Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-17 | Page 12 | Uncommon Sense

Uncommon Sense I I By JOHN BLAKE I TOO MANY WINDOWS A novelist of our acquaintance wrote a lest Oest est seller and decided that ho was going to follow tollow an easier an-easier easier road to fame tame His book brought him d a sum Bum that for tor him was a fortune It had been written In a little flat with no to look out of ot and no beautiful things to look at on Its Us ugly walls valls or In Its Us furnish furnish- ings I 1 had to write my book out of my mym m memory morr he said The next one I write will be better for tor I will wU surround surround surround sur sur- round myself with the raw material for tor It So SQ he rented a pretty house on tho sea sh shore re commanding on ott one side sille a leW of or a lovely bay and looking out ut cuton outon ut uton on the other over the big foamy rollers rollers rol rol- roi- roi lers that swept In fro leo open ocean There were boats on the bay blY and great ships on the sea ea A golf gol links came down to the bay in ire a long sweep flanked on either side sideby sideby by bA green groves v Across fi the he golf if links was wu a peach orchard full tull of ot bloom for It was spring And close beside the house ran a abroad abroad a abroad broad highway full of and motor cars with now and then a a farmers farmer's wagon to carry the beholder I II I back from the modern time to the time of ot long ago I Six windows there were In the room I Where our friend pitched his typewriter typewriter type type- writer to work upon his new novel I Who Vho could write a novel no In such surroundings surroundings' t tWell Well he who had already written a att avery avery very g good and a ver very successful one tt g could not For he had too many raw materials and t mn windows window h h I I they Y th ii flowed w Into nto his eyeS eyes and id- id br brain Pell PeU mell there piled in on him seas and ships and bays and golf gol links and trees and blossoms and automobiles and horses and carts Always he was leaping from his work to run to the widow at some new sound Bound and kept there to admire some bot of liveliness that had escaped him In the course of ot a summer he did It is true turn out a book But it was a n. dull book Written with halt half his mind while the other half halt was enjoyIng enjoying enjoy enjoy- ing Itself Itsel by looking out of ot the win win- dow Today he Is working in a garret of ot a farm house where the windows are I too high to look out of ot I And much of ot the tho beauty that he saw last Jast spring will find I Us its ts way to his pages mellowed and to use an ugly expression digested by memory which softens beauty as ae distance softens softens soft soft- ens sound When you rou read react his new book which we are sure will be successful we hope you will remember what we told you about him And nd we hope too oo that It If you have Important work work and and allwork all allwork allwork I work is Important y Qu u wilt will not have too many windows wh in your house or your office or wherever ver it Is that you earn your our living Copyright 1923 by To John n Blake