Life — November 7, 1907 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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awe Unwin’s bait. As for our women, we trust that the hand that rocks the cradle will prefer to pursue tasks associated with nobler and more necessary creative work. Speed W that literature is frankly com- IN imercialized, we see no reason why some of its foremost representatives should ave been excluded from the typewriting contest of the Madison Square Garden Business Show. The spectacle of an expert pist hammering out eighty-seven words « minute from prepared copy is instructive enough in its nore edifying and significant to observ that speed approximated by an eminent literary hand whose normal flow of thought runs ahead of his power to tran- scribe it with the slow and tedious pen. It is recalled that in the modern accelerated mo the Zangwill brothers—Israel and Louis— gaged in a friendly contest in which speed counted ninety per cent. and the re- maining ten points v ndifferently apportioned with respect to old-fas ioned prejudi The news was immediatel lashed to the literary centers of both hemi spheres, and subsequently it was our privi- ge to read the magnum opus of the win- It turned out to be “‘epoch-making” ather than ‘‘monumental”—(it is aston- ishing how a mere gossip picks up the ‘argon of the trade by casual association with book reviewers); and it is probably gnificant of something or other that the tour de force itself has utterly faded from our memory, and that we can recollect only a nose. * immense advertising possibilities in such a contest as we suggest must be perfectly apparent to all enterprising publishers. We refrain from impertinent ind obvious suggestions—including the names of certain authors who would lend distinction, if not style, tothe exhibit. Their identities and their performances are fairly familiar to all readers who swim without nking in the tides of an inky sea.. We foresee, in consequence of such stimula- tion of the public appetite, the Evening Journal reader cheek by jowl with the myopic peruser of a “sporting wuxtry” ued by the Saturday Times’ multiform appeni We would merely add that the fast and rious producers of fiction need not monopolize the contest. Under Mr. Mabie’s direction, a separate class of essayists might be entered, as the essay not as yet held to be a purely mechanical form of the literary art, An endurance con- test for readers might be arranged later. 2 W. T. L. Whitman Saddles KNOWN THE WORLD OVER E are the sole manufacturers of the celebrated Whitman Saddles and Specialties. We im- port and manufacture everything for the saddle horse, from “saddle to spur.” Every man and woman interested in horse- back riding should have our book. WE MAIL IT FREE The Mehlbach Saddle Co. =~ 108 Chambers St. New York YOU WOULDN'T TAKE A COUNTERFEIT DOLLAR Knowingly. Isn't the man who imitates another man’s trade-mark as bad as the counterfeiter? If you want satisfaction and your money's worth, your chances are better if you GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR comicbooks.com