The evening world. Newspaper, March 10, 1919, Page 12

Poet of Spiritual Love nd Aethereal Philosophy YET MAURICE MAETERLINCK Takes an Everyday Wife cs 7, is 4 & Flight, Perhaps Explained by This Gem of Philosophic Contemplation : Privileges and Prerogatives of Love e Strews the Path of the Most Uninteresting Lovers With Innumer- able Jewels and Favors.” ts = | . Wit what be himself once described as “tho hostile madness of love.” Furthermore, it's a woman. Poets may say what they please in rhyme RBA vers trop libre about the thin-as-air and pale-as-water fancies that they “love.” But when it comes down to a question of plain matrimony | they act like the rest of us and marry nothing but women—unless they happen to be women themselves, in which case they marry men So Macterlinck, although he has lived fifty-seven years and spent most “9t them in philosophic contemplation, writing books about Wisdom and ity and Destiny and Happiness and Nature and such like, chooses a exd-blood woman, age twenty-fi for his second marriage, very as ho did for his first. And he calls it the “hostile madnes ~ © Her name was Renee Dahon, and she might be Irish if she were not French. Her home town {8 Nice, and #0 is she LL, there goes Maurice Macterlinck again, plunging right back Also she is an actress and likes what Maurice writes—a promising start for anybody's weeks ago the poet's first wife, - Pe] Beomfortadie and not too poetic ma-| ¥!th innumerable jewols and favors Didn't Didn't of the pocts who write So beautifully about love find it like that? Isn't it true that the Green- wich Village passion poets need divorces every now and then #o that they may continue the “quest of the ideal? But after all, it must be admitted that most of them are fairly moder- ord Byron find it like th: most © @r6n, divorced bim in Paris. Appar- ently he considered five weeks plenty MGR enough to de lounging around | without any “howtile madness,” so he si Renee to go out in the country to Wiage, where four villagers wit- Smed the ceremony. Romance? Maybe. But if a man his life writing romantic plays|t*. They don't marry xs many spiritual nd aethereal phi- | YomeN as they write about om ot teva entine ‘a Maeterlinck made Lanceor say: Ly, why shouldn't he in his twi- marriage consider the substan- lems? Why shouldn't he pre- @ Woman who knows where to find | jearpet slippers to a “princesse loin who doesn't care where they ‘What is the “hostile madness” any way? “I hold your hands and your eyes, your hair and your lips, in the same , kiss and at the samo momont, * © @ My arms are so surprised.” But he didn't get a new wife that time, for he had one who was so pro- foundly wise that she wrote ten com- mandments for wives in general, one of which was ‘Wait. Let's be quite fair, Mact-| “Don't fondie your husband before But meal time. Kissos to a hungry man . ‘was talking about bees when|.., soap bubbles to a parched made that phrase—talking about | throat. but doing it in terms of postry,| Says Joyzelie ih “It is ordained, then, Going it, no doubt, after an excel- that love strikes and kills all that Breakfast supervised by the first) tries to bar its way? Sieke, Mac:erlinck, who held this truth) Answers Merlin: “No, Juyzelle, 1 That poets are/do not know. © © © Lot us not ‘Be self-evident: z make laws with a fow seraps picked and must be fed. t Fashions for a Whole Spring Da MORNING NEGLIGEE OF UNUSUAL STYLE—AFTERNOON WALKING GOWN OF SMART APPEARANCE--EVEN. NEGLIGRE OF PINK CHIFFON WITH FIOURRD N AY NY \\ Nata Ws 4 5 \ \\ NSB NEED BS : A\\ ZN WX Ly] YG GOWN OF STRIKING EFFECT—ALL IN THE LATEST MODE. rr | 3 EVENING GOWN OF IRIDESCENT GREEN MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1919 Better Than Movie Thriller, Adventures of Capt. Bott, Aviator, on Eastern Front Was Shot Down, Wounded and Captured by Arabs, Who Debated killing Him. \ Shammed Insanity to Fool His Guards and “Bo, after his egg-as-you-Ifke-them | UP In the darkness that surrounds our fhis cafo au lait, he wrote that d description of the “nuptial of the queen bee and her lov- Remember that wedding? gummons her wings for one final and_now the chosen of incom- b1M forces has reached her, @eized her, and