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New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

Ansi0-saxondom, ,, and Kuprin's bic
novel The PITT comporable -
sanine' for the sensation IL rro.+o1
mas mad to await the "now il "a, IA
'oid of a privste edition issued orl,,
10 subscribers. One thinp. a+ 1o.s+
must be said for this volume at tbo
ou'Se'' 1t Is an exceedingly handsome
pieee OF bookmaking, and will NOT dis
appoint the bibliophiles as so MANY Of
'hese private editions have done
The life of prostitute has a,vavs
Deeh favorite theme in fiction from,
the time when Defoe wrote "NolI
Flanders" John Cleland his "Fannv
HllI' and Provost his "Maron Lac
caut,' down to Balzac, Dumas fls
Aoia and the anonymous author Of .he
suppressed, and then restored "Mao-
deiene" of few seasons ago. Yet il
any one of these really satisfving as
an honestly objective characterization.
describing harlotry from what it is.
Just as other trades and professions
are described?
Defoe and Cleland may have been
faithfully realistic in their portrval
OF the sexual underworld of the Eng
land of their time, but the others have
undoubtedly succumbed to the glamour
with which this type of woman is in
variably invested in the eyes Of the
noveiists and playwrights. They can
no more see her as she is than the
lady visitors from the organizations
Tor the salvation of fallen girls.
They romantcize her as surely as the
upllfters evangelize her.
Even Zola, after documentinp him
self for his Mana" with naive solem-
nifty, projects into that book an amazing
figure. who becomes in the end a SYM
bol of that Second Empire whose dec
adence is the subject of the whole
kougon-Macquart series. Maupassant
could not eliminate heroics from "Boule
de Suif," though his "Maison Teller" is
a superb work of aloof irony. "Manon
Lescaut' and LA Dame aux Cam6liasn
of course, are frankly sentimental. and
1T is with an appropriate sense of
values that Kuprin shows us one of
the girls in "The Pit" becoming tear
fully indignant over the former.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
New Underworld Novel
By Ernest Boyd

vswA. {The Pit.) By Alexander Kupr,n.
translated from the Russian by r G
caeyney. Privately Printed. New York
isss.
LEXANDER KUPRIN is 7
"a fancy, one of the most extern
~ sively translated of the CON
Il temporary Russians. In 1916
No less than three volumes of his were
nublished in English--"The River of
life. "The Duel" and "a Slav Soul
then came SASHA" and "A Bracelet of
Carnets," two further collections Of
short stories, but that masterpiece.
The Duel" remained his only novel
available to the English-speaking pub
lie.
in their prefaces to "A Slav Soul"
sid "The Bracelet of Garnets," respec-
tively, Messrs. Stephen Graham and
William Lyon Phelps threw out dark
hints as to the carnalities of certain
works unfa for the chaste ears of
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

William McFee's stationery is in
teresting. 1t is yellow scratch pad
paper with his name in raised letters at
the top, like letters for the blind. A
communication before US gives his ad
dress as Erie Basin" The sheets Of
paper are exactly one foot in length
There are five pages of close and very
careful handwriting devoted to dis
cussion of the art Of writing. AS q
model Of advice to students of writing
Mac refers twice to John La Farge's
lectures on painting. His stand is for
"standards."
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
EO our notion the most interesting

