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Show . r 4 hand la marriage, and Tesa, believing she had cleared her conscience by confession, took the happiness that waa hers, and Tesa herself had the elemental which doomed her to be her evil destinys toy. he ended very badly and there y enced all modern literature and that HAHE OP- of Franca in particular, served to leave the authorial scalpel entirely un tramYOU BUY meled, with the pitilessly picture Bapho of aa Alphonse Daudet to finish A DIAMOND the encydoypedla of womans shortwhe has Mum Oe to acme comings as harshly as the Madame We have the g roe teat a took at Bovary of a Flaubert began it Dlamanda an Fraalaaa Stones The one Englishman whs has dared aver ahewn In Utah. parallel the whole indictment brought by the Itench has been KlpUng, whose "Vampire, seeming to sum up everything that could reduce woman to Eves original role as the moans of mans ruin, has become internationally tamed with the impressive Burne-Jonepicture of the vampire at work helping to carry its malign significance around the world. All the chargee against this lovely creature, woman, cant of course, be Cast seals am lid toss faesdatiaa af large Or hig Catslagea tala ai alaet ma true; and so they must be classed as asps. baa! asada Gat new. Iasi far Fraa Capy But stranger than passing strange. the prejudice the authors appear to cherish is the tact that those very books which moat severely arraign her are the books that are usually moat Pennywise Peter. popular. Dr. Britton D. Evans, the brilliant And stranger yet is the tact that alienist, said at a recent dinner in nowadays, most of the readers are New York: women. Then there is the cunning lunatic of whom there used to exist a good IN DANGER example at Bridgetown. ZELAYA OFTEN d There waa a youth la to whom the Bridgetown neighboring Tells of on Navy Surgeon Attempts termers liked to offer a penny and the Life of the Farmer Nicaraga nickel uan President , (lathered about him in a circle on market day, the farmers, one after anA young doctor In the United States would other, say: navy was stationed not so very long "Now, whicnll ye have, peter? ago In Nicaragua. Judging from what he aays, life In that country could 'not Heres a cent heres a nickel take yer choice." have been of the quietest And foolish Peter Invariably would Zelaya Isnt or wasnt much of a person to make public appearances, he choose the cent rather than the nickel says. Instead, he was very apt to and the termers before such incredistick closely to his palace and at one ble foolishness would roar with laughperiod almost two years elapsed before ter, double In two, and slap their legs he graced any public occasion with , noisily with their brown hands. " Peter, I said one day to the lunahis presence. Then there was some formality In tic, why is It that you always take the the cathedral of his capital town which cent Instead of the nickel? "Peter grinned a very cunning grin. he could not well avoid. It appears "Suppose I took the nickel, said that some of the cadet corps, made up of sons of the good Nicaraguan fam- he, would I ever get a chance to take Washington Post ilies, conceived fhq Idea that this another one? would be a good time to abolish ZeKeeping Up Appearances. laya. They formed a plan that cer"Mrs. Flnletter and her husband tain of them who would be present In the cathedral should load their rifles had just moved Into a $15 seven-roowith ball cartridges and on a signal house. The first Sunday morning should pepper the president there, as Mr. Flnletter sat on hi This plan was not carried through porch and all the neighbors on very well. The secret got out just both sides of the street sat on their about at the last moment and the ball little porches, Mrs. Flnletter suddencartridges were removed from the ly came to the front door and shouted rifles. A few of the cadets in their at her husband In a loud, vexed tffrn discovered this fact sad tb reWin you or will loaded their rifles with ball cartridges. laTjr When the signal was given the devot- you mrtybome In to luncheon? The ed group arose and fired. The shoot champagne is nearly flat, and you lng was Central American and bad, know how soon a dish of terrapin gets and Zelayas wound was one In the OOlaY" Flnletter toesed down the comlo shoulder. , The punishment was prompt, accord- section and hurried Indoors with "a ing to the surgeons story. The 300 or dared smile. What are you kidding me for? he so cadets of the corps were lined up on the parade ground and one of Ze- asked, as he looked at the rump steak layas trusted men simply told- off and potatoes on the dining table. "Its not you, Hilary, Im kidding, every fifth boy In the ranks. Those said his wife. "Its the neighbors. checked off were shot St. Louis A story la told too of another patriot who hired a room near the plasa Parisian Politeness. In which the palace stands. The house "That the French are the politest people on earth," says a New Yorker, who spends a bit of his time in Paris, "I have always, been convinced, and a recent Incident In a Parisian dentists office accorded me additional confirmation of that belief. 