bounding aloft united fmpetus, the ascending of their intertwined flight for one instant in the hostile of love.” ng about bees, he was, but gecond or third paragraph was ef passionate interpretation from Sif» to human life. This was no ram treatise on aviculture. schoolgirl who read it, and ‘of them did, knew it was poetry ‘know that the poet was talking it love. it why, ob, why,” demands the irl, “can't these love poets what they preach and get with their original wives?” there you are, Don't make laws, Obey that impulse. Too much darkness about your thoughts, Might make a mistake if you lean too heavy fly on your own philosophy. The main thing, Maeterlinck holds, ts to increase your sensibility, It leads him to write an essay on “Our Anxious Morality," where he says “The man who enrichos his sensi bility enriches his intelligence; and these are the human forces that al- ways end by having the last word.” ‘The cablegram indicates that Renee, the new brido of the poot, began to “enrich his sensibility” about eight year ago, when she and Mme. Maet- terlinck No, 1 were playing together in “L/Oiseau Bleu"—No. 1 as “Light” and No, 2 as “Tylty Georgia's First Settlers. HB first white settlers in Geor- gia landed at Yamacraw Bluffs, on the site of the future city of Savannah, 186 years ago, and the event is now annually commemorated as “Georgia Day.” James Oglethorpe was the leader of the colonists, who made the trip from England in the good ship Ann, commanded by Capt. Jobn Thomas, and the party in- cluded thirty-five families, besides Gen, Oglethorpe and the Rev. Thomas Bosomworth. Through Mary Mus- grave, the Indian wife of a Carolina white man, the colonists obtained the consent of the Creeks to establish a settlement, Mary acting ay inter- Just a week later the first was commenced and the set } | tlement that sprang up on the spot became the city of annah lit is noteworthy that Hebrews were among the first settlers in Georgia, | Forty Jews were sent out to the olony and reached Savannah in the July following Oglethorpe's landing. A government was soon organized, and of the first acts of the trustees, passed {n August of 1733, was to prohibit rum in Georgia, Be- fore the year was passed a party of Saxons and another of Bavarians reached Georg’ he blames it all on “la Na- " with a big 'N." Liliten to this is also in the bee book: Nature is always magnificent Gealing with the privileges and wes of love. She becomes y only when doling out the or- ‘and instruments of labor. She claily severe on what men have virtue, whereas she strews the of the most uninteresting Jovers FOOD OOOO OTHER SIX WEEKS OF LAUGHS Evening World Readers one ORE DERE MABLE LETTERS®, ® Lieut. EDWARD STREETER® | PLATFORM SCALE FOR MILLERS. | A recently patented platform scale They Begin ON THIS PAGE 1 WEDNESDAY sacks to be accurately weighed re- 1} ® ‘for millers enables the contents of| gardiess of the amount of grain or flour that may be spilled around the CHIFFON AND CORAL VELVET COAT. SRQUING AND ONEEN TULLE. A . A : Escaped ina Train Wreck. Captured Again, Escaped by a Trick With ° Aid of a Greek Waitress. Hid in Constantinople Until Another Girl j Helped Him to Escape. | j By Marguerite Mooers Marshall NE of the war's most thrilling stories, a story eQually compounded of O tern intrigue and mystery and Western resourcefulness and patriotism, has Just been brought to America by Capt. Alan Bott, M. C., of the British Royal Flying Corps Capt. Bott is the author of one of the most compre hensive and interesting of the books on war fiping. “Cavalry of the Clouds,” and be has come to this coun try to tell us more of the accomplishments of the only effective “cavalry” in the great war—and, incidentally | of his own remarkable experiences. In 1916 and 1917 ; he flew in Franee with the particular British squadron . most feared by the Germans and most appallingly deci mated by the hazards of battle. Then the boy—for | despite certain bluis cars on forehead and cheek and jchin, thi ight, blue-eyed ace looks even younger than the thir odd years to which he confesses —was sent to the eastern front With @ smile as childlike and bland as Bret Harte Chinee, be told me |vesterdaysof his adventures after h's “ss capture in Palestirio in April, 18 -- ; | Before he finished [ concluded that 4 even as with the heathen Chinee-—the H smile merely amouflaged exceeding | ? |self-poxseasion and intelligence ; 1 had followed a plane twenty ; |miles over the enemy lines in Pales ; }tine.