| Show George A de Sl n p talk and n ats History of the Clever Cleve Humorist WhO Q Contributions Appear V V in the Dispatch V ROW HOW H V HE lIE AROSE TO FAME Not since Mark Alark Twain suddenly su denly ap at appealed anea pealed ea d on the horizon as ue a humorist t thirty years ago ego has such a sensation beell caused cau ed in that field as George Ade has bas made with his satirical yet Set phil boo bool written in the slang of the day George Ade is one of ot the unique and overshadowing figures of the literary world today A man of the most nature undervaluing his work worl and underestimating his ahll ity he lie has been brought into prominence nence almost like an unwilling un illing school schoolboy boy being urged to make his first bow bo before an audience It would seem from personal knowledge of his nature that if he could possibly place olace the credit of ot his Is work on another person he would feel teel happier hap Ier and more con tented seeing the success of the other man than he be is now receiving con congratulations congratulations from far and his hisO own O n success In acknowledging a few words of praise sent him by the writer he wrote I am Just as proud and happy as If I deserved all that I get gett George Ade was born in Kentland Ind Feb 9 1866 His father was as long ago ugo as 1862 a banker having ving his institution at Morocco Ind Mr Ade in speaking of this says that if he has any sense of humor he must have in it for there in that town of Morocco many miles from a railroad and having baving but two houses his father called his institution The Bank of North America Mr George Ade had hada a collegiate coIle education at Purdue uni university Lafayette Ind md and there went to work on a local flews paper which had been heen established in 1887 to have hove a long running start for the campaign of 1888 1828 Before Be r the nom were made Mr Ade had the honor of sitting up with the paper the night it passed away aWa He then successively successively sivey tried more newspaper work the patent medicine business and again some newspaper work Durine Dur Tu the first part of this newspaper e cO V he did city reporting which m Into contact with all sort j under all kinds of condition V t was in this his observant mind and peculiar analytical nature stored up the stock in trade which made it possible for him to write so knowingly of the weaknesses foibles and fancies of people generally as he does In his Fables in Slang So viv vividly vividly vividly idly has he portrayed human nature that thet t In reading these you see pictures of many people you know and fre frequently frequently frequently a dim reflection of yourself I but as is natural your own reflection Is only suggested while other pictures I stand out in bold relief I In the latter i part of this news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper experience he began to get himself him himself himself self noticed by his clever work on a adaily adaily adaily daily column of stories which he ran regularly in the Chicago Record but in speaking of these Mr Ade says the fact that his column was placed next to that of Eugene Fields helped to pull him im into the attention of the public When he ran a few sketches concerning conc a slangy man ma n named Artie I Y V George Ade A l Blanchard Herbert S Stone the Chi Chicago CApO cage publisher saw the merit of them and suggested that they be put into book form Artie Artle was the result and was waa kindly received Then Pink Marsh a series s ries of sketches In the dialect of a northern city negro came out and was favorably received But the success of all aU his successes was las I his Fables Fabie Fa les in Slang published a year ear ago This had an enormous run and was widely read and enjoyed The Herald Her ld appreciated the value of these fables and end made arrange arrangements arrangements ments Mr Ade to write an ar article article tide every ev rY week in the same line for forthe forthe forthe the Sunday SUndRY edition About a month or so ago Mr Ades letters began to apar V and d are now being widely read and enjoyed by thousands of Herald readers Mr des Ades new book More Moie Fables F bles is being published p by Herbert S of Chicago and the first edition of 25 GOO Is already exhausted An advance copy of this new book has been sent to The Herald Her ld The fables are if any anything anything thing better than those published in his former book As a sample of his style The Herald here reproduces The uThe Fable of or the Corporation and the Mis Mislaid Mislaid Mislaid laid Ambition which is peculiarly apropos to the conditions which now exist eist e istOne V VOne On One of ot the Most Promising Boys in ina ina I a Graded School had a Burning Ambi Ambition 1 thIn tion to be a Congressman n He Jj loved Politics Polities and Oratory When there was wasa a Rally in the Tow Town n he would carry e ti Torch and listen to the Spellbinder his Mouth wide open The Boy wanted to grow up and wear a Black String Tie and a Bill nm Cody Hat and walk with his vest unbuttoned at the Top and be Distinguished Di tin I On Friday Afternoons he would go goto goto to School with his Face scrubbed to a I shiny pink and hs h 5 Hair reached up upon upon upon on one side he would recite the Speeches of Patrick Henry and Daniel Webster and make ma e Gestures When Then henhe he Graduated from the High School he delivered an Oration on The uThe Duty of the Hour Ho r calling g on all aU young Patriots to 0 leap l ap into the Arena I and with ith the Shield a f r Virtue quench the rising Flood of Corruption He The Pable P b e of the C r ora and d V the Mislaid Ambition Ambit m of o the Colleg College Graduate A FUTURE WAS V CHANGED I H I Ithe said that the curse cu cur of Our o Times was as the Greed for and nd he her pleaded V for f r Unselfish Uns fish Patriotism among those In High Places He boarded at Home awhile without I seeing a chance to jump kite into the Arena arid and finally his father worked a Pull pun and got sot him a Job with rUh a Steel Com Corn Company Company pany He proved te be a Handy Young Man and the Manager sent him out with Contracts He stopped reaching r his Hair Hall and he the Arena of Politics any serious Consideration Con ider except when the Tariff dh s Steel was in T V VIn Danger In a little while he owned a few Shares and after that he be became a Di Dl Director Director rector He joined Clubs and began to enjoy his J is Food r He drank a Small Bottle with his Luncheon each Day and he talk Business un unless unless unless less he held a 8 Scotch High Ball in his right Hand V VV V With the return of f Prosperity and the Formation of the Trusts and the Whoop in all Stocks he made so much Money that he was afraid to tell the Amount His Girth increased he became puffy under the Eyes you could see the lit Ut little UttIe littie tIe tle blue Vens Veins in his Nose No e eHe He kept ke t his name out of the Papers as much as possible and he never ne r gave Congress a Thought Tho except when he talked to his Law Lawyer Lawer er of the probable Manner in which they would evade any Legislation against Trusts He took two Turkish Baths every week and wore Silk Underwear When an emi eminent eminent nent neat Politician would come to his Office to shake him d dew wn he would send out word vord by the Boy in in Buttons that he had gone sone to Europe what he thought of Politics One day da rummaging g ng in a lower Drawer in his Library looking for a box of Poker Chips he carrie came rrIe upon a aroll aroll aroll roll of Manuscript ilan script and wondered what it was He opened it and read how howit it was the Duty of all True Americans to hop into the Arena and struggle un unselfishly unselfishly unselfishly selfishly for the General Good It came cameto cameto to him In a flash this was his High School Oration V Then he suddenly remembered that for several years of his life Ufe his con consuming consuming consuming suming Ambition had been to go to Congress With a demoniacal dem Shriek he threw himself at full length on a Leather J JH Couch and began beian to laugh He H rolled roiled off the Sofa and nd tossed about on a 12 1200 M Rug in a Paroxysm of Merriment I His man came into the Library and found the Master in Convulsions The poor Trust Magnate was purple in the Face They sent for a Great Specialist who said that t t his Dear Friend hal hafl ruptured one of the smaller Arteries and also narrowly escaped Death by Apoplexy He advised rest and quiet and the avoidance of any Great Shock So they took the High Oration and put it on Ice and the Magnate slowly recovered and returned to his Dnn r Moral Of all Sad Words of Tongue or Pen the Saddest are these It might Have Been |
