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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-04
Sign Your Stories.


Dearest l:duor-Please cx .use my
par, 10 story. a. signed il ut the
bottom. Thank you ever so mach for
publishing my story. at least the first
and second parts. and / hope you will
not fail TO publish every part. as
there Is going TO be about six or
eight parts. hope you like 1t. and
! am wishing heartily that "Old Mr..
Wastebasket" won't get 1t.
am trying for prize OF SIS for
writing composition called Why
Richmond Needs Public Library
My teacher said that II any OF the
class got on the composition or IL
II was good enough to send in. she
would give us five more points at
the end OF the month on our reports
Thank you for putting my story in
That story by Pearl Fleiss Is n pip
pin. Your loving member.
ANNE JOHNSON.
Richmond. Va.
Write on This Side Only.
Dear Editor.-I suppose you are
willing TO gather back into the fold
little stray sheep. I have indeed
been one and have missed the L. D..
c. C. page for a Sunday or 80, bu: l
hope YOU will take me back "a n
member. since / was one soms while
ago, I've sent in several drawings
heretofore, and now have deci3cd to
change my art to literature, and am
sending story. Hope to soc in in
print. Your loyal member.
LUCY ROBERTS
CAGE 49,
Busy Member.
Dear Editnr.-plase excuse my blue
ink as l didn't have my black.
Please excuse me. as have been
very busy "a; school and have NJ:
written before Inclose you viii,
find drawing. in which do wish
will esCap: "Mr. and Mrs. Wastebts-
kct." Your member.
PHYLLIS BAUR.
age lG).
Il Is Fine Idea.
Dear Miss Witt am sending Ia
a drawing which hope YOU VIII,
print. am going to try and draw
series of Americas beautiful munu-
men's. Isn't this a good idea?
Wishing for the continued success
of the T. ID. C. c.. am,
Sincerely.
ELIZABETH VI. TANNER,
O-o .Not VI second street,
BadEc Received.
Dear Editor-I am sending THE
drawing. which / hope will be puh-
ilshch, rs this is my first drawing
please publish IT, Many thanks for
my badge received some time ago.
Your new member.
IVAN Il. MYERS.
Midlothian. Va.
Age Years
Glad iou Liked II.
Dear i;ditor.--Am sending in two
drawings which | hope to see In
print. was very glad 20 see my
drawing in the paper so early.
Your new member.
VIRGINIA MINTER.
5li North Twenty-fourth street.
City.
Age -.
busy with Lessons.
Dear Editor.-l have been so busy
with my school lessons that have
not hal time to write. I was glad
TO see by story in Sundays paper.
Love to you and all the members.
RHODA r.. WILKINSON.
sos North Twenty-fifth Street.
VIII send 1t soon.
Dear Editor.-I am sending some
drawings, which I hope you will
print son.
In January won prize. but |
have never gotten II. When are You
going to send IT, Sunday before
last you printed one OF my drawings
with my las; name left off. Will
try to contribute regularly.
Your member.
VIRGINIA LIPSCOMB.
3l23 Enslow Avenue. Richmond Va.
Praises Page.
Dear Editor:
have not written to tho club In
coma TINA. Will try today and
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-04

behold. II was fun OF jewels and
money. a sign on the box said, TO
one who helped an old woman" Mae
was happy as could be. Now she
could move mamma TO a better place,
and, best OF all celebrate mothers
birthday.
Mae said, 81 Will always be kind"
By GUSSIE SNYDER.
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-04
THE WREN.
Age, 10.

The wren is n very small bird which
you can hardly sec.
And he would rather build his nest
in house than in an apple tree.
lie jerks his little tail about
AS II II would help him to get his
song out;
He eats worms and bugs from the
farm.
And always does good and mover does
harm.
Composed by u
80 ~ ENDERS YOWELI.
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CHAPPELL wEISIGER.
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Puzzle and Charade Department
Jumblcd Names OF Great Mcn.

