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0 MULflin UIIHHU HIS MIIIDTOUTE Told Poet Kemp to Make Mrs. Sinclair Happjr Romance Resulting, POINT PLEASANT, N. J.. Dec. 29. Harry Kemp, the Kansas poet, who la living with Airs. Upton Sinclair a mile west of West Point Pleasant ifl a bun en. low. for which he Days $10 U month, furnished, has told the story of his romance with the wife of the radical author. Upton Sinclair is still Harry Kemp's friend, but enip now has a few good words to say about Sinclair since the later, "as he says in his suit for divorce which the Judge would not grant, made me out as a conventional borne breaker." Kemp 1b anything but conventional. want to tell this complete story of the romance of Meta and myself," be said. "It will show ub in the true light and disprove the nasty statements Upton has been making. I hope this will end the whole affair." Kemp drew an amusing sketch of IJpton Sinclair and his "soul states." "You must first know something of Upton," he said. "He is a queer mixture of good and bad. He is a radical when it suits his ends to be a radical, -and he is a conservative when conservative ideas will Justify whatever course he wants to pursue. He has no ense of humor, and he is always raving about genius. "He magnifies everything and worTies himself into what he calls a 'soul state.' When he was in Jail down in garden he thought it was the worst thing he ever had been in, and he weni and had a big 'oul state' over it, saying it was worse tliau Siberian prisons and all that. "I went down to Ardcn last July upon Upton's invitation. I never had any correspondence with Mrs. Sinclair; we never had been more thand formally friendly. "When I got there I found the Sinclair home broken up. Upton had told Meta he wanted a divorce and he had driven her nearly wild. He would insist on her doing everything he did made her diet and live in k tent. He Showed her no affection. Whenever she would want him to carry in a bucket of coal he would do it, but would yell that that was a fine occupation for genius. "Upton, you know, preached free love. In his 'Love Pilgrimage' he put forth his Ideas. "Meta was unhappy and. Upton was so excited about his genius all the time that nobody would have much to do with him. Meta and I began to read poetry and take walks together. Meta and I were having a grand time. We were congenial. "By and by I began to notice that Upton was becoming sort of funny and I went to him and said: " 'Upton, am I paying to much attention to Meta?' "'No,' he said, 'go ahead, and if you can, make her happy.' "Well, I thought perhaps I ought to go, but I rememDerea me aocinnes that Upton had preached and how he had treated Meta and and I loved her. So I remained. "Then Upton came to me and wanted me to promise that I would play square. But he changed his mind too late." Kemp said Mrs. Sinclair later went to New York to the home of her mother. He followed her in a few days rand lived also at her mother's house. Mrs. Sinclair later borrowed $100 ;and with some money he had, they started out wandering through several (New Jersey towns in search of a place to stay until they found the cottage iln which they are now living. He said Sinclair had come to see him at a nearby town, but that he had made him (Kemp) so angry he made him go back to New York. Kemp has a weekly allowance of r$7.60 from a Chicago man who is interested In his work. lie is making little money from the sale of poems. Turkey and Oyster Dressing Saturday evening at Ed .Roser's. SATURDAY WILL BE TAFTS BUSY DAY (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Accomtyanied by a small party of prominent officials and diplomats, President gaft will leave the capital tomorrow morning to fill public engagements in Philadelphia and New York. Tomorrow afternoon the President will attend the John Wanamaker jubilee celebration In Philadelphia. From Philadelphia ho will hurry to New York to apeak at the citizens' peace dinner to be given at the Waldorf tomorrow Bight. Remember the New Years Reception at Y. M. C. A. Come and bring your friends. B4 - U - SLIP Or Get the Gripps Be AETNA-IZED by C 8. Knollenberg AETNA Aecldsnt and

