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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1924
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The Austin Statesman
Old Man’s Prayer
STEPHEN LEACOCK
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which removes the league as an issue from politics. It would have been
well if Dawes had performed a like service for the Republicans in
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decide the propositions they represent, to which these candidates
admittedly indifferent.
these
novel
“Here’s to the Gods" would have re-
ceived the favor that was so gener-
it's only an
Havana just
idea,
now.
II
According to the Bookman, there
does not seem to be any preventive
which will save books, many of them
unique copies, from destruction, once
the bookworm, unnoticed, starts its
deadly work.
“Wats a matter?” said
passing by.
thinking, or trying to. I
think undisturbed.
“I don't know, Lionel.
him ?"
“No, to not to see him.
cigarette.’’
Lionel comes over near
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To instance the same parallel that
"I haff to wash my neck and G
wizz look, how mutch there is of it,”
sed the giraffe.
Millions of Chinese have never seen
a foreigner,
LITERARY NOTES.
Shorty Judge dropped a big dic-
tionerry on his foot last Tuesday and
then got a licking on account of the
back of it coming loose, Shorty says
its the last werd he's going to look
up the mooning of.
Amung the meny IntrisUng sines in
Artio Alixanders room is a No Tres-
passing sine over his closet, a Keep
Off the Grass sine on his desk, a
Silents Please sine over his bed and
a Exit sine over the door.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
By ARYAN IRVETT MARSIIALI
WEATHER.
Nuthing mutch.
Couldn't we Just get a train or
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SHOOSTER.
The Giraffe and the Erster.
A giraffe was crying fearse.
respect of the world court proposal. Instead, he chose to accept the
vice-presidential nomination and to throw himself into partisan politics,
where he does not belong. He cannot alter now the independent
character of tho work performed by the experts and give credit for it
to the Coolidge administration.
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mastery of technical details in the successful operation of the national
budget made him the only man to head the American group of experts.
Owen D. Young’s proficiency in a like capacity and his prominence as
a business man dictated his choice as second to the general. The two
men were of. separate political faiths, Dawes being a Republican and
Young a Democrat. This fact testifies to the non-partisan character of
the work which they did. As it happened, Dawes' elevation to the
chairmanship of the experts’ committee gave him the greater meed of
honor, but to Young fell the task of actually preparing the ground
work of the recommendations to the Reparations Commission,-for
which he deserves equal renown.
In keeping with his work on reparations, Young drew up the
heads of kneeling suppliants, may
they feel the thrill of a life that knew
God face to face.
"Father, Son. and Holy Ghost, grant
this an old man’s prayer. Amen.”
league and the world court. None can be created, for if there was
a question it would be, not whether we should enter the league or the
court, but whether we should remain as we are, or decide on some
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Any erroneous renlectien upon ih character. btandinu or reputation .o
any person, Aiem or orporatioa which appeara in the columns of this paper
will be giadly corrected it called to the attrition ot the pubilehera._______
notoriety even more so than some of
the books that got it. “Here's to the
Gods" possesses all the good attributes
Bnax“inorakng"aion, • ; maU “2 exes
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are
peaceful
When rain bends down the bough.
And I shall bp more silent and cold-
hearted
Than you are now.
—Sarah Teasdale.
was a time when he wrote poetry,
and ho still possesses that dreamers
interest tn nesthetio beauty. Ho l« a
miafit, and simply .does not possess
tho prerequisites that might assist
him to an adjustment to his environ-
ment. Dreaming of the luzury of hav-
ing nothing to do but sit back and
“I guess Im prltty lucky,” sed the
erster strolling on.
Proving you never know wat to be
thankful for.
The End.
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Helga turns to him a facj of pas-
sionate yearning.
“Yes, Lionel, I have thought of It—■
often and often. In fact I came over
here to talk of it. Every time I look
at Charles I feel that the only way
my. soul can grow is to poison him.”
"I know," Llonel murmurs. “I feel
that way towards Mabel; that it's only
just to her, poor girl, to poison her."
Presently Helga says:
"When can wo do it?"
"To-day would be all right unless
you've anything else on. Mabel’s go-
ing over to tea with you this after-
noon. Isn't she? Wo can arrange it
for then."
