Show WHEN I 1 WAS TWENTY ONE BY JOSEPH KAE at twenty one robert underwood johnson wae the associate of fa editors THE use of twenty I 1 beet anfoot lu new york for the first time and went to the of scrib ners monthly little knowing that I 1 MIS about to establish u which would lait for more aun forty years sly family was already known to roswell smith ohp publisher 0 alie for ills wife as miss annie ailsworth had been ft friend of mothers in and as young women both hail aten present on the of ma 4 when morse trans the first telegraphic message ever sent passing washington to baltimore mr smith greeted cordially but won began to mike a tea of my mettle hi trying to discourage me hut I 1 saw eliat lie a not serious about it and he took me back to present me to the editor dr J G cioll ind doctor holland me and introduced me to his richard glider who was most cordial and after a little conversation it was agreed that I 1 should have a trail ot tb ee months as clerk and ed assistant sly novitiate on the magazine did not occupy the designated three months for after three weeks doctor holland came to me one day as I 1 sat at m desk and putting ills hand in a manner on my shoulder sid wry jehnwn John wn it ahle us as well as we like you you may hang up your hat and call it a 1 rom that time on for forty seirs 1 was pait of the corps and what was equally delightful of the spirit de corps of the magazine robert underwood johnson TOD Y sir johnson has distin gulshen himself greatly both in liter iture and statesmanship lie sue ceedee the famous gilder as editor of the which became in time the century magazine later he became ambassador to italy and a noted leader of thought by mcclur |