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The Cynic, Who Used to Belong to One, Resigned Be cause He Was Too Gay. People Who Preach Civic Beautification Not Consistent.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "I used to belong to a Browning club myself," said the cynic, lighting a cigarette. "Have one Sal?" he asked. "One what?" "Cigarette." "Oh, I thought you meant a Brown ing club," said Sal. "Your attempts to be funny, Sal m' dear," said the cynic, "sound like the jokes you hear at the Chatauqua." "Or the Elks club." "That certain was a hot one," replied the cynic, "but won't you have a cigarette?" "Certainly not! How dare you! I'm not one of those horrid women who smoke." "And not so horrid either," murmured the cynic. "What'd you say?" "Oh, nothing. Sal." "I don't permit jou to call me 'Sal any more," Baid Sal. "That's one reform you must institute the first of the year." "'Institute a reform!' You sound like civic beautification." "Once" said Sal, "a woman in this town gave notice to me to have my yard cleaned up on May first. Or I'd get a prize." "1 remember of riding by her house afterward," went on Sal, "and I give you my word I never saw a worse looking place. She raised chickens and well you know how they look." "Why don't you allow me to call you 'Sal' any more Sal?" asked the cynic. "Oh that. Why 'Sal' is undignified. I'm old enough to be treated with some consideration " "Yes, I agree with you." "Agree with me who asked you to? It's not that I'm so old, you knowbesides I think it was low down mean of you to say you agreed with me." "I hate to hear such language from a school-teacher oh come, Sarah, 'low down mean!' " "And Sarah is my name. Its a pretty name, too don't you think?" "Sarah was Abraham's wife," interpolated the cynic. "Well what has that got to do with it." "Nothing on my soul not a thing." "Sometimes I thing "you're crazy," said Sal. "You talk so queer." "Anyway I did belong to a Browning club," began the cynic. "Oh, go on,'" snapped Sal, "I see you want to talk about it." "I'd never havethought of mentioning it if you hadn't said you had been Invited to join one and I want"If that's what's made you the way! you are." said Sal, "I'll certainly not Join. I don't know of anything I want leBS than to be like you. But before you befdn," she contin-

ued, "I want to show you I really had "But above all," cried the cynic risa reason for asking you to swear off j ing and stamping on his cigarette stub, on 'Sal.' You see I got a book for "I detest him for his infernal, hypoChristmas and there was the most critical optimism." odious woman in it and when the J "Good heavens, you alarm me," said heroine said to her 'I don't know ; Sal edging toward the door. "Are op-

what to call von.' and she said 'call me Sal,' it made me perfectly sick. I saw just how I must seem to the others. And I refuse ever again to be called 'Sal.' " "Believe me, Sal." said the cynic, I'll never call you 'Sal' again." "Yes, once I belonged to a Browning club," reminisced the cynic. "I was the only man. They asked me because they thought one man would add to the interest and I was invited because I had a high forehead and was known to sit out in the back yard on summer days reading Bernard Shaw. "It was one of these round robin things, you know, everybody writing a letter and everybody else making more or less offensive comments on the margin until you got clear round then you began again. "In instance after you had torn a poem apart, thoroughly disinfected it and hung it up to dry Mrs. Augustus Allingham would write on the back page "I do not at all approve of yor.r position on the sub-consciousness of the how. Your attitude is thoroughly antagonistic to all the most advanced commentaries and hints of a spirit of levity that is not in the least consistent with our serious purpose in wishing to delve into the depths of Browning's subtle nature and apply to our own lives the lesson of his beautiful union with Elizabeth B. B.' " a Ptooeiix

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"Below this would appear with Mrs. Allingham. As a .'I agree i married i woman she speaks as the rest of us, who have not yet swum the Rubicon, cannot. Bertha Brick." "Other marginal notes would be diverse 'Only a woman can understand Browning' 'You have never loved.' 'You are not in tune with the universe." 'We are serious, do not disturb us.' 'If we could understand Browning, we wouldn't read him.' 'We are harpooning for inspiration.' 'I always have an uplift when I read Browning.' "Your soul is mired in the clay,' or "Few of us can ever hope to reach the heights ; nnn whir-v, thin nnpt rPRtPri. His i epicaciousness was only equaled by . i his whereforeness see Dase -:bj, vol-1 . i ume U3, Humbug on Browning. j "The truth is I soon found I was not I wanted. You can't always judge a I IT" . , . . , . 7 i , man by the depth of his forenead nor ... - .v v. v. .,;. ... " i

lue imhu .u.us.uu. ""'"(realistically oclored. representing the mere fact ot his being a man. shepherds the three wise men,

