Show Obese Don Juan JuanIn In Tragedy of Ridicule It must be awful aCul to be fat at In France Trance For if you ou are fat ridiculously fat fat enough h to be char charged ed extra by hy your tailor fat Cat enough to fill three seats at the Metro Metro how how In the world the world are you OU going to convince the love lovel lovely I wife wire of your beat friend that you have the thc heart beart of ot a Don J Juan Juan- Jn burled buried but palpitating with a a. line fine illicit pasion pa aba sion in the midst of your our OUI abundant personality How are ar you going to convince h Ii h. t I that in spite o of your jour our utter devotion to 10 her ller husband what was he lie doing with that blond flapper in the g garden garden gar gar- uden u- u den last night 3 six cylinder heart is 13 really hers and hers alone How are you jou going to convince li h hen that shed she'd better C get Eat t even with your 1 frIend the husband and thit t you rou are hers hera to command ccmmand for tor th that it purpose f In France its it's a a. problem In France the Prix Goncourt goes to Henri Beraud's novel Le 11 Martyre de lObese which Is a book bool about a aman aman aman man who suffered just like that And even when he did land the lady after many months of pursuit over most mosto o of Europe did he really land land- landher her lIe He di did dl not He lIe was abashed He lie was afraid arald she would laugh at hima him a again aill He dreaded to hear her call him again un bon gros He left her with her wifely virtue technically Intact He fled He got drunk And If Jf he tailed failed to merit the approval al of or William H. H Anderson at least he be ought to be looked upon with tolerance tolerance toler toler- ance by y Mr Ir Sumner Of course In this land of or the the- pure purl where every man loves his own wife and her alone and where even the tat rat are married the problem presented present ed b bv by M. M Beraud's book is th r r academic than titan practical l. l But In In Fin jia nee nce- nce Everything fattens the fat mourns Le Mart Martyre re diets sports shower baths loss of ot sleep even war war And nobody believes in the Tat rat mans man's misery He looks so well ell Even when he be lies dead in his hla coffin his friends will look bolt and sa say tay U 11 a aune aune une mine mille This mart martyr r of Beraud's suffered the usual wounds of In addition addition addi addi- tion to the great reat agony alon caused bv hy the Indifference o of ot his beloved belo He heard a man say with mook mool aston aston- as he passed by I thought nil all those floating mines had been removed He learned as he traveled trav trav- through many countries the words with which the fat are rid ridiculed ridi- ridi 1 oiled In man many languages In England England En En- gland he was called a a. Big Ben He lIe was called by other names in Ger tIer man many Holland Ital Italy Itah Hungary Hungar Portugal Portugal Port Port- ugal Sla nU Spain China He waa even even- ridiculed rh in L Latin Latin Latin-at at at the Vati Vati- can call When hen hen he wa was In Rome still purI pursuing pur pur- I suing cuing that woman he took tool her to see seethe seethe seethe the busts of the old emperors and told her how they In spite of or their triple chins and billow billowy abdomens were wre wildly loved b by the ladles ladies about the court But she he wouldn't believe a word of ot it She looked at the busts huss and 11 11 that the old nothing but bons boos gros lIke gros like the martyr himself He lie figured fluTEd that th the thO only rea real rea reason for living was to make lo love lots e and he wanted to ask asle the president of or the republic himself If It he wouldn't be be willing to give up tp the Grand Cordon the Elysee Eiyee and the Constitution in the bargain In return for for- forthe the privilege of changing places with some young oun Adonis of ot a clerk who could set the girls to dreaming There Thre is no such thing as the a ape age e of loving he lie held All ages age are arc that But Hu t what wha t does dON exist and passes is the ape age for heing loved And he saw with terror that he was wa passing that age with nothing to show for it He lie Io was enraged because the husband of the lady he pursued refused to sue FlU u him holding that such suspicion would be bc absurd He lie was Indeed a sad mart martyr r and maybe some lome readers reades will m refuse to with him on the ground ro that hi hi Intentions were not honor honor- able To such his answer would have hav to be that his conduct in th the end if not Dot In the be beginning wa al above re re- re preach The lad lady was w willing III InS InS' He lie Books Needed In Russia O o. Henrys Henry's biographer Dr C C. Alphonso Alphonso Al- Al phonso Smith has received a re reQUEst request request re- re quest from Russia rela el h by a member of the American relief ad- ad which shows how hew utter itt ut- tent ter the Russian Intelligentsia are are Isolated from Crom the rest of the world The American physician writes rites One of or the literary men In iii Itus- Itus sla sia Mr sC C o s r who I Y le leb I T b believe I e s 's r occupies 1 a very vera high 1 place In his is field has et Just sf requested r me to find t out If it there Is any way of f the te e lit literary iii- iii crary men here l any uny new ny books bools from America As you know everyone Everone In This This- sla ha has been blen cut rut off ort from communication cation with the tho outside world for eight Bight years and anti In addition to to for the tho past five years the people PE of the upper tippet classes and cn- cn ala sla have been imprisoned exiled or Of orex cx ex executed ecu ted d Only a few rew weeks a ao alro ro a 1 shi shin load of or