Show JULES JiLts VERNE VRN TALKS ABOUT HIS WORK AriD AND IllS OIS WAYS Paris March Mar b 28 What boy is there or Ol what girl for tOT that matter who haa has not sat entranced over tho the wonderful adventure books of ot Jules Verne They have been bem translated into every lan Ian language language guage and devoured by several gene gener r of young youn people all allover over tha th world Yet the veteran author Is alive to enjoy his wide fame and to compose compos new naw books for tor the children of or all lands He is an old man now 75 years yearn of age but he Is vigorous and upright still and has haa all the heart beart of youth I 1 cant climb trees treca myself mys t any an more he said the other day clay butI but I Ican can seeing my gra grandchildren climb them And they are all glad to play with the tha old man on the level ground where he is still sun good for some I thing thi And tho the interviewer was as able to Judge of that far for himself For at that moment mamant a 0 small crowd of or boys hoys and girls rushed out of the tho house houa into the garden eardan where tha thu old man was talking to hb ha bi visitor v They poured down on an the veteran writer like an avalanche stumbling over ov r each oth other r in their to be he the first into his out outstretched outstretched stretched hands They were grand grandchildren grandchildren children and nephews nephew and nieces and and all aU mixed up together a t ozen or so of them pouring out of the classroom cl room to play with the smiling patriarch For they live in patriarchal fashion In the theold theold theold old house at Amiens the charm of ot the old man keeps k s tHe family round him he would die de he h says If It it were Yere ot t for the sound of fresh young laugh laughter ter In the house hou t and the gladsome pat patter patter patter ter of at little feet teet Papa Jules Jules Verne is a very ery busy man He lie gets up every day with the sun and after a a light breakfast works steadily at his stories till 11 ii That Is Js a very common lunch hour bout In Franco France and it is then that the children get the first glimpse of Papa Jules T athers g ga round the tha tab table all too tbs bon boya DOTS an a ne that he ha oan wet get at hell hoM of t tho the ittle l ones ot of Yr the tha quiet town t own have h ve all at one time tm or another had h ad their place at his table tahle and en Joyed i his funny sayings and his little b of ot queer q el su e the information He Ha himself la lg never ao he told his h is than when ho sees the youngsters y gathered round him with wonder in their big eyes as he tells them hem t of ot o some strange adventure In far oft off o re lands or of ot some curious facts in the he t realm of nature or science He I often o makes use of Ms his circle of or young friends f to try tho the effect of the story he Is writing at the moment mom nt A great many of 01 the small fry of Amiens have without knowing It helped the tho famous author in his work If I f thor they are Interested ted in tho The story as 83 C he tells tella it to them after lunch In the tho I big blar dining room In lit winter or under unde und the tha trees tres of ot th the garden aa n in ia summer then hen t the old man mart kno rs that he is 13 ou on o C the right track and anti goas goca go ahead hope fully with the tho writing in his study But if it I f the tha children look tired or bored ored when ho tells it h lie a knows know toot that something Is Ii 1 wrong He Ho goes to t work to think It I t all cut out again to plan the charac teas afren or to Invent new n W situations Days Day of Hard Eard Work Ho is not easily satisfied with his hi i work worl Every book of his hi has been bee I i rewritten several Umes times before It has ha a finally reached che r l the public And Anti he hi S never begins a book without studying I thoroughly and very deeply everything eve that can make the subject familiar r to ti him If ho Is groin going to write a tale of ot o A adventure In a n 0 submarine li boat In the th e Arctic Aretta regions ho he reads up everything about the tho who have gone on 0 1 Polar Pol r expeditions and as much about abou naval engineering ag flU would enable him his a to pass a stiff tiff examination nation Prom FrOIn ros a about 1230 to 5 every very day he spends sp S in this kind of reading him n self seK thoroughly thora posted pasted In all alt sorts sense of new nerr ne scientific discoveries and ins in thA th latest information t o 0 about newly explored and strange lands He reads too toe for purposes of comparison stories of f adventure in several languages He is especially fond of the books of this kind in which I the English language is so rich M I Verne has read Robinson Crusoe five I or six ix times timea and can recite by heart I whole pages of Treasure Island He I thinks The Swiss Siss Family Robinson i one of the best boys books ever ver e writ ten and loves Fenimore Cooper Wal ter Scotts works are always s within reach of his hla hand In his study stud and Captain bre b breezy zy sea a stories stones I are almost worn away awa by long Ions han ban Ing The old man Is an ardent lover of oo work No one ono Is ever happy when he is idle cIle he said saidI I have hae spent all ell my lift life at work and I dont want ever to cease c ase working Just as soon as I have finished one book I have haye no peace or pleasure in ia life till I have commenced another If you prevented me rae working you would kill me And that is what he tells his chil chit dren dreD too Do what youve got to do with all allour your our heart If its work and you will ull be happy all the time if it its playtime why play pIa as aa if your life Ute de depended headed on It Like Uke this And he makes a sudden jump at one of Or f the little ones and chases it all nh round the grass plot till the happy child shrieks with laughter a s S C C CBs His Bs Letters Jules Verne is naturally very ery fond of the immense success hiS hid works have had He delights in the fact that he possesses more than TharL letters written to him at various lous times by boys and girls to express the tha pleasure leasure they have had In reading his books These letters which are all docketed and nd classed by the author himself according to the ago age of the th writers and their nationality Y make a very curious and interesting collection There are letters in French h in Russian in Italian in n Spanish and andin andin andIn in English There Is one in Polish The Tha letters in English como come mostly from English colonies and from the United States One Oner of ot the American letters is s from fr m a little girl in Baltimore who writes to say that sho she wishes she were a boy so that she ha e might go under the sea in tho the Nautilus And if she could she ad a adds 9 her first voyage would be to Mr Vernes Varnes home if he would like Ilke her herto herto herto to come came Mr Verne tells With a chuckle that he wrote to his 9 little correspondent correspondent correspondent dent assuring a her that nothing would give him more pleasure than to re receive receive receive her at his home hOln whether she came caine in the Nautilus or down the chim chimney chimney ney But ha he h advised her to be con content content tent to stay in Baltimore and learn leorn to I be a good American little UttIe girl for tor She ghe toi i could not be anything better however hard she tried |