but I don't know what they wanted. "Finally when I wrote something to this effect 'I-overs of Browning are like babies sucking on a pacifyer they think they're eetine sustenance when all they're getting is air ' "I was not thrown out bodily and left to the ravens but it was intimated that my room was better than my company. So I resigned." "Well I don't blame 'em" said Sal. "Now looky here," said the cynic in an injured tone, "After all the trouble I went to to call you Sarah you might show some appreciation of my position on Browning." "What is your position?" asked Sarah. "Oh I haven't got any," said the cynic lighting another cigarette. "Still it is the truth that there is a lot of 'bally rot' talked about Browning. "Browning," continued the cynic "is a writer who enmeshes commonplaces in a net of verbiage that causes him to be regarded as obscure, deep, subtle. "When the average intellect has dived to the bottom, impaled a thought and risen to the surface with it sticking in his belt, he is so delighted with his own acumen in landing the said thought that he never takes the trouble to notice that it is the average thought. Because it is the average thought, he recognizes it when he sees i it. But on the other hand, because he j has had some difficulty in tearing it j from its linguistic moorings he fancies that the thought is great. Hence Browning- is great. j "Browning," went on the cynic was a sort of sensuous platitudinarian -he liked a good dinner, a pretty woman a warm fire. timists as bad as that; "AH optimists are the devil," said the cynic flinging out the door. Hear Prof. Russell tonight, 7:30, at the Y.M. C. A. Stung. ""Ton look worried, old man. What's wTong?" "1 was stung by an adder this afternoon." "Heavens! How did that happen?" "The bank clerk told me that my account was overdrawn." Lippincott's. The Difference. The Impecnnious It Is Just as easy to love a girl with money as to love one without it. The Heiress But it isn't so easy to get her. London TitBits. It's a Sale on Jewelry Tomorrow AT RATLIFFS 12 North Ninth St. Grocery Phoae 1365 VEGETABLES Green Beans Head Lettuce Radishes Celery Mangoes Parsnips Leaf Lettuce Cucumbers Fresh Tomatoes

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customary to continue it each night j and mutterings that you will be glad during the week between Christmas to rush out m absolute terror, and New Year. "El Se de Los Mila-i he cutting down of trees in a,cergros" appears in faded letters on the tatn locality on the Hudson river spoiled wooden cross surmounting the quaint a splendid echo. A word shouted there little church building in the Mexican j was repeated forty-two times, quarter of the city, which, in honor j Undoubtedly the most extraordinary of the event, is gorgeously decorated ! natural echo in the world is to be

with cedar and evergreen. The altar, bto the ot lfle -nnst- neav' with silver and, gold ornaments, offer ings by the afflicted who have prayed mony ingifts, writings and paintings covering the walls, resembles a stage set for a Christmas scene, papierniacne ueing used tor tne mountains plaing Qf Judea and minature f figure s in bisque and porcelain, all the the ! scene in Bethlehem at the manger ! and the chorister angels. In front of I the altar, between rows of chairs ocI cupied by the audience, the "Pastores" j i is played by actors and actresses, the I j sons and daughters, in most instances, j of Pastores' players before them. The j officers, as is the case in the world-! famous passion play at Oberammergau, are handed down families for generations in the same In the Chapel of Miracles hangs a crucifix presented by the Franciscan friars in 1828, having been transferred to this chapel from the old San Fernando Cathedral, and before it thousands have prayed. Like as in the original manuscript, the "Pastores" is performed in Spanish. Much of the play is without literary merit, but in part it is quaintly original, it is teeming with interest from beginning to end, and many of the rhymes, crude but expressive, give a flavor of past J ages to the composition. The Giant Petrel. The giant petrel of the arctic regions will feed on offal until it is so absolutely gorged as to be unable to rise off the ice in flight. Then it runs along the ice if chased, spreading its wings out as sails. Before being captured, however, the petrel will suddenly stop and disgorge a quantity of semidigested food and then go off on a ruu again. If overtaken a second time it will repeat the performance and when once it has got rid of Its dinner flies away. As "Home Sweet Home" Is Sung. She had a voice like a siren, and when she sang "Mid play sures, sand palaces, tho beam a ronme. be it , averse oh hum bull, there snow play sly comb." and so on to the conclusion, there wasn't a dry eye in the room. United Presbyterian. Misleading. "Well, well." exclaimed Nagget over his paper, "that's a queer heading for this article. It says 'Woman's Talk.' " "What's so queer about that?" demanded his wife. "Why. there's only about half a column of it." Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. Zimmerman.

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