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Show STRANGt HABITS OP FWi III A. Conan Doyle Never Wears Overcoat: Tolstoy Never Wore Shoes j We -ire told that senilis Is clossll allied to Insanity Jhe statement Is true to thlx extent: All who ijreatly! overwork their drains, or the neglect of their niiicles. must necessarily be come more or Less mentally uhbalanc od. This iy more true of musician and writers than Of sculptors an. I painters, hec.iuso the latter use their musics, to SO trie ext'-nt. All great mulleo.1 composers have boon more or Iphs crazy. Here are some peculiarities of well-krfown writer-: Bret Harte. when the Inspiration was 00 him, would hire a cab for th-(night th-(night and drive ilirough the darknesw I without sloiu'ing until the struccl'1 f"r t its was over, and he gr- w ralin U ougb to write. .Vothlng pleased! hlin more than t be taken for an Englishman. liJornKon kept his pockctK full of the seeds f trees, scattering haudfuin broad ca i In his daily walks. He even tried lo persuade bis associates to do the same. t i LDN'T sir sTll Robert Browning could not -sit stljl.l The constant fhuffhng of hid feet i wore- holes in the carpet. Zola would never accept an Invita- ;ion to dinner. Sir A. Conan lioyle. even In thej ! olJer.t weather, never wears an over- j coal. b-n h Rives an afternoon 'lecture he removes his vest, and but-j tons his Prince Alber: coat close to ihiK body. He Is a golf enthusiast and spends h much time as possible on! I the llnl is. j '. .Marlon Crawford carried his own . i . 4 .. , ....r. lui. inil novir : ? ..mjuih. I , jivii mni v i if ota with any otber He wrote everji word of every novel with the samol pi i holder, i Edmund t'larence Stedman had bis I favorite cat sit In u high chair at the table every day at dinner. Krnest Uenan wore his finger nails abnormally Knr. SHOES N l IK won i Count Tolstoy went barefoot and lhatless the year round. EEs was fon.l of French perfumes and kept his 1 in en scented with sachet powder. There was alwaya a flower on his desk as hej wrote Although very rich, he won. the cheapest clothes he could buy. Mexandev Dumas, the younger, bought a new painting every time h had a new book published. Bdgar Allan Poo sleptwlth his cat lie w.ih niordlna'ely proud of ills ( I Difraell wore ior;i n. The ol... 1 b- rrrew, the greater became his desire to lr. like a voting man He had a pen ' stuck behind each ear when WTiUng. Thomas Wentworth lllgginson pos- seifsed n singular power over wild bird and could easily tame them Dickens was fond of we iring flashy Jewelry. Oliver Wehdall Holmes used to carry u horse-chestnut In one poi 1 1 and a potito In another to waril ofi rtieuniatlsm. He had a great fondm for trees, and always sat under one v.hcn he could -ill l US I! Hawthorne always washed his hand., before reading a letter from his wife He delighted In poring over old advertisements ad-vertisements In the newspaper files., Thackeray used to lift his hat when ever he passed the house In which be wrote Vanity Fair. Sardon Imagined he had a perpetual cold. Darwin had no respect for books ai books, and would cut a olg volume In I two for eonvanlanna In linnllmr nr he would t'ur out the leaves he re quired for reference Washington IrvlnK never mentioned the name of his finances after hit death, and if anybody else did so he immediately left the, room. Victor Hugo .-spoke little; his re j marks usually were made In the form of questions. Keats liked red pepper on his toast. Longfellow enjoyed walking at BUn-rlse BUn-rlse or sunset, and be said his subll-mest subll-mest moods cams upon him at these times. Robert Lewis Stevenson's favorite recreation was playing the flutp, In or der, as he said, to tune up his Idea.-. oo Frelnht train operation Is more costly i ban that of paeadpgef trains. |