* be began, “and | nearly bad it} 4 |whea two o@er machines, that had been ambushed in a cloud, suddenly |dived on me. Several machine-gun |bullets bit plane, my petrol tank | Was perfotated and began to smoulder. | |In the circumstapées there was | nothing for it but to go into a side jsp and come down, The cman |there is rough and hilly, and I had no chance to pick my landing. When |m machine hit the ground I was| \ | pinned under my engine and lost con- | si jousness. | “When I came to myself, unable to muscle, the stars were out and i “ up of bs stood around me. \ wer berating whether it betes let haat es ia ay id be tier to kill me for my | Penter's shop we had arranged to use AFTERNOON PROMENADE GOWN OF BLACK hes or sell me to the Turks, Sud- | #8 4 h ais place. I was wearing cl- WESTERNS AND WHITE TRIGOLETTE ELABORATELY EM- Jenly the Turks came up, drove them clothes: furnished by the Dutoy OVER Ein Lata _ BROIDERED IN BLACK ROPE SILK FLOSS, Praaeke ued Ee, Dn, so there was nothing to rts + was d in the thigh ana | ™ark me as an escaped prisoner,” — ee eemerremmmrnrsineen |i 08” aid for me, the Turks | ..°° ‘ Sete ats e ’ e ‘of Mtinople several weeks, studying ' ne decent Austrian Ip Big Guns or Bullets Couldn’t Kill F Ply ob too | Ramee ane halping ste tae grote h While at the | dish of intrigue to detach the Turks | heap: tall my d to escape by climbing from the Gertnans, whom the former | 5 Hi jover the wall I had an idea that I! pordially ted, It is said on excel- American Doughboys’ Sense of Humor °::°.°.%°%i02 8 8 om inti es our own force But my leg was too | armistice between the Turks and the | real an a3 ad not got 200 yards} Allies was directly due to the subtle i 7 rom the hospital when I was cape | propaganda sscaped B “RB And There Was Plenty to Make Them Laugh; Capt. Swan Tells of Balloonist Who tured ny | Brapaxadde: of eacaped: Gritish! Drike * . * us taken to Nuzare | “Then a gim helped me to ae Won a Medal for Coming Down, of a Movie Man Who Captured Eight Germans ee ee ee tana ama contiaeed ene iss | With His Camera, and of Borrowing That Brought About a “Pantless Day.” his first trip, won the Croix do Guerre “for coming down;” how «a Yankee moving picture op- erator captured eight Germans and brought them into camp with his camera; how “Pantless Day" was kept at the front in France—these are only a few of the amusing tales ef Americans whose sense of humor dould not be killed even by big guns, |» told by Capt. Carroll J, Swan, U. S. A. in his intimate and delight~ ful book, “My Company.” It is the first book by an officer of the Ameri- can Army who shared in the actual fighting on the French front, Capt. pany D of the 101st Engineers, one of the earliest outfits to see service, and with an exceptionally gallant record, “My company” saw some of the bit- | terest action of the whole war in the n advance during Foch's | first Americ | victory offensive. Yet, in their tight- H” an American balloonist, om Swan's company was Com- Jest pinches the spirit of his men, |says Capt, Swan, was always: “Thank God, I'm here, I'm fit and |rm in Uncle Sam's uniform! The jonly place in the world for me this night is right here!” | | Still another of his tributes to the | American doughboy this one—-sums up splendidly the kind of fighters we take such delight | welcoming home American 3 Ja great soldier—he digs with his left hand, fights with his right, and laugh, all the time." from the French, in | One of the laughing fighters tn “My | Company” is one Lieut mame to France as a casual officer and Donahue, who in the balloon service, although }had never seen a balloon in his outside the Brockton, Mass., fair he life of the cable, fifteen hundred metres, writes Capt. Swan, “Suddenly fou Boche planes appeared on our right. All our anti-aircraft batteries opened Up and the air was dilled with shrapugl | Was promptly detailed as an observer “We