Show I The Artistic Temperament The late William Dean Howells had no faith In tho the Greenwich village doctrine that the artistic temperament temperament tempera temper ment p pardons all nIl things things that that authors nn ant aal actors do not have to behave themselves like lIko other menI menI men meD I III used to know a n poet he said one day at it E Kittery Point This poet was very conceited He neglected kits his wife ite of course His wife once tO took k him to task for philandering She wept as she told how she had seen him drinking champagne champagne champagne cham cham- with a chorus girl when he was supposed to be at work on a new poem He didn't deny the charge II I thought you understood my dear be he said that I am too good tood tebe to te tobe tobe be true |