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Show Sometime Thus. That cry in a London paper of a journalist jour-nalist who "finds it impossible to maintain that appearance so essential in his profession" carries one back to the past with a jerk. Back to the days when appearance was not always al-ways "so essential" to the writer. One recalls Samuel Boyse, a contemporary of Johnson, for instance, who worked only when his clothes were in pawn. His dress pledged, he would spend a few shillings thus acquired on meat to eat with his truffles and mushrooms and then take to his bed. There he would get undor a blanket, slit to allow al-low free play of his pen hand, and start work with a will. |