Show j j'S S 'S S 5 5 S S S S S S S. S 7 5 5 5 S 5 5 5 6 6 1923 SUNDAY MORNING MAY S S J MY INTERVIEW WITH MY HUSBAND I By LAETITIA McDONALD IRWIN This Thie Interview with Wallace Irwin famous as al a novelist and humorist humorist lie he is II the creator of Hashimura Togo took Too took place In his home in New Now Youk Yok City The questions were ere put by Mrs irwin whose beauty and speaking voice are said to be typical of the Kentucky born bornand bornand bornand and bred They were answered by her husband in what he calls My Oneida N. N Y V Ye accent Born there thore but not in the tho corn corn- m u i Wallace Irwin who is Will Irwins Irwin's baby brother la Is s the author author author au au- au- au thor of Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy The of Omar Khayyam Jr The aThe Love Lova Sonnets of a Hoodlum Suffering Suffering Suffering Suf fering Husbands Seed of tho the Sun Lew Tylers Tyler's Wives and other works Copyright 1023 23 U. U S. S and Canada Great Britain and South America by Women Women's News Nevra Service Inc Ino Released American Exclusively Through North Newspaper Alliance Alt All RI EightS ht re- re served A professional humorist Is never funny at home thanks be This com comforts torts me when I 1 get low in my mind i I 1 often call my husband Walrus so 50 when I 1 drew up with a pencil and the list of ot questions I 1 had been asked to put to him ho he grinned ashe ashe as ashe he does for for- forthe the camera men and re remarked remarked remarked re- re marked The time has come to talk of ot many things' things Well do your worst for tor that cannot equal in dullness some of ot tho the first nights nights' we have been living through in fn Broadway this winter That gave m me both a lead and a flashback on on his literary past at once polite and subtle subtle the flashback flashback flashback flash flash- back I 1 mean mean so so my first question TV was as Who Vho will take Sarah Bernhardt's place in the theatre That question brings another another- 1 Who 10 0 is taking Carusos Caruso's place Taking a place Is Ia baffling for a successor gradually melts into a aright aright aright right of ot succession there Is seldom any indication of ot what is going on until somebody is recognized as having caught caugh the current and de developed developed developed de- de a whirlpool France has noone noone no noone one in sight Wait Walt a minute Ive I've got It Its It-It's Its It's Mary Pickford VS BILL Speaking of the tho stage what name would you suggest for tor Mrs Fiskes Fiske's adopted baby I think would be Just right because Mrs Fisk is such a adear adear adear dear that any baby brought up by her is superlatively fortunate but my husband said sald Bill By ny y all means Bill Fi Fiske ke That good to me Bill BIlI Why Just for tor luck I 1 guess Do you belong to the Child Adoption Adoption Adoption tion league Mr Irwin No If It you had no children would you adopt one I would not But Child Adoption leaguers call children gloom chasers' chasers I pressed Rot RotI Most of ot em are gloom cr cr crat cr- cr at r rs I 1 was puzzled for tor a moment be because because because be- be cause I 1 didn't know whether he meant th that t the Child Adoption l leaguers are the glo gloom m creators or that the children are Not belonging belonging belong belong- ing to any clubs or or leagues or movements or causes of ot any kind any kind Im I'm I m n not t authority on their personnel HE Hi DIDN'T HAVE TO DO IT What do you think of front page news this morning That I 1 was glad I 1 didn't hav to do I it According to all accounts you were a rotten reporter Do you mean to say that there was not one piece of ot news that Interested you Oh yes I 1 read read about about that chap said to have been interested in fn a murdered model I 1 mean that he was interested before she was murdered I remember feeling sorry sorry sorry sor sor- ry for him because he looks so respectable re- re and sorry too for tor the reporter who had the assignment assign assign- ment What do you think of the Judges who got mad at the Wash Wash- ington alumni of ot the Phi Ph Delta Phi fraternity because they were asked to bring their own to the dinner In honor of ot Associate Justice Sutherland Sutherland Sutherland erland They probably had nothing to bring What is the saddest thing you ever saw HE GROWS SERIOUS I think that the saddest sight in America Just now Is the disregard for law Twenty five years ago federal federal fed fed- eral law was a sacred thing Today thero are too many statutes based baaed upon petty prejudice I 1 say with the ten commandments and their legitimate ate offshoots society might be bo kept Intact One of ot our next big Jobs is a simplification of ot our legal code How much have you In your cellar cehlar celt cel lar Not enough he sighed What do you think of ot the spring fashions I 1 next broached hoping he lie would commit himself irrevocably bly I II I Ican can say with the average RussIan Russian Rus Rus- sian elan any change Is for the better Now you know you keep talking about how much better women look with longer skirts why not say so Wallace is guilty of ot Suffering Husbands Husbands Husbands Hus Hus- bands which made a pleasant little crop of ot enemies How much should a woman pay Jay for a hat 7 AH AI- I THE That depends wholly upon Whether you are speaking in terms t of doll dollars rs or German marks On course with your perfect taste taste taste- Have women a sense of ot humor Yes Then why are there so few professional professional pro pro- women humorists the tho reason Do you know Will IrwIn I have met him Is he a friend or an acquaintance acquaintance acquaint acquaint- ance anee How irow can he be beHe's Hes He's Ies Ie's my broth broth- er Who Is the most amusing person per per- son Eon you ou know Not having the modesty of ot Irvin Cobb who says that Stephen Leacock Leacock Leacock Lea- Lea cock is his Cobbs Cobb's second choice ofa ofa of ofa that first a humorist Ill I'll say my choice is Mister Sumner He lIe finds something funny on every page If its it's not there he finds it ft anyway What in your opinion do you write best I would