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Show ARROW COLLAR H 2 ,or -3 trAoir & Co., i.e., V,Un H : CHEER UP! : '0l;j I Let the TROY do your Wet I I H l Wash 3c per pound. J I! Phone B "NEVER RIP" " OVERALLS Made in Ogden by wjm. Ogden People ffll John Scowcroft & HE Sons' Co AMERICAN NOVELISTS I NO. 2. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS "Learn One Thing Every Day" j Copyright. 1913, by The Associated Newspaper School, Inc. I The "Dean of American Letters" - ! that is what William Dean Howells Is called. He is and has been for half a century the literary leader of Araer lea And well he deserves the title' lames Russell Ivowell said of him that he Is one of the chief honors of our .literature" He has never written a lad sentence, never struck a false 'note He is the leading ' represents tite of the realistic school of American Amer-ican fiction. William Dean Howells might with truth be called a ' self made man of letters " He was born at Martin Per ry. Ohio, on March 1 is::? His fath er, William C.oper Howells. was a printer and editor, whose library was large and well chosen for that time It was In this llhiarv that ihe future novelist picked up "most of his edu cation As usual In a small country town, the regular schooling consisted onlv of the "three R's"; but How. !1 vas an omnivorous reader. He par tlcularlv enjoyed poetry It is said that even as a small boy he wrote verse, setting It into type himself. Whether this was ever printed Is not known, but surely some space in his lathers newspaper must have been found for these productions of his jn venile pen. In 18.11 the Family fortunes met with disaster, and Howells went to work as compositor on the Ohio State Journal at a salary of four dollars a week He so,.n graduate,) into Jour nalism, and at the age of twentv-two was neus editor of tho Columbus, Ohio, State Journal Howells Mrs' p'l'-'i work ap peared In 18(50. The ' Poems of Two Friends" were written with John J, Piatt. He began to contribute to the! Atlantic Monthly, then Just founded, about this time also A campaign! biography of Abraham Lincoln wagi written by him In lSGo. For this he j was appointed consul at Venice. wherJ h remained until ison There he 1 studied the Italian language and lit erature. and broadened his education considerably. On his return to the I nite, States he wrote lor the New- York Tribune and the nation for a time Then in 1 1806 he became assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, becoming editor six years later He was a model magazine maga-zine editor For awhile he eontrirmted to Harper's Har-per's Magazine then he became editor edi-tor of the Cosmopolitan and in 1900 revived l he Ldiior's Easy Chair'" for Harper's. He Is at present the writer of this department. Mi Howells has received many honorary degrees Harvard and Yale have both conferred on him the de-1 gree of Master of Arts, while he has' recened the degree of D - tor of Let- j i ters from Yale. Oxford, Columbia, and I Princeton, and the degree of DoctOH of Laws from A.delbcrt college In j lfH'9 he was elected president of the 1 American Academy of Arts and Let-j tors Since 1885 the novelKt has lived in New York City Howells Is a great realist and a perj feet artist in words. He was once-'asked once-'asked 11" h- never lost himself in his work and was carried away hi . hat I he was writing "Never he answered. "The es-sen es-sen e of achievement is to kei p oul side, to be entirely dispassionate asal sculptor must be. molding his clay"! nl indc-od of all Vmerican writers Howells ' omea the nearest to success in holding the mirror up to nature. 1 Every day a different human Inter-eat Inter-eat story will appear In the Standard. 1 You can get a beautiful intaglio re- J production of the above picture, with ( five others, equally attractive, 7x9 M 1 Inches in size, with this week's "Mn ' tor." In "The Mentor" a well known I authority covers tho subject of the I pictures and stores of the week Reid-ers Reid-ers of the Standard find the Mentor 'will know art, literature, history, set J ence, end travel, and own exquisite MJ pictures. On s&la at Spargo's Book jV store. Ii . I GOODYEAR SHOE ""TllPlJL REPAIRING CO ( GOQjiil PROCESS J. E. GUERNSEY, Mgr. j One door east of Standard Office, fMJRPAUGOF QUALITY." fj I THE REAPING TIME pj comes with pleasure an. I d.-lijrht, especially, if : Iffl "'r!'- 's aM Ht)lin,l'it harvest. Wi 1- Ttl')Sl' iak.e regular depnists ln i,,,. t- ' m rlU National Bank enjbj the fruits of then- ' H '"' II "',vo yon nn aec, tint with us? If not 1 I start one now. 4 Per cent Interest Paid on Savings Accounts I I UTAH NATIONAL BANK Ogden, Utah I |