| Show r q I 7 l. l h iff- iff 4 0 I 1 I I I n 23 t I 4 r rf f 41 C ek ct ar i vi g y y yA i y i g iJ A J 1 ft In 5 H c IT fr J v k E 7 if VII 4 I Ap Th 1 4 1 kY I 4 jn I Ik k I t S t l 1 L I i j I tC aol I or V d. d i r nS OP OJ TilE THE I or 1 11 EU I COMPANY Personality of the Man an Who Wrote Peter Pan t Some thirty years ago James Matthew Mat thew Barrio Banio was scrawling on on a a. bilof bit bil bitof of paper at nt academy something some some- thing like this When hen YO you read rentI the tiac following article I think you will exclaim Who ho is this great literary genius appearing before our out eyes anti and our hearts by storm It Is not known Imo that the article in inthe the thC school magazine took ever evet anybody anybody any any- body by storm The Scotch lad who expected so 50 much for it was then lien a along a a. along L long wa va from Crom fame and fortune But Buthe ho he found an nn inspiring friend in the tho lao village tailor who ho taught him to re repeat re- re peat pat the lie lines What hat can I 1 do 10 to be forever known n and make mako the age to como come m my own Mr 11 Barrie Barrio made mado UI up his mind that the lie thing for COl him to do wits was to and he lie took up Ii his is pen and amid wrote Tote himself into fame Came through man many J plays la find and books But nut young uh Barrio Barile did not Hot find hod fame tame 1 as ns did lid Byron in Iii a night If Jr was a ashot slow shot growth It H hc began an In a garret His Imagination had hud been captured tI bythe by bythe I the tho story o of a little watercress seller s-eller which was running in a religious paper paler For Fot months the tho watercress seller filled his dreams Then one omac month the paper missed antI and there was a dl disappointed l boy In Kirriemuir who went to lo bed anti and dreamed of or wat watercress and wondered what had become of his little heroine heloine But Dut wondering won won- doming dering did not brin bring her back hack so 80 James Matthew l Barrie Burrle wrote a stor story of oC his own with something about watercress and antI shipwreck It run along until it grew rew Into a three three- volume novel floyd and anti actually reached the of oC a publisher But Bui its end came before It il had hall a chance of cula- cula ion tion rhe The publisher thought th him writer A Acry er very cry clever lady Indy and was tas to publish th thU L bOok ok for a hundred pounds but bul Mr 11 Barrie's Barries autograph aas was as as not worth a hundred h ted pounds In j those hose hos da days s anti and its his fh ui-si ui t book remained ii ui up n j somewhere I In n brown 1 v aun- aun a- a I per pcr In III the obscurity of oC Kirriemuir home hornC Lila Like rl Kobi-rl Louis LOllis Stevenson Ie cn on BarIle lIar Bar lie lic went to Edinburgh h after leaving Dumfries files academy and amid here heli hereIt It was that lint he lit lust Hist v su Lord Itose- Itose p. p blIT berry and threw a n clod of cirth arll at the noble lord lie Ho was a peer says lYs Barrie tho i wore were my nay politics II he lue I explains adding as thu though h the lao memory mem ory on aim Ii him i in that hr t the lie clod iii missed d 1 I I Lord Lorti I But lint that T ii was not hOt the lie h nt that Barrio Barrie got lIl t In politics ilk's and an politicians it'll I Later Lael on Iii ho hue mine within an ace aco of If tall for or p at the thai general gen gelu- Of cra eral cral elect election lii lint hut somehow meho till lie ar ar- went u r awry HUll and lit lie wa waN spared Ilir I of i politics happIly for COl boi bookland nil IN i haps I things n c j mo most t speedily speed I y I iy aWl av awry 5 1 ln use Ha Hank HankIs Is s not a great success s in Imi oui public life life life- a ru I I how ninny many authors lure are lIt He was vas In Induced III- III u to 11 preside over oel a it celebration cele edo bration in ill Scotland h by way of assisting as ao- ts- ts big lu himself f I Into muo iu public idle attention t lou hut but lie lii