Show v y Y Vy I yv Y A Y A Att 1 tt t t tO OO O rn C i Marietta HoUey HOlley I i i Woman i ii i iA o i o A A AA A AAA VYVY V V laugh at people and things and her har It ft down to 10 work out her moral That riat Is the tho key to 1101 loys Ios literary production productions lInt Hut for tor tho the moral purpose e to benefit us by her writing she never would have ha written ritten To 10 heal heat mankind of oe Its lis oily folly uhe he dole It with the tho laughter cure In her bar heart sho aho thinks of herself an as moralist rather than She confesses n that she sho would rather rother bo ho praised for her hOI curious poetry and fiction than Ihan for lor her humor So It goes Tho The mot most conic como comedian dian dlan generally would rather bo be a i 1 tri tru Marietta Holley Is I a born writer born humorist and moralist The fhe onuses chimes that chiefly appeal to her for tor chan chain YAA of ot women and tern tem temperance perance II II said once that Jiff il y II is more than anybody ly else eTho to movement SUn busan 11 U Anthony Antimony declares her heir books have havo done great good gool for tor the womans cause And once n a lady laly said Theres my III husband hu band now non lIe Ho wont listen to a 1 word about womans rights but hut hell take Inke down don Marietta book booke and read through und end through and amid laugh over oler them thorn and swat swallow low ionS every lIelY word of their doctrine There In is nothing t botter att r titan Hum giving useful In sugar pills pius Ho soon oon I an to write writ a Mari Murl Marietta etta elta began ban composition Her first Jut published writing showed tin the trend of ot her mind It was wan a 1 bit of ot blank ver vere e about lion hon honnet nets net Sill She went sent It to tt the tho local pester paper anonymously and did dl not tell any of ot tho the home folk tolk An Uncle Luther vie vis visiting there saw the tIme poem and praised It highly high I l to In the Holley Holle family none nono know lenow knowIng knowing Ing Marietta wrote wrol It Then tho young girl was so o pleased she had to toll From that day she chic he continued writing essays poems short and mind finally books book Millions have hove read rend the doings of or her Sho has made moro more people laugh In ugh than any other American n ever over overdid did die excepting ng only Mark Twain No 4 Y humorist of any other land IlInd equals her Sho told mo toe of ot her hor first book My Opinions and Bob betts belts A publisher had expressed a desire to 10 her writings I sent him of or three kinds sold said Miss Mits serious es en essny ny these both holh In English then some humorous sketches lie Hu wrote back buck asking u me to 10 prepare preparo for rOl him n a book In tho th dialect talk talle I 1 was bitterly disappointed I wanted him to choose my good English Nevertheless nho ahie Immediately shut herself herselt up and wrote My Iy Opinions and Betsy No one ono outside her family knew what she ahe he waa WIS about I have found Cound out It Is III not u II good goodplan goodplan plan to say nay 1111 anything about a II book I am Dill writing till t III tho the book Is la done rays pays Miss Holley Holle If Ohio She discovered thus Ihus for herself herselt the tho occult law la that thet works through silence Plans PIns and forces are scattered d and como to 10 naught through being pro proclaimed claimed to nil all the tho world When the tho book hook was written writ tell It had hili Immediately great Krill and was quickly In was itts tho in n a b series serie of ot some lame of at tho time mot successful books bools written In Amer America Ice ica Ici In iii recent Of Ot these Saman Samantha Samanthia tha thia at LIt Saratoga Is nn an especial favorite Miss Mills Holley has hns n a lovely lovel home at Manor N Y neAr tho the spot where whore sho she was born Sho firn herself plan planned ned lied the mansion ami imn lied hud It built to suit Into her i where she sho writes writeR sunshine coms all nil day Iby long at atthe atthe It the bay front like the Iho mans manns revolving hou house houlle e ThO The garden gurden and grounds are beautiful as IS good taste can make them thell themI I always wanted to live IIvo near tho lie water Miss Holley so I had ponds dug on mv my place Thus she elms made tho the water come to tn her Miss Holley Is III methodical In her hab hub habits habIts its and accomplishes much work Sho Slit can writs write best be t In time tho morning so no rises early By ly 7 oclo she sho breakfasts and Is In Ii often at nf work vork before 8 S Before sit sitting ting tini down dawn to 10 her desk sh eh arranges her hor hair carefully and olid makes a l neat toilet foliot She respects her profession has for or It something of ot tho the feeling that prompted Michael Angelo Anelo to In paint his hla greet groat plo pie pictures tures tires upon his knees Ive 10 got cot to be he dressed ct I cannot sit cli down to write In a n kimono and sloppy slippers with my hair uncombed says miya a Marietta Holley Bhe Rhe writes very pry rapidly doing doln hor her best work Worl ork when IV hen the tho mood Is III on She writes with n a pencil the first rough draft of or a It story thou then corrects Cud con I Elders siders It U carefully and finally dictates It to her typewriter Several of ot her hor I books wore were talked Into n it 1 phonograph from which th the typist copied them In Iii stories of at like Sweet Cicely she often cries with the thA people she die cre cro creates ales ates In comic sc scenes shin aho laughs with them then When hien something she Bhe makes makell Marietta Holley laugh lough or cry site Ehe he knows knoss It will affect her I likewise As A I took my leave Miss 1111 gave me a 11 rose rOM from n a 1 rare hunch bunch of ot Amer lean ican and herself came callie and I stood trained framed III In the tho doorway with the tho soft light upon her true trul I kindly face tace the tho face of ot one who never I smiled sweetly on a sister woman and poke words of ot praise to her then thel lieu when her back was turned assailed her with poison polso tongued ton cued malice end and ridi ridicule ridicule cule The Tho lady Indy the tho light and the tho rose roso left lett with roc rne n a remembrance like Iko the perfume of ot n a good deed deell LED LEU |