Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-15
Golf, the Great
Leve1er, Rides Roughshod
Over Russian Literature.


ship and come p the moment when
at the annual ball In aid OF the local
cottage hospital, the only occasion
during the year on which the lion,
so to speak, lay down with the lamb
and the golfers and the cultured met
on terms Of easy comradeship, their
differences temporarily laid aside-he
proposed to Adeline and was badly
stymied.
That fair soulful girl could not see
him with spyglass.
''Mr. Banks" she said. Il will speak
frankly"
charge right ahead" assented
Cuthbert.
Deeply sensible as am Of ."
81 know. OF the honor and the
compliment and all that. But. pass
ing lightly over all that-er-guff.
what seems to be the trouble? I
love you to distraction.
Love is not everything"
you're wrong" said Cuthbert
earnestly. you're right OF it. Love
." And he was about to dilate
on the theme when she interrupted
him.
IT am a girl of ambition
and very nice. too said Cuth-
bert.
st am a girl Of ambition" repeated
Adeline. land I realize that the full
fillment of my ambitions must come
through my husband. 1 am very ordi-
nary myself 80
What" cried Cuthbert. YOU ordi-
nary? Why. you are a pearl among
women. the queen Of your sex. You
can't have been looking In a glass
lately. You stand alone. Simply
alone. You make the rest look like
battered, repaints."
WELL" said Adeline, softening a
trife. II believe I am fairly good
looking. ."
Anybody who was content to call
you fairly good looking would de-
scribe the Tai Mahal as a pretty
nifty tomb
But that is not the point. What
mean Is. If I marry a nonentity.
shall be a nonentity myself forever.
And I would sooner die than be
nonentity.'
And. if follow your reasoning,
you think that that lets me out?'
We'll. really. Mr.. Banks. have you
done anything or are you likely ever
to do anything worth while:"
Cuthbert hesitated.
TITS true" he said. II didn't finish
In the first ten in the open and l
was knocked out in the semi-final
Of the amateur, but I won the French
open last year.
"The-what?"
THE French open championship.
Golf, you know"
Golf! You waste all your time
playing golf"
Waste" faltered Cuthbert.
II admire a man who Is more
spiritual. more intellectual" pang
of jealousy rent Cuthbert's bosom.
Like what's-his- name Devine?" he
said sullenly.
"Mr. Devine." replied Adeline. blush
ing family. sis going to be great
man. Already he has achieved much.
The critics say that he is more Rus
sian than any other young American
writer"
"And is that good?"
"Of course it's good"
IT should have thought the wheeze
would be to be more American than
any other young American writer.
Nonsense! Who wants an American
writer to be American? You've got
to be Russian or Spanish or some
thing to be a real success. The man
tie of the great Russians has de-
scended on Mr.. Devine."
"From what I've heard of Russians,
I should hate to have that happen
to me-"
There is no danger Of that" said
Adeline scornfully.
"Oh. we'll, let me tell you that there
is a lot more In me than you think"
That might easily be So"
You think I'm not spiritual and
Intellectual said Cuthbert. deeply
moved. VERY well. Tomorrow !
Join the literary society"
ryEN as he spoke the words. his
T. leg was itching to kick himself
for being such a chump. but the
sudden expression Of pleasure on
Adeline's face soothed him; and he
went home that night with the feel
ing that he had taken on something
rather attractive. 1t was only In the
cold gray light Of the morning that
he realized what he had let himself ,
in for.
do not know II you have had any
experience Of suburban literary So
cieties, but the one that dourished
under the eye Of Mrs. Willoughby
smethurst at Wood Hills was rather
more SO than the average. With my
feeble powers of narrative, cannot
hope to make clear to you all that
Cuthbert Banks endured in the next
few weeks. And, even If I could.
doubt II should do SO. 1t Is all very
we'll to excite pity and terror, as
Aristotle recommends. but there are
limits. In the ancient Greek TRACE
dies II was an iron-clad rule that all
the real rough stun should take place
off-stage. and shall follow this ad-
mirable principle. It will suface II
I say merely that J. Cuthbert Banks
had a thin time. After attending
eleven debates and fourteen lectures
on vers libre poetry. the seventeenth
century essayists, the Neo Scandinav-
ian movement In Portuguese litera- |
ture, and other subjects Of q similar
nature. he grew SO enfeebled that, on