The Washington times., 1922-11-01
BY CARNL FRINK,
A Flapper.
(Copyrixhted. Is2e.'by Cosmopolitan
News SerytceJ

(Copyrighted, I822,'by Cosmopolitan
News SeryiceJ
NORTH CARVER. Mass, Nov. !.
There is one thing to be gained
from conversation with Charles
Garland. After a few questions on
his part, and a few hating answers
on yours. you begin to feel that
everybody is out Of step but him.
Which is an opinion quite the re-
verse Of tie one you brought To-
April farm.
At least he makes you think, this
man has thought out the problems
OF life. Whether he is solving them
sensibly or not Is AN open question:;
at least he is thinking.
From the religious aspect OF his
isolation he went finally 10 the
political and social.
He started with another question.
Unless you consent 10 be interviewed
you will never get anywhere with
Charles Garland.
DO you" ne said, believe thai
the laborer should earn for the rest
Of us? DO you think 1t Is right for
the capitalist TO sit back and let his
money earn for him.
You humble a newly.born idea on
the subject and Garland takes an.
other hurdle.
Take n. p. the girl poet that
Alice told you about II she were
to sing her songs at the expense
of others. wouldn't that be depriving
the others from singing their
sonss?"
But not everybody was meant to
sing songs" I suggested. Not
everybody can"
We don't believe that" said Bar.
ley. We believe with X. P. that
everybody has 1t in him TO sing some
kind Of song. In most of us 1t is
crushed very early in life"
Patterned After Leo Tolstoi.
We talked of Tolstoi. the Russian
thinker and writer after whom Gar.
land has patterned his experiment.
Barley admitted with smile that
he had made the Russian count his
leader.
Only Barley has gone Tolstoi one
better. The Russian returned OF the
soil. he worked with the plow so rs
10 come nearer TO elemental truths,
he communal with peasants because
he envied them their simplicity. lie
abandoned the ease and luxury Vt
civilized life in order TO seek and
understand Christianity. but he
never gave up his title or his money
or his beautiful estate.
That was because OF his wife and
children. For their sakes. and be.
cause they wished IT, he kept these
things for them. And in the last
years of his life he allowed his fam.
lily to surround him once more with
the luxuries and care that he had
earlier given up.
Not so Garland. His wife and two
babies may shift for themselves.
They are not to be allowed to entice
the youthful idealist back to civiliza-
ton. That much. Garland Is sure Of.
Our conversation was interrupted
by the return Of Doris and Anna from
the fields. They had come in to clip
Dorrie's hair. which had been falling
Barley started out to North Carver
for the mail.
Wants Husbands Letter.
Don't you dare come back with.
out letter from my husband" Anna
sang out after him.
Dorrie had been wearing her hair
tied back with a barette. This, said
Anna, was entirely too feminine and
frivolous. Nothing would do but Dor.
rie must submit to the amputation
of her top notch"
towel was brought and placed
about Dorrie's shoulders and the op.
GRAFTON commenced.
Anna was terribly reckless with
the shears. slicing away at Dorries
top hair with utter abandon. When
she had finished she wet Dorries
hair and proceeded to train" Il.
When she was finished, Dorrie
looking a bit overplucked. resumed
her interest In the onion and potato
mess and Anna frolickcd out to the
carrots again.
1t was while was putting the
mess on the stove to cook that
saw a neatly typed motto tackled
on the wall.
Anna started a letter to her New
York husband.
"Renie's coming today--dd tell
your" Harriet interrupted herself
to remark.
oh" said Doris. ITO take you
away7"
Yes" said Harriet. I'm going
out on the Cape for a few days"
"Rut thought you were going
to stay here"
mot on your life," said Harriet.
IT am not 30 crazy about wearing
tar kimona. IL It's all the same to
you. Aren't you going to leave,
Anna7"
Il am not" said little Anna.
stoutly. I'm going to stay. And
only hope the Ku Klux Klan
mixes me up with Dorrie and gets
me instead of her. wouldn't miss
| Il for anything"