Iron County Record | 1914-04-17 | Page 9 | Not High-Placed Ambition

NOT HIGH-PLACED AMBITION Magazine Poet Surely Could Not Be Accused of Having Too Strong Desire for Wealth. Apropos of Marshall It. Kcrmochnn,' who mnkeH $30 a year by writing uiubIc, a magazine, poet Bald: "To mako $30 a year out of music Is pretty good. It's us much as I, a successful poet, mako out of verse. "When they seo my poetry In nil the rhnguzlncfl people think that 1 llvo lit thu Illtz-Curlton. Alus, tht don't llnow tho mngazliio pootry ratcBt "A young lady said to mo tho other to: t """nika your pootry bo tiiuch. 1'hnvo Jften hoard tho expression beautiful b a poet's dream. Toll me, what nro oet'H dreams llko?' "'Well, my dear young lady,' I replied, re-plied, 'mine nro usually about three squuro meals a dny, clean linen and nn occasional G-cont cigar.' "