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Of a life that only Imagined and strain
ed after effects, that never lived at all;
that never laughed with children, tolled
with men or wept with women: of a
lying, artificial, abnormal existence.
The other day I saw an elevator boy Ink and paper are so rigidly exacting,
intently perusing a work of literature. One may lie to one's self. He to the
I glanced at It and saw that It was world, lie to God, even, but to one's
Oulda's "Under Two Flags." I could Pen one cannot He. You may talk brll-
remember when I first met that book Hantly and still be very much of a fool,
and read It quite as intently as the ele- But when one comes to write, ah, that
vator boy was doing, and I was in- is different! Kvery artificial aid falls
clined to be patient with him when
he took me to the wrong floor, for I
knew that he was envying Bertie Cecil
his beautiful boots or that he was pond-
you. All that you have been taught
leaves you, ail that you have stolen
lies discovered. You are then a trans
lator, without a lexicon, without notes.
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ering upon the peaches of great price and you are to translate, God. You have
that Bertie used to throw at the swans then to give voice to the hearts of
to please his sweetheart , and it struck men. and you can do it only so far as
me that it is rather tragic that one of you have known them, loved them. It
the brightest minds of the last genera- Is a solemn and terrible thing to write
tlon should descend to become food for a novel. I wish there were a tax levied
elevator boys. Sometimes I wonder why on every novel published. We would
God ever trusts talent in the hands
of women, they usually make such an
Infernal mess of it. I think He must do
It as a sort of ghastly joke. Really, it
would be hard to find a better plot that ciousnessthat is abominable. They are
Js in that same "Under Two Fags," so "med to one string and they lie so
have fewer ones and better.
I have not much faith In women In
fiction. They have a sort of sex con-
growing time.
That boy!
A little lad, all fun.
A little chap, all coat.
A round cipher, not know
ing whether the stroke will
go up and make him six, or
down, and make him nine.
It's growing: time with him.
He is burning up fat. This fat must be in as constant
supply as the air he breathes.
It has got to come from somewhere. If it does not com:
from his food, it must come from fat stored up in his body.
He steals it and you say " He's getting thin he's growing
so fast."
Scott's Emulsion will take that boy, set his digest'on
at work, re-build that body. His food may not make 1 mi
fat Scott's Emulsion will.
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and the book contains the rudiments of
a great style, and it also contains some
of the most drivelling nonsense and
mawkish sentimentality and contempt
ible feminine weakness to be found
anywhere. Preachers have cried out
against the immorality of "Ouida,"
and mammas have forbidden their
about that. They are so few. the ones
who really did anything worth while;
there were the great Georges, George
Eliot and George Sand, and they
were anything but women, and there
was Miss Bronte who kept her senti
mentality under control, and there
was Jane Austin who certainly had
daughters to read her, and gentlemen of more common sense than any of them
the world have pretended to shudder and was ,n some respects the greatest
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at her cynicism. Now the truth of the
matter is that her greatest sins are
technical errors, as palpable as bad
grammar or bad construction, sins of
form and sense. Adjectives and sentl-
of them all. "Women are so horribly
subjective and they have such scorn
for the healthy common place. When
a woman writes a story of adventure,
a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn.
mentality ran away with her, as they anything without wine women and
do with most women's pens. And then Iove. then l w bein to hope for
she lacked all sense of humor and will "omethlng great from them, not before,
never know how magnificently rldlcu-
lous her melancholy heroes and suffer
ing women are. Its a terrible curse to
lack a sense of humor, for it reacts on
one and makes one gratify the humor
of every other living creature. Ouida
is Nordau's "degenerate" incarnate.
And the worst of It is that the woman
really had great talent. No less a per
son than John Ruskin advised all his
art students to read "A Village Com
mune" and said It was the saddest and
most perfect picture of peasant life
in Modern Italy ever made In English.
There is poetry enough in "Pascarel"
for a dozen novels. There is some won
derful work of mythology and histori
cal association In "Ariadne." There is
some matchless description In "Wanda."
There are great passages in "Friend
ship," but In them all there Is not one
sane, normal, possible man or woman.
I hate to read them. I hate to see the
pitiable waste and shameful weakness
es in them. They fill me with the same
sense of disgust that Oscar Wilde's
books do. They are one rank morass of
Paris is all agog over the wonderful
improvement in Sybil Sanderson's
voice. She made her season's debut
In Paris a few weeks ago In "Romeo
et Juliette" and they say that she nev
er sang with half such feeling, she is
quite another woman. I should think
twins might be conducive to feeling,
and if they have really improved San
derson's voice so much, I can almost
pardon them their appearance.
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