LISH WOMAN NOVELIST S. for a brief spell, Mrs. Gorst has made, Known Waiter and Sociolo-(*"" 1/2 here a savage of discovery. She i *w . [ has found out wonderful things. : I wist Talks Entertainingly of Her, "You have such remarkable education . over here in America," she says, "and such | I Experiences During Her Secret! .,... especially | am astonished at the f |y Tour of London's Slurhs, culture of the Awerican women. | go to places and hesr women talk so intelli- S---------------- gently on such subjects as the inner mean. HE American man is ducky," ing of the Greek dramg says Mrs. Harold Gort. i0g*" "He's so brutal. 1 like bru-!. Ard: . {intervidwer. tality in a men. { "Oh, not at all. I really mean it. But Now, of course, there isthere's one thing I have noticed. '1 have nothing that makes the or-| happened to go to other places later where American citizen, habitat U. 8. A | those women who had made the zeal 8inary ey {est impression on me before said thecame vex male, more pleased with himself than things over Merl. fo he told that he is brutal. can women Every man who interviewed Mrs. Gorst, on these cultured that one of Great Britain's novelists who "PeAting them where bas most recenlty paid us a visit, was #9. Do you do that? Mrs. Gorst leaned forward eagerly and subtly flattered by the charge. fastened "her dark eyes the writer of this article, generally the mild: viewer aw if she wonkl wretch the i { Isn't it surpris.! you ragging a bit? asked the! you hes and to say subjects Keep on happen Even the! a inter sorret est of men and not one to bold out even a from him, but for the honor of trywomen he rethned a stont Mrs t what hraieally 8 Coun quarter on pay day, has ever since the negative Gors tribute America went paid the usual Gorst invasion cherished a secret ambi- tion to go home and beat his wife. Wistle For the women interviewers Mrs. Gorst [rapidly bad an equally alluring method. "Are you an American?' she queries te "1 in is Known nx thought Eugland, things hint we dont (to move at all fle x have 8 BIW English everything is. in compart "Your Americ 13. thes with she lared an viva a raising innocent, uestioning eyes to wofien interlocutor from this newspaper. The interviewer confesses that she hk ) "I shouldn't have thought 50," says Mrs a Bonern ution doc ' HER L Mrs. Gorst Little Gent, filled with a charming amazement. [has very properly likened fn "American women usually have such dry Watographi' She und dead looking complexions. How dj hiots nor. tek) Tas a you manage to live here and net have PE bi HAI indFe aickis American complexion?" when she first So there you are, wu wee, with the difficult woman interviewer neatly fixed. | Naat Lhe After this, of course, it isn't sa™prising spesking Chuctaw to learn that mingled with Scotch and vs uted Ao say in Phe Wels English blood in Mrs. Gorst's veins ther and then iv also = perfectly good Blarney stone langnage turns into | Jrish strain, very "Mrs. Gorst dresses like Carmen and has Mrs, the insiouating manaers woman, So it isn't surprising either tc earnest" discover that French and Spanish ancestry it isn't in earnest as well as English, Scotch and Irish have 0f ton [ 8 place on ber family tree. The Carmen : oh 8 costume, black with Spanish lace, lowing: Ince veils and red flowers in the hat and her' hersell, whose thin woman who ever liveéd lw fact begin poo to sheak NR% for a vl {ou Chi Presently MRS HAROLD GORST however ous "zets the swing." as t Fields days, the full fin ] auvtifal English at Search of Material for Her Novels. Gorst has discover or . S aunnt educational 1 id of a French Your 2 hay ana mitent of the women of land arises | sducation is in she I pr irls came down and for that reason they turn sigie have shionabl vale I women [ They have offers which they refuse, so if can't interest But whom find know " will fill their lives. y at many of the s roceived men call } ont want te marry ar institution oy 1 "Ronie of WR ' ¥ 1 f marviage ar 'suitors' but corsage, is immensely not richly colored beauty. and hair are dark and she has plenty deep Buglish roses in her cheeks, becoming rine ranks." nm what do you think it is?" think it's Decause the men of Eng Hand are deteriorating." said