San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

I game was finished retrieve the check
and tend.> the winner cash.
III. G. NNitwer deserted New York
some time ago to live in Southern
California. He comes East about every
three months. Before coming he wires
a certain hotel on Central Park West
for reservations and demands they
have a few candles in the room. He
has a horror of New York suddenly
becoming lightless. What bright idea
that is,
Meredith Nicholson. the Hoosier
novelist, is also a frequent visitor TO
New York. He stops at one of the
best hotels in town but invariably has
breakfast at little basement place
| where the waiter has somehow got the
impression that Nicholson is part own
err and treats him with unusual de-
ference. And refuses TO accept a tip.
On second thought. there is nothing
so foolish about this.
Twins Rarely Seen Together.
The Irvins-Wallace and Will
are rarely seen together in public al
though they are the most devoted of
brothers. Just recently they were
scheduled to speak at a banquet TO
honor their old alma mater Stanford
University. Will breezed in and did
his stuff and departed. Five minutes
later Wallace appeared.
Irwin Cobb and Will Hogg, son of
the late Governor Hogg of Texas, are
devoted friends and meet sveral times
week in the late afternoon for a
walk. Hogs offices are on Madison
Avenue and Cobb meets him there. But
he always gets off at the floor below
and walkN up one flight.
Dom Byrne, the young Irish novel
list. has country home near Darien.
Conn. He is an accomplished horse
man and may be seen galloping about
the countryside early every morning
when he is in America. He has also
played polo with recklessness and dar-
ing. But he will never walk on Fifth
Avenue because of his uncomfortable
fear OF crossing the streets.
j could go on recounting a score or
more phobias among writers which
would sound more or less theatricalese
or neurotic, but what's the use?
They are just that way and nothing
can be done about it. The only thing
- ~ ~ Nh ruiltT.
or course, in this age of autosug-
gestion. they might be able to Coue
themselves out of their mild decisions
but, If they did. perhaps they would
not be able to write. 1t may be they
are just suffering from suppressed
desires and good square meal would
do them more good than months of
autosuggestion.
Science Recognized Wonderful.
Judging from what is being done
with a pet neurosis by therapeutic
weaving about any writer can take a
case of acute malancholia and weave
it into a fine Persian rug or some
thing.
Science is really becoming wonder
full! If they keep up the good work
1t may not be long before writer
who finds he is too lazy to labor can
chase around the corner, have a gland
permanently waved and in few days
find George Horace Lorimer and all
the rest of the editors sitting on the
doorstep crying for his wares.
All in all. the writers are an odd
bunch but they manage to have a
perfectly dandy time Just the same.
Their pet phobins may be annoying,
but so is Congress and lot of other
things.
Very few were born to the purple.
They have battered their way with
the aid of one-lung rented tyne
writer from poverty to some afflu-
ence and il they have picked up moth
ing EN- route but set of second
company" nerves they are more to be
pitied than censured.
If you hanpen to meet one and feel
alarmd just laugh ii off. You will find
him perfectly docile. In my many
years mingling with them I have yet
to find one who has scuttled a ship
or nitroglycerined hank.
When one shows signs of becoming
DANGEROUS. give him cup of tea and
let him rave.
Copyright 1923. by the McNaught
Syndicate Iuc.l
Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery. not
a graveyard, n beautiful we'll kept
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