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O,hmsa ejfefsnor.
BY ELIZABETH LEE MILTON
lie was born in Westnloreiand
County.
He was born on February %. 1882.
He vas born in 4 rude log cabin.
with chimney at each end of it.
He was very truthful to his par
ents.
He was the first President o.
United States
For this he was called Father of
the States"
He was friend OF Lord Fairfax.
(Now guess his nameD
In jumbled letters:
Egoreg Awgsihuont.
Composed by ALYS RANSONE.
A Chnrndc.
My first is in q. but not in get.
My second is In r. but not In rot.
My third is in a. but not in after.
My fourth Is in Y. but not in york.
My NTH is IN L. but not in let.
My sixth is in o. but not In other.
My seventh is in c. but not in cat.
NV eighth is In X hut not in karat
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-04

BY MARGARET l.. GEE.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-04

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New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

IL; we lister respectfully to some re-
marks on the living quality Of English
prose from one who knows how to
write it; we are introduced to tho
Teruyian rlummies of tho Kirchner
Museum--and wc read always with
enjoyment.
Mr.. Douglas writes simply and
chaarmingly; he is Indifferent to Ingu-
istic gestures, but he has nice ear
ior words and cadences. His thought
is as unaffected as his writing; seldom
does he indulge In the luxury of epi-
grams, and when he does he usually
iiouts Wide by expressing more than
nait-truth. No one will seek for
,mIon,ety ,In OF error in ut is with pub
fishers az with wives: one always
warts somebody else's." And oniy
poets and metaphysicians will upbraid
MN Tor saying "metaphysicians arc
poets gone wrong"
But as in "South Wind" so In "Alonen
is tha characters which delight us
most There is none, perhaps, to equal
" sne more prominent inhabitants of
Napenthe, but there are several, sus-
creator. When l suggest that MI.
Douglas, not God, may have been d.
rectly responsible for Ramage or j.
o. M: hope / offend neither author
nor deity. The A. v. Ladders of this
world are the enemies Of boredom. and
Mr.. Douglas himself makes brief de-
iense of the introduction of phantasy
INTO iactaal narrative. What is this
question Of reality? Here is Crau-
amshor saHf informs us, toured Italy in
1879, carrying an umbrella and clad in
white merino frock coat, nankeen
trousers, large brimmed straw hat
and white Shoes" and thereafter set
dow. down a record of his journeying in
"The Nooks and By-ways Of Italy.|
This volume accompanied Norman
Douglas on his travels; the startling
figure Of Ramage walks through these
pages like pallid shadow, and ex-
tracts from "rhe Nooks" furnish a
kind of antiphonal chorus to Douglass
own observations. No one can doubt
If anything, too real. He Is m much i
realer than Mr.. Sumner or Mayor
Hylan; he is almost as real as the
Bishop of Bampopo. And so with J. O..
M, that ''man Of mystery and vio-
lence"; and SO with P. G., who, in his
cups, confirmed the old Latin epigram;
and so with Browne and Potter, the
only two Engllshman resident in Ole
vano, each fuming at the others pres
ence there and ignoring his existence,
but the one unable to survive the
others death by many days.
So with all of them, hate to believe
that their reality was ever delimited
by flesh. I resent any intrusion of
fact into Norman Douglass work. And
| shall continue to believe that one
of the best travel books ever written
is one that describes the sojourn Of
an African bishop on the island Of
Nepenthe, where south wind always
blows.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

epoch making book, Miracles and the
New Psychology" by e. r. Micklem.
IL ls, SO far as l know, the first time
that any one has attempted to inter-
pret the miracles Of the New Testa-
ment in the terms OF modern psycho-
therapy. True enough, Mr. Micklem
says In conclusion that "if we are truly
to understand the miracles of the New
testament we shall have to discover
the secret already at least partially reg
vealed to those who, singly or in
groups, make prayer the chief factor
in their health ministries" But from
his own comparisons Of the New Testa-
ment records of healing with the mira
cles which have been accomplished by
modern psychotherapeutic methods, we
know that essentially there is nothing
particularly remarkable about them,
The greatest lesson that such q book
should teach US is that almost all of
the superstitions Of our ancestors are,
Pin effect, valid. That girl may be-
cured Of warts by wrapping a handker-
chief around her hand, tying as many
knots in it as there are warts on her
hand, and leaving the handkerchief in
the road with the wish that the warts
be transferred to the one who picks
the handkerchief up is, as Mr.. Mick
lem shows, an attested fact. 1t all de-
pends, Of course, upon "that faith
which will move mountains" and that
faith is, basically, a credulity which
the more sophisticated among US will
have to regain If we are to be cured
by auto-suggestion, hypnotic sugges-
ton, psyche analysis or any Of the
modern methods Of psychotherapy.
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse;" had
its tenth birthday on the first Sunday
of this month, October. 1t was
founded and is still edited by HAIR
RIET MONROE, and has had large
part in making Chicago literary and
aesthetic center. All the leading poets
of to-day have contributed to it, and
many were introduced to the public in
it's pages.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

