Life — January 26, 1911 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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LIFE: Fits smoothly and keeps up the sock with neainess and security. Itis com- fortable because its wearer doesn't feel it. The Boston Garter keepsits strength and Malted on Receipt of Price CEORGE FROST CO., manera. Boston, U.B.A. _ The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 195) soft and yielding like David Copper- field in dealing with his Dora. As Marie Corelli’s husband I should ex- pect to hate the Roman Catholic Church In a word, I feel that were I mar- ried to Marie Corelli her happiness would be complete, because I know her so well. Every woman longs to be understood, and Bismarck did not understand Germany as well as I understand Marie Corelli. 1 should twist her completely around my finger, make her my obedient slave, fill her with adoration of myself from morn A Happy Marriage Depends largely ona knowl edge of the whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life and health. This knowledge does not come intelligently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary every-day sources, SEXOLOGY (Ulustratea) 8 Williams H. Walling, Ad. MDa itoparts in a clear, wholesome way in one volume? ledge a Young Mai ledge m Young Musba ledge n Father shoul Knowledge n Father shoutd Impart to is Son. ical Knowledge @ Hussand should Haves ung Woman Should Have. ‘Sho: jother Should Impart to Her Daughter, Hinditat Knowledge a Wito should Haves All tn one volume. Illustrated, $2, postoald. te tor ‘Other People’s Opinions" and Table of Contents. Puritan Pub. Co., 776 Perry Bldg., Phila., Pa. to dewy eve. The task would not be difficult. I would simply pretend that I had never heard of Hall Caine. Talking to Lady Novelists So much has been said concerning the art of conversation that I very much doubt if it be an art at all. Con- versation has been so systematized by the telephone that it seems a mere trade. Anybody can talk well now even into a phonograph. One or two secrets of the subject are, for all that, known only to the elect, notwithstand- ing such clever books on conversation as that of Horatio S. Krans, distributed by the Sturgis & Walton Company. I am afraid Mr. Krans has neglected the richest of all the sources of conversa- tion. I refer to the works of our growing army of lady novelists—Alice Brown, Inez Haynes Gillmore, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton, Mary E, Wilkins Freeman—but why compile a catalogue? These ladies are all ex- ceedingly clever and it is easy enough to learn how they like to be talked to. One has but to study the perfect gen- tlemen out of whom they make heroes in their innumerable novels. I will assume that I wanted to make myself agreeable conversationally to Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. I have read her fiction so long and so pa- tiently that I know only too well the sort of things a man ought to say to seem brilliant to her. A dialogue be- tween us would race like the chariot of the sun. Thus: “Yes, yes, woman remains the great incomprehensible —” “Not so fast, sir, I implore. When you say incomprehensible, do you mean to men like yourself or to those high and ennobled souls who have made my sex their debtors?” “Don’t you mean creditors?” “Debtors, I said.” “Yes, and, being a woman, you meant something else.” “But I am not aware that it is nec- essary for me to mean anything at all. You would be too obtuse to compre- hend me if I did.” “That sounds rude.” “So it would have been in mamma’s youth. Girls are permitted to be witty now.” This, I affirm, after careful perusal cf her works, is the art of conversa- tion to Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. It goes a long way to explain why we American men seem dull to our wives and sisters, Now let me give a bit of dialogue between myself and Gertrude Atherton in her own most character- istic style: (Concluded on page 197) Life Prints JUST THE THING FOR The Home OR Season’s Greetings ARMS AND THE MAX Facsimile in Color, $1.00 Mounted for framing, 11 x 14 Coppright 2908 by Lite Publishing Company Card Prizes PLAYING BRIDGE Photogravure 15 x 20, $1.00 Copyright 1906 by Life Pediishing Company TUE SWEET MAGIC OF SMOKE Photogravure 1§ x 20, $1.00 Sent prepaid, on receipt of remittance. LIFE PUBLISHING CO., 17 West 31st Strect, New Yot comicbooks.com