General Dawes, In his acceptance speech of last week, touched
upon the League of Nations and the world court as two secondary
issues to the paramount one of preserving our Federal constitution
against radical attack. As constitutional government can hardly be-
come a burning question in this campaign, since our institutions are
established facts and not controversial matters, it is probable that
more attention will be given to the secondary questions than to the
so-called paramount issue.
But no one can imagine any real contest being fought over the
League of Nations and the league’s court. The two questions are
too much alike; besides, they aro being discussed by presidential and
vice-presidential candidates, when only senatorial candidates could
‘The Lone Star Stage Company an-
nouncos the opening of a new stage ’
Uno running between Austin and
Smithville,' Bastrop and LaQrange. Tho
big Lone Star automobiles operate
from the Red Ball station on Seventh
Street. Three round trips will be made
each day, witu automobiles leaving
Austin at 8 o'clock in the morning, I
o’clock in the afternoon and 5 o'clock
in the afternoon.
The management of the new stage
Una is under Seaton G. Barker. Mr.
Barker says that patrons of the Uno
may be assured of every possible con-
venience. and of every courtesy from
the employe* of the Lone Star Stage
Company.
by those who have come to be classi-
fied as the young Intellectuals—F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Vincent Ben-
ot, John Doa Passes, Floyd Dell and a
"When my feet have faltered for I type of young man who would rather
the last time, and my withered hands smoke a cigarette than work in a coal
rest in their last blessing upon the I mine. In appearance he looks as if
« proposition in solid geometry would
bore him. He is quite visibly a man
■who might be fond of a Pekinese dog.
but one sees at once that ho would not
pubtcatton ol His are and the responsibility of
in this paper, bringing him to maturity is entrusted
-— —— to Peter Kincaid, the ideal, but none
loves and
riage. He is not unfaithful to his
wife, and he does not mistreat her. He
merely takes up other interests and
quietly makes arrangements to dis-
continue marriage. He provides for
her and
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The Home-Maker, by Dorothy Can-
field. (Harcourt, Brace & Co.)
It would be unjust to dismiss Dor-
othy Canfield’s new hovel, “Tho Home-
maker,” with the bare statement that
it is merely another novel about the
dissatifled mgodern woman. And yet,
it is that. Out of a flood of such
novels, however, there is some satis-
faction in discovering one that delves
into the subject from an entirely new
angle and brings to light an entirely
different opinion. In this case the
author has solved her problem, and
is probably justified in doing so be-
cause the characters themselves justify
a solution.
Lester Knapp is an ordinary book-
keeper who hates his work, hates his
iluslonment that follows upon so many
marriages; but there is nothing hys-
-al about it; there is no throwing
of vases, no intriguing assignations.
When I am dead and over me bright
April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair.
Though you should lean above me
broken-hearted,
I shall not care.
sorely hurt.
’ INTRISTING FACKS ABOUT
INTRISTING PEEPLE.
Ed Wernick has decided to grow
up into a inventer. He has invented
several good labor saving inventions
aireddy, including a board on wheels
with a string attatched to it to pull
your shoes out from under the bed in
the morning.
Reddy Merfys middle name is
Harrold, but the best way to call him
by it is to start running ferst.
of the work our new and
authors are turning out, and
She still
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Mr. Lew Davises unkle has a motor
boat and goes fishing In it without
taking Lew,
BIZNISS AND FINANCIAL
Skinny Martin is thinking of selling
his old bysickel with the crooked
handle bars, the ony trubble being
nobody is thinking of buying it.
Glasses Magee axsidently swallowed
a dime last Friday, raying Friday
always was his unlucky day and if it
hnd a bin Wensday or Thersday ho
mite ony of swallowed a cent.
SWLLOWED A DIME
After waiting twenty minutes for the
fish he had ordered he complained to
the waiter.
“In five minutes, sir,” said the
waiter.
But ten minutes passed and there
was no sign of the fish. So when he
could catch the waiter's eye again he
beckoned to him.
“Just go," he said, “and find out
what bait they’re using.”
CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN
FAMOUS CHARACTERS.
Puds Simkins: G, I wish I had a
dime.
Sid Hunt: Heck, I wish I even had
5 cents.
Imagine!” a
There is a long silence, ana then
Lionel gets up and walks the whole
length of the room and back again
and sits down again. This dramatic
piece of action means that something
is coming.
He speaks.
“Helga," he says. “I only mention
this as an idea. Have you ever thought
of poison?”
