The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1921, Page 6

“ hd ° ” Stranger Than Fiction Novelists’ Imaginations Surpassed by News Stories of the Week STRANGE ARE THE TALES that fiction writers weave; marvelous their plots and wonderful the intricacies of the action thru which their heroes, hero- ines, vamps and villains pursue their tangled courses. | But, somehow, Old Dame Earth contrives to outdo their wildest fantasies. For proof of this you have but Rewmnarer Ratecyrins _ Acroctetion | to consider two cases that have filled the columns of Pobisshad Daity ty The mar Puomn-| the newspapers for some ten days. vlan Pagasenate Let us suppose that Robert W, Chambers and Theo- dore Dreiser engage in a competition, each to write a masterpiece in his well-known style, and each free to place his characters in as high position as he thinks the public imagination will permit. * * * * i oe ty THE SEATTLE Inquiring Reporter: } TODAY'S QUESTION Which can stand pain better— men or women? ANSWERS DR. LED BAKER, dentist, Mitel Bide; “Women.” DI, EDWAItD J. J, ALLIEN, den. tit, Green Bldg: “I don't see much difference.” DR. HENRY HM. COLLINS, den tint, Cobb Midge: “I should say worn en ean stand pain better, but most of them won't DR. LOUIS ERICKSON, dentist, Seaboard Bidg.: “If there's any dif ference it's probably in favor of woman,” DR. RD, LANGSTEAD, dentist, | Lumber Exchange Bldg: “Women.” * * AMBERS, borrowing slightly from David Gra- ham Phillips, fixes his plot as follows: The political boss of a great state, whose name had been before the last convention of his political party as a presidential nominee, is discovered living in adul- tery with the wife of his nephew, to whom she had | been married that she might bear the politician’s name. In preparation for a cabinet appointment, he x» decides to send the lady away and take back his wife and children, who are residing in a distant city. At the last meeting between the clandestine lovers a shot is fired and the political power, “maker of presidents” land rising national figure, goes to his deathbed with the question unsettled: Was it accident or murder? What COULDN’T Chambers do with that—with a OUR DAILY FICTION Once upon a time a fellow Acquired a quart of the real @id-time bonded goods. He Wrapped it up in paper to take game home. On the way he Stopped for a bottle of ginger ale. at home. get aboard a street slipped on a banan He already had some ice As he was about to car el he and . making and solving mysteries, and his own expert hand to model the love scenes and the thinly veiled ——s %| suggestiveness that makes his stories so popular with “When De Villiers made his para ‘the editors of the Cosmopolitan? Bute jump not long ago ants} “Of course,” you would say, “that never could hap- Pe stetittne Ane ckactcee wre} pen—nothing like that could occur in the life of such ee ce Wane ue in on la man as Chambers describes.” fold ce the pllovs tent nat winet| But Old Dame Earth fools you there. For that’s con & safe voyage. That was the| exactly what happened in the Jake Hamon murder 3 mand pe nae eld since ™*| case, that resulted yesterday in the acquittal of Clara _ Best he could hold last ¢ ’ three jacks” Smith Hamon, after a week of sensational testimony was only the bottle of er ale. : ie ciee canes that carried the ramifications of the Oklahoma boss’ © Home Brew's Boedal erein and |amours to the very doors of the White House—for move, iar ac emaiee Jake Hamon’s widow appears to be an authentic rela- 4 By Hank Klay |tive of the Hardings. (What Has Preceded: We introdvend | irl sitting on a bench in blown flowers were aay. Did Chambers ever imagine a more startling story? =| We think not. A cburch del! was se ee. eS Od gad and innom Qe ous | D)REISER, GOWAN with the story from ’ 4 tae Bee oe in our supposititious competition, in fihat’s the dapper youth) fick-| chooses a different type for his masterpiece. Us- 1 the tender shoots of grass with his|ing something of the groundwork of “The Titan,” he et to be looking ‘* | inv#gines an all-powerful financier, the president of eel Zhe one gtr! tn ten ml bed greatest Te Pour mse on \ ~~ His the face, hale, fonnt Perten:| theme, as usual, is unhappiness and love. He pictures tat woserecs Cresture! Ace to| the wreckage of the financial wizard’s home—intro- duces his heroine as the daughter of one of New York’s oldest families—and breathes suggestions of a mysterious co-respondent—a “bronze Apollo,” a Bi ict og po — of va bane og mint inter now the guide. rough woodsman jo. Mim and sn'the instant toox| He turns out to be a polished, cultured gentleman of the joy out of the early Spring / the old French school, who defends with dignity the ‘The dapper young chap was a gen.| lady accused by her husband of infidelities, and leaves —corgbegte pk eet apt one wondering whether, after all, the banker is not a to the girl, she being a total stranger | Victim of hallucinations. Add that the lady, althd Fre am. but the urge was too srons:/over 40 and the mother of three childyen, retains her Who believe that “nothing venturea, Youthful beauty and is as charming as an ingenue, an: eam ,cained” spplios eaually 9s] you have a story which Dreiser would find difficulty i: the sterner fields of politics and busi | making plausible. Yet that’s the story behind the James A. Stillma: divorce case—the husband, head of the great Nation (NOTH: We would give you more to al City bank; the beautiful wife, a daughter of the MUIR necks asd prose cur oftie ‘«t James Brown Potters, famous in her own youth as the | beautiful “Fifi”; the Frenchman, the manager of their ie Bre going to a dance) . oa Bad: Tack of an introduction stands be tween me and that which I have Yearned for so long. Shall I speak you and frighten you away from| forever, or shall I pass on and| never see you again?” | ht E ens ciriaroiaren | Canadian estate; with incidents as exciting as a raid F: ANSWERED |on the estate manager's home by private detectives, in 1—When the white men came to! i H ‘ . eres soe wiite sen came ta age shots Neos fired, — pictures pee Sep sate said Red Men, but very fow Knights of tO be incriminating, were taken away at the command Pythian Oe | of the enraged husband. 