Life — November 21, 1907 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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railway in the Sierras, at the 7,000-foot N OTICE mark. He writes, with a pen, from 7.30 ST a. a. until 10 o'clock or thereabouts, and achieves an average output of 1,500 words, which is equal to the contents of a news- A decoction, purporting to be “Chartreuse,” has been recently put on paper column, Mr. White's capacity for sale in this country under labels which are practically facsimile copies of P eative work is, therefore, much greater the labels which had been used for many years by the Carthusian Monks creative pa So, h . (Peres Chartreux) on the famous liqueurs made by them in France before than most writers’, especially as the orig- their expulsion from that country. Such use of the aforesaid labels is cal- inal draft is his only one. It is somewhat culated to mislead the public into the erroneous belief that the aforesaid nterlined for felicity of expression, but his Hecactions ace the genuine manulactire of the Carthusian Monks and are é ig a A made according to their ancient formulas. ideas are pretty well organized before fhe The public is therefore advised that the Monks, since leaving France, begins to put them down. . have located at Tarragona, Spain, where their old-time famous liqueur is At his regular rate of production, Mr. now manufactured. Although still holding title to their ancient labels and White could achieve a novel and some trade-marks, the present manufacture is being shipped under the label twenty short stories within the six months of his actual working year. Can it be the California climate? We are somehow re- e minded of another man who lived much I ueur out-of doors—for whose mind a house bred “a sort of insanity.” ‘‘As for style of wri- ting,” said this man, Thoreau, “if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground. res ar eux There are no two ways about it, but down itcomes, and he may stick in the points and stops whenever he can get a chance.” An Th - " : sb . i¢ U. S. Circuit Court has held that every bottle of the SO-CALLED artless avowal, to be taken not too literally; CHARTREUSE now offered for sale in this country must bear a label stating for, as Stevenson has pointed out, Tho: that “IT IS NOT MADE BY THE CARTHUSIAN MONKS.” reau had already wrought out his style and —— framed his matter in his walks through the woods, gee BATJER & COMPANY EORGE BARR McCUTCHEON has Sole Agents for the United States, its Island Possessions and Cuba acurious plan of his own. He begins two, or even three, novels at practically the sametime. In two weeks he is able to de- termine which one of these tales is most at- tractive to him, the easiest-going, so to say; and he promptly drops the others. In only Co mfo rt, Conve nie nce one instance—that of “The Sherrods”— ° lis be ever taken up again any one of the and Cleanliness “3.20222” plots cast aside in this process of elimina- tion. Occasionally he works ‘on two sto- bg ries at the same time—the short spring book and the long novel. He finds the little tale arelief—a relaxation in the course of the “Cyco"-Bearing Carpet Sweeper. You can double its Don’t YOU Want to Know tight months which he takes in writing th benchts by having 1to. swerpery—one for up-stairs and How to Get PURE Horse Radish? iB: ich he takes in wnting the one for down; this saves the work of carrying the sweeper Send for our new illustrated and very inter- longer one. up and down stairs: besides, you,always have a sweeper esting booklet: “The World's est Relish,” at your command en you want it. al tt] tht: i Atleast two of Mr. McCutcheon’s books ‘There is no article in the home at double A postal card will bring its ons abe Felishe required nearly two years before comple- i) > rarer seen ted | “AS YOU LIKE IT” f ff T vel. 'T) 4 Cs hard |. js the name of brand of h dish, which is ton. His forthcoming novel, “The Daugh- te [itely pure and clea s asinits manatactare and botthing ter of An ,? en i raring . itis never touched by human hands. Anderson Crow,” has been in the The ** Peddled ” kisd is generally dirty (often filthy) socks for over two years. On the other ; and adulterated with turnip and white pepper to sharpen tand, “Brewster's Millions,” which ap- Palgd Nr, acs a dit | ay Avon vdke I end now what ee Kone rads Peared under an assumed name, was writ- ) Tell K tor -cents haa lange borues, Ss ner® Ast Of Peover tea offhand in six weeks’ time. All his y ioager than ity com ||] U-S. HORSE RADISH CO., Saginaw, Michigan "ork is done in the seclusion of his study— : Rae awdl-lighted, comparatively isolated room , $5.02. i his Chicago home. Here he works, more or less continuously, from one year’s | : = ed to the other—writing steadily, on rare ; ar “casions, through an entire day, and al- " Beware °%,,"2% "ays in longhand. “It is quite beyond to be sent cot by us 5,” says Mr. McCutcheon, “to dictate | Siiploy so agens cl hus kinds ®tomanipulate the typewriting machine, J and I find that I have few changes to make ‘nthe original draft of the story—except in the matter of polishing, if that word may resent. comicbooks.com