NO our notion the most interesting
and entertaining book that has
come out of France in recent months
is Les Matinees de la Villa SaId: :
Propos d'Anatolc France" by Paul
Gsell. Gsell is a Partisan journalist
who wrote Robins art and who ap-
parently was always on hand on those
Sunday mornings when Anatole France
kept open house.
France, it appears, is as charming as
n conversationalist as he is as writer,
and with the miscellaneous assortment
OF friends who came to see him, cler-
icals and nihilists, savants and poll
tlclans, soldiers and artists, this great
man unbcnded beautifully, delivered
hlmself of wise and witty pronounce
ments, tried out apothegms he was
later to put into his books and tested
and gossiped and kidded his guests.
Gsell in his book has reported the
most interesting of these meetings, re-
corded what the master had to say in
style which is a good imitation of
Frances manner. Ernest Boyd has
translated this volume and it is soon
to be published by Knopf under the
title The Opinions of Anatole France"
an apt and abusive title, since Gsell
has played an excellent Tournebrouche
to Frances Coignard. Parts of Mr..
boyd's translation are being serialized
in "The Nation"
We haven't the Gsell book at han d
now and we haven't seen Mr., Boyd's
translation, but we risk translating
from memory a choice bit from the
book which shows the impish Jokes
france often INDUCES in. France and
visitor are talking about Rodin.
Did you ever hear how that statue
of Victor Hugo, by Rodin, which stands
IN the gardens of the royal palace
happened to be the way it is ?" asked
France. Here's the story: Rodn had
nodded an impressive figure CT Hugo
in clay. The sublime poet was stand
ing on crag. All sorts Of mermaids
H'N oeSdAIuS were ulSpOrLlng them
selves below him. Rodn had invited
number Of critics and journalists to
come to see it. But the night before
they arrived Rodin had left open one
Of the studio windows and, since a
terrific storm had come up during the
right, the rain had poured in on the
statue and reduced it to shapeless
mass. The crag had become merged
with the dancing divinities, and as for
the divine poet himself, he had slipped
down into a sea Of muck
"Rodin opened the studio door to
show in his guests, and in one glance
perceived the disaster. lie was about
to tear his beard in despair when he
heard behind him a tremendous chorus
of praise. 'Magnificentn 'Marvelousi
'ExtraordinaryH Master, you have
aimed to represent an epoch in which
only the inspiration of the divine poet
arises sheer and beautiful above the
general corruption!' 1T is a master
piece Of masterpieces you must not
touch it.' Rodin wonderingly asked,
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

IS 4 CREEK coIN run over by a
II Roman chariot" was Jack Lon
don's idea Of the physiognomy Of
George Sterling. Sterling is one Of
the spectacles early shown to all lit
erary visitors to San Francisco. He
certainly looks like something. Be
cause he has his books published by d
bookseller out there in, as he is fond
OF putting it, "the cool, grey city Of
love-" and they are thus not readily
available here, many who esteem his
work apparently do not know that he
is still going on. An unusual char
acter to be around o-day-Sterling
Hesitates to be published by big
Eastern house for the reason that he
fears his books might be "pushed.' -
He finds it horrible to think that an
advertisement might say that he is
"greater' than another. He hears that
publishers even expect their poets and
novelists to supply them with "items
OF interest" about themselves for the
literary pages. And he will go down
to "unwatered oblivion" before he'll
come to that.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Brine and Honey
By Peregrine Pickle

to our mind, is Oliver Herford. The
other day group Of visitors was
being shown through club here where
is death mask OF Richard Brnsley
Sheridan. Said ono: "And so that is
a likeness of Richard Brinsley Sheri-
dan. Why, never would have
thought it. How emaciated he looks.
| always thought of Sheridan as a
Jolly, gay, rollcking blade" "But you
know" remarked Oliver. "he wasn't
very we'll when that was taken"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

You really think so" Absolutely.
BY all means leave it just as it is!'"
1t is rare that man is so beloved
by his people that his birthday is OBJ
served by celebrations while he is vet
alive. David Pink, the Yiddish drama
tist, short story writer and editor. is
to be 80 honored on April 16, when
his fftieth anniversary is to be made
the occasion Of jubilee at the Hip
podrome. program of Mr. Pinski's
work is to be presented under the di-
rection Of Emanuel Reicher.
We have read the proofs Of "The
undertaker's Garland" by Edmund
Wilson jr. and John Peale Bishop,
which is to be published shortly by
Alfred A. Knopf, and we recommend
your watching for it. Perhaps you
read, as we did, Bishops narrative
poem in the current issue of "Vanity
Fair" "The Death of a Dandy" with
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

v-w% %ALKING with Harrington the
81 other day out in Indianapolis
n He seemed to have on the
same suit that he were when
he had his picture taken in 1918, the
picture on our wall. Loud checks. His
new book, "Gentle julia" will be out
about the middle of this month. 1t is.
he says, "short stories connected-a
Seventeen was.' He describes it as
american family life taken on the
lighter side-atfairs of people as inter
fercd with by the children in the fam
ily-instead of affairs interfered with
by plot authors plot He tells US
that "of course it isn't intended to be
novel in the sense that Alice
Adams is; nor, indeed, to be anything
except what it is most visibly." He
had just been to "Russian ball" at q
MOTEL there. Remarked: "The Russians
are wonderful people, and I'm sure
the travelling mon, lounging in the
lobby, thought So"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
The Third Person Plural

You really think so" Absolutely,
BY all means leave it just as it isp"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

We discovered out there that the
heroine of Nicholson's serial in a pop
ular magazine falls" in the next in
stallmcnt. This is the first time that
any Nicholson heroine has ever done
like that.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