2—The ved $24 for) * * * Manhattan Isfland, which te the} 1 Futh is stranger than fiction.” Byron wrote it, and ot price of a Manhattan eock-| many, nO doubt, had said it before Byron. These two Tl “Walther Malete. Se creditea | Unusual cases that are just passing from the news with the remark: “I may smoke, but | bring home again the truth of the old proverb. thank heaven, I dont pound them| on the back of my wrist.” Sai sy on Re ° 2 or A ae 4—The wife of an Indian is called HE INVENTORS of the airplane and the subma- & squaw, except among the Crow In-| . . P . * Rhone che ie known os ai rine have outstripped the imaginations of Jules Squawk =. : | Verne and Mother Shipman. Py Riek oo rg ing get aR 9 er 99 come from i, | spirits in the future world or beings on the other plan Loe WRITING cong (ts—and while the average editor and the el en a Postcard to keep the postmaster reader may not believe these things, many men of iat ae te |scientific minds have faith. i fo use in writing to a boarding: | About the only great imaginative novel that hasn't trunk for the rent!" ¥F\ been surpassed by fact is H. G. Wells’ “War of the j setalt,'t Donte to ro napetpeny hg lls tae —. should ty aggre from Mars S in a fleet of wingless airplanes and lay cities to waste Proper salutation to a Make tt a dull reading in a breach of | Bromine wot |with great swords of compressed sunbeams, it In an anonymous letter 7 4 toa newspaper is it better to sien 1» | WOUldn’t probably keep the world a-wondering for “Vox Populi” or “Old Subscriber’? more than seven days. _ The Salt of the Earth of a letter, carried in one’s pocket R. HERMAN ADLER, noted criminologist of Chicago, for a week after you have been re. quested to mail it? P. 0. HINTS 1—Lrtters addressed to Tombstone, Ariz., are apt to wind up in the dead Seite? office . says there are three cla ‘ 2—The special delivery stamp/More bad than good in them, those that have more good mers = boy ge bic yele, but the| than bad in them, and the “fifty-fifty” people who posed lor the pic 2 T ar fhe pA ” f ol nablimed of picture has) There are not many “very good” and not many “very B35 abGreteing « friend in » ¥ bad,’ Dr. Adler but there are “a vast majority” iy prison, it is always best to use his| the “fifty-fifty “They are neither impregnable fort pen name. | re of integrity, nor of virtue.’ ” 4—"Please remit,” written at the » people ‘ itv.” bottorn of the letter, means that you he Pet ple who make up this majority,” asserts Dr are shortly to have some corre-| Adler, e fixed habits, fixed intelligences, fixed socia’ spondence with a collection lawyer. 5—In sending exe» by mail, break age can be avoided by first hard-boil ing the eggs. reactions, and fixed aims in life. earth.’ ” And it is only when this “salt of the earth” gets shaken eee |up, by war, famine, panic, or other chaotic conditions, that MUCH TRAVELED the country experiences waves of crime, epidemics of dis aa eee Se ee were tocking order, riots, revolutions, mob rule, and the nation take: Se aetion a step backward in civilization. “Ain't this just lke hell?’ ejacu.| But glory be! the “salt of the earth” doesn’t often per |mit itself to be shaken up. It is rather “fixed” in its ways They are the ‘salt of the lated a Yank. “Ah, zese Americains,” exclaimed @ Frenchman, “where have zey not have been?’--American It ts well that we have not congress on our hands while we're busy whi; Weekly. Legion ping the baseball teams into shape. . +. { The Danville, 11., woman who| German President Kbert “urges dignity,” says a cable ng fasted to force her husband to adopt | Payment? gunn! shesas Mion in ack her religion ix now in a vence. We i don't know bow ber nusoand is | Too much bayonet prodding may bring Russia to the Rhine dash of Anna Katherine Green's inventiveness in ‘ s of citizens, those that have! Letters to the Editor— ’ fer « stencil, | ee WHO GETS CREDIT | auger the message of the Statue 1 & healthy looking woman of 36.|¢ of Liberty by erecting in New York |! Ll owae a FOR RAILWAY PROPTTS? Editor The Star: I have been a|® subseriber to your falr paper since April, 1914, and found during t period many good and just deeds, due to your credit, thru your daily paper Having read many letters various 8 people, also y« good edit on our street car sf tal uation, I, too, would like to write fow w Fr. that day you ¢ontinvousty state r lines are pay 2d inwue states per month fr, Mr, Editor! iv ot 1 this credit? | Surely, some man deserves it, to take a “rundown” $15,000,000 enterprise | and put it to the front. Why pot tee a small space in your paper and tell} the people who do not know that the 250 per month Stone Webster man (aa “Ole” puta it) one who has made good, and excesdingly emaller salary than some | lenerven the credit on an of our past mayors. Stand by him, Mr. Editor, It ts your duty, as well as every taxpay- ere Cont to expone those who are try! o kill our street raliway, not need one of | salaried managers we read about | ANDREW M. 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