Mrs. Gorst aver the "1 believe tl] moder { { { i ¢ . of] ry : 3 ; : ML Gor es 1 of their no I which we hav ted fron all i Her handsome eoyes| becaus ng wen and women Like Mr. Arnold Beniett and most of ther want of exch aflier and to her literary countrymen and country-|together women who favor us with their pres n 10 see than ner conthd wo around, there sch Often one wouldn't touch them with a barge pole, but are impossible, men as unchaperoned is on {sons why men and women ar Doll's House for D R. and Mrs, Dodd City, Ark. the happicst couple in the Btates. They bave just moved into their home, a house They could not tive in comfort in an ordi nary house, for she is fort "and We is just forty-nine ie probably the smallest public official United States The diminutive husband postmaster and takes ap active part "tre affairs of Dodd City Everrthing in the A WOR N: persuadi D TO THE WIVES. iim ne, at the beginning of my married odd City's Tiny Assistant Postmaster Dug Arwmstron of believe they i ne that a wife can love and too much. The truth is tha with many inexperienced and I had a curious misconcep- united he 3 N er bh h common i And there's reason for it manti tion of girls Jove specially constructed for them : ght and ing but in loving Ja mus b his every th m no room to think of an I wanted him to share every 1 to be one with me in every pleas- In short, quite unco ° v t 105t an ec this to lose that four inches He u the tal es * al oming his is assistant house is on 2a , siual scale. 'The home itself looks much like a doll house. The stove ix built close to thy floor that Mrs. Armstrong may not to stand on a chair arr stayed at home know now that my husband only ¢« ted to play golf with me out of m {t never struck me that must have irritated The chairs, ¢ | d HR - wort Af 1 and other furniture are small, The couple, who were married in Feb correspon dinsls play m house werely has shrun that love was teaching me sympathy with in all h pursuits, whereas the real hay since confessed, was sim ondeérment and repressed irritation insisted on trying to play which I had no aptitude AL the same time 1 thought that t have ng friends that 1 did i" vas quite prepared to sacrifice . he spoke the word Naither is superseusitive about size 1 1 never be rich. but ns lonz as 3 . 3 ider he was quite indifferent t ¢ 1 friends as loug as they let him alo ; when sh ngers stare atl them too lon: ept an open mind on the subject, and grow uneasy: and them woe betido 1 ought to have done the sume § ax Bok bis friends stranger, for the citizens of Dodd Cit: I never could gel rid of the er arth : A aircns cussing and criticising the ever at the beck of Dug Armstrong TIER ald tc Me oat Rao Mes. Armstrong has not been in Dodd ren't perfection. But neither City as long an ber hisband. r Stiviniom To sain defects. Dov ' came from lowa. She is twenty venrs old hink it would be wiser if we agreed x ' criticise r Iv] 2 to each oth¥ - while he is eighteen years older. "The wed there Ia i ict Eon ot ding came about withim a short time after plain. speaking? After that I lot the o i nds alope, and found that si, ® couple met. "Just hecause were small is uo reason uot 5 nly we should not bave a private life," the othe: * said Armstrong. "We're trying to live and ot his size be Just like epary one else. 1Us mortifvingd Ue iy nidsly ren to be regarded as curiosities every ' spent most of the summer superintending as he the workmen who constructed thei; and arranging the details of to serve their convenience to | gree. constr the last M Aru and her pounds She recently Jess. A od tall in prope PH Aro rion rol Mrs, Armstrong at Her Housework. } My which boa ave no nglural t Keene ene of the hit uke a He did . . ne to hims bg selon! when 13 shy, ol . s ' and of hunting and Dishwog in the boys int Lose laugied y : - Lie man 2" 3 I q to I a bhasel J to kneay d He hig 3 ~ mich dhont the nation . Dodd Cig 1 as made for peace npy two Feolishly enouga. I thought that Jack ngver wanted any 'time to himself to de. velop his own tastes, If he <at alone in has become & den Fowas always burding 'n upen him see if did not few! lonely 3 without me. The idea that husband add LITTLE JOURNEYS INTO F URING Lhe last wéek black