Show II ir II IIII i II THE ART OF WRITING 1 ji II IL I know a man who became me fairl fairly wise und not absurdly great through writing for several lC years to a woman of oC brains brain The Tho advantage of oC writing direct to some tome one ont who thinks well Of OC you ou Instead of ot a daB dally daily themo theme for tor fore a professor or of oC rhetoric who doesn't 1 Is 18 I that tho the love hove letter Is vitalized with spirit whereas a thu the dully daily theme Is stu stuffed eel with straw Then when one gets in the habit of oC vitalizing what lie ho writes In Instead tead of or upholstering It It he is 18 well on the road roud to literary success 8 Of Ot course there Is no end to this road but the advantage of ot keeping on the time move mo Is that you OU are not In Inao Inso inso t so ao much dan danger er of getting run run ov over r orand r rand and anti ground Into the time dust duH of ot despair by the automobile of or somebody somebody's else l lam am ambitions bl To be ground Into the dust duet of despair des darn pair pall Is not hot pheasant lJ for all any ammy IndIvidual Individual Indi IndI- vidual who Is ground nor fur for UIO those thOM to whom he relates relate how ho It all hap harl- The Time only man maim who 1 I. I safe e Is the man who It lit In motion Thackeray never nU wrote a 1 letter lett r that wa wasn't nt literature His Hla letters letten were like ro roses rose with the time d dew w upon them hem touched with that perfume of or th time the morning You leno know what whitE Carlyle wid Jd of or like window window window win win- visit IL It was waa a dow flung open to azure That 10 is what every try I letter Jetter lter should hould be for or aletter a a. I letter Is III only a k visit from a friend You I see e 1 urn am ur lamming a good pod tilSia a S here here aims am assuming that people only write letters leters to their lends friends Wo We c will wil not here hieme hele mention menton those unspeakable pel sons persons ons who write tite anonymous letters amid and that other mal class clas represented by 13 ly Pin Hat Mary whose verbose and vituperative missives aC are simply en envelopes tI containing sundry and amid thy divers lIS ems em's pin And nd about Thackeray cray he he noser n had bad use Ube for rhetorical curled hair hal s sea moss nor nol book booky excelsior lor If 1 said ald timings things and all al the time peroxide of or Iron iii m il i hi his Ink was for 01 or the educations of nf ii h hH 1 is I friends s an and amid not for tor tho time vexation of I 1 hi I enem enemy In fact tact the time snobs and anti au all of r f I society's s Iwa heavy dragons are pachyderm pl pity pachyderm pity bestowed on t th h. h ut-rn rn r is wasted Thackeray wrote books and t leUI i for oi his Imis friends Xo No man nan who lived hived In England at ui t m h. h line lime of oC wrote letters leters that thu ar are worth as much munch at auction as hl his Each letter he lie wrote was vas an artistic whole It I Is IN a a. portrait on copper plate plat I It I I Is corl correctly ct spelled rightly punctuated meted and lii in Itself n a f nugget of ot wi wisdom dom und and good oot wi will st Short sharp shari brief ami i ito to tl I the lie point It says ayn something ami atil stops Mors It I rounds up um tho the Idea ropes It 1 and upon Ullon It Is placed the hot licE lion of if I ls personality A A. Thackeray letter leter Is no imo maverick The Thacker Thackeray style of or letter 1 ls Is pretty prell well trell known Charlotte Bronte I I I J believe was the time fir first t to write JU just I J like time the tw mauler master She loved him to o well I that It I nearly broke her heart L hearth t h n h n she he saw him hll eating cabbage and hi v lm 11 i cr cry a was true Oh Mr Ir Thackeray please I dont dont If In Iii America Gene Fr Field ld Is lit ls th thi in tt i example of ot a Thackeray letter writer Jeter It If you OU OLi have hn letters lettel'S written b by FI Field Id I hung hang on 01 to them tho they will H help the r re receiver colver celver to JUt pay 35 par Robert Hobort Louis Loulu the lie Beloved wrote let- let I I I I 1 I I I J I i iere LU 10 lU love l e. too tOO tOO- a ft dash laah o of or wit wi an aim idea antI and a handicap To perpetuate a hateful thought t. t b b. writing It in a I letter hi 1 1 deliberate lu lu- lu nacy TO say tsay ay a spiteful timing thins Is ha not so tW awful bad bad you you can caim make up anti and forget But t to write the time words 0 of ot scorn coin and auth set set It J afloat on the time ea sea len of oC ne er scorn never X Next to writing a tool fool let letter r I Is to write a long on one one brevIty brevity 1 t Is not I the soul loul of oC wi wit but the soul Roul of or art rt rt an and every good thing A 4 beautiful letter let lot ter is H an e ecstasy ecstasy anti and ai an ecstasy is I et III short it holt It It do doe not consist conall of ot sixteen pages page and a postscript Robert Loul Gene Genc Field St Crane James Jarnes Whitcomb lf Crne Riley I. I I ang will wi and Irving Bachellor all nih al wrote Wole letten let let- ten tams ten just Ik like Thackeray and and three thre of of th these men are still tm often though writing lot not very I In writing letters avoid leter have t ha one thought get gt your crowbar un under er It I It and that Invention of or N will wH do th thy th r rest t Sir The world n glad things 4 m e. e hat will 1 time Wheels L l ot of a life Ce or none A letter leter from Crom a friend why it I is window Clune OD oo onen n o to th the pure zure ure I |