Show KATHARINE HOARD 1 TELLS OF HER WORK WORKS tO S Says ys People Do Not Give F I II I I Poetry It Its Just Dues in Their Lives tives 1 5 Chat for bair half balf an hour with Kath Katli ariee Howard a woman who has become become be be- come known around the world for her literary work and who is spending the winter in Salt Lake or sit down rind and nd read one of ot her books and you you will l lave av rubbed elbows with a personal personal- ity iy You will be bo distinctly lY conscious of the rubbing and the impression will 1 last S t. t For or Katharine Howard makes y you u think think It is her avowed purpose In life if to make matte people think and she she does docs I it Jt even when she is being Just herself herself her her- I self when the purpose is is' is forgotten She does It ft too knowing the penalty of the wisdom of ot the Serpent Let Letus Letus us forget the things the Serpent told us a lest we become as wise as ashe he true the Turtle said If if we keep on remembering we may b become become be be- come as wise as he ho and suffer the punishment punishment pun pun- for things that we may do L Let Lt t us us' forget for fear the memory of the future may come to us Yes said th the Grasshopper It will be happier happier happier hap hap- pier so let us forget Which I Is the ending of her Book of the Serpent Ser 1 I pent the first of her works and which being Interpreted seems to say I that the price of wisdom is high but hut It Itis itIs itis is only the foolish who are not willing willingto to pay it I Taking a Rest It has lIas been Salt Lakes Lake's privilege this I winter to become personally acquaint acquaint- acquainted ed cd with this Interesting woman She really belongs to be sure In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York with others who have done things to count who have achieved ved success and won recognition in the literary world because that is in a measures measure the center of or endeavor for many who are writing But this winter winter win win- ter she is taking a rest and is spending spending spending spend spend- ing her playtime with her leer daughter Mrs John Malick 1 Not to waste this playtime however how how- ever eyer 1 Katharine Howard is taking the opportunity while she herself is not devoting much time to writing to getting betting people everywhere better acquainted acquainted ac ac- ac- ac with the new poets She is traveling by slow stages from coast to coast and Is everywhere she stops giving readings from these poets She has has' given a number here hero herein heroin in Salt Lake before different clubs and at at ent entertainments in private homes bomes The poems of ot these new poets are areso areso areso so virile she says so full of things to fo make folks think Everyone must know them And everything she says about these poets and poets and more applies to her own productions The They deal with ith the vital element the vital q ques ques questions ues i lions of life and the important thing is that they deal with them beautifully fully People do not give poetry an ant Important t enough place in their lives and in the world says Mrs Howard Why not the beautiful along with the practical and the te necessary It adds so much to life I a In Introducing these new poets oets and andin andin andin in giving readings from her own works Katharine Howard uses the simple and direct style She does not believe in II elaborated ultra dramatic renderings of them She i Is particularly anxious that the world at large shall know what Miss Harriet Monroe 1 of II Chicago is doing in her ller magazine Poetry Poetry The expression of a fine mind d like hers tiers broadens she says I This woman Is doing a wonderful work Poeta I cw Gather F And Ancl there is Horace Holle Honeys Holley's s Creation Creation Cre and Sara Teasdale's Rivers to the Sea about which she will tell you each with its own peculiar charm ts own message She is is-a is a member of the American Poetry society which has lias its meetings in the National Art clubrooms in New York Edward J J. J Wheeler editor of Current Opinion in the he Literary Digest is the president of oC this society and he wrote the introduction introduction in in- to The Book of the Serpent Ser pent Here is where these men and women foregather these new poets They put leaven and beauty and Inspiration inspiration in In- into life says Katharine Howard There Is a new birth of poetry at this time It always comes with war and this vibrates with the spirit of the period Others in this Ulis school from whom she reads and their works are Robert Forest North of Boston Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology and Regina Miriam Miriam- Bloch The Queen of Sheba r Personally Katharine Howard ismore Is Ismore Ismore more charming than any of her works because one gets more of her at once Exercising the privileges of genius I Just will I wear straight loose things white an au me tile year year round and sandals she laughs I I I love beautiful materials materials mate mate- rials but my people say I Just cut a slit in the middle sli slip it over my bead head and let the garment garment faas fall as mit it will Began Began at Fifty Perhaps the reason I have been heen able to write something which bids fair to last is is that I did not start until un un- un- un til Ul after I 1 wag was fifty when I had had most of oC the experiences of life Its Joys its sorrows girlhood wifehood motherhood with their attendant duties duties du du- du- du ties their heart throbs their lessons I I had always wanted to but there were other calls first l' l For or many years I Iliad had to take care of my father which was Vas a rare pleasure as well as a duty but kept me busy You have to do your OUr duty first Then no matter what hat your experiences have been if it itou you ou have lived up to the best that is in you you have have kept y your our tion All of which comes out in her works Of Eve her Epic of I omen Women John Haynes Holmes says Eve is a superb expression of the new feminism of our times And Lewis J. J Duncan Nothing near its I power nothing approaching its probe to the fundamentals of the question nothing reaching to its heights of ot I prophetic and ethical vision and passion pas pas pas- sion has bas been produced by an Amer ican lean writer niter War Uppermost One of n her r short poems is printed here in Its beauty of thought its delicate touch of things of the soul its tribute to deeds well done it is an Inspiration It was published first in France the San Francisco and through England It It Il is to go next to China and th n to New York for Cor pub pub- I at o At At the present tI time e when v Q q war Is uppermost In the minds of many it seems particularly appropriate LA MARSEILLAISE The stars were talking talking- They were walking along the milky way way way- What are the sparks we see rising rising rising- They shine so well Is it another star in making And He who rules the milky way replied replied re reo re- re plied pIled Yes another star in making They are the souls of those who died In battle battle- y J They sang the Marseillaise l in dying And their souls had energy to rise A new star shall Join our choir choir- It is not a long way from France to hea heaven ven Mrs 1 Howard has several books In Inthe inthe the process of making now which will willbe willbe be published shortly She will be in Salt Lake Jake for an another ther month at least |