Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1921, Page 80

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.— ROTOGRAVURE SECTION—-MARCH 13, 1921, AMONG US MORTALS THE INTELLECTUALS By W. E. HILL Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc Ladies of the recently intellectual set love to meet authors and writ- ers. It’s a much simpler method of getting the in- tellectual slant than having to wade through a lot of stupid reading matter. Observe Har- rington Meow, with his back to the wall, being Mary, the débutante, is having a terrible time. Her newest suitor is a Nietzsche fan and Mary is reading up on Mr. Nietzsche. Mary has about decided that the quarry is not worth the chase. Mrs. Mock is always just a little behind the times in her literary struggles. Mrs. Mock vamped at a celebrity never can seem to catch up within a year of what everybody is reading. Mr. Purse and tea by two charming la- Miss Muncie are trying to find what Mrs. Mock thinks is the “Transfiguration of Mr. dies, who want to know Somebody Adams.” Both Mr. Purse and Miss Muncie are positive that Mrs. Mock just' how, when and means either a life of John Quincy Adams or a book by Franklin P. Adams. Mrs. where he ‘happened to Mock, to quote her very words, is completely nonplused! write his wonderful vol- ume on “Feminine Sex Impulses.” Humphrey P. Scharp is the latest addition to the re- cently intellectual class. One of those big, virile, red-blooded men with absolutely no use for a lot of sissy poets and arty people—-no, siree! But Hum- The college intellectual. Cuthber! in his junior a® = 3 i 3 g i phrey P. has fallen for the intellectual gang and : 4 now supports three little theater movements and boasts proudly of a bowing acquaintance with a writer of free verse and a book reviewer. year and there’s nothing he can’t tell you. Can talk for hours on the failure of religion and civilization. Likes Schopenhauer and the automaton theory. The toy philosopher. “Arthur is great on philosophy—Plato, Kant, Spinoza, and Bergson—though he never gets very far. fter a few pages it always seems to be time for Arthur to go somewhere, or else he falls asleep. However, as Arthur will tell you, “It’s a mighty big subject.” . A Three ladies, who have decided that money isn’t everything, attending a snappy lecture on the Einstein theory. “What do you think of Tagore—pretty good? No?” The very modern lady with the homemade Dutch cut, who is The man who always plays safe on opinions. When always a little in advance of the literary game. About five enough people agree that such and such or so and so is laps ahead of Mr. Einstein and the fourth dimension just at good stuff or bad, he will do likewise. Without the present. reince to go by he would be all at sea on the average ook. AT WOy 7\l