Show l I f THE POET AND I II It I I I THE ACTRESS i 411 J < BAB DISCUSSES THE QUALITIES OF TWO PEOPLE 1 t 1 1 1 NOW BEFORE THE PUBLIC t < tr i tro Copjrieht iml 1 It is I n gool thing to be endowed atones el t at-ones llrth with enthusiasm erhapj h Ji I those people who are stolid and do not allow their fancies to get tho alivan age > b J of them go through lift In a more even A manner but I doubt If they get one EI fjl1J1 half of the pleasure out of everything c 0 that come to them as it vice the enthU t Plastic woman I nay enthusiastic wo 1i than because nthuslasin I In a man Is apt to degenerate Into stillness unless I it < dl grows into hourly likes I and dislikes about the time he Is I 21 Jut that Is I f another tory 11 J When I first read the Prose Fancies of Richard Le Oolllenne I said to my LVJl fee lt t a elf glove a man iho knoa how I f to find beauty In everything and here nfi ehi Is a mail he Isnt ashamed io have 16 I teoe likes and deeply strong dislikes f d J and here a nnn who controls the bt if Lnxlluli I have mt since I man Introduced I Intro-duced to the essays 01 Stevenson It r Jm Then tron here nod there would tM 7 Copyright U98 by 2 Bon louiuf niciuno Ln OALLIE NE I poem with the Somewhat ro comoke lt to J mant I signature of Itichara Le Oal I it it lInne and after awhile file neuer oJ h began to tell not if his grout genlus It that Isnt the way of lieoliapersbut I w lit I I 01 his peculiarities and distinctive Ilk i is polls Ofcourse nObody amounts to I I jPS nllthlng I who tax not decided likes and ip > 1 Sayin and no we are All sa land of I ylng this world Is I free and people iii j 8 can du u they please In It I lull 10 see J IRI i why II n mon Prefers Iollog II Ice tie or his hair 1 a little longer I than r ir I Ord nary or Inellnes to knee breeches i m il or finds n loans Jacket more comfort fm 1 ble he should I not follow life I fancy I JJ r j tO r A week or two ago I took Into my I M trends that mot Strange book Tile I fj I Qu1 of the Golden IBM I say most I 1 trng A great many other people 11fJt t Put it different adjective Irnltih but there t must be Something I else In this world fj il 1 except milk for hube and as II Is I already t al-ready lu its nloth edition there must be If il other people oho like me found In It p much trial uas interesting Vorhaps I Jil Slid ed cer allily I ifid I not approve of J 1 h lerhaps Indeed most certainly I f i cer-tainly I disagree with the author about I i some things and not perhaps and cry t i 11 I certainly I there are some of the mol f 1 0 I I delicate touches some of the most exquisite I ex-quisite poetry In this book that lere I ever written Therefore lhen 1 saw u earn I announcement In one corner 01 Ii the paper that Mr Richard Lo Gdlenne t would read at a certain time at a certain i I l cer-tain place I I presented myself at the box et t JlIb I the theater and bought tile Ilnt ticket thut wn Sold since whn h1J I ties 1 r people read I like to bo near them i I There came the dy and the hour 4 I later on the mo The curtains parted II I ol land allowed n stage set after the fashion 1 f fash-Ion of a simple ngllsh Interior There were a few books on the table In the t I center and beside than a big bunch ot i j 1 111olets In a second a Blender I oung l dm 0 f man dressed In the most conventional I In 1 afternoon dress and wearing n Perfectly i tilting frock coat made a polite low to j his I audience The face was classic to ht i n degree It nas the face that Macllso rfi drew so man Yemen ago when Charles Dickens was his cuter and when Charles I r Dickens was Just about the age that I this man Is The eyes are ptiullarly I ti clear and the hair which oddly enough I you would first think was long Is In f 7 I 4 leallty tremendously thick Inclined to t i 1 wave very black and though worn I 1 h I > f f tt Ii < t 40 f longer than the average man war hi 14 locke still Its thickness Impresses one much mOle than Its length There were u Or Tole tn 01 Introduction and n lmlle pech to the errect that Amerl can people like English People ere gobably IntreIllo simple thIng and ked I 10 hear about everyday nllln as springtime the moon the heart bat 01 the lorld and the world Itself The gre test peculiarity 01 11r Le tlaillenne to me Is I his t nuperiervaltIve mouth 111 mere tone deaf could tell I flat he ald from the notion 01 Ills lips lie nholuty ere its words although he In I entirely tree from gestures ges-tures and has ne tricks 01 elocution lie Is I yt n pleasant reader bill oh what n wrltrl Truly he can make u al lIk I lIre out of u Pows er since one 01 his mot charming descriptions 01 spring makes poetical the antics of a matronly 1lg i followed by her ten little Wits It is I easy 10 understand life rent admiration ad-miration for golden haired 1 Women for he Is I a perfect brunette and yet the lady pointed out as his mile wo dark balled In The Quest ot the Golden Girl he finds that the woman whom hi loves and whose hair Is I golden hns gained this golden tinge through the agency it u