The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-27
David Had a Mothers
Love - Babe Ruth
and Abusive Fans
Hard to Write Sex
less Novels - Why
Fiction w ON en-
Wear Less Clothing
Value of Self Pos
session.

HE lived that life, he died that
life. Now let him be buried the
same way. I don't want his body"
Thus the father of the bandit
Seretoff. killed while robbing by
violence in the streets of Bridge
port How different would be the
language of a mother. Real life,
show the father often unreIenting,
harsh, cruel; the mother, kind,
forgiving, yearning, hoping and, at
the end, mourning, for her
Absalom. David. whose grief
made AbsaIom typify all erring
sons, had the maternal spirit. He
grieved like a mother.
Babe Ruth, having sustained an
operation for adenoids, has failed
in his batting, is irritable, disobed-
lent and again in trouble with base
ball authority. The fans are rid
ing him. There is no chivalry
in fan. He is there for blood.
The service of yesterday counts
nothing with the fan. The hero
does not perform, away with the
hero. It wouldn't be and it>would
not take long for civilization of
fans to return to the spirit of Ro-
man days, when fans cheered as
gladiators killed each other to
make a holiday. The operation
for adenoids is, in it's physical eff
fects, mingled with the Babes lack
of practice He may come back
Ruth jumped into the grand
stand with the purpose of beating
a fan who had roundly abused
him. This was fair. If There is
nobody else to protect baseball
players from grand stand abuse.
they ought to have the privilege
of doing 1t themselves. A few
noisy and abusive persons soundly
whipped and silenced would make
often are.
Dean Inge. of St Paurs. charges,
Wells, the British novelist, with
writing sensuous fiction. Wells is
not the inventor of sexless fiction,
but he has written more books
without sex interest than any other
English fiction writer. That is
difficult to do. The sex story is
easy to write. because everybody
Is Interested. Sex feelings is deep
seated, fundamental and universal.
The dean, though an able man,
hardly holds his own in the battle.
He asks If horses or authors are
most given to proniscuity. Wells
replies that horses are since
there is lack Of any sound form of
equestrian marriage. Promtscuity
is the first order of nature. Man
and some other creatures have at
tanned, in some instances, single
standard. These are the higher
individuals, taking them as they
run. Dean Inge is right when he
suggests that there should be more
of them.
Bernard Shaw plunges into the
same discussion. Dean Inge COM
plains of the way women dress in
fiction. Shaw replies, THE Vic
torian pretense that women had
no legs or digestion Is so exasper-
ating that women are being pro-
voked to strip off all their clothes
in fiction to prove their right to
adequate sanitary accommoda-
tons" Action and reaction are
about equal. Short skirts. and
shirt waists cut low, are more than
a protest. Modern dress is more
comfortable, and more scientific.
Nakedness is the original condition
of species The body is not i'm
modest Clothing may make it so.
If evil thinking is put on when the
garments are.
A bee buzzed into a motor bus.
The startled driver drove into
telegraph pole. Jury found against
him for $500. saying that driver
should have been more self pos
sessed. Boy of East Hampton,
Mass, hooked a trout of great size.
Tied his line to tree. and captur-
ed the eight pound treasure with
his hands This wasn't sportsman
ship. 1t was self possession Self
possession, readiness for the emer-
gency. is a valuable accomplish
ment, hard TO teach.