s. saul next ID to nothing nothing- and away quietly l- l anybody f had hn had hada a chalice chance to him Tho next week vel I. I J w know k I-k la hud n St sa tI rIca I article on lii Mr thi- thi Barrie Barrio i in ii time the hair Chah In Iii which the author was held up unsparingly un un- sparingly to public Ic it'Ll ulC ic hJ who tiu had land invited III Barrio Barrie to the hl hut lion tion read tho hut article with great a Morro sorrow sor sor- row mow roand and the they lucy will trill learn some Imo day if ir thc they luCy have hu not nol leai ned already that the hue writer of or it was Mr 11 himself him hm- sel self Everybody E who ho knows him even l those who can call claim Ii him as IM a of If man many ears ears' j standing Just jul as 05 mall many Ii I tided sided in lit character chat Just as us quaInt and curious a as his labs Peter Pan Pali He lIe Is the of or Un tiny men wise I whimsical and witt witty his sympathies are arc of or the widest his kindliness nc without end HI Ills His cOI conversation elfo at I its finest Is poetical and pastoral excursions fa fur far I afield from Crom the thc modern 1101 noisy world lie Ill I II is isas at atas as simple n as a I shepherd bo boy driving ln his hiM team meant to Held or ur sluing sittIng II nJ under the tue I hawthorne piping t. t to his huis hock flock as us though hough he never nc should grow STOW old I In lit company with him hint one omme scents to converse con e with vitla his forehead forhead which N is broad breath and amid high light as ns if It built CJ of or I Ivory wi with I Ii largo large i ii eyebrows and sympathetic eyes rolling beneath them thc His Ills face acc has the tilt pale thoughtful thought thought- ful tul complexion of the thc Spanish h portrait painters painter and One is tempted tf to think that the genius of his Ills face as from a u. height surveys t nd projects him Into the lie world Unknown unknown un un- known Imo of oC thought hought and Imagination as asIf asIf asIt If It the thc tin tiny liny body bolly were vere willfully veered by lW tho the boundless Imaginings of or the thc giant mind Barrio Barrie is one of oC tho Iho most delightful companions one could meet In hi a lifetime life life- time He lie has hus a mind so to rich itch In folk hoi c so so fertile in iii strange fancies partly partly part part- I ly mule made u up 1111 of or fiction partly of fact act which he hue can cnn narrate over o a it table or 01 oron oron on OIl a U country countr walk with a n fino fasci fasci- nation or of easy eaMY diction antI and personal charm that hint it is easy to think of hum him himas himas as a a. kind of or mo modern Aesop eso Yet Mr 11 Barrio Barrie Is far fm from being a a. talkative companion In Iii an un association with him of oC whatever len length there Is sure to be an entire absence o of conventional conventional conven con conversation a complete abidance avoidance avoid avoid- avoidance ance of oC ordinary current topics and there may be to 0 the he great embarrassment embarrass embarrass- mont ment of his companion a silence exten extending over J several hours Almost all of or the he little de details ails possible possible pos pos- sible to get gel hold of or now-a-days now about the personality of Charles Lamb arc me exactly the thc l kind kinti of characteristics that would best describe James Matthew TIn Barrie in e. e But nut happier than an any other othel dc dc- I of or Barrie Barrio are the words olds of oC I her whose whoso fine und and delicate appreciation of oC Banle the author and tho lao man niami make almost painful tho lao r thou thought ht of ot an any other Ph Phoebe c e. e Lady lla Babble hlo or em Polar Pan Tito real th lie J. 