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FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1920
THE STATESMAN
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FACTS TO KNOW
A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT
ABOUT ASPIRIN!
By Harriot Russell
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war risk insurance act, increasing the of the days they always did their work
loos traffic, and there wil be the great
fermented contents.
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the cause, Resinol Ointment will usually
atop it nt once. And if the trouble which
causes the itching is not due to some
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A number of truisty convicts came in
to camp some days ago and they were,
said the manager, apparently under the
Influence of an Intoxicant. They were
hilarious, joyful and did not seem to
care whether they remained on as con-
viets. or went home on full pardon. The
manager was puzzled, especially when
he could detect no odor on the breath 1
A friend whose name I do not mention had tried for years to gain
wn: he tried all ways to win attention, and set folks talking in the
i. Bue all the chances seemed against him, none yielded to his smile
are; the pent-up Uticas, they fenced him, and kept him painfully ob-
e. He wrote fine odes and none would read them ,men only laughed
be him soar; he made high talks and none would heed them, and
Ie voted him a bore. And when he’d failed in projects twenty, and.
to humble walks resigned, fame came his way, and came a-plentyy,
now he's in the Publie Mind He is the pride of every voter, and men
tax him near and far—the man who does not own a motor, the guy
has BO choo-choo ear. When strangers vistt in our city, we show
esthouse and the jail. ye editor, so wise and witty, the banker with
much of kale. We view the local legistature, the courthouse, with
ors ajar, and then produce that freak of nature, the man who doesn’t
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wats to use alcohol as a subject must
write either historical romance or pure
fantasy.
Then, too, there has been a large
literature in English designed to pic-
ture the horrors of inebriation, begin-
ning with such American classics as
"Ten Nights in a Barroom,” and “Fath-
er, Dear Father, Come Home With Me
Now,” and coming down to such seri-
ous realistic studies as J. D. Beresford’s
"The House in Demetrius Road.”
But for the popular writer, surely.
Prohibition has compensations as well
as hardships. For one thing, he has
been furnished with an entire new field
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■fete red as second-class matter at the
of Congress <
The peculiar "issues" of recent years have given us “politicians’’ who
Ho not deserve that name—men of small ability and without training in
the history of their country or great sympathy witn its institutions. It is
mot at all remarkable that, contemplating their antics, people should acquire
A distrust of ' politicians,” and should turn to men who have succeeded in
pther affairs than those of government as possibly better leaders than men
Who have shown little ability of any sort. For the new view, politicians
are themselves to blame, but that does not prove the correctness of the
"The Sins of the Children”, is the
special attraction at the Queen today
and Saturday is a screen version of the
novel of the same name from the pen
of Cosmo Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton has
an enviable record for valuable serv-
ices rendered to Allied cause during the
Great War.
When England entered the war Mr.
Hamilton went to London, became an
officer in the Royal Naval Air Service.
In this capacity he was ordered to
Sandringham, the favorite palace of the
British monarch, to protect George V.
from the Hun Zeppelins.
In addition to his service at the front
in Flanders, he took part for over a
year and a half in the aerial defence of
London. On the now historic night of
September 8th, 1916, when the Germans
crossed the channel with the strongest
air force that had ever been assembled.
Mr. Hamilton was in the thick of the
fight. To his command went the dis-
tinction of having put three "Zeps" out
of commission in as many minutes.
But in spite of the war the distin-
guished author never ceased his writ-
ing. “The Sins of the Children,” which
is considered to be the best novel that
he has yet published, was written dur-
ing this period.
Several box cars of a freight train I
on the H. & T. C. went into a diteh |
between Austin and Manor Friday ;
morning about 5 o’clock, dur. jt was :
said. to a soft track, incident to the,
heavy rains.
No one was hurt, it was reported. •
hence no especial interest was felt in 1
the matter in Austin until it became
known that eleven cars of the train
were loaded with wood, assigned to
Austin, inquiry developed the further
fart, however, that nine of these did ,
not "go over,” but were brought safely
into Austin.
The passenger train due nut of Aus- :
tin over the Central at 12:20 on the
main line to Houston was detoured by i
Granger over the Katy to Elgin. The
chief dispatcher of the rood stated that
it is believed the track will be placed
in good condition by Friday night-
Eharahersrpatol"ot ceipt of name andiddesa.
compensation of disabled soldiers, will
be sent out without application being
made for such compensation.
