Life — August 1, 1907 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Appleton’s sent in disguise to investigate the state of peonage. He once gained some notoriety by stamping on the American flag before a labor meeting, and demanding that the crowd sing the “Marscillaise” instead of “America.” He has been a Congregational minister, the proprietor of a free-for-all church, and a socialist orator. But writers of fiction seem to wander quite as much, though it is often declared that steam has killed romance. James Connolley enlisted as a yeoman in the Navy, with Roosevelt's permission ‘The winners of the quarterly contests insti- tuted by Collier's Weekly are men like Rowland Thomas, who have seen bolos in action. Ralph Paine has sailed with South American revolutionists, and tried his Yale oarsman muscles in every quarter of the globe. O. Henry has been everything from an editor to a waiter, in all sorts of crude crossroad towns. Stewart Edward White, according to his photographs in the literary journals, will probably die with his puttees on, before a background of tawny wilderness. James Creelman has lived some of his most exciting stories in Madagascar and elsewhere. Jack London’s case, among those who do not stay with the typical “magazine crowd,” is obvious. The Wil- liamsons are not content unless they have 9 ° k Ab at least one remarkable adventure a week, The Car You Don t Thin out in Breton or Sicily or Andalusia. Robert . Hitchens has seen some dark bits of @ Perfect health makes you unconscious of your life, in out-of-the-way places. Broughton body—a pain calls it to mind. Brandenburg has been a war correspond- QTo be perfectly dressed relieves you of all ent, like Richard Harding Davis, and he : has lived among Italian anarchists in their thought about your clothes—a fault requires your siative spots, and crossed in the Glthy steer- attention. . age of a German liner, accompanied by his @ People don’t think about the car when they wife. are touring in a Peerless—their minds are free to Even the cheaper magazines, which pub- all the pleasures by the way. lish dime novels for grown-ups, are no longer content with local color from a Send for ou strated book *Q." It fully de- ‘aa . rs Setibce the Peerless Models.” Beat tree on request Baedeker. Though their hack writers may The Peerless Motor Car Company, 2449 Oakdale St., Cleveland, Ohio still dictate their thirty thousand words a week, they are, according to the advertise- ments, “‘ex-ranchmen,” or “intimately ac- quainted with pirate life of the Gulf of Genoa.” But this sign of the times is less important than the fact that the men who may succeed Jack London and O. Henry before long are yielding to the wanderlust, and, incidentally, getting copy. A census of the Junior class at the University of Pennsylvania, not long ago, showed that 4 he ee ER ye JERY one-third of the Junior class had experi- S ences in mining camps or Canadian moun- AN 0 tains, or the like, during vacations. ‘The E cattle ship is so much favored by college UNDERWEAR students that a large per cent. of the fall themes in rhetoric is sure to deal with word-rate raising escapes from Canadian = 7 ard: steers, Mine Highest Awards One of these young men has sold some of his stories and verse to such magazines as The Century and Smart Set. ‘This is Allan comicbooks.com