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I r. r Barrio Is tan nn hun fm- too 00 fine to I be 11 coar coarsened nf 1 Into lute r words Tile His is not n. n small mind but hUl a a. groat reaL simple mind In I I fact act the thc one ouie word that most aptly 1 Ills fits him i is the word nerd simple It is the surest mark maak of oC his greatness I P Perhaps of oC all who know him bun In hut Inthis Inthis this country Mr Ir Barrie Ballie is best understood Understood un un- Un- Un b by Charles Charles' ohman Fj-ohman through h whom all his plays plas have been pro pro- Their conferences ov o or r i new manuscripts or em new neu productions are friends In Iii counsel rather than business bush busi ness tall talks for it is impossible mitt arid perhaps damaging to 0 final linal results tl to 0 attempt to pin Barrio down to 0 business business busi husi- ness methods Titus Thus it Is a frequent of Mr 11 Frohman to sit t down before the fire firc place In the urious workshop In Banjos Banjo's thinking thinking- t that he lie is to tu hear henl the lie full tuB details of or the plot for a possible 08 pia play a bout about which BatTle Barrie has given I hint himat Ina In a letter And Anti the time evening Is sure tf to tobo bo ho JO plentiful in lie iho telling of or many lots Ilot told lold in lit that ue Calr fairy airy book ook fashion Cashion which Is all nIh Barrios Barrio's s but it is equally certain that the tao entire evening c would ouid s wear tear over without ever evera a a. recurrence to the he one cue plot JIlot of or material ma ma- fur for a I fila filay haY which was urns the thuc II C iou nal occasion for fot Mr l I. I u Frohman's visit vis-it II IL would sot sot-in as liS If a weave C If of fancies a set St of oC If Imaginings selves ls upon the tho playwright as It If they lacy h had HI up His involuntarily ly to mily In rn Ia his Is I mind and by hy no effort of r his halls d thiu I his tongue longue O or hi his l pen lemu I a He lie Is likeable lo to no 1111 one lIW else in iii Eng Bog j j j lI lish h literature literature- so su much as ai to i Robert Louis Stevenson And the lie fille t Ulus-I Ulus lIlus 1 of the lie mood that hunt the hue most of or J J. J M. M I. I Barrios Barrio's pages I are aio to 0 bo bu Co odin found 1 in iii several Sl 1 as a's h by his hats forerunner It tt L 1 S. S Dr Dm I Johnson t 1 used to SU that L It took one omme I ii lo to ii explain and ancl I I that luaU therefore thu the e whole race iC was tras in In I c conspiracy to ii cheat the thC hue world But hull j I l It is that th Uti lao parallel between ut i Ha Ban 11 Jo's Jos eist thought t Stevenson Steven Steven- t n 1 W son i i. i quilt II I nf it Is all mull tit the lie I I more I striking St iki i-iki mug when mt one aie cill s t it III difference difference- h 1 hH t lit I title i of iii the iii I i iV work lh The to Ry only hold good so f Car a a. a r to tn 1 say 50 1 that each Ch I has his till the I a Ie knack lit It I II of 11 elevating a II imig II com I 1 in Iy i hun iho plane of oC if great I al truths a and t I hut that each cuch a a. fondue mies for fOI glo- glo oh tit Ii Thus Thui the thc following from flutH au an 11 C essay I by y Stevenson he besides heskie IJ-I IJ i beill being wonderfully d er rem for itu Ihl own o sake sako is even 11 moro w wonderfully helpful Ii to 0 tia the of ml i L page lale II by BatTle Barrie In I a t ii t ch ui i world ii of jf ul I lon lieu piny Is IH all In lii all nil Making believe Is a. a s tho the of I his Ils whole lif life and amI he lie van no i jo so much as aN tal take lake e ea a walk valk In iii character I cou could not learn my ny alphabet without suitable l en liaiSe cn antI and had bun to tu i act is Hf a U man III in an au n ol h before I could cOUI sit It down clown to my y Look book What wonder wonder- l'- l' fill til uI fancies I 1 have hav heart heard evolved ol out IUt of oC the lie pattern upun teacups from which there followed It a c code ih lt of ruh rules Hilt nd a whole world o of luC until un- un til Lii II tea di inking began to tako rank as ate a n game am When u. u my mI cOI cousin ht awl and I 1 took took- ur U 1 or UI a H. morning we wc land had a cI device to lo enliven cm the I course COUNCe of the tho meal Tie lIt ate att his with I sugar