Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 33, 18 December 1912 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND Pi LLAJUU3I 4ND SUN TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY. DKCE3IBEK 18, 1913.

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EGBERT MEETS HIS YQUNGKipBRQTHER Sees Him for the First Time inThirty Years in an In- '.. ' dianapolis Hotel. , Softer thirty years' separation C. Q. Egbert, a well known painter of this city, and A. O. Egbert, of Denver, Colo., brothers, met Monday evening at the Hotel English at Indianapolis. It was a happy reunion for the two brothers and it continued until yesterday afternoon when they left for their respective homes. C. Q. Egbert is sixty-five years old and A. O. Egbert is forty-seven. The brothers were born on a farm in Warren County, Ohio. In the thirty years of their separation, C. Q. has lived in this city, Memphis, Tenn., Los Angeles, Cal., Toledo, Ohio, and other places. He has done decorating work in all of these cities, and years ago he decorated some of the large buildings in Indianapolis. A. O. Egbert spent several years in South America before going to Denver. He recently made a trip to Peru and is now on his way home. He is a mining engineer. When he arrived at Cincinnati on his way home from Peru, he met some relatives, who informed him that his brother resided in this city. He immediately communicated with him and arranged a meeting at Indianapolis. . "It's certainly great to meet a brother after so many years of separation," said C. Q. Egbert in talking of the happy reunion. "When I started to Indianapolis to meet him I kept thinking that I would not know him, but when I saw a man in the hotel lobby strolling towards me I knew immediately -hat it was my kid brother."

DID YOU MEET HIM? He was on the street today, all fixed Up spink and span never saw him look so nifty in his life. Kind of stumped us at first to unearth the cause for all the "good look." But law! second thought and you might have known. He "copped" off one of those gleaming swell, belted chinchilla overcoats. The Douglas Tailors are turning out, only 115.00 to your measure Suits and overcoats. No More No Less. 10th and Main, Westcott Hotel Corner. Open tonight till 8 for you. Gymnasium Training. Every person who has received gymnasium training la aware of the fact that an exercise which calls for pain ful effort on the part of the beginner is often performed almost without any conscious effort at all after a certain amount of training has been received Again, it is perfectly well known that brute strength alone does not make a gymnast and that even a simple exercise may offer great difficulty to a muscular and well developed tndlvidual who has not been trained In the gym nasium. The explanation for this is made in an article by Professor Du bois Reymond in Die Umshau. who points out that one of the essential functions of gymnasium work Is not so much to build up muscle as to train nerves and nerve groups to work in proper unison and co-ordination. Flags at Half Mast. Ever since flags were used In "war It has been the custom to have the Bag of the superior or conquering na tioD above that of the inferior or van quished. When an army found Itself hopelessly beaten It hauled Its flag down far enough for the flag of the victors to be placed above It on the same pole. This was a token not only of submission, but of respect. In those days when a famous soldier died flags were lowered out ft respect to his memory The custom long ago passed from purely military usage1 to public life of all kinds, the flag flying at half mast being a sign that the dead man was worthy of universal respect. The upace left above it is for the flag of the great conqueror of all. the angel of death. One Good Way. "My wife," said Mr. Clarke, -sent 5? In answer to an advertisement of a sure method of getting rid of superfluous fat" "Anu what did sbe get for the money? Was the information what sbe wanted?" asked Mr Simmons. "Well, she got a reply telling her to sell it to the soap man." Harper's Monthly. He Guessed Right. "Ah, me." exclaimed Mrs. Nagget. "my shopping was most unsatisfactory today I" "Huhr grunted Nagget. "Trying to get something for nothing, I suppose." "Yes. dear. 1 was after a birthday gift Vr you." Philadelphia Press. Hawkes Cut Glass Has the Reputation of Being the Best We have a fine line of it. HANER, the Jeweler, 810 Main Street More for your money than any hotel in town. THE ARLINGTON 25th Street, Just Off Broadway, N. Y. CITY A high-class 12-story f'.reproof Hotel, with every up-to-date convenience. A few minutes walk to the leading shops and theatres, five minutes to the new Pennsylvania Station, and a few seconds to the Subway, elevated and all street car lines. Rooms $1.50 a Day Up. Large, Light and Handsomely Furnished.

