Show SENSITIVE pro PEOPLE men who think themselves caricatured by authors and actors of tile most popular entertainers the world has seen suffered suller cd greatly owing to the lite persistence with which people would soo sea likenesses to themselves in the creations of 0 his fancy it if he chose the name naino of brown or robinson Ko binson for one MA his characters somo some real cognomen wrote to him complaining bitterly against his ls satirizing satir izing a class 12 and then pointed out certain of their distinctive peculiarities which were they alleged burlesqued on oil the other hand it if jio to invented as he thought an uncommon name somebody wanted to know how it was its lie ho selected him blin for ridicule culo why asked the Indi indignant ghant writer did not tho the entertainer choose sonio some common name such is as brown jones robinson and not that borno by him it was useless to point out to such that tho the entertainer t hall had never heard aicard of 0 their exist once enco even each cach of them firmly believed that lie was the original of 0 a certain character sothern again what a curious exper ianco was his the actor when playing in america as Fitz altamont in the crushed tragedian one morning was called upon by an all interviewer who told him thit that a count Joa joannes rines once an actor ot of tho the old school of which mado mu fun had brought JL 11 suit to stop tile the performance for mance of the piece on tile the ground that tho the comedians makeup make up maligned him almand and burlesqued his identity sothern thought the affair WAS a joke but when tho the reporter assured him it was serious ho he said 11 it if I 1 have to go down to that court to show cau causa seby by georgel george 1 I 1 pity the man that brings me I 1 wont lot him rest while his worried life clings to him ile ho shall get telegrams and postcards post cards front from this time on forever do about it why I 1 shall appear of course presently another reporter 1 was v as announced noun ced so thern again agai n professed profess 0 d A over never to have hoard board of the suit brought against him now how would you light fight it it tho the count should challenge 7 11 asked the press man 11 1 I should prefer the date to ha be the tha ast 1st of april aid although I 1 very fully considered the question I 1 think the weapons should be cannon yes on reflection I 1 am sure I 1 should insist upon those cannon that discharge shots a minute he should sit upon one ot of those engines and I 1 upon another and wo we should continue to discharge them until there should bo be no remnant of either count or sothern all this and much more was published under startling head lines on tho the following mor morning ning count joannes ho however was terribly in earnest though of course nothing came of his suit except a capital advertisement of which full advantage was taken of modern authors wilkle wilkie collins decidedly had the most remarkable series of encounters with the glass class of people who identity identify themselves vilh purely imaginary personages 11 A bourgeois of paris lie be himself has told us reading the woman in white in a reach french translation wrote to bay i ay that lie he had flung filing the book to the other othe r end of the room on discovering that fosco was siu an absolutely perfect likeness of himself lie ile naturally insisted on receiving satisfaction tor for this insult leaving the choice of swords or pistols pistol to me as the challenged I 1 person information on which I 1 ho lo 10 could rely had assured him that I 1 meditated a journey to paris early in the ensuing week A hostile meeting might in fit such circumstances bo be easily arranged arr anROd arrived in palis pails wilkle collins looked for his honorable opponent in vain again mr collins invented a character who was so careful about abo quantity of his food that lie ho weighed it in little liello scales at table shortly after the publication of tho the novel a gentleman called upon the author you have no right sir to caricature me exclaimed the caller to the astonished novelist 1 I weigh my food in little scales sir hero here they are sir I 1 always carry them thom about with me by the advice of my physician but Is that any reason why I 1 should bo be hold up to ao ridicule sir and tho gentleman refused to be ba pacified though mr collins protested that hat ho he had uever never before hoard board of such a habit on another occasion a re reader der of A armadale rm adale called upon him and nd up braided him tor for putting his bis house I 1 into nto print princ the description it is said was ext exact although the popular writer had levoi never soon seen the place Cass cIrs saturday journal boumal |