Q. If a widow of a soldier of the
World War marries, does the compen-
sation to her children cense?—R. M. W.
la one of the woride famous noyels of who win use the airplane in his nefar-
its kind, is also said to have been a ions traffic and there wih be the great
known in Austin, having founded St.
Paus Luthran Church, of Austin.
Most of the
Convicts Inhale
Silo Odors And
Get "All Lit Up,f
Aspirin created a sensation when in-
troduced by Bayer over eighteen years
: sgo. Physicians at once proved its
wonderful efficiency in the relief of
pain. The genuine, world famous As-
pirin, in “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” is
safely taken by millions for colds,
headache, rheumatism, neuralgia, ear-
ache, toothache, neuralgia, aching
joints, neuritis, and pain generally.
Be sure the "Bayer Cross," which is
the mark of true "Bayer Tablets of
Aspirin.” is on each genuine package
and each genuine tablet.
Boxes of 13 tablets cost but a few
cents and contain proper directions.
Druggists also sell larger 'Bayer”
packzses. Aspirin is the trade mark
of Bayer manufacture of Monoacetic-
acidester of SaUcylicacid.—(Adv.)
ziez avvurs srily aw azazvknu- number of his relatives in Austin shall
The bureau cannot give advice attend funeral. Rev. Kilian was well
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Mark Twain once wrote of his in-
tention to lay on his back with an
augur in his hand and bore into the
body of a certain kind of tree of whicl
he had been told and, by getting the
odor from the "shavings" enjoy a
moneyless yet buoyant "jag". Twain
did not really do this, and it remained
for convicts of later days to go Twain
one better. This is how it happened,
according to the overseer in charge:
"Some state convicts have found an
original way by which the long, long
spell of enforced abstinence may be
averted.” said a manager of one of the
It is like the chap who makes New
to follow.
Nothing is easier than making res-
olutions, except theorizing.
But, how fragile these rtsolutions
are, we find—how easily broken to
bits.
There is nothing so easy to do as
to theorize about the other fellow's
work.
We know exactly how we would go
about doing it, and we see success in
large shining letters crowning our ef-
forts.
Yet, the changes are even, that we
wouldn’t do half so well as the other
fellow is doing.
Did you ever see a childless man or
woman who wasn’t filled with theories
In regard to the education and rearing
of children?
I never did!
And many of their pet ideas sound
fine and dandy until we try them out
on the kiddies and then, too often, we
find that they will “not take.”
The pretty girl about to enter mat-
rimony has her head filled with end-
less theories about housekeeping and
when you listen to her enthusiastic
talk about the “house perfect,” you
have visions of the most wonderfully
kept little bungalow in all of Bene-
dict-land.
The sequel?
What’s the use of telling you—you
know.
Men are just as bad—truly they
are.
On paper they accomplish thirigs
that would revolutionize the business
world, but—alas!
Oh, it is easy, so easy, to dream,
to plan. to i theorize, but in the work-
ing out of our theories lies the test
of whether they are worth anything.
Less, talk, less theory, and more
practice would be infinitely better for
many of us. 4
- REV. H. T. KILIAN.
WORD of the death of Rev. H. T.
Kilian of Giddings. Wednesday. was
received by his relatives in Austin. He
passed away at the age of sixty, dying
of • heart failure, after a brief illness.
Interment will be made at St. Paul’s
Lutheran cemetery near Giddings. A
; when Hartmann, the German-Japanese
poet, delivered a lecture in Greenwich
Village on "Great Men With Whom I
Have Imbibed.” Hartmann mentioned
penitentiary farms who
Thursday.
out. The Magazine West, for example,
has been exploited to the limit The
bad man, the sheriff, and the beautiful
cow-girl have all grown old and famil-
iar in the service of the thrill-hungry
magazine fan. So have the smuggler,
the murder-solving detective, the black
mailer. and a host of others. Many
magazine editors now issue long lists
of subjects such as these upon which
they do not desire stories. And the
magazine writer demands: "What am
diseases caused by poisoned blood will
find in Prescription C-2223 just the
treatment that they have felt the need
for.