A very entertaining book, a copy of
which came to us from Japan, is called
"Through the Torii,' by one Yone
Noguchi The author has published a
number Of volumes in England and a
couple have been issued at Boston. The
tori is an entrance-gate tower of a
Shinto temple. From this volume we
learn, among other things, how very
unsophisticated we have obeen in the
matter of drinking tea as fine art
AS follows:
say they sip the tea. do not mean
the black tea or the red tea which the
West I'm people drink calling 1t Oriental tse al
mile that it does not kin the taste OF
boiled water It IS the high art OF. The
water beside the taste Of the tea; ne Is
very particular about the water when he
is going TO make the tea am to!d that
mis- Keen tongue at once diherentietes the
waters from a we'll stream. He can
distinguish even the season from the taste
of the water. whether it be spring OF
autumn. He always laughs at the attempt
10 make tea with the ready water from a
screw in the kitchen, which most unpoet
icauv comes through the tube from GER
tain reservoir We do not call you a real
lea drinker when you only drink the
tea; you must really taste she lfasrahce fSin
tqa tree, which grew by accident and
fortune under particular sunight ana ana
must learn how TO sip the tea philosophical
": mean that you must taste, through
the medium of a teacup. the general at
better place than Kyoto. the capital OF
the medieval. to drink tea as a real tea
sipper.
The best bon-motist in New York,
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Continued from Page y

original in America; as being prod
uct Of the most delicately balanced
emotional and analytical mind we
have encountered, and as containing a
quality even more rare in poetry than
1T is in prose-authenti ircny.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

Miss Hnrsts ner0 volume, "The Yer
tical Cltv' (Harper), contains sin
sketches Of Varioas phases Of Ne1O York
life. They are: "She Walks in Beauty"
Back Pay," "The Vertical City,"
".Smudge," "GuiIty' and "Roulettc."
They are DEITY a0ritten, dramatic stories
by the Writer who aoeors the mantle Of
q. Henry aoith the most becoming grace.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

a feeling that here was a new poe.
who gave an effect of spontaneous
creation from a rich emotional SEN
sibility. It was the first narrative poem
we had ever read by Bishop, and we
were at once sure that in It he had
made a respectable claim for adm ssion
in the first ranks OF contemporary
American poets. And we were long ago
attracted by the fine vigor and clarity
Of Wilson's style and by the obvious
fact that he had something to say.
Melville, whose genius drew Types
Radiant as Venus from the sea,
Sits all forgotten or ignored
While haberdashers are adored"
That quatrain was published in tho
London Academy in 1885. Since then
there has been intermittent applause
for the author of "Moby Dick" on ths
part of literary men, which has finally
eliminated in an almost universal ap-
proval of Melville as n man of genius.
The authoritative biography has ap-
peared, Herman Melville: Mariner and
Mystic" by Raymond NJ Weaver. We
found it one Of the best written bioe-
raphles of recent years.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

Bill Benet's Eagerly awaited" novel,
now very soon to appear, has been
described by one who has read it as
"jazz on spinet."
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

Since this column was begun George
Barr McCutcheon has informed us that
.Wopps is dead. Got killed. Wopps?
The celebrated Harrington black poo
die
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

We have contended for a long time
without looking up the matter that if
anybody wants to look it up he'll find
that there have been more authors Of
the name OF More, or Moore, than of
any one other name. Thomas Moore,
Hannah More, Sir Thomas More. Sturgc
Marianne Moore, Paul Elmer More"
just to begin to name them.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
Who Wants a Good Dog?

Judge Lapham has again been
adopted by dog. Some years ago
small black dog belonging to Joe
Jacoby, of the Miriam settlement,
adopted the Judge and stuck to him
for a long time an finally had to
be killed owing to the infirmities or
cd age. This time the canine which
has taken a fancy to the Judge is
the large bloodhound which Finies
isbell brought back with him from
4 trip. The animal is very nearly
the size of a good big horse and has
an appetite which has not been ful.
ly appeased since he struch town al
though strenuous efforts have been
made to fill him up. The Judge at
first thought that it would be fine
thing to have so large an animal
following him around and took rath-
er kindly to the idea that the dog
h@ adopted him, but after several
vain efforts to satisfy the pups hun
ger, he decided that it would be best
to look around for some one to wish
him onto and the Judge Will almost
pay anything you might ask if YOU
will promise TO take the animal
away. The editor hereby wishes to
publicly thank Judge Lapham for
the consideration which the jurist
showed US when he offered us the
first chance to acquire this fine spe-
cimen of Kentucky bloodhound, but
owing to the fact that we have no
slaves to hunt up occasionally and
that our salary will have to be in
creased several times before we will
be able to support such a hypertro,
phiej brute, we had to decline, altho
we were sorely tempted to take him
and start him out on the track of
some of our delinquent subscribers.
However, if yOu want a dog that is
all dog, and one that will eat more
than a summer boarder. call Judge
Lapham, phone 60 for further par
ticulars as to conditions, appetite,
etc.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08