Puds S.: Wy don’t you ask your Helga very calmly takes out a
mother for it? _ cigarette from a case and lights its
sid II.: I did. by don't you ask very deliberately. The audienco aro
yourat I desperately anxious. Has she or has
p. simkins: I did. Gosh, aint It I sho not?
fearse to bo poor? I wish Id of saved I in Justice to All Concerned,
up wen I was younger and dident ap- "Have I over thought of poison?
preciate money and then Id have it Polson for whom? Do you mean for
now wen I appreciate it. I us, for you and me?”
Bid: Thais a way I feel. "Oh, dear. no. For Charles and
(Copyright, 1924, Ooorgs Matthew Mabel. Mind. its only an idea. If you
Adams.) ‘don't like it. I'll say no more."
the books by
And Parker’s
that is commendable in addition.
In the average first novel it is
noticeable that amateurishness is one
of its most obvious defects. In “Here’s
to the Gods” the author has displayed
a maturity that gives promise of
greater and finer things. His choice
of incidents, his vivid portrayal of
characters, his insight into the con-
sequences of situations, and his plac-
ing tho proper value of occurrences
prove that Parker is not sporadic or
so frail that he has written himself
out in a single novel. With the grow?
Ing power consequent of further ef-
fort, Austin Parker might be expected
to produce something very much worth
while in the near future. Parker gets
away from the material that has be-
come stale, and yet, after completing
the book, one looks back and realizes
that the .author has taken his hero
over the same ground that has been
traversed innumerable times by his
predecessors, just as one person's life
completes a circle very analogeous to
that of his predecessors. It . Is the
freshness of outlook and interpreta-
tion. that give to this book an atmos-
phere that is very pleasing to the
mental palate.
"Here’s to the Gods” is a good novel.
It is original, well written, and inter-
esting from cover to cover. The
failure of the public to give this novel
the attention it so richly deserves is
a shame and ought to be sufficient
to discourage the most persistent of
authors. The book is significant, not
only as a prophecy as to what might
be expected of its author in the future,
but es a gauge of what the future of
American literature bodes. -Thh new
writer deservos watching. Let those
critics who are constantly bewailing
the poor state of modern American
novels pounce upon Austin Parker's
next novel with anticipation. I o not
believe they will bedisaprointed--cer-
tanly not if he fulfills the promise
of "Here’s to the Gods.”
Here’s To The Gods, by Austin Parker
(Harper A Brothers).
It is unfortunate for the reading
public, and particularly for the author,
when a really creditable book slides
into oblivion almost immediately upon
publication. There are often unpre-
ventable causes for this: Sometimes it
is the fault of the publishers in not
pushing the book with enough or
proper advertising; sometimes it Is the
fault of the critics and reviewsr, who
fail to give the book due notice and con-
sideration. In a preface to the last
edition of Zona Gale’s •‘Birth,” William
Lyon Phelps, the sage of Yale, says
that that novel would have, created a
tremendous sensation had it not been
for the publication of “Main Street,” a
very similar book, according to Mr.
Phelps, a few months earlier. Whether
Phelps is correct or not in his com-
parison. it is certainly true that
“Birth" is a very meritorious work and
has never received the popularity it
rightfully deserves.
In this round-about way I come to
Austin Parker's novel: “Here's to the
Gods," published last fall by Harpers,
it is a novel whose career offers an in-
timate parallel with that of “Birth.”
The story is that of young Anthcny
Morton, son of a scientific exployer,
how he becomes educated, theexperi-
ences he passes through in becoming
acquainted with life, the friends he
makes, and the interests he finds in the
life about him. When he is a mere
child his mother dies in San Francisca
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ACT II—The Drawing Room of
the Chown Residence.
Mabel and Charles have gone to the
stables to see Charles' new' mare. and
Lionel and Helga are left together.
Helga says:
“So you're off the poison idea?”
* "Clear of it," ‘says Lionel; "as I
told you just now. I don't think It’s ‘
worth it."
"Yes—I mean it would involve such
a terrible fuss and nuisance. Here's
the poison—Meadows got it.”
Idonel takes from his pocket a large
packet in light green paper, - marked
with a skull and crossbones and
labeled ARSENIC in large letters.
“We can use It if you like. I’m
not awfully particular. Only I don't
believe that much would kill Mabe!
anyway.
