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Show Novelist's Hard Luck Didn't Escape Notice N'ovelist Upton Sinclair said at a New York reception: 'Ye novelists should never frequent lil-'b society. We are out of place there, and all kinds of awkward ac-ei.ients ac-ei.ients happen "to us. "A young American novelist was invited in-vited to dine with the duchess ot - Marlborough. He wore nt the dinner one of those made-up ties that fasten to the collar button with a rubber loop, and the meal had hardly begun wi en this rubber loop worked loose "' in d the novelist's tie dropped into bis Soap, "He fished it out with thumb and tinker and laid it beside his plate. Then he began to debate with himself him-self whether or not he should wipe Ii dry and put it on again. One thing was fortunate, anyhow nobody seemed to have noticed his trouble. "In the midst of his self-dchute the b;:iler bent over him. pointed his fi:";er at the tie and said In a loud - voice: "Have you quite dona with" this." sir?"" Detroit Free Press. - |