Show AV lah 1 48 1 iki FERBER illustrations BY C colht Coy Ht hy br Mu lilliy lul bldr liy 1 06 arvic it t Is a bleat reat distinction for ml it barber t tj be known an the tile female 0 henry because there abl bli n e 0 V 0 a wa 0 greater reater ir writer of I 1 hort short la in america than 0 the 17 WON hooked shocked r by 4 death became ft a I 1 a u b J c t I 1 of dis cuss ion lu and pub ng c ciral ar cl to the author u L r worthy to flit bli I 1 4 flaco the th whole who 1 a I 1 at of nial mals writ re ire we was reviewed without fettling settling with any dubree of unanimity I 1 upun adna verber one ono big ngueh enough la in 1 literary war to wear the 0 henry m mantle anti me I 1 u that the hat list of wo women mo ori ona be arird rt and immediately the name of edna ed a r sarber into many rn antni ifune hundred r is of critic s editor editors aid other author tle 9 agreed that she he caie cave near er ar the 0 henry type of enius than any other american writer this wisconsin woman till young Is r an educational brodu t of the pub llo schools and of or aice she was w born in and arid wai wax a reporter on the appleton win wio dally cr Cree hal scent at seventeen ev enteen six she mut must have had an unusually canatis city editor because she he learned tint first of all to be a rood good reporter tin I 1 ability ibe she had naturally but all a how show more than anything any thin ele else the keen observer and reporter 11 II r fertility of dean Is I 1 and 11 0 henry he can aks a simell ample incident an and eave a fascinating tale a a around it she extended her newspaper new paper experience on the milwaukee journal and the chicago tribune and then decided to write for the magazines 11 her r lir au auetry t r r seem erne to be ini A at one ona t time me ahe she was wa writing hort short stories fajt practically every important maga ln tn the united states her nor output durina the pait past ten or twelve year years 1 indicate I at about a etory story a day and all good one ones too tori which the a edi dt ore were glad to ott t and pay slay good money for and thie this remarkably flo period che the fund time to writ write leht eight or ten tell novels knowing onea on amon the critic critics of novel have been for several year 7 0 ar watch edna borbor her far novel Ithe cheerful erful uy attracted wide 4 attention the rho airle wae was hailed halted a a a ah achievement there was a ca continued arvard movement in ana I 1 half a in 14 1031 came so go bir BIC which hae has been creedel with superlative praise on an all adea sides that it deve dove aped into about the mot most successful rovel of the year occasioned n aarde Ut pre among thom who had been bon I 1 devoted 0 follower followers of the be forna female a 0 glenry chapter I 1 until he wa wat t almost ten the name tuck to him lie he had literally to fight als hi way my free of it from so big of fond and infantile derivation it t had been condensa into gobig and gobig dejong delong in all lip consonantal comon antal diehr mony he had remained until he be a ten cearold year old schoolboy in that ilia t in credibly dutch district dietr lct southwest of chicago known first as new holland and later as a high prairie at ten by dint of abts teeth tm copper toed boot and temper dark dejong the nickname had sprung up frow tb the early and idiotic question invariably put to babies and answered anaw cred by them with infinite patience through the biar of their infancy selina dejony darting expertly bout her ki kitchen kit tenen caen from washtub to baking board from eave to table or if it at work la in the field fields of the truck farm firm straightening the numbed back for a moment moments falte from the close met et row rows of carrots tirril t ps or beet beets over which she be wae was laboring would wipe the sweat beads from nose and forehead with a quick duck of her bead in the crock of her bent arm those creat great fine dark eyes of hen hers would regard the child perched perc ted manent ly on a little heap of empty potato at tela vac of which comprised ma Maros SM tunic tume selina dejong had little va teas fur for the of affection the work was hot ut at her heel heels I 1 you aw saw a boing roman in III a blut calico dress tided and earth grimed between her eyer was a driven look as of one who walks always a little ahead of herself in her haste her dark abundant hair was vias skewered i into nto a utilitarian knob from which aich soft loop and strands were constantly eeme callag to be pushed b ack b that sa hv led ducking gesture of head and b ben arm IT hu hand bands for such use wire 4 air ra I 1 dually too crusted and in roura 1 with A I 1 ill the soil oll into which she was as d lv ir ditc itc erf lou ion saw a child of perhaps ivo two years dirt streaked sunburned and general otherwise defaced by thomp tho bump bumps bites scratches sill contusions hat that are the common lot of the 1 farm child of a mother tarried b work yot in that moment as a tiie tile woman oman look looked I 1 a at the child there in the warm arm mo 1110 ib 9 spring pring of the illinois prairie land or in III the cli cit tiered kitchen of the farm house there ered and vibrated be I 1 gween them and all abouna theiu an aura a glow that imparted to them and their surroundings a nis mastery tery a beauty a