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Show Ths Fermented Foot, "How much poetry can you write In a day. Mr. pemetrlcua?" Inquired the Intelligent Interviewer. "Ah, ths amount varies, madam," replied re-plied the unhappy poet "Sometimes It takes ms halt a day to compose two lines." "And how much do you get for a poem?" persisted ths unabashed one. "That, again, varies. I have received ss much as $25." Then tbs Interviewer went through a mental calculation, and reported the Income of Demetrlcus ss ID, 000 a year, whereupon all the callow Torse producers pro-ducers In the country wrote to him to ssk how they, too, could bask In the light of fame. |