Show l bt an f p LICKER LITERATURE AND LIFE ROl Omar the lofty pagan to F FROM Rabelais the railing gourmand and from Aeschylus the Greek to Edgar Allen Poe th the history of permanent literature has in one way or another been closely identified with raging drink and one can just as soon identify Christopher Marlowe without lil his pipe as the t tentmaker without his jug or hale and hearty Francois who said that drinking thus I meditate discourse resolve and end without a flagon of old at his hs side I Not perhaps that it is necessary to tG tobe tobe be a howling drunkard to write a son sonnet sonnet son son- net or drip the no nose in gascon wins wine and till un dawn be- be foro the execution of a triolet but triolet-but but still the history of literature is that its best stuff has not been done by grave and long teetotalers nor by your Freudian livers and the anaesthetic sad old of the world Aeschylus the first great playwright of the ages was a drunkard Anacreon Anacreon Ana Ana- creon the first great lyricist sang songs of Cyprian life where drink flowed freely as the burbling Grecian brooks Poe was seldom sober Baude Baude- laire the Trench French poet of night like Quincy of England upset the social circles of his time a a bit and toOk to td hashish while Quincy took to opium Byron drank and Burns Bunts drank and both were not afraid to live More than one gr great at Roman caesar lived his life on standards made by himself and bno by b byno byno no other Bismarck a pretty shot now for the league was wasa a chain smoker The aut autor or of Dr Faustus held by critics to be a bigger play than any tragedy of Shake Shake- speare's said a man who did not have a love for tobacco did not really love loveto loveto loveto to live They lived these now dead giants and they drank and ate and died And never gave a thought for any special snooping agent of ot a government government government gov gov- gov- gov office and the they her didn't give give- a blessed damn what a of less I vitality might say or think In America also the history of permanent permanent permanent per per- manent literature as well as the tho history history history his his- tory of permanence in other lines has been closely related to a broad and sweeping mode of life now in all conscience conscience conscience con con- science stricken from the American creed Of Washington and his human fallings failings much has been written And Lincoln was no celibate or chicken breast Imagine Grant assailed for smOKing And what of Roosevelt In literature no less than In public life the vital throbbing stuff has sprung up here hero in eras less restrictive than these days Norris who wrote I and established realism on this continent lived in the heart of racy San Francisco when San an JL ran ran- cisco housed a Barbary coast Aside from Theodore Dreiser whose life liCe has been passed in the main in the larger cities of the East before the present Bevo Bev era and whose stories stones reflect an atm atmosphere sphere of breathing reality so breathing in fact the ladies ladies' seminaries seminaries ari aries s of the nation would like lIle to have I him breathless breathless aside aside from him and I N Norris there have been no major realists realists realists real real- in the land In poetry there is Is I 1 I Harry Kemp a broad liver whose days have been as free as those of Burns or Anacreon except perhaps for those he Jie spent in tn a Southern Jail and there are some few others and no mean livers drinkers doers Wh Whether ther the restrictive an and ItI e inanities of current life liCe will result In something meager in in our national letters and nd our national life remains to see e. e Helme Heinie l the country's sol solo platform man for the return of the bon vivant rant in life letters and licker still has his ate private stock Cabell Cabell Ca- Ca bell who writes in Chicago can doubtless doubt doubt- less Was get his there Dreiser has gone to I San Francisco And of San Francisco I they they do sa say And y yet t while these poor hounded folk ran s scamper ing from pillar to post the work of the little lifers creaks harshly out Cabell is stepped on on on-LL a. a m man n too big a too br broad ad thinker Dreiser is ostracised ostra ostra- Is sniffed at and anel Benjamin De Dc Cas Casseres seres the gentleman who wears the mental red neckties and shoots off pistols pl every other line and andI according to Firenza Meehan has got Kot to the point o of high grade t J I where he starts off a letter Jetter with arich a arich arich rich round u and Ben to close himself abject but occasionally rising out of the vein in which hes he's paid to write is picking on his friends and asks if Richard Le Gallienne has taken yet ret to Jamaica ginger FLIES IN THE OINTMENT There would be a lot more folks believe In Santa Claus Glaus If it weren't