to heaven I 1 k Knew ew Ima im I'm ima a reformed poet HASHIMURA TOGO COMING BACK What has become of ot the Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese Schoolboy You Tou know everybody everybody everybody every every- body asks you OU that Like Tut Ankh hes he's come comeback comeback back to the world but unlike Use 4 is 4 j 4 1 tr S 'S S l t t i- i i S t f- f 4 4 S. T Wallace Irwin and nd his family late king I 1 hop he wont won't arrive mummified Hell He'll be on the press not long after this interview comes out In how many many newspapers pers will he appear In 77 77 or Js It I 1 have no nohead nohead nohead head for figures Will Togo write on public questions ques ques- How can he tell 1 Hes He's only a Japanese schoolboy When I asked him whose Influence Influence influence ence over him had been greatest his retort courteous was Do you think Im I'm easily Influenced Influenced influenced F T r dont don't know where where'd Id I'd come comein In in if It you YOUr were not I 1 counterchecked Since you ask to know In the language of ot the Japanese schoolboy I 1 will say that outside of my mother it was my honorable teacher Miss Sarah Graham of the West Denver High school She was a remarkable woman of parts who specialized in Latin LaUn and English Her gift of ot style her taste and her encouragement encouragement encourage encourage- ment mont star started ed me writing and help me still THERES THERE'S NOT NOUGH ENOUGH CULTURE Dorothy Canfield Fisher Fiher her said eald the theother theother theother other day in a letter to a friend that she believes the greatest reform needed today is improvement In I education What do you think That she is right Education Is Js too diffused in fn the first place and andIn andin In fn the second place a low type of Individual is administering the schools Pride in fn work seems to be going the result of our system or of social philosophy I suppo suppose e The whole scheme seems to be to get as much as possible for lor doing as little as possible The Tho West Denver High school was superintended by an old German named Hermann and I 1 Id d dare daresay say those were German methods methods methods meth meth- we were drilled in but I know that I 1 got more at the West Denver High school per hour than I 1 got in college per per week Do you think too many boys and girls are being sent to colleges S Maybe Maybe not is al always always always al- al ways a tendency in fn a republic to overcrowd the professions I 1 think there is t too to o much technical education education education tion and not enough general cul cul- ture WHEN WOMEN CHOOSE CAREERS But you OU dont don't cry ry down own a cravIng cray cray- ing for tor social advantage that professional pro pro- work for tor young men and women brings them do you Nope but Im I'm strong on the point that pride in fn a Job Is not beIng being be be- be ing taught When I 1 was a kid and trying to pry my way y into a a. newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper in fn San Francisco I was Jeered at because I 1 had been to a university I 1 mention this to prove prove- my point not to remind you ou that I 1 Iam Iam am a college man Do you think married women should have careers o of ot their homes Should is too strong a word there I 1 think some wom women n can and get away ara with it ft I If a woman has a special call calI for a profession and is adapted to to It if and the callot call of ot the home Is not too tod lo loud d and long Its It's am right for tor her to make maken a n career But when a woman chases a career Just to catch It It she Is a nuisance Do ou think women should re retain re- re tam tain their maiden names after marriage marriage mar mar- mar mar- PAGE OMAR AND Not one little bit he snapped That stuff makes me sick What makes you happiest Good weather What do you particularly dislike dis dis- like Rice Rico When you jou OU curry it it I 1 eat It uso my like for tor curry is stronger than than- my dislike for tor rice J I love caviar to the point where I f could ld become a bolshevik to o get it If It you ou could be carried off ort on a n magic carpet this afternoon for fot a couple 0 of hours where a would woula you 1 0 choose to go To the Yosemite Whom would you like best to have come in this evening for tor a visit and a smoke Omar O nar Khayyam and Andrew Andiew They could talk talk talk-I'd rd smoke t Anyone else Yes Yes Marco Polo Id I'd like task task t t to ask him about the Armenian la ladies la- la dies he mentioned in fn his book THAT LONDON SUIT How much do you p pay y for your clothes o oToo Too much I got the last last- ones In London hoping to save i a little over the tariff gouge Now tv this as I say it The tariff Is the tho most moat ingenious device ever ver concocted concocted con con- by congress to get AmerIca In Dutch both Ways It keeps our enemies in fn and our frIends out Who are the most most Interesting persons you know or have havo known What do you mean by Interest ing Well men who know about what life something moans or think they do and h Have v the charm to make you ou think so BO too Donald My tather hil father law w D Donald McDonald McDonald Mc- Mc comes pretty hig high list Then jn in the are Roosevelt Franklin K ic iv o Lane an David LloYd George Will Beebe Wallace Morgan n Belle Delle Greene librarian of the Morgan library and Creel I 1 V I George sUPPOse sra a ought to han lIan Street add Juhan JulIan Ju- Ju he wIll rt froth nt at the mouth It if he sees a George Creels Creel's name on this his list And Ana let St me see you m add Peter celIa I APt Api DONALD 6 0 SPEAKS Up S Peter who i 1 asked mindedly absent Apicella You know lie Ire Is the Italian gr grOcer who taug taught to us how fry artichokes In olive oil ing And Uncle Donald Dm Bill lS Is very interest aged 6 his lis corner where he had from pre Wallace been sup sup- sa Junior Thanks old man aged 4 4 lq almost forgotten forgotten for for- gotten Bill said my husband I was going to put in Jack more just because Barry without no list i is complete corn com But ut lets let's lit it Bill and finish male make the i the tho interview It ip Irwin family The End |