watched them go up to the end very dark and damp dungeon full of with a fellow pr also full Bott, “Lean’'t say much about that just ! now, but there was a girl in the Eust oner {and H, KB. So tierce was the on-| situation was, and turned the crank} SOME ONI5 used our tooth brush— « who had been an Arab spy | Who played the noble part of Kult |slaught that the planes could not of the camera as fast as he could. and—left the flavor of onions in it. tha@British. J protested to the|Cavell in Belgium, Another officer closer, This was apparently a camou-| Shrieks and more ‘kamerading’ from | + SOME DAY German authorities and was given;#"d I went aboard a Russian fishiug flage, for, as aj! our fire and attention] the Boches. They thought he had a| SOME ONE WILL GO TOO FAR! was directed at these planes, a fifth,|machine gun on them! It was a| ‘This sign did much to alleviate th a little fellow concealed in a cloud] laughable sight to see this moving] situation,” records Capt. Swan aboye the balloon, darted down like a| picture man marching behind the| And another warning sign was put shot eight Boches, all their ‘hardware’ on|out by the Supply Sergeant when the “The balloon burst into flames| him, and they carryig@g his moving|men who had been working on barbed from his incendiary ts, the ob-| picture apparatus.” A wire pestered him undvly for new server ‘hopped’ in a chute, the] Some of the boys in the American |"ether garments to replace their torn ones: THIS IS PANTLESS DAY. NO N TO ASK FOR WE AIN'T GOT NONE. “My Company” is published Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boche shot several rounds at and then fled back home, “‘Mike’ Schoenly, our company| clerk, was on the spot when the para chute landed, He helped Donahue ex tricate himself, ‘C , lieutenant,’ he them, | Expeditionary Force may have taken Vrench brides, the cables have hinted, But the chief worry of many ja youngster in “My Company” was! |that somebody at home was stealing | his sweetheart away. And at length ‘EM by een et ee nega eencaitnatnn sy nano FF 4 M eer sloop, which a lady thief, an interna’ several other criminals—besides our- selves, We stowed away In the wire- less room. “We were to go to Odessa, ‘Tha jerew was Bolshevik and mutiniod, holding us in the middle of the Black Sea for several days. Finaily, reached our destination, I had bough: a Russian sailor suit on board, and in Odessa a person to whom the girl in’ Constantinople had given us a letter furnished us with forged passports solitary confinement in a room above also had ground. I had rather have been with the for solitary con- finement to do but think 8 passengers onal spy and almost Arat with noth bad. Finally | was brought to a little town in Asia Minor, Afion-kara-His- jsar. I had made up my mind that I must escape somehow, and I knew |that the first step would be getting to Constantinople, So I shammed in- in order re my guards| mto sending me to a hospital at Con- stamtinople Another officer, confined is prett we sanity said, ‘I thought you'd never COMe|the men formed two clubs, according ranean put a big bandage around|! was supposed to be a Lett who down.’ to Capt, Swan, “Those who still held Antiseptic Surgery a and shammed tuberculosis |Could speak German. I lived on that “‘Oh, I knew I was coming down al! |their sweethearts back in the United Rie De thace cilia Braaiaot ta f the foot, We fooled them, Inci-|Passport for several weeks. In Sep right,’ Donahue replied nonchalantly! states belonged to the ‘Tried and ater pts “sph ge . . I told the authorities that|tember I was just on the point of ‘I didn’t know just what condition I'd/ Prue’ Club, | von Vee sesflapeeh aan sor. |te 8 1 George's cousin—which | going to join a Russian General in, Re a” ee a pin ot com. | “Fhe others, who from their letters! geon who was the first to apply the |<" we : ements sea Sena om vivigel Pesan ae a fi mo News found that some one else had eup- | antiseptic system of surgery, of which |”! ‘ and who had pre a rial lng Soy, planted them with their loved ones,| ho was the discoverer and pioncer.