When the Audience Quivers.
Helga takes the packet of poison
and holds it in her hand musing—
“But think,” sho murmurs, “of the
relief of death. Think of the relief
to a person of Charlie’s temperament
to be dead—"
“Oh, I know that. And for that
matter—since of course we’d have to
poison Meadows, too. for getting it-
Meadows ought to be glad to be dead.
But you see Helga. It isn't done."
Lionel walks across the stage and
lights a cigarette.
“But what can we do?" says Helga.
She clasps her hands about her knees
as she sits. When she does that the
audience know' at once that she is
going to analyze herself. “Do you
ever look Into yourself. Lionel, deep,
deep into yourself? I do. Sometimes
I try to picture to myself that it's
not me but just something inside of
me. Do you know what I mean,
dear?"
“I think I do,” murmurs Lionel.
They’re off. For the next ten
minutes Helga plunges into a fierce
analysis of herself.
When she is finished or as nearly
finished as she is likely to be. Lionel
says—
“Then I suppose we must simply go
as we are—” f
“I suppose so. Lionel. If, as you
say, Charles and Mabel have a right
to live, it seems as if we have to be
satisfied.”
An idea to Analyze.
“Perhaps it does,” says Lionel. He
takes a turn up and down the room
and then he says:
“There's just one thing I've thought
about Helga. It’S only an idea, so of
course you can say no to it at once
if there’s nothing in it. But couldn't
we perhaps get just on a train to-
gether and go away together?"
“Where?" says Helga.
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and reporting any irregularity.
A Letter and a Peroration.
And just then there is a light knock
at the door and Annette steps in with
an envelope on a tray.
“Mr. Chown asked me to give you
this letter ma’am, after he had gone.”
“Had gone?”
“Yes, ma’am he went away in a
taxi with Mrs. Derwent.”
Helga takes the letter, tears open
the envelope and read aloud—
“Dear Helga:' Mabel and I have
decided to go away together. We aro
taking a train South this afternoon.
I have made every arrangement for
you in regard to money and that sort
of thing and of course now you will be
completely free. We shall not be in
your way at all, as we are going far
away; in fact we are going to
Havana!”
As Helga finishes reading, she and
Lionel remain looking at one another.
“To Havana!” they both repeat and
then there is a little silence.
After which Idonel says—
"Do you know, Helga, it rather oc-
curs to me that it’s the common-
place people who do things.”
(Copyright, 1924, by Metropolitan
Newspaper Service. Arrangement with
Dodd Mead & Co.)
It all out. I must analyze mysel
and try to analyze Havana. Listen,
Lionel; let me think a month. Per-
haps it will be clearer then—”
Idonel looks at his watch.
"I say," he says, “Charles and
Mabel seem a long time in looking at
that mare. How strange it seems that
commonplace people like Charles and
Mabel can know nothing of the thing
that means so much to us. I suppose
they never stop to think.”
“They never analyze themselves—”
the subject of the niotherinpratatbssautte orimrl
. care to attend a Hotel Man’s Annual
Convention at Niagara-on-the-Iake."
Reading this, the audience knows
exactly what sort of man he is.
The Action Actuates.
In comes Meadows, the butler with
the words:
“Mrs. Chown!”
Helga Chown comes sliding into the
room. She is dark, very beautiful
I and as slender as a liqueur glas. Her
clothes are pure art and droop on her
like a butterfly's wings.
As to her character, the audience
knows all about It already from read-
ing about The Soul Call before they
see it; and, anyway, they have the
I book of the play which says:
| “Helga, the Wife of Charles Chown,
is a woman whose soul has overgrown
her body. Life presses her on all sides
and she cannot escape. She boats her
wings against the bars in vain.” As
for her husband, the book of the play
rays, “Charles Chown is evidently the
kind of a man who would react to a
share of Canadian Pacific stock rather
than to a bunch of carnations; who
would fail to read a page of Bergson’s
philosophy but would like a marginal
option in an oil company." So we
know exactly what Charles Chown is
like.
Derwent rises and they come to-
gether, saying "Helga!” and “Lionel!"
with an infinite depth of meaning.
Helga draws off her gloves and
I drops into a chair.
"Charlie here?” she says.