and white 8 bie hats have disappeared from all mat Ss called Meads, and brown. navy blue and 0! f) dark, rich veivets in other shades have céme to replace them. Dame Fashion is 10 the last moment she «lings «hay wife botli needed 3. little freedom from © aera Cem "style as if nothing on earth ven cach other's sqofety at times 'was abso- ital incredible '1 forgot that two in- dhviduale. however devoled, can see loo much of each other, sud so retard their * own growth of soul 1 began to realze that a wife can call for tue much even 'no tiie name of jove. | was trying té fupnieh Jagk with dear that will 'make Her (how it Up. and then ail tie re onda she CANts It from New as it hud ple her friend. So it is with the Eve hite hat. oats "bly shops show black velvet Gripe now, never the milliner of fire > arder. , GAnNOt. because every head Te the Street ds wearing a cheap which shan Ming would coincide Wit mine instead of al- : him te inGalge-in his own. aspira- SN on gale days they are being wih nanden absurdly low prices Ma: oro isell r shot with ASHION NG LAND. Velvet it ver WN Choose ron t as love often make my lesson 4 freedom to think to cultivale Nis amu in one seuse a wile cannot love Ler hus' 'vand too much. Bet sho oon make the avieg Too axighitly, and His 1 nae. error that is often re spocsible for setting up a derpetual breach in married life, J re thy 4 iberty and the are draped, Autly lunar ideas and § doe fed With it with ak » skun iit wile ba Orient Ariston Western pit Rig ticsne wl Sreng. AMERICAN MAN BECA onrse I have heard it said (hat the dis-| rom the fact that so many of them must| feharming, suffrage hoping that such an outside [selves | be that which sends them into the suf-|discovered Atlantic City. "It isn't 'thatithese aren't enough men to; All that is needed is the bottle, are; | ut W¥ iwhich has been der Ie YS SHE ADMIRES USE Ee | | | | wretches lis ever (are very glad ta get them, ton. H { recept role "You haven't any poor," she said: * don't Enow-what poverty is. I could Jaugh!I had to buy something, so I chose cheese at what You should and a glass of stout, but I could culy joretend to taste them. The place was the you call poverty. see the London poor. There every garbage ) lerowded. with men and women of raked over by : ; | lowest class. 1 stayed there until twelve are in Rearch of food.l ojoek, when we were all turned ont Neither a banana peel nor an orange peel together. i lefi The children! "My daughter, wbe is also interested snateh' them wp aud eat them~and: they | 0 Writing, can do a step gin better than {1 can, because she is moré the age "wr it. | A step girl in London is a young girl--I is the poor wie in the streets, I have {seen in your cities Cigars and cigarettes fave seen them of all Wges from nine to which have been partly smoked lying in|eighteen--who comes around to clean the the streels and in other public places, In{stops. She gets from one penny to four. {Tondon these are instantly snatched up| pence, and often gets old clothes. When and smoked. In. the lodging boned they! che comes she wears a sack aprom nnd 'are sold. The poor live in the most hor- {usually her mother's jacket. My daugh- {does not belong to them. { rible places, sometimes sixteen or seven ter «ten goes out with me on teen in a room. FEvemw then the the ln. room hapkment and to other places, and some- They can lie) times T take friends, but I find it very down and sleep fob. tie hotirs and then| difficult to take amateurs along because they must go out on the streets for the!ther are never willing to be quite dingy rest of the time while the next shift ofl or dirty cnough. They always want to sleepers occupy their places." |add a touch of bright color to their cos- Mrs. Gorst has written principally of tumoes, something that is sure to give the the London slums and in search of ma-! thing away. terial sie has spent many nights walkinz, "The police 'have often spoken to up and down the Victoria Embankment sometimes (0 move us on, but often to or wandering through the darkest slums! give us kind advice about where we conld of London disguised as a tramp. {get a night's lodging. One can go to "When 1 put on my tramp clothes "| the doss house for tuppence, If