| "We were allowed to go out in the | 10) Promised to furnleh me} “A few days later he paid us a visit | joined the ‘Loved and Lost’ Frater-| Lord Lister dicd soven years ago, The now and then after returning to a a as airplane to fy to Siberia, , wearing a Croix de Guerre, "What'd jnity, After each mail the leading mem-| frst great advance in modern i ntingple, and, with the aid of |*) heurd.the British were in Bul- you get that for?’ we queried bers of each club went around seek-j gery was made during the | ge buksheesh” (Turkish for|#4ria to sign an armistice, So the For coming down,’ ing new members, They judged ¢ quarter of the nineteenth century | honest graft"), “it was a simple mat- i er with me and myself made our! “And his citation read: "This brave |case on ite merits, deciding what '‘lwhen Godwin, Mitchell, Jackson, |ter to arrange for a hiding place to |W4y to them. When we got there wo{ American showed savoir falre and| would accept the man. It was a lot] Wood, Bache and Dr. Morton discov. | Use when We got definitely away from had some difficulty in identitying our. | jumped joyously from the balloon to|of fun, but behind all the foolishness|ered and applied anaesthesia, which|the hospital, We set a day and made oo bs said we were British of- the parachute!'" | there was much real feeling. The] did away with the pain and horrors|them take us to a dentist, We were )"Cers = hy aid We were scare. The adventure of the militant mov- | leading lights of the ‘T' and T.' Club] of the operating room, Since en|going to eseape during the trip, and, brag owever, we convinced thein, ng picture operator took place at the} fought hard for members, When] vast improvements have been made fas luck would have it, our Jittle train i ne sig < hed r special duty, t of the first push on the left of | they lost one they tried to cheer him] in anaesthe It remained for L {had a ce n, We promptly jumped ‘ aust, which lasted ull Decemis Chateau- Thierry. The hero was] Up, and often wrote the girl.” Lister to introduce antiseptic surgery, | (hrough t indow and ran off. per, and then I went home: Ifeut. Cooper, attached to Capt.| In the rest billets there was an|or treatment to kill germs in sur | «phe officer with me got off clear, HES) ye . Swan's division, epidemle of borrowing, Finally, one| operations and accidental wounds, b; jbut 1 way rearrested. However, one ATEN. me “A regiment of infantry," narrates|¥#nkee humorist put over his bunk| which the lives of thousands have) though they sear nee me hey diane W Tete ae vf ; pi ca the author of “My Company,” * ,| the following sign: been saved lu addition to th | £50 notes | had tucked away ia mike scove | ‘ y NOTICE | epochal discovery, he made important|Th@ next day they decided to remove © was not hop off’ early in the morning, z| | ie +i lal snergs from Constantinople to nightshirt ready for him te ptan th CARAT A Garininvanaent ; The Other Day obeervetions on the early ages of| Aller erdar rn Mae »| was right out there working his movie| SOME ONE. borrowed our basin--| inflarnmation, the coagulation of the Raninss hers ¢ Pra Ft RN »| on pes boys going ahead. eas niy, {and--left the dirty water | blood, and other matters. Lord Lister| wet \ be idee f % ree rH a nae prance ba lave Pairs to hia consternation, eight Hoches| SOME ONE borrowed our soap—|W8% *urseon extraordinary to Queen | > Tee ne nan ked you hightgowns toe came out of a shell hole right in front |and—left it mushy Vinioria. ond inigr io wins Mawerd, |p ST iroae to gland In front en eis "| of him, SOME ONF borrowed our towel—| ay ANCHOR THAT SAVES SPACE [of me and hide Ye with her skirts! drawing himself up haughtily title, r| “He started to ‘kamerad,’ but to his |and—left French soil ali over it. An anchor with folding arms for] the guard looked in, Then | piee.-23 Why not ked mother, im surprise all eight of the enemy threw] SOME ONE borrowed our hair| economical storage has been invented, | Walked out the back door of the res. eee ont wear itt me 1] up their hands and ‘kameraded,’ Ho !brush—and—left it full of cooties. which can be used to hold wires ou|teurant, lost elf in the crowds small boy, I rather go to bed rawseen took heart, began oe sealise what the ToDay aad aw Well ae DOmLe OB Watts od Gually wade my way \o Lhe care Chilean Messenger,