The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-23
BY JOSEPHINE VAN de oRIFT
NEA Service Staff Writer.


NEA Service Staff Writer.
M1DDLEBORO, Mass. Oct. al have
spent night under the roof Of Charles
Garland. 23-year-old millionaire. who
J gave up fortune wife and children in
order that he might be-himself
His remit retreat is a reconstructed
hen house. divided through the middle
and equipped with stove, a table. a cot,
a desk, lamp and a typewriter
i Here is the oddly assorted family
which is seeking to wrest happiness out
Of Garland's tumbeddown farm seven
miles out from this picturesque little
town:
Carland-tall, clad in heavy wooden
shirt, khaki trousers, wooden stockings
and moccasins; a little shaggy mustacn.
betraying cleaning white teeth when he
smiles.
Doris Benson-foster sister Of Garland
sturnily built, hair cut short, clad in
Knockers and a blue sweater
I Alice Edgerton-frend of Doris and of
I Garland, blond braid down her back, clad
In Knockers and green blouse, and using
the soft thee" and thou" OF the
QuaheIs.
There Was Laughter.
I a. L stumbled across the darkness the
lights from the reconstructed chicken
4'C-t- = Sl4Oitt " d. III anu NtIlb" y blJnG
girl was sitting the cot and hugging
I've: knees contemplatively. \ tall dark
man was reading something out OF
book There was laughter. They greet
ell me kindly.
y III folks would only get to know US,
said the Quakeress.
! AS wo sat and talked Miss Edgcrtou
4 suddenly said:
! Hast thee been fed"
! And so while some argued and others
! listned. she built Il brisk little fire in the
range and piled me with hot chocolate
and soup left from supper, and fresh
I brown bread. These persons who have
figured so in the news are just like
other persons, it seems, only, perhaps.
a little kinder.
over on the couch Doris Benson con-
tinued her contemplative stare.
She's thinking about gas engines"
explained Miss Edgerton. Barley Uhe
family name for Garland) was explaining
| the car to her all afternoon but she can't
get it through her head" Doris WAS
contritc.
! Garland smiled at her indulgently.
Every few minutes he would reach over
! to light fresh cigaret from above thu
/ lamp. Behind the lamp were two rows
! OF books, all the dialogues Of Plato. all
the works of Tolstoy, Wells Outline
| OF History" The Outline Of Science
volume Of Ibsens plays. a work OF
Edward Carpenter. other books combin-
ing poetry. history and science
Between cigarets Garland leaned bac,,
in his chair offering occasional obserYa-
. tons
Jung and Freud and the r,zt were
given 10 interpreting everything through
the medium of sex" he said. He didn't
know but what some other medium
would do well.
He hadn't read "Ter;iUm Orgauutn''
but meant to. Understood it WAS
meaty book. He wished more people
would read Edward Carpenter
Once he jumped UP TO get Webster's
definition of pathological Then hc led
an animated discussion as to the exact
relation between pathOs and disoas,.
Afterward he took Il volume 81 poems
by Edna St Vincent Mllay uHa,r his
arm and went to his bed in the BARI
Women Seeking Happiness.
The two women told me shey re seek
ing happiness through this venture OF
shaking off the trappings Of city life
and living simply and plainly and close
to the soil.
Though shy and wistful Doris Benson
vigorously denied that she agreed
wholly with all Of Garland's theories.
Anyway" she said, each person has
to work out those things alone. What
want to learn just now, though. IS TO
be good farmer"
Alice Edgerton was likewise anxious
TO learn to be a good farmer as part
of the pursuit Of happiness.
Almost as picturesque as GaTland's has
been the career Of this friendly-eyed
young woman who for two years has
lived without money. Her clothing has
been OF the simplest. one skirt, two
middies. and the plalnest Of other gar
ments. Recently she has substituted
Knockers for the skirt
Her policy has been TO work wherever
she was needed. in shop, hospital or
home. and to ask for such simple things
as supplied her wants. Holding such
IDEAS it was natural that she should
gravitate eventually TO the habitat OF
Garland, where she has been living
quietly for several months until the de-
parture Of Garland's wife for Europe
again called public attention TO the mil
lionaire philosopher.
AT first she said. my idea was
just to give what l could TO others. But
then / found out there is something big
ger than giving-and that is sharing.
And 50 the night wore on. She drew
out Of the desk a little notebook Of
poems which Garland had written. Some
u them savored remarkably OF Walt
Whitman. although Garland. she assured
me- had not read line Of Whitman IN
iii recently.
Eventually we. too. turned in and the
asst yellow light was blotted out in the
little reconstructed chicken house where
drama of considerable proportions is
being played.
A kitten, until recently q derelict Of
he Boston streets, went 70 sleep on the
DOT Of tho bed.
Copyright. 1922. NEA service)