1 entered the dentists anteroom Jnst aa a patient an exceedingly woebegone expression on his countenance was approached by an attendant " 'Whom, maleu,' inquired the attendant with the most sympathetic of Inflections In his voice whom shall I have the misery of announcing to M. !e Docteur? Llpplncotts. ffldk-AGUmKT- WHEN . waa another woman indicted and co feted by an author who, thus far, haant shownThs smaller? prejudices agalast women in his private Ufa, nor beef accused, like Watson, of regarding pe whole adorable sex as being compnsed of any but perfect ladles. The forbidden theme and that at a time when the forbidding meant something wA the whole motive of Wilkie ColllnsT most human novel If not. perhaps, his most complicated one. His Nw Magdalen took the vilest figure w be found in a great city's scourlngs, and exalted the true, womanly soul that lived under the hideou.mess of her manner of life. Cvll Clipjegters Interest. NUMBER of loving friends only at the extreme verge, and death His reader then and now, have are Joining with solicitous depicted aa the only- fitting close for always been free to admit that Collins, relatives to arer that. Wil- the vacillating, greedy, humiliated self in that one at any rate, did liam Watson, the English she carries about through the conclud- succeed la ftory, a woman who creating poet who wrote "The Wo- ing chapters of the novel could hold tMHnterest to the end. The moat severe comment current man with the Serpents Thackeray v t la notorious, achieved Tongue, is not mad mere- literature, which embracea its criti- his most consgcuous success wlth thecisms, made upon woman was in the ly craxy. ' Watvn himself has been trying to critical sequels to Mrs. Wharton's startling story, for the general verdict prove he was neither. The general public has been wonder- was as much In Indorsement of her ing whether he Isn't both, and then social facta as of her artistic skill some, largely along the lines of in- Crldclsm, Joining forces with romance, left the modern society woman only gratitude and petty meanness. But the Authors guild, of which his patches of character, supplemented venomous effusion proved him so dan- with a polite belief In her respectabilgerous a member, being versed In the ity. When such heavy guns as Ibsen history of literature, baa been seeing for action against that dainty butterfly, woman, the general effect comes pretty close to apparent annihilation. That Is what happens to unhappy Hedda Gabler, who managed, with every advantage of beauty and position In her own modest circle, to ruin the men who loved her, drive genius to Its death and end In nothingness herself, all through her Insatiable pride, A temper. Jealousy and selfishness. ' heavy Indictment Indeed, but one which the ponderous and thunderous Ibsen found plenty of other butter' flies to aim It at Merciless Dramatist. Anglin as Helena Ritchie, Woman and her weakness furnish a Margaret Who Has Much to Atone. dramatist so thoroughly as Arthur Wing Pinero with his most effective topics, and the characters most evil of his womanly characters, In his "Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmlth are Becky Sharpe. There, If anywhere, only selections from what seems to be was ample evidence that the author an inexhaustible repertoire of observa- - who paints an evil woman does It for yjSUQDS .qLjkIUc1 but a few. In. the., way , The great ffiackeray could Judge of saving graces, are creditable to and' condemn the shrewd, consciencewomankind. less, an calculating Becky as mercilessly American When, occasionally, "Leah Kleschna, Personated by Mrs. succeeds In making his as though he were on the bench and playwright Fiske. female lead worth worrying over she a criminal at the bar before him. Yet he loved In his capacity of artist from across the footlights, he finds It a scientist might love a rare and as to In him only a peculiarly callous genius very, very hard go further along the and line of approval by emphasising the perfect speclment of species-typwith an eye to business. every stroke and shading he put Into Literature has seldom, if ever, made saving graces. There was C. M. B. McLellan, who his portrayal of the Inimitable Becky a shining success with the perfectly good woman, they say; and It Is des- wrote that Immensely popular drama, Sharpe was done wjth almost loving Leah was Just a kindness. tined, ultimately, to match Mark "Leah Kleschna. thief a lady burg- ' Both he and Dickens must ever reTwains monument to Adam with plain, another to Eve, In gratitude .for the lar, who starts the dramatic ball roll- main monumental examples ' supportfrailties which make her descendants ing by attempting a burglary, and Is ing the theory that the good Woman Is prevented from accomplishing it by be- too tanfefof'Irf'gatger than that the good material. authors are Indulging any prejudice In their expert opinion, as In the ing caught In the act Leahs noble nature comes out against the sex. Both made repeated observation of the critics generally, the good woman la too tame for art; strong through all the complications attempts to depict the perfectly good, and the line frenzy of the poetic Wat- that ensue, and she ends as the bride lovable girl and woman; and It has rer of the philanthropist who caught her mained that both scored repeated failson, whether Inspired by his figas he or sympathies, alleges, by chag- stealing; but she, above any popular ures by presenting rin, over failure to achieve knight heroine of recent years, has a past ures that had no more sallency and genuine life to them than so many hood, as averred by the Asquiths, went that may be called record breaking. There was one woman in Ewgllah marionettes. straight to the