New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-27

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LOVE BY Leonie AminoG, E. p Dpt-
I SEA wRAcK BY We're Hutchinson. CEN
ii snry Co.
IN 5SHE problem of being lady IN
81 il cult as avoiding the sin against
the Holy Gnost. Nobody knows
exactly what constitutes either;
8Aerefore, how shall VIC be saved? Now
i Europe though even there the old
4 aftainties begin to crumble around
fAe edge-you know where YOU are.
% many generations removed from
! lae degradation of toll, such and such
PASSPORTS from Burke and Debrett and
/ The Almanach de Gotha to Court or
county, and you are secure. 1t doesn't
natter bit what you do; Queen Bess
ssuld swear like q trooper and box
tae ears OF her maids of honor: Queen
Victoria might have g. liking for Land
seer or Hollands and tuck napkin
"a big as teacloIh under her third
chin; but they were ladies as indu-
eisably as they were queens, Just as
the maids of honor lost none of it by
acquiring 2 thick ear" Read the
e ,e~t ctHFthN VI ans pdCi II YOU WOulu
earn how substantial is real aristoc-
sacy; they could say it with bung-
starters ande the sanguinary conse-
\ auences would be none the less blue.
lney were the children of grace. yes
hsls OF election, They needed not to
Il make broad their phylacteries, nor
n nhe anise and cumin and mint at
II NE altar Of gentility, culture, taste or
ii h1y such minor deitios
II Inc lady as an ideal rather than a
r ssteriai being is almost purely an
4 american invention. She is not at ease
: Aon; unhappy creature, she must
H y fenned, or she is lost. And refine
H Aent--what is it?
lAecording to our most refined au-
L nors, it consists largely in an in /
n .sA'nie determination to call spade
L teaspoon, to ignore unpleasant facts.
Ma our authors are the most refined
b = the world, when they set out to be.
y mere is tradition, cult, a galaxy
them. Through and by Henry
ssmes the transcendentalism of nine
~ata century New England has been
ssaslormed to apply to manners and
ss'ai oDservances rather than morals
- ethics. And the lady is their
1 sadard and pattern.
Il
THIS galaxy Frances Rumsey is J
Il =. me latest star. 1t is bit diff |
~ 20 estimate her magnitude, be-
..se Ike the others, she surrounds
m.lseh with a. nebula Of vaporous
Il .asteuls--her style enfolds her meanings
il eyer unon layer of gauzy implica-
sAs ms is the accepted method. To
ssage the metaphor they make their
aal after the manner OF knife
ss s'M ' IN a circus, outlining the sub
II III sitn entering daggers Of phrases,
4 ~ hefer # truly skillful, drawing
4 t.r nv Kegrettebly, the victim some
i ,,a 'ss calmly removes from the back
isss ss'u leaving nothing but an empty
j o, 9ae feels that Miss Rumseyfs target,
4 Lacy Devon. the heroine of
Il f. sas, has thus escaped. Or was
Il vrs;.t Eyer anything but shifting
i viii she rs presented as a woman
II lSier passions nor principles /
Il asn a creature humanity possible?
i sss espsing that she is lady through
i al ail that she is capable of is
u ssssa On olfion for her own social adj
4 he r and a craving for beauty in
isr 81 ,t9,ufdings- parisitieai craving,
q ii mas noSereatiye impulse. only
+ Il. sensitive one. Deliberately she
i I'D ~. ~ 70 marry and does marry
+ 49,, ssss rich mar of her acquaintance. /
4 ne ..ssuro lnarily. he is depicted az low
il, rs 70 the last. What he nourisbed /
NJ. .0ye upon. heaven knowsl Her
/ n.y. ssofreetitude never modulates into
as,., ff,tn q intimacy even in the
.sss .'Ise bond Even though she pre-
esIs ann with q child the reader ean
Van 'appose that the infant must have
4 lsss II opagated by conversation, and
~ me most abstract nature.
sss;ssilsiy Olive regrets, selfshly. the
ass s's'i n Of her emotional equip /
ID .spat her attempts to repair them
I ia s4 s1sulaf Reaching for religion. i
4 ssa,s e pts TO ensnare the priest to
Sns has applied for help. But