forty literary me met i was sent sent out out from front Petrograd without money Otan or Ot an any prospects O of b Besides 3 the e need e of or miscellaneous I ell nl ous Otis literary books bools for Hussla 1 Air hr r. r spoke to me particular ly ii a a- ur ion biography of or O. O Henry Henr He lie has translated trl O O. 1 short hort stories and would like to quote your hook book If It he could coul obtain It and your our permission slon My Iy position here Is II medical relief but If It you ou can e glee m me nun any l I advice e eASto as ASto to how any literature might bo be obtained for tor Russia RusKin I 1 should be grateful to you ou Information Wanted About Gypsies Irving Brown author of or Nights and la Dars s on t the h Trail has nuked asked his pu publishers Harper Brothers to matte make public the fact tact that hn lie Is IB no I lous to 10 J get iEt In touch with who Ian can t KI informs t ica thin tion or In who regard oA would o to Gypsies Gipsie bo be S Interested In iii I Amer In I join joining In The Gypsy p Lore society of ot which he lie ivas recently made mado Amer Amen tran correspondent professor Brown Its has hila Just ret returned from a vacation va ia cation paused w with ti-Ith Ith sonic some nomadic norna p le In Chicago He lie t to travel trA on the She road with this for n a month o reserving P the r ast hist two months t h of hi hl I lt n to take lake a p- p through lr Sn tn for travel e anti anil II h will Mn si Rr el him A n n ii coins pome in n t inor mur iii ii 1 a c t o iino r r of f whom t h li h ariLi n ii his lux and i Laa a on Lh Iho T Trail rl I Grav Graveyard yard W Weddings edding In J Jerusalem f r Tine The w who o ave Kave been having InS fun nt at th the expense or of the lie he os I man man who lio who was married in a a cemetery r probably do not Rot know that graveyard weddings gS arc a regular reg- reg reg reg- ular Institution n among the among th the J Jews of B of Jer Jerusalem salem The Californian chose a tery he said to e the he of oC matrimony but but Frank Fank O. O L Carpenter fer reports quite quill a adl dl different reason for Holy r couples couple being united In the be resting place of or th the dead lead In his liis 1 took look pk on ou The Tho JI Holy Land anti and Syria I the first r volume of Carpenters nt Worlds World's Travels the author RuthI states states- that the Jews believe bellevo sich marriages mar roar rl gl's will propitiate th the th Lord bring bring- blessings on His ills people At Atthe Atthe Atthe the same samo time lime cemetery weddings for tile the me ate held heM extremely unlucky participants so 80 that couples les hato ha have to to be hired to take the risk In 10 one case he reports when I e drouth o t this and epidemic 3 were rife a Jew e and his bride were given Iven c rd d food tot for two years for tor consenting to be married while standing on opposite sides side's S 'S of an lit n open gra grave e The Significance e of Sinclair Lewis Coincident with their republics republics- lion of the earlier novels I by hi Sinclair n g l' l The Lewis l Our Oils Mr Wrenn Jo Jol and Tho Trall Iho Trail of or the tIle Hawk court Prace race and company ha- ha hate hae e ready rondY for free a n S C Si i comprising P an article u c l page The T The Significance Y lf C of Sinclair nc Lewis Lew- Lew is la 18 by Stuart P. P Sherman hennan of 01 th the thA University of Illinois together with witha A n brief sketch of the life lire of or Sinclair l Lews from his birth In a n. Minnesota Minne Minne- sota village until the tho publication othis of ot his latest novel no Rex Beach as Eastern Champion Irom Prom the sport post ort columns one gleans gleane the lIt literary news that George Ado AsIc lost to TIes Beach the Annual East flast recently tnt and d a at West Went e II golf II match g played Pin Plc r The Th sport ort crr correspondent chronicled that I this his ev event nt Is I. the largest team Bench Bead butch g has R It round In I the e of country eighty f r t Mr 1 I l Is a It furl fart worth noting that al although ci- ci I though hough Mr represents the thA 1 Ki t In golf 1011 he hI the Went l tit In fit Clio Inn His Ills latest novel el Flowing Flow ing Gold Harpers runs run true to form bros Authors Author's Books AUra Attract t Notice The appearance each month pf two volumes in the Manaton Mansion Edition of th the writings 0 of John Galsworthy pub published shed by Charles Charles Sons Son Is recalling th the earlier no novels noels els ls to the critical attention of f modern re readers The Thi two tiso latest volumes to tobe tobe be published are The Tue Country Ho House totis s and Island Pharisees Pharisees' hat at tie the lIme time of ot their original publication L 1 earned e fur for their author Jh i of ot a re Tod Today y the the public It tt more nearly in hC rd with Ith th the views of itt If the Galsworthy In prefaces especially written for the e Manalon t Edition t o the theauthor theauthor author tl er speaks speaks' o of the attitude ri which h h largely animated him in the writing of cit It these two books bools A t temperamental temperamental tempera tempera- mental nol to sa say horror hon of complacency conscious or undoubtedly ly pla played ed a 1 part In their writing Society takes Itself for granted very ery subtly butI but I there hr is still little of or a genuine There b but bitt t for th the Grace Orace race of or Jod no go o 3 felIn feeling In to those who do not flot have hll to slave sieve struggle and ami cadge for their livings little power of ot seeing peeing themselves n a tin as th they ml might ht so 80 hn have e been but for tor luck little littie of ot th the Iron Ironic c b l-Je l e turned turnell In as well Mell Mellas as III out |