you said Mrs, Gorst, "I have also 16 make! have tuppence you are considered to have up my face and hands in harmony. You an ostencible means of livelihood. In the us, | wouldn't believe how dazzling clean you|doss house one sleeps in a sort of bag {loak when yon have put on dingy tramp | arrangement made of black American | | | Disguised as a Tramp, Mrs. Gorst Spent Many Nights Walking the Streets in the Slums of London in ove has ever taken me for anything but "Now the Amer Jif but the nen are guile that 1 have met ferent, ml trouble can't t them hose t thes They don't go to thei ident Where do bide? hat are hut seen to hide theme wives' 1 they man ng the American Murs, which she in small quantities Gorst has 4YS Jgar "And 1 x One Iition of the British Brig 1 wouldn't in the roliing feel for riding chair would all the werld as if one were in that Mrs. 1 out about the United States is that One other Gorst has fou thing t any poverty here my | I thought he would understand | Efforts at Ragtime by a Massachusetts Oriole. UCH as it has suffered from its de- 'M tractors, it is now declared by ex perts that American ragtime is an utirely natural snd worthy kind of mus red from the exquisite melodies of the Mr, Henry expert {the United States Department of Agricu birds, of } Oldys, biological n, (ture and lecturer for the Audubon Society, like st rag. {time is based on the lovely melodies which isays that mn primitive musi {come [rom the feathered songsters of wood land garden. From the birds to the savages of Africa and ithe redmen of the United States, and {from these more primitive peoples through their barbaric folk songs tu the white man who borrowed his song motives and methods from both redman and African {shave the terest melodies have tragelled until they have rewched the vauderille hous and 'coiie to be the popular street song the moment. The sophisticated Young person who warbles the latest gyn. copated ditty with a full conviction that be ix thus aseerting his claims as the of flower of metropolitan civilization may be! after all, unknown to himself, own brother in song to the tiny wild ranger of the forest which hundreds of years azo Jet {its 'musi to a painted brave 'ov supplied a wild sud baunting plaiot to the dark bondsman torn from his tribe 'and eouvp- try. It is not contended by, those who have made a study of bird music in comparison with uiusic made by wan that a hermit {thrush which had just completed a sosr- ing and friomphant burst of song or a ;hobolink which had concluded a wonderlu! a perambulator.! clothes. The color of your skin would at!eileloth which can be washed off with once show that rou were not a tramp.|pafaffiine every day." 4 When you have been out on the road| Her studies among the Lonuen poor tramping for, weeks and months you are! furnish the serious side of Mrs. Gorst's all alike, faded to one dull tone. Pirsiilife. The happy side js supplied by her I give a red coating to my skin, then 2! family. Her husband is a writer of books brown coating and then T go to the hearth dnd newspaper articles and is at present and rub my hands over the black lead, standing for Parliament. There are fire This I lightly off on my facé.|junior Gorsts, three boys and two girls. hands, and neck. Then I put a; "My thirteen-year-old daughter, who one eye, usndlly with a littla|is to be an actress when she grows lip salve to make a red spot on-it. Tolup," said Mrs. Gorst, "ic taking charge be perfectly frank this bandage is not { of the housekeeping during my absence sary. but 1 like the dramatic effect and has a shilling a week for it, of which v make-up is au ont and outer. she feels very proud. Both of my girls {are being brought np to be able to dg amp or a woman of the slums when T| something for themselves, as we approve {have had it on. I have stared out on the|of that idea which yon have in Ametica." Victoria Ymbankment msny a night] Mrs. Gorst's oldest son is in this conn- walking up and down or snatching 4 littlej try at present and is a member of Mr. leep here and thee uti! 1 was moved George Arliss' company. The family ion by a woliceman. Now they will not|has close affiliation with the atage tlet us stay there all ni If we have! through