Show I ECCENTHIC OSCAR WILDE He Favors Reducing tho Masses to Bloutai and Bodily Slavery I called lately upon Oscar Wilde at his apartments in St James place It is here he receives thoso whom he wants to span the long drive to Tite street whre he has a charming house over whose ijcsthetic penates Mrs Wilde hid beautiful wife presides Mr Wilde it is well known has abandoned his Fauntleroy costumes nul now dresses as he imagines in fin de sicclo fashion He wears a long sack coat It is of gray Scotch cloth It reach so nearly to his knees His cravat is anornicns His hair is long and parted on tha side His cuffs are many sizes too large for him and are fastened with Sinks He wears golden chain bracelet Atfahpd to it JT i a heart shaped locket Tli 1I f1 f hancL1a rF = CtU 3 tho nail jUifli conspicuous rings I a ked Mr Wilde if he would eve go again to America He said he had not decided 1 had fully intended too to-o present at a performance of my croa edy A Woman of No Importance by Rose Coghlan at the Fifth Avenue theater the-ater said he but the dislike I have to be intcrviewirl by inquisitive reporters report-ers who make no allowances for moods has kept me from making trips I shsll go to France soon I am content in its atinoschore It is sympathetic r gs pf Mr Wilde how he works I am not ablo tQ write a line he said unless I feel inspired In order to evolve anything I consiclei worthy of myself I must feel that I am possessed possess-ed of my subject I seldom write dur I I lpg the day It is at night when all is EtHl dead almost to the writer thfij fhp f mind may soar above earthly considerations considera-tions In this 1 follow tho maxims oj Gustavo Flaubert Does this apply to every one 1 1 asked I do not believe in equality he replied re-plied The world would be far better off if only few were in command and tho masses were reduced to slavery mentally as well as bodily In each century only three or four men should rulemen of geniusand these men should be allowed to do exactly ex-actly as they please f Why Because they have genius That is superior to human It is anything a subtle something that is a spark of divinity di-vinity It should oxcuse vagaries faults weaknesses oven crimes 5Vhen asked whether he applied his theory to women too Mr filAo said I like to detect intelligence in men I do not liko to find it in women Their mission in life is to be beautifulthat is all Beautiful women in Wildos mind ought to have the same privilege that men of genius would possess in the ideal world he describesthat is to say there should be no restraint put upon them No laws of country conventions of society so-ciety or prejudices of class should tamper tam-per them Kate Fields Washington |