Life — September 26, 1907 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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MORTON TRUST COMPANY || & vost fea ost : ANCIENT ANCIENT 38 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK ; ‘AND AND no part of the news, but which are often Caitl, . = =~ $2,000,000.00 read as cagerly as are the records of moving aS suopious events. It is not an easy fashion to set; it 1 Sorples and Undivided Profits, $8,201,262.72 has proved to te even more difficult to SORDIAS CORDIALS follow. W.TL orricers: Authors jen Ecutiee Vinten: _ HM. Ped, Seow in inspiration and long hair,” says Past D. Cravath, Counsel Emerson Hough, who works for six or eight months in the fall and winter, and then goes bear hunting to recuperate. ‘It EXECUTIVE COMMITTRE: seems to me that writing is to-day a pro- Levi P. Morton Paul D. Cravath fession or trade. Why invest it with frills? Thomas F- Hyas. GG Maven A blacksmith rolls up his sleeves and Charles Tl Alen James N. Jarvie i ; Diead sy gersind Seeoe tL aan makes a horseshoe. Why shouldn't a Harry Payne Whitney writer work the same wa: ‘ing his horse- shoe in his mind before he begins to hammer?” * 8 R. HOUGH finds that he gets more work done at his desk in Chicago a than he can accomplish in the most ideal je Sure ; i You Get the Genuine surroundings elsewhere. “I used to work thirty-six hours a di he says, “but am (J ) Underberg contented to get in six hours or so now; and F I prefer the morning now, althoug =| Bitters. was obliged to do all of my lite Sas after midnight. ee Aa Dealer “T nearly always write the first drait of e 7 a short story at one sitting, perhaps four thousand five hundred or five thousand words. I always compose direct on the typewriter; then, since I write as badly on the machine as with a pen, I correct my draft and dictate it for the sake of clean copy. The clerical part of my work is my greatest dread. It has always been difficult Jules Doux, French Dyer-Cleaner, 6 Burnet St; Utica, N.Y.| for me to recast an idea after it is once fixed, so I do not make very extensive changes in my original draft. * * “ Y HARDEST work is done before I begin to write and I like to s story or novel clean through to thi fore I begin writing. I worked about \Wh years on the ‘Mississippi Bubble,’ \ could find time, and before I wrote a line. The actual writing took me about six months. I wrote my last novel in sixty day Game or Business This sounds like carclessness, but really you will need a the hardest work was done before I wrote Watermarisideal Fountain Pen atell: The pen with the Clip-Cap When you are in the woods the Clip-Cap F YOU want to make a Browning fanatic keeps the pen always handy, attached to furious tell him, gravely, that you, too, outing shirt pocket. When you are after are a devotee, and that, on the whole, you big business game the same Clip-Cap think his genius finds its truest expression will keep the pen just as handy, ready to in “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” write at the fint stroke, never blotting, never stopping until the last drop of i Creative Work arpa Waleomas Ideal at sa Ix RUDYARD_ KIPLING'S opinion, Nisa ponceecvasd maneye Is aot | life holds no greater joy than the doing repeaiog rset baie ack oad of creativework. Oh, wedon’t know! What cngaiane Beaivesen of the secret and ineffable rapture of read- For Sale by all Dealers. ing your own creative work when it is printed, and wondering how on earth you managed to do it? LIQUEUR Peres Chartreux —GREEN AND YELLOW— This famous cordial, now wade at Tare ragona, Spain, was for centuries distilled by the Cartbusian Monks (Peres Chartreux) atthe 3 of La Grande Chartreuse Id bottle and label ax we the same order of M. guarded the errr error eee rrr erreerererrTrCerey WE is: silk lace and woolen gament. They look new. We dye carpets, rugs, portieres. References everywhere. Ack for circulars. Ysstssssrse. | RETET EEE E TEE T TTT TT TEETER ET ETT TTT TTT EE TET TEE E TET ETE TET EEE E TE ET ET TEE TTT EP EPES | Browning comicbooks.com