This concentrated medicinal prepa-
ration was worked out and used for
years by a prominent physician. The
treatment gave his patients so much
relief that its manufacture had tp be
undertaken in a large way.
Prescription C-2223 has always stood
above all other preparations as an ।
alterative of great power. It has re-
lieved so many thousands that the
manufacturers guarantee it to give
you the same satisfactory benefits.
As Prescription C-2223 contains no
mercury, chloral, morphine or other
habii forming or dangerous drugs, and
you get your money back if two $1.50
bottles don’t relieve you. suppose you
go to your nearest druggist today and
get yourself a bottle. If he won’t sup-
ply you, write hept. 130, 2223 Labo-
ratory.
To help throw off the poisons and
to keep the bowels in a healthy con-
dition, you should take two or three |
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Whitman. Poe. and Swinburne as great
writers who used bottle inspiration and
prophesied dire literary results from
prohibition. Others take the view that
a truly creative mind will find ex-
pression, drunk or sober, and say the
fact that many great men have chosen
to work under the influence of liquor
does not prove that they would have
been sterile if they had lived in the
grape Juice era.
Still others point out that while It
is against the law to manufacture or
sell intoxicating beverages, it is not
illegal to own or to drink them, and
that many wells of insporation were
filled before the prohibition law went
into effect. Thus a famous Baltimore
critic and scholar, who is known to
regard Ethyl Alcohol as one of the
muses, is known to have sold all of his
automobiles and diamonds, to have
hypothecated much of his other prop-
erty, and to have invested all of the
proceeds n a large and carefully se-
lected stock of beverages, calculated on
a basis of so many drinks per diem for
the rest of his reasonable expectation
of life. This he has done, not in any
self-regarding spirit, but in order that
his services to American literature may
not be impaired by what he regards
A. The government compensation of the big silos on the farm and were ]
granted to a widow ceases at the date becoming intoxicated from inhaling the
. .... ferentaa ce-te-t-
of her remarriage, but the compensa-
tion paid to the children will continue.
Q. What governmental bureau re-
deems mutilated paper bills?—E. V.
A. Mutilated currency which you
wish redeemed should be sent to the
Secretary of the Treasury, Redemption
Division. Washington, D. C.
Q. May a second lieutenant. In-
fantry Reserve corps. resign his com-
mission at this time?—T. E. T.
A. He may submit his resignation
to the War Department but is optional
with the Secretary of War whether or
not the resignation will be accepted.
(Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The States-
man Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington. D. C.
fern a I bootlegger to whom these trus-
ties had access,” though they vehe-
mently denied it. Nevertheless, the
manager set a watch on the trail of the
orthe mensand they swore they had i Chilblains being one of the most
•tasted nothing. For a few days these 1 2. e . ...
men remained duly sober. Then they i 1rritating and painful alhictions
tramped.inte camp "an tankea up of the feet are due to poor circu-
anal"iherheacnaemanerer.si henthnn lation .of the blood and exposure
thoroughly massaging the feet
wv.n . ,----mwith a little Mentha-Soothaline.
well and came in sober. He had about r12 • . .
begun to make up his mind that he had In this, way YOU assist nature in
been "seeing things” himself, he said,! improving the circulation and
inhennanfeprtha "shadtatea"thntgthe over-coming the inflammation.
trusties had climbed to the top of one ■ With the lirst indication of
! chilblains, burning or aching feet
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drinks, and have been wont to nse l
win** and cocktails rather liberally in •
producing that atmosphere of wealth i
and luxury which the bell hops and .
manicur girls so love to read about. ‘
Magnzine fiction has to be up-to-date
above all things. and many magazine ,
editors now immediately clip a reject- ■
ion slip onto spy manuscript which
mertions A morn than one-half-of-one-
per-cent beverage. The writer wbe
The Corrective Treatment
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It is so easy to theorize, isn’t it?
The trouble arises when we make
the effort to put our theories into
practice.
Alas! They do not always produce
the results that they should and un-
less they "work out” they are not
worth the least bit of time or bought.
Year’s resolutions.