little via marked 1 erox He ot llylrogcn so ho asks her to let her hair go back lo Its natural color and die promises to do It saying at the Battle time with that nderful fore eight that comes onlY te womeu 11 A right dear but something tells me that when nly lorl s me all blown again our 1ml t mess will be at an end i I lie asks her I how long It will take for this wonderful hair which reaches 01 most to her feet to lose Its artificial eulu and she tells him atom 10 years lie sjpuks of iiittlnz a lock of Itthat Is one halt eol ten andone halfbrown and he says It ferns to him to repre sent her life only the dark part Is I the gulden and the golden days are the dark time The t1O 3 er go by und for you who havo not read this book 1 am going to nnl le Just the end of It Tmo years did Elizabeth and I know tliu live I that pass th all understanding and day by day the cheftnut upon her head was more and the troll less till the day came that Brig had Prophesied I and with the day a little child whose h ilr had stolen all her mothers gold asher as-her heart had Uialned away her mothers moth-ers life Ah leader may It be long before you neel 1 at the bedside ot her you love bet In tile world and know that of all your love Is left but a hundred hun-dred heart beats while leslde sits Death watch In hand and fingers upon her wrlt 1 Ilusbnnf whispered Elizabeth owe o-we looked at each other for the last time let her he I your little golden girl Anti their Q Mileage e ottllcssstuleovcr her fate end the dream of Hzabctha life was ended Vs I write I heir In the still house the running of little feet n fairy pall r wet and terrible to the heart Little feet little feet i erlups If I follow you I shall find again our mother that Is I lost llethaps 1lIznbeth left you with me that I should not miss the way Could any man write Iht unless he mere a poet Ah my friend If Richard Le LaUlcnnG comes to the town In whith You live go and hear him read If only to py file poet n compliment and Ie hear him tell with a boyish smile on his face that the best explanation he can give ot a paradox > Is that It Is I like truth iIJI IvWx 111 lending on Its head to attract often lion In The Quest of the Golden Girl the author grows most enthusiastic I and li use capitals I tn expr es his athuBan or The Girl Who Work Today sh la I firmly she Is I rich she Is I poor she la l nobody she Is I a great swell she maybe may-be Voter Coopers daughter who sup piles various restaurants with eggs and milk milk or she may be little Mlis Illos sent from a country town who Is I busy nil day long behind a desk Jut you Lie entirely out of the world that Is I out of the fashion unless 1 you buy ever ev-er Ihlnl < possible from The Girl Who Wok For Wer ulth your tailor I ade g wn ZRn you are nobody unless OU deal with the i latest fashionable shopkeeper that IS I to sly you must get your big puffed scarf your IIIIrrow string tie your medium me-dium sized tICk or lhatvr you may loan Ie In the ny 01 scnrf from the Johnslon nnnelt Neckwear company That Is I the business Into which the clever little I actress has gone Imitating n title 1 woman In London You go te the handsome building you ride up several sev-eral Illghts In the elevator and wishing he newest thing In oearC you enter nn artistically furnlslied room and then wohder u tie re the tock Is I There 10 no sign of trade The room ha hn properlY prop-erlY arranged by n famous Boston house decorator and when you speak 10 one of the Pleasant wOIIIn Standing around you ne show the richest air i lell as the nwt mterlals There are picture or mplffl of the styles but your spe clal cart will be mile to order for you and delight of delights you will have one like the one that I ordered whleh cant be copied a darling that has not merelY the name 01 the maker on the bk but Made to order for Hah by the Johnstone Ilcnnett Neckwear comp com-p try That Is I the reason thee mart girls the-e all going there for their eorls That the scarfs are well mad goes without siylng but every worm n like this Individual ownership nnd then too i every piece of silk or brocade or maura or Inn or whatever It nay be that I used In I made especially for this firm end the monulacturr cnnnot 11 the pattern to any one else In America We vomeri arc all selfish In loving that bet which nobody else can get that Is I why veare faithful I to men nthuslaitl 01 course Im nlhul utlc that wu rolVendowment ul birth Jut there are worse thing than being enthusiastic InlhulolII Is nol u bad thing when It induces you to do the right thing at he right time Enthusiasm Is I not a bad thing when It Induces you to give of your sympathy or your money where It Is I most eded Inthulam IF I nol n bad thing win I e It Induces you to stand up boldly for your friend and to show a cold shoulder Ie your enemy Enthusiasm H I not a bad thing when It Induces you to be kind sympathetic and loyal It Is only bad when It 1 makes you bitter of speeeh and cold of heart and I hope It will never affect In that way either you or J V |