"Just left. Did you want to see
war comes in for a satisfactorily short
epace, and when Anthony comes out
of it he establishes an aeropiano pas-
senger route. This occupation ts a
luxury, for it does not pay; but An-
thony can. well afford it for his father
has passed away, leaving his son a
considerable fortune, no becomes In-
terested in a modern, flapperish sort
of creature, and they decide to get
married on the stipulation that if they
grow tired of each other they will
simply dissolve their marriage con-
tract without any fuss about it. One
would expect this flapperish Marga to
wreck any marriage, having read so
many modern novels of marriage that
turn out badly; but In handling her
Parker assiduously avoids the pitfalls
that so many of his contemporaries fall
blindly into. And, in tho end, it is not
Marga who spoils things, but the self-
composed Anthony. What tho author
is attempting to show here is tho dis-
• g-„-, . . r , m- associates and hates the very air of
League of Nations plank for the Democratic National Convention, commercialism. Ha is incompetent
* ‘ " '* * ‘ because he is a dreamer and has no
Interest whatsoever ih his work. There
of others—Austin
read poetry and be carried away by
its beauty, and chafing under the
strain of never having an opportunity
to indulge this desire, Lester Knapp,
through a change in the management
and ownership of the establishment
Where he is employed, sees not only
the promotion of a man who is a sort
of rival, but also his own discharge.
Going home he contemplates suicide;
his predicament is solved for him
through a neighbor’s house catching
on fire. During the confusion, Lester
falls from the roof and is carried home
helpless.
Eva Knapp, Letser’s wife, is equally
dissatisfied with the trials of home
life. The accident to her husband
opens the way for her to seek a means
of livelihood in the world of business.
She gets a position in the establish-
ment where her husband was formerly
employed, and her delight with her
work, coupled with her unusual char-
acter, brings rapid promotion and
satisfaction to her.
Lester, left at home, becomes, for
the first time, really interested in the
children. He studies them; their de-
sires. their needs, their interests. He
strives to become a companion to them,
and is surprised at the resulting reve-
lation this unfolds to him, not only
about his children, ut about himself.
He also makes a study of housekeep-
ing. He prefers this new occupation,
and for the first time since his col-
lege days, finds time to enjoy poetry.
Where he had made a failure his wife
makes a success, and where she had
been, for the most part, a failure, he
had made a success.
The climax of all thia comes when
the family physician says that he can
cure Letser of his malady. But Les-
ter has already discovered that fact
for himself, and has rebelled at the
very thought of being cured, because
he knows that it means he will have
to go back to the world of commerce
in order that the conventions might
be satisfied in the man of the family
making the living. Eva does not want
him to be cured, for she knows that it
means her return to the drudgery of
home life. The children, Helen and
Henry and little Stephen, do not want
It because it means that they will
lose that wonderful companionship
of their father that has come to mean
so very much to them.
The outcome of this entanglement
is admirably and dramatically' handled
by the author.
The author has a rather uncanny
way of making everything work out.
This is really the only disagreeable
feature about the novel. By turning
everything precisely around, all the
difficulties of the Knapp family seem
to have been completely solved. For
the rest, the novel is truly admirable.
The characters are superbly drawn.
Eva is, as one woman remarked to
me, exactly like dozens of women she
knows. Anyone who understands the
spirit of a poetic nature understands
Lester Knapp. And, perhaps best of
all, the author knows children and
understands them. Her delineation of
child character is admirable.
William Allen White makes the
statement somewhere that no Ameri-
can men authors can write as well as
four of our American women authors:
Willa Cather, Edna Ferber, Edith
Wharton and Dorothy Canfield. Dor-
othy Canfield’s place among them
must, however, have been won on the
strength of her former novels, prob-
ably “The Brimming Cup” and “The
Bent Twig.” Though I have not read
either of the above mentioned novels,
there are undeniable indications in her
latest novel. "The Home-Maker,” that
she Is capable of doing much better
work.
SISSIETY PAGE.
