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Show THE PAYS0N1AN, PAYSON, American Literature From the Days of the Early Colonies Up To and Including the Present Day UTAH, DECEMBER while if they had givea him positive advice he might have been greater than he was." To some his boys seem true to life, while others reBut all gard them as overdrawn. these differences of opinion do not alter his general popularity. He Ion i the just been awarded a place Hall of Fame, ten yeata after his rules will Ndeath the earliest the To Twain permit ithat distincion. was objectionn. the title of ble, for he was at heart a reformer, a hater of sham. It was in this spirlntiocenee wrote he it that an innovation in literaAboard, ture, for it related how the traveler did feel in the presence of the customs, ruins and sacred places of the old world instead of how he was ex neeted to feel. George Ade tells us that in his early career he received a letter of and encouragement eommendjiion from Howells, which he prized far more than gold. For many years he cherished the ambition to become the great American novelist, but after he wrote his first fable in slang the public and the publishers held him to that style until he has received praising letters from nearly As he puts everyone but Howells. landed in the gutter of it, he has notoriety. Walt Mason s prose rhymes, like Ades fables, have been syndicated are widely read. There is an optimism and a sane philosophy in most of them and an occasioial gem The Little Green Tents. a of There are several journalists note Richard Harding Davis, Henry J. Allen, Jay House. Ed Howe, Noble William J. Bryan, Thomas Trentiss, H. Benton and James J. Ingalls have given us literary work quite apurt from those produced in strenuous political strife. William A. Keener is an authority on child culture, his Cigarette being probably best Smoking Boy He is also the author of known. The Pioneer, a book length poem giving tho story of tho making of Kansas. Indeed we might ramble on and on, giving the names of writers until only those were omitted from tho list who have not yet had time to write for tho press. It would seem feel the spur of inspiration. st Reviewing American literature from mailed by delicacy of thought, of feeling aud exquisiteuess the time of the colonial period up Rieluud Honey gave great of finish. new and to the present, throwing His bel but died early. promise light on the works of some of the known book is Songs from Vaga. Harold boiulia. William more recent authors, Mrs. aughu Moody Gore read a most interesting pnpei has published two volumes of markSelection from An Ode before the Cultus club a week ago. ed jHiwer, are best in Time of Hesitation Mrs. Jack Vance was the hostess. Ella Wheeler Wileox was known. The paper of Mrs. Gore follows: American literature is nalturally strong in interpreting passion and its influence in the Uses of men divided into periods; the colonial, t h w omon. Her poetry is better or uud national first the revolutionary, known than her essays and novels. creative and the present uge. Maurice Thompson "wrote poems First National Period. stories, also much about birds, archery, fishing and kindred subjects, The first national period 1800-1all healthy in tone and independent was a time when new states wert in Eugene Fitch Ware, alspirit. men common 01 built by being born in Connecticut spent most though of humanity.' the common principles of his life in Kansas and as lronquil The literature was characterized by is recognized as a poet of the Tli? originality, rich harmony with liutur.4 west. of the virile spirit and an ardent patriotism born oi Washerwomans Song is reported to reverence and faith. During this" have won liis appointment of U. 8. i commissioner of period five of the middle wester pensions from lresi Mis Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, slates, Roosevelt. John Ilay wrote a voldent souri and Michigan, were admitted ume of Spanish sketches and two into the union. of poems und with J. W. Nicolay, We have no authors of this period the volumnious and authoritative life middle west whose homo was in the of Abraham Lincoln. but, William Clarks journal of tun Novelists have been of two classes: Lewis & Clark expedition aud Captain the romanticists and the realists, Zebulon Montgomery likos journal The romanticists have ideal charae of his expeditions deal with this tors often write the traveler i section. ' type of story bringing to us people, places and circumstances of distant Second National Period. The realist deals with actual lands. The second national or creative life: the scene is close ait hand; the characters, ordinary people. Often period, 1840-7(- 5 was one of agitation, mental, moral and religious and in. there is no particular tale and the Much story ends ns an aeqnintance might eluded the great civil war. good-bywith the important of the writing of this time was say aud as life leave vigorous, but so local in time slier matter left as unsettled novelists seek such. Most modern place that it was naturally Of such were the stirring ito look at tho talo from the other lied sto'poems of Richard licalfe, preserved persons viewpoint and hence tho realof combination because a are ries rather it a people grateful by' their part in making Kansas a fre ) ism and romanticism. Not so with William Dcswi Howells, state but now seldom read exccptin - 1 y students. who, during his lifetime, however, Lir-colHe wrote was a pronounced realist. The state papers of Abraham have real literary excellence of American society in tho formative His characters are common, process. and his Gettysburg address is We have merit that it is place, situations ordinary. enshrined in the hearts of the pee all known people like them, but also and many of higher types which we prebrevity pLe for its beauty, fer. He is particularly disappointing of feeling. depth Edward Eggleston of Indiana