Not Quite Alone
BY Ben Ray Rcdman

Mcbride q Co, ~ ), we lister
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
Dickens as Drama Critic
By A. Donald Douglas

the fairiyiand Of Dickens to the world
OF men.
There can be no denying Mr. Wooll-
colts vivid interpretation of Dickens
as the thwarted actor. Il is not enough
to say, as critics say SO easily ard
often, that Thackeray is discursive.
whereas Dickens is dramatic Dickens
In not dramatic" just because he
founded his dramas on the principle
of conflict, between the bad and the
GOOD, the marble-hearted and the soft
of head. To be sure, the principle OF
conflict once did serve as the test Of
drama; but that was before Bernard
Shaw inaugurated his spring cleaning
Dickens, however, was rather dra-
matte IN the sense thai the fustian and
romance of the stage haunted his soul
even when he was reporting dull
speeches in Parliament on the
strength of letter written TO BARLEY,
of Covent Garden, he was given the
chance to demonstrate his ability az
an actor before Charles Kemble. When
the day came he wss laid up with q
bad cold and "an inflammation of the
face" SO passed his chance for the
stage. Soon afterward he. became
successful reporter, and then the most
beloved writer of the Victorian age.
Though thousands laughed over the
misplaced vocables of Mrs. Camp. or
dissolved into cataracts at the death
or little Nell, Dickens never rested
content in his role of novelist. Driven
by the devil of an exhibition mania, he
would give private theatricals, write
playDlils for conjuring performances
and read aloud his works before packed
and gasping houses of worshipful
Americans. To the end Of his life
Dickens was persuaded that life had
miscast him as q novelist
In spite of Mr.. Woollcott's engaging
| theories the unregenerate modern con-
tlnucs to find Dickens more theatrical
than dramatic For many Of us the
glare and bombast OF the Dickens
Punch and Judy exhibition do not light
! up the heart of the true drama. and
not all the Crummleses and Wopsles
and Curdleses AAn persuade us to the
conviction that~these perhaps immor-
| tai grotesques are anything more than
/ grotesques. The fantasies summoned.
up by Dickens are the most ingenious
| in our literature, though I find "Aiice
1 satisfying peepshow. Mr.. Wooilcott
wants US to accept Dickens as some
thing that for the lie Of US we cam.
not believe Dickens to be--a serious
critic Of the drama. After all, the
| gargoyles on No.re Dame are none the
! less exciting for being just gargoyles.
/ Mr.. Woollcott may be right, but how
can we others possibly tell when
| Dickens's pronouncements in no case
| concern themselves with the core and
architecture of such plays as Lear
and Faust" and "The Trojan Wom-
en-? None the less, we are very CRATE
full to Mr.. Woolicott not only for the
exhumed letters, but even more for
the lucid style in which his theories,
| however curious, are clothed.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
mr., DICKENS GOES 70 THE PLAY. g
Alexander Woolleott. pntnnru.s

FAht. iPAAhG WOES III IHE PLAY. by
Alexander Woolleott. Pntnhru.s.
TWSo MR.. ALEXANDER wooLL-
CoTT, slippered and recumbent
before his Christmas hearth.
there probably appeared the
shade Of Charles Dickens in
the pleasing apparition of cricket
commanding that Mr., Woollcott take the
younger workers in the theater sby the
scrufTs of their necks and set them
down at the feet OF that Englishman
who wrote of the theater oftener and
with more insight than any one else In
his century or ours
AT least we may so picture the initial
impulse whereby Mr.. WoolIcott was led
to undertake the pious task of enshrin-
ing Charles Dickens as high dra.
matte critic and Of affirming on his
own authority and the collected writ
ings of the great Victorian that Sim
plicit in that record is some of the
best dramatic criticism in the lam
guage." Therefore, Mr.. Woollcott has
assembled private correspondence, most
notably the letters to Macready. He
has exsavated bill posters and docu-
ments moldering in libraries. He has
extracted scenes from novels.
To this unique amalgamation he has
added two delightful chapters of his
own and conscientious editorial su-
has presented not only for the inter-
est of confirmed Dickensians, but also
to prove his allegations of Dickens's
Importance as dramatic critic. Even
II he has not established this surpris-
ing inversion of critical values he has
at least spared many readers the formi-
dable trouble Of searching through
the collected works for scenes devoted
to the play.
Stripped of their content, these or
phaned instances appear mysterious and
fragmentary to any one who does not
perform the annual duty of reading
all over again the interminable novels.
Mr.. Woollcott, however, does not SO
much address himself to the ignorant
modern as to the generation familiar
with every quip and handspring Of
speech and distortion of body in the
huge gallery of Dickens characters.
We can imagine the girth Of Mr.
Chesterton distended to an even more
generous amplitude the while he quaffs
bottomless fagons to the memory of
his master novelist. With an equal il
more tempered pleasure we can imagine
the puzzlement of any one stepped in
Hauptmann and Ibsen at Mr. Wooll-
colts assertion that Hamlet's advice
to the players (Which may, if you
please, be simple realism) anticipates
the doctrine Of naturaiism. If by
naturalism Mr.. Woollcott means hold
ing the mirror up to Nature, we may
indeed, agree; but if by naturalism
any one not Dickensian means the
revealment Of the heartless mechanism
of nature and the illusion of hu-
man destiny, we may merely wonder
at the vagaries of readers who prefer
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
N. S. Mckee