The Ideer of getting up a minstrel
show was tawked about at the regu-
ler meeting of the Junior Athaletic
and Social Club on Puds Simkinses
frunt steps Sattiday afternoon, but all
the fellows wunted to be end men and
the meeting broke up half ways be-
tween a argewment and a fite. Amung
those present was Mr. Benny Potts,
Mr. Sam Cross, Mr. Sid Hunt, Mr. Le-
roy Shooster, Mr. Reddy Merfy and
Mr. Ed Werpick.
deserved that
was given at the outset of their re-
the less real, guardian, who is prob-
.. ably the greatest influence in young
Anthony's life. The period of the
, €gs*®
He spoke of the work of the experts after mentioning the Wash-
ington conference and before dealing with the world court. This
treatment was designed to create the impression that one constructive
policy had been followed throughout; a policy that came to fruition in
the work of the experts and which was continued in tho world court
proposal. But it is obvious that the two things are distinct, separate
and special in their nature. The attempt to connect them was made
because the work of the experts is definitely finished and cannot be
made an issue—as an issue necessarily relates to future probable
action. For this reason the world court proposal was brought in and
made to appear the natural successor to a reparations settlement. That
the court could not secure such a settlement is its greatest con-
demnation, and belies the boast of its usefulness in international
affairs and the claim that without it nothing can be accomplished for
world peace.
Getting back to the subject of credit for the experts' work, it is
true that Secretary Hughes made the suggestion that led to the
appoinment of the expert committee and that President Coolidge gave
advice as to the Americans who should be members of the committte,
but in neither instance did the administration originate anything'.
Mr. Hughes, in his now famous New Haven address, merely voiced the
thought current among millions of our people that the reparations
problem must be approached from an economic standpoint and
handled by men free from national hatred and political prejudice.
Hughes' specific suggestion was for an independent commission
of financiers, business men and technical experts having absolute
liberty of action. This suggestion was not adopted in the form in
which it was presented. The European governments refused to create
such a commission. They resorted to the old futile method of calling
in advisory committees to assist the Reparations Commission. But
the spirit of the Hughes’ suggestion, which was really the spirit of the
American people, won to victory. The committees, two in number,
were given liberty of action for investigation into German economic
conditions, through a self-denying ordinance of the Reparations Com-
mission, which merely marked time instead of dictating the course of
things. One committee named to discover and bring back concealed
German capital and devote it to reparations payments, produced no
results. This left the other comittee to carry on in the way Secretary
Hughes had supposed his independent commission would act.
As to the personnel of this second committee the fitness of the two
chief American members dictated their selection. General Dawes'
(By Beverly W. Allen of Austin, in
the Christian Advocate.)
My friend ws blind. The fertile
by another. Ills wife, children, and I The Ultra-Ult of the Modern Drama
grandchildren tenderly cared for him I
now. His pastor sent him the Home An Vp-to-date Pirfte Play:
Magazine of the Sunday school Ittera- I Man and WomAI mWhieh,A
ture Then over and over ho told his ingtominarmenseitin Ma
good wife: “Read me the prayers 1 0”, Another 1 . tl
again. They help me." Thus comfort- A, umnoe .
ed he went out where his eyes saw as At the opposite pole of thbught
they had never seen before. This ac- lrom.the 800d old melodrama, with
tual occurrence caused me to write -t8,wind and seaweed and danger,
this prayer: land its happy ending, is the ultra-
• My face is turned toward the set- mqdern. up-to-date Piffle Play.
ting sun. Heavenly Father, Saviour I c-t named by.such a name as The
divine. Spirit eternal, be with me now. 0u Gal, Or The, Heart Yearn, or
“There have been the times of the he Stomach Trouble—always some-
tempest and the storm, when faith I thin8 terribly perplexed, and with
grew faint and hopes gave o’er. Then. S-xtY per cent of sex in it. 11 always
too, there have been the times when 11, ,. *n one way or another with the
I gloried in my strength; but give me Problem of Marriage. Let it be noted
now that I may keenly feel my de- that marriage, which used to be a
pendence upon my fellow men and my Sncrament, became presently a eon-
God. I tract, and is now a problem. In art
"Give me my second childhood, that I and literature it used to constitute the
in simple childlke faith I may stretch 5 APPY ending. Now it is the bad
out my hands to a Father who never Deinnin.
disappointed ft single child, a parent when the Piffle Play begins, the
whose power is unlimited and eternal. Ecene a room. It is called A Room
Yes, give mo now that simple child- In, The Derwent Residence. An in-
like love in which there is no memory egective young man in a grey tweed
of past neglect. aSuit is seated at a little table on the
"As in the vigor of manhood my l eft playing patience with a pack of
hand was outstretched to old age may card8•
I now find the blessing of honoredihe audience by looking up on
love and care. I their programs. “The characters in
"In some measure I have helped the order of their appearance/* know
Thy kingdom come; thy will be done that the ineffective young man at tho
on earth.’ May now my very weak- tsble 1s Lionel Derwent, husband of
ness glorify thy name! My treasured Mabel Derwent.
purse la but dross beside Invested The book of the play explains to
love. them that "Lionel Derwent is tho
BIG HUNTING EXPEDITION!
