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Show Sometimes Thus. That cry in a 1-ondon paper of a Jour nallst who "finds it Impossible to maintain that appearanco so essential In his profoHHlon" carries ono back to the past with a Jerk. Hack to tho days when nppoarance was not always al-ways "so essential" to thn writer. Ono recalls Samuol Hoyso, u contemporary of Johnson, for Inntunco, who worked only when his clotbos were in puwn. His dress pledged, ho would Bpond a fow shillings thus ncqulrod on meat to eat with his trufllos and mushrooms and then toko to hla bed. Thoro ho would get under a blanket, slit to nl-low nl-low free ploy of his pen hand, nnd start work with a will. |