| Show there clothing ga 6 tory in alita alte as to accomplish g something without anyone s ad 0 A hearty antal tote of banks u to one s own self Is the most in 9 ser aaion one can ever experience 0 too many m stale the corn 0 mon place tor the common and so fritter away the r art in tri instead of realities I 1 am a believer in intimacy be tween husband and wife even that intimacy where politeness may be it I 1 were a woman I 1 would rather live with a man quarreling and bickering halt the time and love making the other half than with a cere mony which pre eluded demon str atlon in any shape or form the former mode of living Is like eating palatable if indulges tible food which makes it feces sary to follow it up with bitter medicine but the latter is like living on i monotonous diet of healthy porridge give me the mixture of tasty andl gestl bles and bitter medicine the man who listens to an other man a wife s domestic brou trou bles Is usually the cause of the greatest domestic infelicity to be tha apologist of a fool Is not an enviable position but there Is no doubt that it requires some cleverness I 1 hate thoe women who after two minu 0 conversation be gin to discuss the servant ques alon it la one of the distinctive characteristics of a lady to loll 1011 and have headaches lea daches the ants are not supposed to have such an ailment she don v you think U abao cutely wicked degrading to turn a brilliant flirt into a mere ly good domestic woman no woman experiences a great er thrill of pleasure than a plain woman who has a barly handsome husband who de dares and vows that she Is beautiful WALTER BLACKBURN HARTE mr cohan the play carpenter has been interviewed as to hia methods he says after 1 have finished one act I 1 haven t any more idea tha you have what the next one will be there Is nothing novel n this most of the producers of almost art in this country belong to the jellyfish chool they haven t enough bense ot proportion and construction to ulla a doghouse W W W the new lippincott dictionary has been suspended at the letter E just where we were beginning to get inter ested negotiations have been opened with mr quiller couch tor the corn plating of the work quiller couch it will be remembered finished steven son s st ives to the satisfaction of stevenson s admirers and we are con fluent that he would do a perfectly good job on the lippincott romance gadski says tha herr Is not an artist gad who ever accused him of it the sad case of mr greatheart the was shabby in the extreme ani when I 1 found the house number I 1 ought and mounted tour flights of creaking stairs I 1 was assured I 1 had gone astray that it was impossible mr greatheart should live in such a place when I 1 rapped at a dioron the top floor I 1 was prepared to be informed that no person named greatheart had i lodging there but when the loor opened I 1 per calved I 1 had made a mistake the grave brave and kindly patient face that greeted me could belong to none other than frank greatheart the fa publisher with gentle courtesy he signed me to be seated and 1 stated my business which was the preparation of a maga zine article d the home life of american publishers we live very imply as you see said mr greatheart waving a hand around the shabby but scrupulously clean apartment I 1 murmured something about plain living and high thinking yes this Is the top floor he said quietly it Is not a pretentious es tor our needs are few and my wile s tastes are as simple as my own may I 1 sir whether you have interviewed any other publisher in his homec I 1 replied that I 1 had not that I 1 had begun as it seemed fitting with mr greatheart america s most famous publisher whose pring and fall cata bogues contained more famous authors and best sellers than the lists of any two other publishers and you assumed he commented that I 1 was a man of means with enough say to live in an apartment house and keep I 1 read that in your face when you entered I 1 was obliged to confess that I 1 ex pecked to find a man of his position houed amid what different sur ro my income 1 barely sufficient for my dally needs said mr greatheart with a trace of bitterness bittern esq in his voice my wife a noble woman helps by doing dewine tor the neighbor nor a i buu do I 1 know of a single publisher who la in better circumstances than myself you amaze me sir 1 cried the popular impression Is quite otherwise the popular impression Is usually wrong I 1 assure you sir that the american publisher places literature above material prosperity and esteems himself fortunate it he Is able to pro vide lor his family even modest a home as that which you see before you but surely said I 1 the profit of book making were never greater than to day true and royalties were never eo high the authors reap all the it Is they who occupy the aparton houses who keep carriages who u be found in capri or rome or paris or cruising in their yachts through summer seas but your grea successes your basi sellers on a 15 or 20 per cent roy icv th more best sellers 1 pub ish the more money I 1 lose it la only by publishing a magazine on the side that I 1 to keep the scale even it I 1 published nothing but novels I 1 should be sold out by th sheriff and my wife would be wl hout a root tor hei head I 1 was deeply and for a space there was no sound in the room save the scratching of my pencil how sir I 1 ed presently do you account tor ibe prosperity of mr plates the pub isher whom I 1 know well he lives in style and keeps carriage perhaps je has an In depend ent income plates is a printer or a replied mr greatheart Grei theart he issues only reprints of old books which be sells in sets at a dallar a month dead authors ak no 0 o allies that Is not being a publisher that is not devoting one s life to the cause of literature one cannot servo both literature and mammon As mr greatheart spoke these ring ing words the door opened and hi wife entered a arave faced little wo man plainly but neatly dressed she had been to a store she explained and smilingly even gaily exhibited her purchases three kinda of sausage rye baad ani dill pickles I 1 must stay and take supper with them she said but I 1 was compelled to decline the invitation as I 1 a ready had a dinner engagement at the waldorf with a famous indiana author I 1 was rather glad of it I 1 confess for the dinner prove 1 uncommonly good but as I 1 sat sipping my champagne and smoking the expensive cigars my host provided the picture of mrs greatheart doing needlework by lamplight rose n my mind and when my novelist friend informed me that he had just signed contract with mr greatheart tor another book on a flat royalty of 20 per cent I 1 felt so sorry for the publisher that 1 could barely murmur mv congratulation |