of little Importance because the bat
terry in normal service is called upon
to deliver cranking current for only
a few seconds at a time.
Broadly speaking, what is requir-
ed, is the capacity of the battery
concentrated in a short squirt of cur
rent delivered with a punch rather
than spread out in thin stream ov-
er several minutes.
ct he second consideration in
choosing the proper battery is long
life.
''In designing the Exide, no atten-
tion has been paid to how long it can
deliver current at a certain rate. This
is a non-essential quality in an au-
tomobile battery. Instead, every eff
fort is irected toward increasing its
punch" or cranking power and in
lengthening its life.
"The result is a battery that has
as much cranking ability and long
life as it is mechanically and scien-
tifcally possible to build into a bat
terry of it's size. Thus we have in
the Exide, an autombbila battery
without a fraction of an ounce of
superfuous weight or an inch or
bulk--a very important essential in
any automobile or accessory"
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
TO PUT
BELD|NG ON A
BETTER F00T|NG G
POPULAR LOCAL SHOE DEALER
SAYS FOOT COMFORT SER
VICE WILL DO 1T

Prominent physicians claim that
nine of every ten people have some
form of foot trouble. Large en-
ployers ascribe to this the fact that
most workers "slow up" perceptibly
toward the mid lie of the afternoon.
Our local shoe dealer, Nate Rosen-
baum, agrees that this is all very
true, and proposes to demonstrate
that it also is needless, or, as he puts
it, worse than needless.
His authority for this is DR.. VIM.
M. Scholl, the Chicago Foot special
for relieving foot troubles and COR
recting the cause are in use through
out the world. Hard pavements and
other present-day conditions cause
the bones forming the arches of the
foot to sag down, pro- ucing callous-
es, corns, tiredness, burning sensa-
tions and other discomfor,s. DR..
Scholl has proved that when these
bones are properly supported by ap-
pliances Of moderately springy me-
tai they gradually resume their nor
NAL position and function.
Next Monday there will be a spe-
cial demonstration of DR.. Scholl's
Foot Comfort Appliances at the Bel
ding Bootery. This will be conduct
ed by Mr. C. H. Shoop, graduate
lPractipedist foot comfort expert),
whose training was receive under
the direction of DR.. Scholl. He
wants to meet and serve every foot
sufferer in Belding during this dem
ons ration. He offers without charge
to thoroughly examine the feet thru
the hose, locate the seat of the troub-
lie, describe the nature of the dis
comfort and demonstrate the means
of correcting the cause. AS a result
you'll Likely hear most of Belding
talking foot" next week.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
LEADERS STAY
IN TOP PLACES

Present reports indicate that no
changes occurred last year in the
positions of the two leading auto
mobile manufacturers, considering
the o.al production of cars. AS was
the case in 1920, Ford ranked first
and Dodge Brothers second.
The total number of passenger
cars butt curing the year, accord
ing 10 an estimate published recent
ly by the Wall Street Journal, was
I,535, 900, as compared with 1885,
$50 for 1920
Commenting on the general con-
dition of the automotive industry,
Just prior to the close of the year,
the Boston News Bureau published
the following, which was subse-
quently confirmed by Dodge Broth.
ers:
Because it is privately owned,
relatively little in the way of fig
ures ever appears in print concern
ing the activity of the Dodge Broth.
eIs motor organization of Detroit.
Consequently its splendid and en-
phatic expansion in production this
year and the maintenance even in
recent weeks Of high output, which
makes it one of the conspicuous
bright spots of the industry, are not
generally known outside of the ira e
dodge Brothers in the third
quarter of this year ranked next to
Ford among the worlds automobile
producers, with a monthly shipment
record of better than IL 900 cars
This average is nearly maintained
within several hundred cars-in Oc-
tober, an unusual achievement in
this year of unsettlement and COM
petition in the motor industry.
Considering that production the
first quarter of the year was down
to 5000 cars less than one-eleventh
of the same quarter in 1920, and less
than any single months subsequent
production, that vitality that Is
Dodge Brothers, is apparent. The
company should end the year with a
final output of between 81, 900 and
$4,000 cars and probably hold its po-
sition as the leader of the industry
next to Ford. The heritage left by
the Dodge Brothers is thus being
spendidly upheld by the present
management"
1t is understood that Do;' ge Broth
ers finished the year with a total
production of 92,476 cars, which is
over $4,000 cars greater production
than the next nearest competitor,
not including Ford, thereby making
good the News Bureaus prediction
of Dodge Brothers continued leader
ship.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
BeLding Market
Quotations