Mr. Charles Rann Kennedy, who not been able to find a lodging before two'is Mrs. Gorst's brother, lock we are taken up br the police and, "Which do yon think the more beauti- put in the city lodging house. American or English wom: =n?" asked "One time I followed a.drumken tramp the interviewer, eager for the very last was playing a guitar. He finally! vestige of Mrs. Gorst's point of view went into a four ale bar, the poorest kind. "Perhaps," said the novelist, "the Eng- a public house. I wanted to go in lish woman possesses a little wore actval there, but § a liitle afraid. Finally beauty. but after all, nothing {1 also went in. and I was richly rewarded, ! like the impertinence , of the ful copy in there. 1 sat! American face." . |¢rouched against the wall, my head in} Which remark the iuterviewer decided apparently secing nothing, but} to take elsewhere and think over. brus! arms vaundage over No 10' ful, who was there is, delicions I got vnde {my hands i Says American Ragtime Is Based on Bird Melodies savs a voung wife, could have Ragtime by an Apple Blossom Songster. From the "Fjeid Bask of Wid Bivda and Their Mowe." by 7. Rehuier Mathew Courage of G. F. Prtsam's Sus. routburst of musical pyrotechnics would] his own,' 'be particularly elated to have *"Smooky bird can give a staccato note so well--none {Ookuws," "You Made Me Love Yon" or the thrush. can approach ("That Mydterions Rag" suddenly spruns him in clearness of style. He never mized upon them as distant relatives of their things up; his A A. sharp or (lat; it {incomparable songs. It is often only in never gets too n-ar B. He is a sharp |ways unrecognizable to any but musicians | billed, sharp witted character, and his {that the bird songs resemble those of the remarks are as incisive and crisp as tie Ihuman creature, especially when that|toots of a stéam whistle." {hnmmwan creature is a devotee of the song Among the other birds from whose " the hour. Nevertheless. kinship theie!songs are derived the modern i according to Mr. Oldys, wbo bas airs are the scarlet tansger, the wong {studied votes of birds for twenty sparrow. the chewink, the wood thrush {rears and has many a time watched and the meadow lark. patiently from dusk to 'dawn for an op- portunity to take down in musical netaiive {the sofig of some shy creature of the tree- - {gps s + Of all the birds the oriole 8 the ore F i which most often produces a coniposition {resembling the modern syncovated music! known as ragtime. Mp FL. Mathews, whe is oué of Xmerica's ex-i peris on bird music, not only gives the! Uemiramis were Haunted by the school says Mr. Mathews. "No other other, o- is popular the School in Pharaoh's Day. HE good old pre-Pharaok diye wera not all they were cracked up to be in of blissful abd care. the way freedom from work Even the children who dehuyler; lited in Babylonia before the reiga of {palm for ragtime composition to the priol. | bugaboo. In the Museum at the Univer but believes this to be the only bird Which | Sify © is actually a raglinie musician. In : scribing the oriole's song Mr. Mathews fears : : "All of this mic is remarkable for its: bey's writing lesson in the wedge shaped syncopated chFacter. - Look at the bars| cuneiform script of the time in Which lie snd it will be seen that the bird 0ced-l tived The books aud. writing are being sigually fails to put in an importavi note . {at the nromer place or (hat hie accéuts «| translated by Professor Langdon, ef Jesus joote without refereuce to tbe time bet, | College, Oxford. : 5 In music this is called syncopation anil; The textbooks, according to the Phils: in the Popular SoNFuct tugtime. ! bars) delpbix North American. were used by never discovered this characteristic fn th : peas ¥ oi souz of any other species than ihe ctigte:| Mudents in the Aemple whoo! at Nigpur, it belougs ¢-~lusively to this bird, (capita of anciest Sumeria iu Babylonia, "Loe oriole hag a dertaln yekement, fund were bronght home by the Usiver- ot excited. way of singing which ts a'llsity of Peonsrivania's Nippur expedition. f Pennsrivania are school books U1 4.200 years old, grammars, histories avd a little gray slate covered with paft of » § bar A : you!in reality watching everything, Of course, '