radiance I 1 how ilow big in Is baby selina would demand in and senselessly bg i is my man the child would momentarily cease to poke plump fingers into the rich black loam he lie would mile smile a gummy gumm y though slightly weary eary smile and stretch wide his arms she too would open her tired arms wide ade wide then they would say in a duet hta his mouth a puck ered pink petal hers quivering quiver lne with tenderness fender nebs and a certain amusement so 00 oo o o oo 0 big I 1 with ith the voice soaring on the prolonged vowel oel and dropping suddenly with the second word nord part of the game she would run to him and swoop down doun upon him and bury her tier flushed face in the tile nairn moist creases of hix 1 neck and make as an though to devour him I 1 so biff big I 1 but of course he gasn w aan t he lie as its big as that in fact he nover became an aft big as the wide stretched arms of her tier love and imagination u woja 0 have had him I 1 lou ou would have thought she should have been satisfied when la in ater later pare ears he was wits the dirk dejong whose name you caw eng engraved raed at the top of heavy cream linen paper so rich and thick and unit stiff na to have the effect of being starched and ironed by some costly Al american merican business process clothes were made by peter peel the tailor whose roadster ran on a french chassis whose wants were bened by a japanese houseman whose life in short was that of a successful citizen of the republic but she walin t not only was as she dissatisfied she was as at once and indignant as though she he selina dejong the vegetable pel ler had been partly to blame for this success of his him and partly cheated by it N hen selina dejong had been selina peake she had aled in chicago with her father they had lived in many other cities as well in denver during the rampant 80 in lit new york when selina was twelve in milwaukee bricky there was even a san francisco interlude which was always a lit tie tle sketchy in selina a mind and which had ended in a departure so hurried as to bewilder even selina who had learned teamed to accept sudden comings and abrupt goings without question business her father fattier always said little deal she site near knew until the day of his death how flow literally the he word ord deal was wall applicable to his business transact tr ansac loni simeon peake tra ra alln the country with his little datty liter was a gam gum 1 hy by profession temperament and natural its when in luck they lived royally topping at the best beat boel eating strange succulent seat lands going to the alay driving in rigs always with two horses if simeon peake had bad not enough money for a two horse equipage lie walked al ked when hen fortune hid bid her tier fac face they lived n barillos barill ns bout houses teo ate boarding house continued on page 3 SO BIG py from pago 2 beas wor auw 0 ati lips liblit li to ez t a allen fortuned fortune a breath lire oti wu us during itil 11 this time ix llna attended rood goott private public ditl euri ran regularity considering tier her nomadic aole ex site had a ik time ax fet to for r three anre to recall which was to her itlie like en entering terina a sombre icy ley room en on leaving a warm and mud glowing one her tier life lifts aas free interesting varied she made sioni usually devolving i pen the tile adult mind sue slim cothes she ruled her 4 uth ti I 1 she ah read books pour in boarding house parlor parlors er she read absorb absorbedly odly book books found la in boarding house parlor parlors in hotel hotels la in each such public libraries to the times afforded she was alone for hour hours a day dally daily frequently her father fearful of loneliness for her brought her an armful of books and she had an query dipping and swooping about amlong them in a sort ort of gourmand a ecstasy ot of indecision la in this way at fifteen ehe she knew the writings of byron jane jame austen dickens Dic kro charlotte pronte felicia hernani her iler three dark years rear from nine to twelve were spent with tier ber t two tao ao maid on a anunti the misses aud mud abble in the aim prim print vermont peake linuse from bom t icci her father the black sheep had find run away when a is boy after her tier mother root lier s death simeon peake had sent hie his little daughter hick loick east in lit a fit of ren and temporary helplessness on hi ht a part and a purt of forgiveness and churchly charity on be the pa of hie ills two sisters thoi th two w annen inen were ere Ju Credibly drawn in tbd pattern nf at the new gland of fiction mitts deserves p bible chilly best room bud cad cat cut order little girl girls musto t L they swelled of ripples of withered apples that have rotted at the core something of this ehe lie must bars have conveyed convey eil la in her depper desperation atlon to her father in an uncensored letter avith out warning he had come for her tier and at eight might of him film she had bad been guilty of the only fit of liki terla that marked her life before or after the episode bo so then from twelve to nineteen aha oba was happy they had come to chicago in 1885 when she was won sixt sixteen ipen there they remained belena atte eded miss rister a select school for young ladles when her tier father fattier brought her there he had raided quite