He writes them down on paper and i
they appear so Interesting and so easy
Our Constitution requires that a President shall be a natural born
itizen and shall have resided within the United States for 14 years. Mr.
Hoover meets the first requirement and perhaps has kept his legal res-
lence in this country during his world wanderings. Actually, however, he
Us lived out of the country for considerable periods and has been able,
according to the “Times” to vote but once in a Presidential election. He
is patriotic and an able organiser and nzaager. He has the best of In-
entions. But he has “no politics,” and we would like very much to
know what any man thinks of the political principles on which our govern-
ment is founded, before we support him for President. We would insist
also that he be a President and not a Nation-manager.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
Q. The coupons on my liberty bonds
will be all used up next month. When
does the Treasury intend to issue per-
manent bonds?—8. M.
A. The Treasury department says
that it expects to exchange the temp-
orary Issue of bonds for permanent
bonds about he 15th of March. All
banks will be informed of the exact
time of issuance and the public will
be informed through the newspapers.
Q. I am going to change my place
of residence on March 1. Would I be
subject to arrest for removing my pri-
vate stock of liquor from my present
home to my new residence?—8. T. C.
A. It would be unlawful to move
your private supply from home to an-
other without obtaining a-permit. To
get this you must prove that you came
by the supply before July 1, 1919.
Q. What is meant by the monetary
expression "sixteen to one’’?—L W. K.
A K campaign issue when Mr.
Bryan first ran for president was that
of the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. The
government now buys all the gold that
is presented to it at a stated price.
This proposal was to coin all the silver
presented at a price that was one six-
teenth that of gold.
Q. How did the White House get its
name?—R G. G.
A. The Executive Mansion was
built of white freestone. From the
beginning all of its woodwork has been
painted white. To maintain its purity
of appearance the stone itself came to
be painted. It was because of its ap-
pearance that it came to be referred
to as the White House.
Q. Is it true that Premier Loyd-
George was extremely unpopular in
Great Britain at one time?—W. C.
A. The Boer War made Lloyd-
George the most unpopular man in
Great Britain, for he warmly cham-
pioned the cause of the Boers. Like
Edmund Burke, who espoused the
cause of the American colonists, the
premier was bitterly stacked by the
British press for opposing the govern-
ment in fighting the Boers. Arter the
close of the war, Lloyd-George’s repu-
tation rose rapidly until in 1908 he was
made Chancellor of the Exchequer.
With the fall of the Asquith cabinet
during the World war, Lloyd-George
became premier.
Q How many states have a moth-
ers' pension law?—F. H. G.
A. Thirty-eight states have made
some provision for the granting of pen-
sions to worthy mothers.
Q. Is it necessary for a disabled
soldier to make application to the War
Risk Insurance bureau for back money
due him under the Sweet amendment?
1. M. C.
A. All back money due disabled sol-
Me and Puds Simkins was taw king
to Mary Watkins outside of her house
and all of a suddin some gerl as pritty
as enything with red tommer shanter
came up the street and started- to
wawk in the house rite next door to
Mary Watkins, saying to Mary Wat-
kins, Hello.
Mary Watkins not saying anything,
and the gerl went in and closed the
door.
G, did she jest move in? I sed.
I dont know, I bleeve so. sed Mary
Watkins with a jellus ixpression, and
Puds sed. She’s pritty aint she?
Some pee pie mite think so. I cant
help it if peeple dont know eny bet-
ter than to think so, she’s got freck-
els on her nose, sed Mary Watkins.
Not me. I dont think so, I think
she’s pritty ugly. I sed.
So do I. she aint neer as pritty as
wat you are, did you take notice to
the freckels on her nose? sed Puds
Maybe she thinks she’s pritty. sed
Mary Watkins, she wawks as if she
did, enyhow.
Its good sumbody thinks so. I sed
will you interdoose us if she comes
out agen?
Wat for? sed Mary Watkins, and I
sed, O jest out of curiosity.
Jest meer curiosity, sed Puds.
Curiosity killed a cat, sed Mary
Watkins. And pretty soon she went
in, and me and Puds kepp on stand-
ing there, me saying. Maybe she’ll
comt ont agen if we wait a wile.
Meening the new gerl. Aad we kepp
on waiting, and after a wile Mary
Watkins opened her parler window and
stuck her hed out, saying Wats you
waiting for boys?