Local buyers report the following
changes in the markets this week:
Eggs are now 36c anu were 35c last
week; Butter and Butter Fat remain
the same; the meat markets report
the following changes in meats, hogs
alive are &c, they were &c last week,
hogs dressed are &c more than last
week, they are now 12c; veal calves
alive are 1c more than last week,
now &c; hens are also higher, they
are now 24c and last week were 22c.
In the grain market wheat is the
only one that has changed since last
week and that is now $l.08 and $1.1O
and was $1.03 and $1.05. In the po-
tato market potatoes are bought for
$1.45 and $1.50 last week they were
$1.55 and $1.60.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
Selecting The Battery

'In selecting battery, said Clay
ton Steele. of the local Exide Ser
vice Station, zone must bear in mind
that its job is to give a short pow
erful turn to the engine such as a
muscular arm would accomplish on
the crank.
"This is better termed 'Cranking
ability which every battery no mat
ter how cheap, must have in suffi-
cient quantity to properly start the
engine. 1t is this starting ability
and not ampere hour capacity which
a car owner should demand in bat
terry.
whether the battery has the ca
pacity to keep turning the engine
continuously for IS or 20 minutes is
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
LEGAL NOTICES
STATE OF MICHIGAN


The Probate Court for the county
Of Ionia, in the matter of the estate
of Oscar F. Webster, deceased.
Having been appointed commits
sioners to receive, examine and ao-
just all claims and demands of all
persons against said deceased, we do
hereby give notice that four months
from the ninth day of January A. d.
1922, were allowed by said court for
creditors to present their claims to
US for examination and adjustment,
and that we will meet at the Belding
Savings Bank, Belding, Mich, in
said county, on the 9th day Of March
A. d. 1922, and on the 9th cay Of
May A. d. 1922, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon of each of said days, for
the purpose of examining and ad-
justing said claims.
Dated, Jan. 18th, A. d. 1922.
w. S. Lambertson,
f. w. Hellus,
Feb. 8 Commissioners.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
Fire Damages Home

Fire was discovered in the home
of Mrs. Zerba, Friday afternoon at
about for o'clock, by Guy Wright,
who, with his wife, make their home
with Mrs. Zerba. Mr.. Wright was
on his way up stairs when the fire
was discovered in the attic and
around the chimney. The alarm was
and telephone in the alarm. The fire
not got very good headway when the
put out with very little damage.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
Free Methodist Church Notice

The second quarterly meeting for
the Belding charge, F. M. church
will be held in their church COM
mencing Friday evening, February
10th, services as follows: Preaching,
by the Elder B. T. Hicks, Friday at
1880 p. M; Saturday at 2:30 and
1880 p. M; Sabbath Love feast at
1000 a. m, followed by preaching
and the Lords supper. Sabbath
school at 600 p. m. and preaching
at TOO p. m. III. d. F. Gaffin, pastor
Subscribe for the Banner-News.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
Our Evsr-chanoino Weight.

weighed in a delicate scale, II
would be found that your weight Is
a very tickle quality. If the scales
are delicate enough 1t would be seen
that the mere act OF stepping from the
platform and back entails loss OF
weight. The 'bntting" OF an eyelid
means an expenditure of energy and
\ consequent loss ~ weight.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
Third Annual Dairy Show

The third annual convention Of the
Michigan Allied Dairy Association
will be held in the Municipal Audi
torium, at Saginaw, from Tuesday,
February IA, to Friday, February II
A big program has been prepared.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08

Nearly everybody forgets a favor
but hardy ever anyone forgets a
wrong.
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08

FOR SALE-Some very best soil,
good location, Arenac county, S25
per acre. J. d. Warner, owner,
439 River street. 39-29-tf
The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
The Followers.

We follow the fashions and the bill
collectors follow us.-Galveston News.