The Pottses canary herd Melba
ixcaped out of its cage last Wensday
and flew up in the shandeleer. 9
fellows was setting on the frunt steps
tawking to Benny Potts won Mrs.
Potts opened the frunt door all ixcited
and called for volinteers and then got
even more ixcited wen the hole 9
fellows tried to run in with Benny
and she sed ony 3 would bo plenty.
In less than 5 minnits afterwerds Mel-
ba was capsured by Puds Simkins,
Leroy Shooster, Artie Alixander and
Benny Potts without firing a shot.
a boat or something and go to •
Havana?”
"I don’t know. Lionel. It all seems
so strange. I must think.”
Helga presses her hand to her fore-
head; this is always a sign that she la
I gives her a cigarette and lights it.
“Where’s Mabel?” she asks.
“Gone out to the Dog Show!”
They both shudder.
“And Charles?”
I “Went to tho Stock Exchange.”
j They both shiver.
The audience re following the play
with great expectancy and growing
I excitement. They don’t expect a
passionate love scene. They know
better than that. But Lionel and
I Helga are going to “analyze them-
I selves!" and the audience wait for it
I with breathless interest.
I “How easy people like Charles and
I Mabel seem to find life"
Helga nods. “Yes, don’t they?"
A Dreadful Thought
“They never seem to stop to analyze
I themselves.”
“Perhaps,” murmurs Helga, “they
can't.” This terrible thought holds
them both silent for a minute. Then
I Helga, as if beating her wings against
the bars, speaks.
"Sometimes I sit by myself and
think, and try to analyze myself and
I everything seems so small and my-
I self so small too, as if nothing mat-
tered, just like an infinitely smalL-bit
of something bigger, something lost
in itself and looking for itself in it-
self. You know what I mean."
"I think I do."
i “Often it seems as if there were
Aust nothing----"
x "I know." Lionel murmurs.
""—and then, sometimes, it seems as
if there must be something—”
"I know,” murmurs Lionel again.
Lionel's Une.
“Doesn’t it seem queer, Lionel, how
people just go on living? Take Charles
and Mabel. There they are; two com-
monplace, ordinary people. They go
about together, to Dog Shows and
things—and that seems to bo enough
■—I suppose they like one another and
that’s all—they seem satisfied—and
with you and mo it’s so different—peo-
plo like them don’t seem to know
when the soul calls to another
soul—”
"I know," Lionel murmurs. His part
hero is very difficult. Ho has to sit
and look like a soul and keep mur-
muring. "I know.”
Helga goes on.
‘Tho other night at that silly Dog
.Show' as soon as I saw you I could
feel my soul calling to yours, right
over the dogs—and at the Cat Show,
the same thing. But Charles and
Mabel don’t seem to feel things like
that. At the Dog Show they seemed
to be looking at the dogs. Just
form, it does not matter what, of entanglement in European affairs: quirg“s anditthniutreomen "argalas
Even this is too shadowy to be seriously considered in an election, for ’ * ' ■
■ it is certain that we will not abandon our present position.
General Dawes' action in giving prominence to our foreign re-
lations, in a campaign which he declared without qualification, "is a . .. - .---------- ---------- ------
campaign of domestic issues," turns upon quite a different proposition. itcmtlshtorrasnumtbat bttfokshwrPtbn
This is the credit due for the work of the Experts’ Committee, in • — • • .....
developing a scheme of reparations settlement. The verdict of public
opinion has been that the credit was solely due to the experts them-
selves, since they worked as independent individuals without partisan
bias or ulterior motive. But General Dawes, the most prominent
among these experts, has been adopted into the official family of
Republicanism through his nomination as vice-presidential candidate,
and it is only natural that he should wish to return the favor. Accord-
ingly, he gives all credit for the experts’ work to the Harding-
Coolidge administration.
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