oldest and the most Reade and Stevenson. Interesting topic literature can handle romance, however, whose past was Even Charles Reade, of whom a woworse than hers, because It Is a fixed the frailties of a woman. In the universal literary diatribe principle of morals In English litera- man critic declared he made all his against lovely woman, Watson Is so ture that burglary and the other women cats, left figures In his stories far from singing solo that his, al- crimes of the calendar are merely that seem to be alive, and did It purely though the latest, shriek of contumely peccadilloes In comparison with that because of their faults, not of their one womans sin as to which all virtues. Is only part of the chorus. It was that sense of the good woWhat In the world can the other mans artistic futility, as many admirauthors of our time have against woers of the late Robert Louis Stevenman? son believe, wlch so long debarred him from introducing her In his roALL SEEM TO HAVE GRUDGE mances, save as he could limn her In the faintest sketchings. , OST of them,1 It would apIt was hard for Stevenson to believe, and harder for him to say, that every pear, have the crudest woman on earth failed to fill the specwhich any Indictment can ifications of a bring to the bar; and the angel fit authors of womans own only for sinful and fallible man to worsex are no. whit behind the ship. It was equally hard for him, as the born artist, to put his pen to any others In that fatal accusation. In modern literature, at literary adventure whose ample of action threatened to least, Caesars wife cannot be wholly be doubtful. above suspicion and Interesting at the same time certainly not upon the Between the inborn chivalry of the man and the acute perceptions of the grand scale that makes a novel the "book of the year.". artist 8tevenson had to reach matuOne of those "books of the year rity before he could even dare attempt the drawing of a woman; and, when was Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Awakenall Is said and done with him, his s ing of Helena Ritchie, In which the have been exclusively with wilful Helena was very much Indeed An Unnatural Rose In a Strained characters that are male. open to suspicion; the immortal JulCharacter, Mme. Nazi move as Frenchmen Are Unfettered. ius, for a hundreth part of her Indis"Hedda Gabler. would have cretions, The English-writin- g surely drawn his author generalgladlus and chased her all the way to almost an ly hampered by imperious the Temple of Janus. And some other tradition bidding him regenerate his women If he doesnt keep them quite In which the patriot was had the thrilling novels of the same august English romancer depended for their Mrs. Patrick within the dead line of respectability, advantage of having the only available Campbell as The No- seems to feel thrills upon the self same theme. always some measure of window that gave a clear sight of any torious Mra. Ebbsmlth." In the United States, one of the the sense of futility that weighed upon iff the windows in the palace. The Stevenson. But the Frenchman, and patriot watched at his window off and strongest novels of recent years was Edith Wharton's "House of Mirth, Britain virtuously refuses ever to the continental author at large, can be on for about six months, until one day where all American society was drawn speak and has been moet ardently as merciless in analysing her as a ho got a view of the president passing vlvlaectionli t with a frog. .And often- by the palace window on which he upon for types of vain and ambitious, reading for the' past, generation. v Thomas Hardy's "Teas." times he aeatea an artistic triumph vtas spying. Ho fired quickly and greedy and intriguing women, with thedUr-bcrvllle- s "Teas of Thomas the that is imputing la Its repeUant rent-is- again Zelaya waa slightly wounded Hardy's heroine, weakest and Lily Bart, had committed that offense. most Intriguing of them all, her virtue The sfxample of the august Bal- in the shoulder. They got that patriot assailed and withheld from destruction Respectability proffered the saving sas, which has so profoundly Influ and' shot him tea f - - -- er Efcl n s half-witte- f . . . - te ?.hrJetcwob- - rj j e; Ut-ti- e . i - out-and-o- pro-Boe- milk-and-wat- . a Globe-Democr- at Opinion Reserved. The Womans Suffrage Study club has recently been organised in New York. One of its objects Is to men to go to church on Sundays nstead of staying in bed. We do not eel Inclined to say that it is starting out under favorable auspices. "in-da- ce full-fledg- suo-sse- -- Too Fast for Him. At the University of Missouri Is the first working school of journalism la the world. As practfoal laboratory work, a dally paper with telegraph reports Is issued. Walter Williams, its dean, tells of the vicissitudes he encounters In turning laymen Into Journalists. A student was sent in haste to cover a railroad wreck at a town a few miles away. It was almost time for the dally to go to press, and still no word had men received from the young man on ' he assignment In desperation Dean Williams telegraphed, asking why the story was not forthcoming. The reply was:' "Too mnch excitement Walt till fhlnga quiet down." Llppincotfs. A Phrenologist "Fa, what do they call a parson that reads header "A phrenologist my toy." Ges! Then ma moat to ana of those things. Bha felt my head this afternoon aad said right away: 'Youve been wimmfng.' " Detroit ' |