O, nothing I sed.
Nuthing, sed Puds. And he yaw-
ned as if he wasent thinking of eny-
thing speshil, and do did i and we
wawked away.
Th answer teems to be. write about
the bootlegger. And not merely the
village bootlegger, peddling jump-
steady from a hollow tn his wooden
leg; but the super-bootlegger who is
sure to arise, who will charter a sub-
marine and try to bring ten thousand
gallons of Scotch to the languishing
and expiring legislators at Washington
by way of the bottom of the Potomac
River. Here is a perfect Idea for a
story. The heroine will be the beauti-
ful daughter of a prohibition senator.
She will at first fall in love with the
villian, but will have her eyes opened
to his true character by her father’s
private secretary, who carrjes a pledge
signed by William Jennings Bryan in
his breast pocket These twain will
And this proved to be true. The
wonderful fermentation that follows
the proper filling of a silo will, said
the manager, make a fellow "drunker’n
a bjled owl” if he inhales the pungent
contents a while.
The trusties were forgiven, but
placed on another portion of the farm
to work until the silo was ready to be
closed permanently and securely.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20.-
What part has alcohol played in the
making of ait and literature? How
will the aesthetic Hfeof the nation be
afleeted by the more or less complete
abolition of this sources of inspiration?
This question has been raised again
and again since prohibition first be-
came a serous probability, and an
enormous and interesting mass of ma-
terial on the subject has been collected.
It was raised again just the other day
drug addict
De Quincey’s confessions remind us
that a good many writers have found
a subject in their own or other people’s
experiences with red liquor. To take
a recent example, jack London’s "John
Barleycorn.” Is regarded by many per-
sons as his greatest work. A much
less known but equally Interesting ac-
count of a writer’s struggle with liquor
was written by Will Levington Com-
fort who, like De Quincey, seems never
to have done his best work until he
quit his favorite vice, but who then
found In it a congenial and inspiring
subject.
It would be a serious omission not
to mention In this connection the fact
that there has existed for centuries a
sort of literary tradition which asso-
ciates conviviality with writing. It
seems to have begun way back in the
time of Shakespeare and the other
great Elizabethan dramatists, who for
gathered at the Mermaid Tavern to
flirt with good liquors and great ideas.
The tradition was carried on by Dr.
Johnson and his circle, by I-mb and
Hazlitt, and has its leading modern ex-
ponents in such meritorious scriveners
as Hillaire Belloc and Gilbert K. Ches-
terton. All of these gentlemen, an-
cient and modern, believe that Ideas
should be thrashed out around a table
set with flagons of nut brown ale.
or bumpers of good old port, or tall
tumblers of Shandy gaff, or thin stem-
med glasses filled with beautiful
gar-net-red cherry. They are the gen-
tlemen who have found good subjects
in all the beauties of booze in its multi-
farious forms, and in all the joys of
convivial good fellowship. Since most
of them are dead and the rest live in
England, they are not to be pitied, but
there are certain young American
writer* who pattern after them, and
these are in sad plight The literary
tradition which has Inspired them is
being legislated out of existence. Soon
they will have nothing to write about
except the joys of smoking a pipe, and
there are even threats that their pipes
will be taken away from them, and
their screeds in praise of nicotine de-
nied the second-class mailing privilege.
Another hard-hit class of writers is
that of the professional manufacturers
of magazine fiction, to whom the in-
ebriated villain has long been a stock
resource. Many of thiem, too, have
: Staunton, Va., is said to be the original city-manager town, but
where the Nation-Manager plan started is doubtful. Presently it is
receiving strong support in many parts of the country. Editors are
ts most numerous proponents, although some politicians have fallen
Jnio line, Senators Hitchcock and Phelan among them. The plan, as
briefly outlined in the New York World, is to elect Herbert Hoover
President “on any ticket.”
. Hoover is a man of managerial ability and one who has earned
a great reputation in non-politieal activities. No one who reads
ferand Whitlock’s “Belgium” can feel unkindly toward Hoover but
it does not follow that he is a statesman. Indeed, so far as we know,
Ie does not pretend to be one. He is a manager, an engineer, and so
far capable, but without political training and, if he may be judged
by his own writings, not greatly interested in political principles.