huneker, came in this afternoon, and
/ began reading them ON the streetcar
going home and read them steadily
until ! o'clock in the morning. 1t ia a
fascinating collection of letters by one
OF the most interesting correspond
ents Of our time, vigorous, insatiably
curious, impressionable and valiant
spirit. who did more than any other
one man to acquaint America with
what was going on in the arts Of Con-
tinental Europe. This collection OF
letters is decorous selection of let
ters to men with whom Huneker was
not on the most intimate terms or for
whom he had repressive sort of re-
spect. For that reason they may give
wrong impression Of the sort of cor
respondent he was. Another volume,
to be printed in limited subscription
edition, will contain letters showing
another aspect of his personalisy-the
convivial, human, gossipy, anecdotal,
erudite "Jim the Penman" known to
his beer-drinking friends and admirers.
SUNDAY. OCTOBER s
Read all day. Finished the collection
of Huneker letters; read "Prejudices:
Third Series" by III. L. Mencken; "The
Love Legend" by Woodward Boyd; !;
"The Boy Grew Older" by Haywood
Broun, and "Confessions Of a Book
Lover" by Maurice Francis Egan. In
his chapter on "The Poet and His Art"
Mencken says of Shakespeare: ~ won
der what he would have done with
prose? I can't make up my mind
about it," He could have found out
readily enough II he had taken the
trouble to read almost any one of
Shakespeare plays. A good two-fifths
of them are in straight English prose,
and q very good, racy, lucid, colloquial,
happy prose it is. If Mencken should
open "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
to almost any of Ford's speeches he
| would have found prose to delight his
heart, Menckcnian prose, Lardnerese,
II don't get your drift" prose.
My wife and I went tc the dress re-
hearsal Of "R. U. R." at the Garrick.
1t falls between two schools: sheer
melodrama and thesis drama. 1t has
its moments as thrilling, almost. as
"The Cat and the Canary" as, for in
stance, when the robots converge
stealthily upon the last remnants of
humanity; but it is neither profound
nor hair-raising as dramatic whole.
1t is full Of bad logic. A feminine
robot appears out Of nowhere to save
the world from absolute animate ex-
tinction; robot is dissected for no
reason whatever; after years Of turn
ing out robots and even after expert
menting with and altering them, the
scientists who manufacture these
Frankenstein monsterssaare at loss
when the formula has been destroyed.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9
l read to-day what seems to me an
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

Woman's place in the
family and in the world,
has, strangely enough, occu-
pied the attention of three
novelists this fall and their attitudes
are as diverse as they are interest
ing. To anyone who has read MIR. A. S. M.
Hutchinson's new book, Margaret Banning's
SPELLBINDERS will come complete reversal
of the picture. Mrs. Banning's scene is the
Middle West and she shows without attempt to evade the
disturbing facts the effects and his wife of
mans public career. SPELLBINDERS brses with contro
In spite Of the difficulties that beset the today
Mrs. Banning does oresee disaster for the who
to take her place either in political business e In
sharp both Of these books Richard Bakers THE
VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS which presents with hne
honesty the picture of girl who must either break with her
mother for the she wants settle down to family sev
ude. Unexpectedly her father, BIZARRE ironc humorous
genius has been watching the Mothers instinct
gradually devo his daughter to her aid The story
is remarkable for its admirable e~==@--~m--.N
understanding and living portraits MvMNeyWNGs
and for fearlessness of thought 1EA@a@wAwZxAaa
about the family bonds that are 3Me!@s@lxWSTA
usually overlaid with sentimentaliy.
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1922-05-24
SITE
TO Be SELECTED
+. HERE next WEEK

