, who
knew neither better nor worse than
his ancestors nearly 800 years back
Ana then ten years ago my present
landlord added the other two. and
ne again worked with the same un-
questioning and perfect mastery"
In the Cotswolds nothing short OF
two generations OF unbroken tenure
constitutes native rights. Settlers. ~
only from the next parish. are for
cigners. and openly called so. For
casual pass -the-timc- day ac1uaint-
ance, even for Reighborly talk. this
is no particular disability. but II you
como with the intention OF carrying
on business, you arc likely to be dis
M
years residence there, jumped into
the lock to die with his dog. his only
e-iend. and ThcsiGcr Crovne. undis-
puted native, remarks philosophical
~ ~ bad job that. Rufus Clay. These
foreigners do never learn their way
about"
Liberal Re-EducntIon
There liz danger IL you follow Cor
nel!a Stratton Parker's example OF
the only real way TO discover the
thoughts OF the working sirl-name-
w by becoming one yourself-that
some day when you return to your
friends you may startle your hostess
by remErking. "She amt livin' n.
thpt address no more In candy fac
tory language your abashed excla.
nation would be. "My Gawdw but
your hostess glance at her husband
couio only DC interpreted, What t.
did we ask her for anyhow" Eng
lish. as Mrs. Parker reveals IT to us
in her Working With the Working
Woman" Is liberal re-education, tho
more SO as Connie Parker" found
these girls at heart surprisingly like
girls she had always known.
:, On her adventures In search OF what
working women were really like.
Connie Parker" acquired large
green earrings, a large bar pin OF
platinum and brilliants ($L7e), a
Eoldy box OF power 1.-TWO shades), n
lip stick. green o-shanter,
faded sufficiently so that It would
not look new; blue serge dress
{original cost 800 and saved from
the rag bag for the purpose; n pair
OF old spats. which just missed being
mates as to shade and with a button
I'v-f one. silk stockings very much
darned, a blue sweater. an orange
scarf. and last. but not least-chew-
ing gum. She knew the imitation was
successful when Lena, with n nudge
In the ribs. asked if she had ~ feIIa."
Mrs. Parker's eloquent glance in re-
ply was instantly and correctly in
terpreted by Lena. What do / think
II, AL