Show I I Quoted d I By H Hartford Curtis I Copyright 1923 New York TonIc Evening Evening Eve Eve- ning World Press Publishing Co Virtue would not travel far If vanity did not keep her company Ija tYR e C lc This Frenchman of two and a a aI half balf centuries ago was a master or There Thoro were epigram ram I writers before his time and there have been many Today they are known as columnists Will those of the latter survive as have those of or La Rochefoucauld or of oC Ibsen Wilds Wilde and George Sand La Rochefoucauld supplied epigrams eplI epi ept- grams of a a. type few row writers of the present day wo would dare to Imitate I lIe He dipped his pen In ack J when ho he wrote is the homage I which vice renders to virtue andI and agaIn agali In In love we we often oten doubt I what we must believe Ills His pen I was vas a rapier when ho he wrote beCome beI be- be which crimes I There are some come innocent and ven even glorious b by I their renOwn renow n th their lr number and their excess I La Rochefoucauld was was cynical from first to last Ills His epigrams I live however In spite of the fact that cynicisms are art not popular now |