The board of trustees Of the state
l. o. o. F. lodge will meet in Devils
Lake on Wednesday of next week for
the purpose of carefully going over
the several sites near the city offered
its location, water supply an dali ma
tural advantages will be taken into
consideration, and if a site can be
found here that is satisfactory, same
will be accepted, otherwise it is plan
ned by the board to locate the home
at Velva as a second choice.
The local lodge has secured opt
ions on several tracts of land near
this city, according to Ole Serumgard,
one Of the members of the board, and
he is quite sure that the board will
experience very little trouble in get
ting something that meets with it's re-
quirements in every detail. It is
understood that construction work
will start almost Immediately after
the site is chosen.
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1922-05-24
JUDGES SELECT
LAKEWOOD AS
NEW PARK NAME

Hereafter the City Park will be
known as Lakewood" that being
the name selected by the judges in
the Kiwanis name contest last Mon.
day evening from the several hundred
suggestions for a new name that
have been pouring into the office Of
Secretary Cunninghom during the
past ten days. The Judges who were
unanimous in their selection were Mrs
F. P. Mann, Mrs. Earl Mann, Mrs
Verna Veitch, Mrs. Ed. Cunningham
c. E. Gray and Sivert Thompson.
The names were given the judges
without the names of the contestants
and the name was selected on it's own
merits. The winner was found to be
Mrs. Mary E. Holmes Of 703 third
street, and she will be given the prize
of $40 offered by the Kiwanis Club.
Several other contestants had also
offered the name of Lakewood
but according to the rules of the con.
test the first person suggesting the
accepted name gets the reward. Each
suggestion was dated as it came in
so that all may have an equal chance
of winning.
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1922-05-24
C0NTRACTSLET
FOR ROAD WORK
IN RAMSEY co,

Although Ramsey county has prid-
ed itself during the past few years in
the amount of work done on the prin-
cipal highway running within its
borders, the end is not yet, and con-
tracts to the amount Of $48,230.04
were let on Wednesday Of last week
for work to be done during the coming
summer, when bids were opened at
the office Division Engineer John A,
Wallace in this city for the state
highway commission. The contracts
provide for the following work.
Grading on Federal Aid Project
No 1855 running south Of this city
towards the Narrows, to Thomas
Young & Son, and the metal culvert
contract for the same project was
let to the Northwestern Sheet & Iron
Works of Wahpeton. ...
Grading for Federal Aid Project No.
149 running past Bartlett, to w. H,
Noel, and the metal culverts contract
for this project went to the Russell
Grader Mfg. Co.
w. H. Noel received the contract
for gravelling of Federal Aid Project
No. 10, running from Devils Lake
east through Crary.
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1922-05-24
EXAMINATION 71';;;i,i'' Society
FOR POSTMAST-
Err ON June IS.

The United States Civil service
commission, at the request of the post
master General, announces compet-
titive examination for postmasters in
this city.
This examination is held under
the Presidents order Of may 10, 1921,
and not under the civil service act
or rule.
Competitors will not be required to
report for examination at any place,
but will be rated their education and
training, business experience and fit
ness.
A candidate for this office must
show that for at least three years
he has been engaged in occupation in
which he has demonstrated ability to
conduct the affairs Of business to
the extent required of postmaster Of
this office.
To be eligible for the examination
candidate must actually reside within
the delivery of the office, and must
have been such resident for at least
two years next preceding date of
examination, must be at least 25 years
of age, and shall not have passed
his 65th birthday on date of examina-
tion.
Apply to the secretary of the board
of civil service examiners at the post
office in this city or to the U. S. Civil
Service Commission, Washington,
D. c., for application Form 2241, and
Form 2213 containing definite infor-
nation in regard to the examination.
Applications must be properly ex-
ecuted on Form 2241, and filed with
the Civil Service Commissioner, WASH
ington, D. C. prior to the hour of clos
ing business ON June 13, 1922.