U al ant and ancl ex s- s It fl tt to b h lie j a at country I gradual Inundation You can imagine us 08 exchanging b 1 bulk Una 1115 how hero here wu was an amu Island still stihi ed here bet a CL vat ul I Jc Icy not nor yet et covered ered with show laUon lation In lived J w Wro In iii rc mu We le e how hili what cabins on I perches tra cl s and ant traveled on stilts and how mine always In iii bouts boats how the was furious as the last fust Interest grew le corner cOIner of oC ICe ground was w-as u cut ore oft on all nil skies sideR p. p 01 0 every moment and how In iii Ono iliac how tho flood w-UK w of oC altogether ethor sec see Importance so 30 Ion long rong me l It with Vitia thes dr as ns wo We sea sea- nut Lilt lien Ihen lieu youth mth as CIS S a and ll arf c 03 Tho Thun true as ag migi wiNdom seasonable and to is to lo I Ia hI s I chan with a So a I grace race In changing circumstances To Jc lov love playthings plaything'S well a as a 1 child to 0 lead an adventurous and honorable youth to settle into intI a green an anti and smiling ago age is to be lie a good artist In iI life and amid deserve de dp- serve er well of or your our neighbor and of ot yourself It needs need but a 0 walk in Kensington park parI London to 0 know Barrio Danle by knowing his nomads friends Here has ho spent many an hour at play pia at storytelling storytelling story story- telling with vitha the lie littlest st of ot British hadies la la- la dies lIles an and gentlemen Anti And In this way docs doC's it happen that better belter than any other modern writer Mr Barrie Barrio knows th the manner manlier of or speech the walk and noth the ways trays of th the little dwellers In the he Land LantI of Make Believe Belie To his wa way of oC thinking the clearest of all minds Is the childs child's mind still rich In Imagination tion ion still t. t thinking well wll of oC the world and of or Its fellow creatures cleatur always de tIe tIe- to remain oun oung In spirit however old it may grow in hod body boti And I it has haM been found round b frequent a tion iou with nil all sorts of oC little kiddies by tw studying their ways and catching their point of view few lint Hint Banle Barrio has I succeeded in 10 evolving evolving- a weave wa of Imaginings Im Im- a that lint for 01 all nil their thell fancifulness and of oC mood nevertheless nC possess os ess a math and 1 fineness s of ot C feeling Ii to tn be he found ennui In scarcely nn any l other I modern c r lf Motion x But and t first sec second tl childhood meet On Out common ground at Barrie's Barries feet Vhay 11 Mr Mi Ir nulT s Xo Noa-e Noa ius Red I The late Mr Mt Duffy of oC Keene N. N II says Sal's the Boston Herald was well veil 1 1 known 11 0 n for his lifelong total abstinence from front intoxicants Intoxicant which seemed somewhat sonic some what at fit variance with the fact tact that his no nose e was very ery reel On one ouie occasion when triton on omi business in jn a liquor saloon in iii his neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood a drummer came canie in lit lo to sell cigars To gain the good graces races of the the bartender he Invited all zahl In th the thac place it lo to drink to which invitation all readily responded pvc ive Mr Mm Durr Duffy Tho drummer r went to him hint arid and f slapping him on the shoulder said I 1 say old man maui what hat are aIO you ou going to e have I thank nl you sir sir-r but I malver was Duffy's Durrs quiet reply hat you joti never el said the drummer with a sarcastic Jau laugh h f MH 1111 11 AL l PHILLIPS f 4 it 4 J i ij 3 f 1 J 1 V L fj f fi j 1 i Lent hi Man Hull I in Iii iscu- iscu I Sum Sum- Sumin f nier mer Stock Company J 3 t If Nw if IC yOu m 1 JI never I drink will Viii 1 please leli II e what Mm makes that mat you of nose yours so II Itt ret red at lh of if the tIO cIU r I I tilt hId anti the thc h lie h. h I thit I It Is l with lloil out of oC it is h oIlier hll Simpler I At H fl fair aim nm out i. i III a n un lIt wc-ni elk oik up |