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Foulke's "Masterpieces' erature of the Day.-Handsome

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. (Come True" and "For You." "Masterpieces of the Masters of) Among the first "The Cheshire Fiction," is an entertaining book. j Cheese Inn," the famous old London It is written by William Dudley : hostelry in which sundry of the liter-

Foulke and published by th Cosmopolitan Press of New York. Mr. Foulke is an easy and graceful writer and holds the attention through his manner of presentation as well as the matter under consideration. He has, in short, the narrative style which should be as necessary, as it is alluring, out of fiction as well as in. The great thing is to tell your story. No matter what it's about. Many technical faults can be passed over if the story is a story and must tell itself. But when the technical faults are absent, as in "Masterpieces of the Masters of Fiction," and the story races along on the straight, smooth stretch then you have something with which you're going to sit up late o' nights. Mr. Foulke makes his commentary as absorbing as the latter's object. Especially is this true of "Tom Jones," in which, Mr. Foulke states, j he fails to find "in either plot or portraiture that excellence which should entitle the book to take a pre-eminent rank among works of fiction." But which he proceeds to treat interestingly. So much so that one who had not read the novel would at once hie to the library to secure a copy. Also in his chapter on Tolstoi, whose "Anna Kerenina" Mr. Foulke regards as the great Russian writer's fictional climax, although Tolstoi treated this earlier emanation of his genius with some disdain, counting it as worse than nothing since it represented an earlier phase of his development, a phase which was self-obscured by his later propaganda. Mr. Foulke states in his preface: "A short time ago I determined that instead of taking up any new works of Action I would go over the masterpieces which I had read long since and see what changes time had made in my impression of them. "To do this I chose some forty of the most distinguished authors and decided to select one story from each the best one if I could make up my mind which that was at all events, one which stood in the first rank of his production. "I determined to read these in succerion, one after another, in the shortest time possible, and thus get a comprehensive notion of the whole. "Of course, under such conditions, exhaustive criticism would be out of the question. The productions of living authors were discarded, as well as all fiction in verse." Aside from the interest the book itself excites, this is an invaluable list of some of the literary masterpieces which everyone should read and could be taken as a guide by the novice. Miss Bertha Grace Robie, of this city, has collected her verses, some of which have appeared in print, others now published for the first time, into a volume for private circulation. The edition is limited. And put out by the Nicholson Printing Company. The latter has done an admirable bit of book-making. The cover is a handsome one, in purple ooze calf, with the book's name, "In Memory's Garden," and that of the writer, in broad gilt letters. Miss Robie has the enviable trick of versification and a lilting line that lends itself to lyric expression with resultant poetic eclat. The contents are under three heads: "Travelettes," in which are included a number of verses written while abroad; "Rhymes" and "Song Poems," the latter the words of the familiar songs which Miss Robie has put out from time to time "Mammy's Lullaby," "In June," "When My Dreams WUNDER HOSE & IVH o IR E O A Y DENT'S GLOVES

' Valuable Contribution to Lit--Bertha Grace Robie Issues Volume of Verse.

ary worthies of their day were wont to have their pipe and pint, is one of the best: "Through the midst of London's traffic, Runs a modern, old-world street. A rhyming contradiction, But here past and present meet. Irregular the buildings, Old shops and signs abound, I While above the din of commerce, The throbbing presses sound. "From off the busy thoroughfare Turn alleys, courts and lanes, Where ancient taverns prospered, The haunts of men of brains; Old Cheshire Cheese among them (Where Johnson oft would dine In company with Goldsmith), Now, a literary shrine. "The sanded floor and benches Of seasoned, well-worn wood; The long and narrow tables. Where many times has stood The ever famous "pudding;" And mugs of punch and ale, While over all there hovered The pipe-smoke's misty veil. "That wit and humour flourishes Now, as well as then, Is proven by the "album," With drawings from the pen Of many a noted artist; While those less known to fame, Content themselves by scribbling Just a word a rhyme a name." In "Paris," Miss Robie has expressed the charm of its unconventional life, the first verse "An artist's model was fair Georgette, With dusky tresses and eyes of jet; Red lips awaiting a cigarette. Or an airy kiss." "Holland," "A Venetian Night," "A Morning in Scotland" and the other verses in this series show the writer's sensitive response to her environ, "The Fan-shop in Seville," possessing much picturesqueness. Of the lyrics perhaps "In Passing," is as representative as any, the descriptive effects used for symbolization possessing much poetic merit: "Gaily decked bushes of the autumn's tint, Red with the warmth of the summer's passing flame. Break: into splendor after showers of rain, And these are joys Dark, melancholy brown of gaunt, dead limbs, Flung, ghost-like, from the bitter tree of life, Cast shadows, as they fall, on paths of strife, And these are sorrows. Sunlight and shadow, and the twilight dim, The grayish mystery of birth and death, A hovering a pause a catch of breath, And life is done."

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