Show THE WOMAN OF IT By M Marguerite Moo Mooers rs Marshall Not the the least least amazing thing about the tho book censorship bill offered at Albany by the Clean looks Books league is the tho insult to New York parents Implicit it In It and in nearly every word uttered In Its defense Its ostensible purpose is to to protect nt r children But why Isn't the mental food tood of our children As as m much ch the re responsibility of each pair of ot parents as is the food fOOd which nourishes bodies s Why should the Clean Books league or the state assume that a father tather and mother are not competent and free tree to regulate the literary diet of ot their offspring oven even even as they arrange its menus for tor breakfast and dinner Mince pie and roast pork are not to be fed to babies But wo dont don't don dont t I pass a law against them on that account We Ve eat them ourselves ourselves- a according to the limit of ot our digestive apparatus apparatus and ind we keep them I I I out of ot the mouths of ot babes babes' and Its It's almost as easy to keep I away from young reA readers the literature which might give them moral or intellectual Indigestion Parents who know now their job know what their children read just as as' as they know what they play play and with whom Yes of course now and then a young youngster ter Indulges In a secret orgy with the forbidden tobacco And he is sick Now and then we suppose he might get hold of of oh oh well supply your own title and we shant be accused of ot writing publishers' publishers advertisements But again the average youngster would be sick TIRED sick TIRED and sick sick sick-In in one word I BORED Vice has to be written In words of one syllable to be comprehensible to the juvenile mind Imagist prose or the exquisitely artificial and symbolically allusive style r. r Cabell are to it as QS th the hieroglyphs of ot King Tutankhamen There Ther There There-is Is already perfectly good laws to suppress the crude obscenity which ha has not wit or style or sincerity or any other excuse for tor being Mental tests it is that something like said have proved something something- like 48 98 per percent percent percent cent of our citizens endowed the mind are with year old Obviously the percentage In legislatures is much higher If It the Jesse Cotillo-Jesse bill of of- the Clean Books lea league ue becomes becomes' the law If It we put leading leading- strings on our literature and the minds that create it one o of two things will happen Either will be as popular and as profitable as bootlegging or or in another generation well we'll ALL be morons together What do you jou know about husbands husbands' Some Som of of the fui funniest lest of ot their little ways are gathered together in Say It With Bricks Doran In which Nina Wilcox Putnam does so as follows The only t tr- tr ng ng a t tv typical husband is ever on time for Is his own funeral and that generally occurs too late to to be of any good to his widow Always have a first husband somewhere In your past even if you have to invent him then you can pull the Tom- Tom that never-acted-like-that stuff and even c though your husband will say ho no thank heaven I am not such a dumbbell Husbands memories are aro strong in things like Uke the kind of ot ota ofa ofa I a co cook k his mother was what he went around the last nine hole In the exact raise of ot salary he e needs and the only time Ume you had a cocktail I too man many But many have a blind spot In their minds minds' when it comes to anniversaries mailing letters and promises to get around more in inthe inthe inthe I the evenings to shows and things like we used to when we was engaged i Other good things about husbands is that they are certainly useful for closing trunks and opening bottles Also Alio they are good practise for ladles ladies Intending to enter the diplomatic service |