for a few odd tl things ings Like- Like Red neckties Christmas cigars Copies of Pollyanna Woolen mufflers mufflers' from Aunt Julia And And And- The suppression of of- of Tom and and Jerr Jerry ND another thing which which- impresses impresses im im- impresses im- im A AND presses us more and more as as' time goes on Is the truth of oZ the theory theory the the- ory that modernity of scene is the surest way to 0 literary i impermanence imper- imper er- er It is not net only impermanent impermanent imper imper- manent but Its It's actually ruinous We have cause to know because writing about transient happenings as we are we occasionally occasionally occa ocea- on bright beamy days da refer to the weather as something something something some some- thing to be proud of in m these parts only to find that at when the the- piece is published a day or two later the sentiment is no longer applicable in surroundings distinctly distinctly distinctly dis- dis altered by a stray blizzard rd a cyclone and three or four feet teet of freshly fallen snow It is a athing thing like that which leads us to tolay lay off ort paragraphs which have todo to to- do with anything but the great lasting truths and we guess gaess meb- meb i be now we well we'll 11 write about nothing I jutt but the avariciousness of landlords land land- lords lords and the chronic inability 0 of I columnists nits to meet their obliga obliga- THE INCONSISTENT FEMALE If It it g gets ts' ts much colder says the Uie Denver Post the girls can can soon begin begin begin be be- be- be gin t to put away their furs AGAIN WE SAY LOVE DOESN'T MA MAKE E THE WORLD IT IT MAKES IT GO ECCENTRIC EC EC- CENTRIC Gentleman 42 42 wishes to meet lady ladi- invest small amount in clean business busi busi- ness proposition well established income in in- in come over j year ear one ones capable in-I in keeping simple set of bool books s preferred not compulsory Give information In iii t I first letter Jetter and phone Only those considering matrimony Box 10 i I Post Post S S C I Will WilI some gentleman assist a worthy little south southern rn widow financially I Friendship I matrimony Box Bov 8 8 Post i Am not in very good health want to meet girl 25 go to shows and make life more pleasant matrimony Box 9 0 9 Post Bachelor on farm 3 3 miles from Sterling wants housekeeper housekeeper house house- keeper from 18 to ss 5 years Ira Bennett Bennett Bennett Ben Ben- nett Sterli Sterling g Colo Jolly widow dow 40 years old would like to meet meet-a meet nice nic m man n between 45 and 60 years rears old matrimony if suited Box 2 2 Post a e a Gentleman wishes meet respectable common neat young joung lady or widow between 30 and 36 matrimony Box 6 6 Post a S S Sweetheart wanted object marriage Ben Bert Winter Vinter Dallas Texas gen del Widow would like lile gentleman boarder home privileges 2126 W V. ave The The Denver Post x GRAVE MISTAKE AL IL Y considering the situation sit sit- C CALMLY nation from its several angles angles an an- angies gies we WI e consider we have just made one of the major errors of our carefree young life Ufe We Wo have been inveigled into the purchase of an eyeshade This is not an exceptional eyeshade eye eye- shade Perhaps that is the trou trou- ble It is one of those built in a a. crescent moon shape out of of- transparent green celluloid and fastens on your head by a sharp- sharp edged strip of green celluloid connected connected connected con con- to tile the visor by pins and holes Unless w-e w 8 can cun find some obliging obliging ing friend who has had more experience experience experience with than have we and ard can advise accordingly how to rectify conditions of which we shall shaH soon speak we vve shall perhaps perhaps per per- haps get up some morning extraordinarily extraordinarily extraordinarily extra extra- ordinarily early and set a large match to our major error and hope to nobody ever er suggests again we we save g our e eyes ejes es b bv by the purchase of such a fiendish foible For when we vve pull this eyeshade on our editorial head It sinks cruelly down over a tender part of I our oui earshel ami ti sits there sav- sav agel agel biting grievous holes there there- out And when in a fit of nervous rage we jerk it up off our tortUred tortured tortUred tor- tor ears and pull the visor Isor sharply over our e eyes ejes es we take the thing off In half an hour with a mark snark upon our bur brow that looks as if it It had been made by w wIre Ire or a gentleman with writh an adept hand and a sh sharp edged ed cold chisel TODAY'S THOUGHT The statistics statistics' will show that de despite de- de I Salt spite all the pl pleas as to shop earl early the Lake purchasing pU has his to toda today to- to da day got no fur further her with its Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas bUYing than th the looking |