am in his women, with one exception silly far below the average New York, circuit preacher, pasto creatures, Once, and journalist, gave us our first American women we know. novel of the "west when he wrote when admonished on this and asked I1 The Hoosier Schoolmaster. why he did not give us more worthfollowed this w'ith several other while women, he replied he was waitof the s'1 nit; character but bettc ing for the Almighty to begin. later books His In contrast, General Lew Wallace literary finish. in been historical, particularly de took us to the uplands of life God. the of the Fair and Hur the Hen of life people picting Booth Turkington, George B. thirteen colonies and, later, of the United States. Margaret Hill McCarter William Allen White are with us yet Cincinatus H. Miller, Mrs. McCarter has done some excelJoaquin Miller, has been termedwetin uof stalwart, bearded, lent work, using as a background the (laureate more early struggle in He has been tmost men. bleeding Kansas Amcrici-Theron which she is an authority. Me. popular in England than in his rugged poems with thaL Cutcheons novels arc generally just White and accasional strong lines showing rent light, interesting tales. imaginative splendor have been hailed Turkington are more serious in puras truly American, while Amerie i pose. Fannie Hurst herself resented or ignored most of appears with her this year, first novel, Stardust, them because of their mediocrity even their crudity. - He is generally although we have had short stories am! from her for sometime. Hers is th-Columbus forgotten hut his seem destined to problem novel, dealing with three Westward Ho live. generations of American woman: her It would seem that Francis Turk- trials and how she reaches towarl Daua Gatlins first novel, hem. man, although a Bostonian both by also appears this year and birth and bv residence, belongs pail Missy, be. is w iiiuiiig favorable comments from ly at least to the middle cause so much of his writing de- lllie critics. In this, as in many of her when th short stories, she portrays the heart picts life in the early day Indians occupied all that vast ter- of a young girl and her undisciplined ritory and the English and French emotions with rare undertaming, were struggling for its possession. for she took the thrills herself as she He gave the general title of Fra run matured instead of curbiig her imto and England in America pulses. Harold Bell Wriglit began his ca. of seven books covering that Of this, Brander Mathews re(,r as n novelist in the middle west struggle. That Printer of Udells. In his reliance on research with says: he was rigidly scientific; in his pre- - Iiis most popular pooK, The Shep sentation of the results of his re- herd of the Hills, is an Ozark story search he was unfailingly artistic. as are aiSo The Calling of Dan Mat-Hnad The Recreation of Bri sought truth always and having j thews fonnd it he tried to present it as nn Kent. No finer history beauty also. Qene Bratton Porter pleases many been written by any man of own vMh lPr natre books and her novels of judgment are more exacting nud ith their coloring of nature lore, time. The late Sidney Torter OHenry is having a great voguo these days Present Ace in England as well as in America. sto-o- f When we come to the present ng" lie was tlio master of the short American literature, which date ry. Critics look in vain for a second .Tack Lait of Chicago from 1876 when our country' w4is 6 Homy. once more national in feeling, our seems nearest tho type but not yot Until an author (he equal. difficulties arise. Samuel Clemens, journeyman work has been completed and tested s fcv time it ho critics hesitate to pa-0r, pilot on tho Mississippi and and assign him a placo. vato secretary to the secretary of the cation is more general and poets, territory of Nevada, became the Mark Roughing It, rnalists, novelists and short story Twain who wrote Tom Standards Huckleberry ers more numerous. Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi Finn, truly American. fames Whitcomb Riley ha boon an,l others. Critics differ regarding of do- him. Long says the chief quality of fho poet laureate fled the hi, work was dramatic vigor, the and Eugene Field focracy xet of present emotion, of deep chief defect, lack of good taste and. and tender feeling among plain pec- - refinement. Others deplore his Will Carleton in his Farm orenoo for the conventional niul his and other regard for the advice of Mrs. Clcm-versFnrm Festivals Ballads, has given us many truo pic- - ens and Mr. Howells who, according Edith M. Thomas to one critic, set themselves to curb turca of life. has written several volumes both of the rich riot of excess which were Her verso is the very essence of the mans genius; prose and poetry. siu-eent- 19 y a-- e g .. self-style- d , o h-- j j . j 11 - rey-ple- o . PARRY BATTERY SERVICE j DOGS j 5 8 Dried Flies for Fish, A New York firm recently Imported three tons of dried flies from South America. They were for feeding young fishes, and have found a ready sale to fish culturlsts. The United States fisheries bureau bought 100 pounds of them, for an experiment, but results seemed lo show liver was better grub that for baby trout. On a diet of liver they grew faster, and a larger percentage of them survived. 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When a definite set of muscles are affected jn t()e epilepsy spasms, seizures, nt- tacks, fits, convulsions or loss of consciousness, as It may be called, the dlsense ran often he traced to seine fluid matter, scar or cyst which cov-- u ers the section of the brain whose;! nerve fibers lead to the tongue or fingers. In other words, the first cure on record of an epileptic who lost consciousness during the attack was triumphantly brought to puss by Doctor Dandy.' a-i- d n PAGE HVE 24, 1920. 5 2 I managed Magazine. to get it. Brownings CUF? J. Cheney & Co- - Toledo, Ohio. I |