Win Irwin, Hoover’s roommate at college, is unable to say what
bpolitical belief the latter holds, and others who admire Hoover have
expressed doubt that he could “get along” with Congress. The
doubt, perhaps, is well founded. Hoover is not accustomed to “ehecks
and balances." He is a manager—an executive who also legislates
pnd judges, holding large power and having large discretion in its
exercise.
“Hoover’s wanderings over the world as a mining engineer,”
Bays the New York Times, “have always prevented him from voting,
with the exception of 1896, when he voted for McKinley against
Bryan." He is regarded, however, as a “progressive” rather than a
Republican and Senator Hitchcock thinks the Democrats should
K dominate him. The truth seems to be that Hoover has no politics,
and this is regarded as a recommendation by Senator Pheland, who
joins Mr. Hitchcock in declaring the former food administrator would
t make a splendid President It is not surprising Phelan should do this,
For he has no polities., either. Political parties, however, have no
t Bllier reason for existence than to represent the views of their mem-
t bers on political principles and their proper application. Because
I that which is termed “politics” has become a mere scramble for
public employment, it does not follow that men who have paid so
little attention to the government of their country that they cannot
• be “placed” politically ought to be put in control of government.
It is only because our parties have come to represent nothing but
t "organized appetites for office" that "politics" la what it ia. Properly, it
i is the art and practice of government.
Tired, Burning and Aching Feat
Keep Feet Warm and Dry.
Apply Mentha-Soothaline.
It’s Wonderful! Costs Little.
liquor detective, a worthy successor of
Sherlock Holmes, who can smell
booze a mile away, and can tell by a
man's smile whether he is in any way
connected with the illicit liquor traf-
fic.
No: the shades of Shakespeare and
of Dr. Johnson, of Swinburne. Poe and
Whitman, may be disquieted by the
news of prohibition. They may yet
send the ouija-board message to some
prominent society lady, advising the
repeal of the constitutional amendment
for the sake of buding genfns. But
they should be disregarde ns old
fogies who have not kept up with the
times. Prohibition has its literary op-
ras here
as hasty and ill-considered legisla-
tion.
And his is only one of many founts
of consoladition which have been es-
tablished by' thoughtful and solvent
men of letters. The situation for them
is not a serious one. But how about
the young, struggling genius who re-
garde liquor and literature as two
things inextricably associated, and who
has not been able to lay by even a
quart or so in case of sickness? How
will his work be affected? Suppose
that Poe had never had a drink in his
life? Or Robert Burns? While Poe's
addiction to drinking was greatly exag-
gerated by his early biographers, there
is every reason to believe that he relied
discreetly upon alcohol as a mental
stimulus, and there are authorities who
seriously question whether "The
Raven” could have been written by a
white-ribbon Poe. Certainly Burn’s
"Tam O’Shanter," with its realistic pic-
ture of the delights and effects of con-
viviality, could not have been done by
a teetotaller, no matter how independ-
ent of the bottle he may have been in
the actual business of writing.
Those who are repelled by the idea
that great and beautiful works ef liter-
ature should be associated with so
sordid a thing as inebriation should
remember that creative art is very
often the product of an abnormal con-
dition of some sort Disease is believed
by modern scientists to have been the
stimulus that set many great minds
to work. A peculiarly loathsome one
afflicted both Wagner the great com-
poser, and NIetzche the philosopher.
While no one can say to what extent
it affected their work. It is known’ often
to act as a mental stimulus. Tuber-
culosis. before it breaks a man’s
strength, is said by many scientists to
be an aid to mental effort.
Other poisons than alcohol have
played their part in literature, too, and
it may be that to some etxent they will
supersede !L De Quincey. in his "Con-
fessions o fan .Opium Eater," has left
a classical account of one writer’s ex-
perience with that drug, and would
seem also to have demonstrated that
he could get along without it, since,
when he wrote the confessions, ho
claimed to have completely given up
the dope. Whatever stimulus it may
have afforded him, it certainly gave
him his greatest subject Wilkie Col-
lins. the writer of mystery stories, who
was a contemporary and friend of
Dickens, and whose “Woman in White’
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