a flutter in the rister fixter on wax wn he lie so cente gente so sad appearing so winning in as to smile in the investment business he explained stocks and that kind of thins thing A ivi widower dower ills hiss fitter fleter ald said yea yes she sh simeon bouke had find of the look of the gambler fain bler of the day I 1 he wide slouch hat the flow ing aa the glittering ee tho the too bright boots the gay cravat all were missing in simeon I 1 enko eake a makeup true he lid sport a singularly clear whit allamon I 1 pin in his him ebirt front and till dat in h 3 wore just ft it little on ori onesida one eidi abut then these both ere in the male mode and quite commonly seen foi fot the rest he seethed a mild and suave man slim a trifle diffident speaking seldom and then with a ngow england drawl by which he had come ho honestly enough vermont peake that be he was wax chicago was 1 Ms is meat it was booming prosperous lie played in good luck and tad bat ut he managed some 86 bow flow to see to it that there was always the for tile fister flitter school ing selina was happy she anew new only such young people girls girl girksas sas as she tie tiet at miss I 1 later m school her iler chum was julle julie daughter of husni kusni I ller opt the clarit clark street butcher you probably now 0 own w 11 some IIer opel stock it youre luckul and eat flemuel IIer opel bacon and lit I 1 I 1 pet abdu tired ared in the hickory for in C chicago the ilia distance distan tan e from butcher of 1885 to packer of at 1890 1800 was only a five yc r leap being so to much alone developed in her a alft for the in a comfortable well dr caseS way she was a sort of mixture lc dick Swivel Swi veller leem 31 arcia loness and saras crewe even in her childhood she he extracted extracted fron life the tha double enoy met that usually oily to the cicat lve ilal r now I 1 ro in doh dolt g till this N naw im colu deins that she eh told herself while he 9 dolog doing it looking on while ei tar perhaps her theatergoing theater rg r g going had bad something to do with this at aa an ste W when moat most little girls were not loyy up lid e us 9 stil mccu occupied pled a it wian up seat at the n play pay her tier rapt rip dark sm oua ou eye eyes blowing of pallor she he aliat liat proudly boxt VA ai father in this way selina half awen IN it he tie depth of 0 ar or or hestan nhe at arta bled in ecstatic anticipation when tb taft curtain on the tile ax row ros of 0 li liberty mertys linit ste alb need that startling innovation a jw lih play called I 1 of she sh saw w k dannie in plou I 1 simeon even took her to a at of that shocking and n is form 04 04 new now tho b extravaganza the thing I 1 like bout about playa plays and books ie to that anything can harbu harr eo anything 1 you rime auw selaw aid said no different from it lle sliba simeon peake assured her youve bo idea the things that happen to you it if you juet just relax and take them ai as they come burlou ty enough simeon peake reake said thin not through ignorance but deliberately libera tely and with reason la in hie his way and day he as a very modern father 1 I want you to see all kinds to I 1 would say y to ber iter I 1 I 1 want you to realize that th this whole thing I 1 Is jut just a errand grand adventure A one show the trick ie Is to tat play in it and loo at it at the same am I 1 time 1 what whole 11 living all mix 4 ip lp the more kinds of people yoi see find and the more thine things you do end and the h more things that happen to you the richer sou are ore even i if awre not pleasnt ples pant things that it Hie amber niber no matter what happ happen eap BOO or bad had we jut 99 much he irol the gam gambler blees term unconscious Y vout fiust eo so much velvet but bilt bellue understood under tood you mean that better than being aunt bo so rah roll and aunt alibi wellyem well Wel lyea yes there are only tu kind kino of U uy th 11 really pit cahm etue 0 kind I 1 n I 1 a w wheal 1 test aud mud the otha kind a emerald emeralds fanny davenports Daven porta an emerald un erald isa 1 selina quickly and rather aur our to find herself saying it yea yes that 4 it if andena And and end julie Ilem catbe bed bes wheat by golly shouted simeon stinson peake youre a shrewd little tykel julie end ond hellna rako both firl shed products product a of mir miss filter mere nert of an age nineteen sib una line on thia this september day had ba been spending ending ep the attern aeu with julle julie and now adjusting her hat preparatory to leaving she he clapped her handa hands ovet her tier ear earn to shut iut out the coundi at 0 julies i that at eta stav 1 to supper certainly t fie is prospect of f tir that usual monday evening meal meat in mm mrs boarding bouse did not pre pro meat excuse for r refusal indeed the supper as sketched digh dish for dikia by the urgent julle julie brought little greedy groans from selina its it a prairie chickens three of them that a farmer furnier ot at town brought I 1 gutber alother Alot lier fixes them with stuff ire conj there therea a curant jell creamed onion onions and baked and for apple roll selina snapped the elastic holding her high crowned hat bat under her chignon of hair in the back bhe bho uttered K final arld quavering groan on monday 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