Life — February 6, 1908 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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The subject occupied the minds of the first debating society during the long dreary days when the ark was drifting towards Ararat; and the debate— so the tradition runs—had become slightly acrimonious, when Noah himself took a hand init. “See here,” he remarked, sud- denly, to the leader of the negative section, “where would you literary fellows be if I hadn’t built this ark?” Then the dove flew in with an olive branch and literature was tabooed till the corn was laid by. * * * THE significant thing about this tradi- tion is that Noah is probably the only man of action on record who has not be- lieved in his heart that he could run a newspaper or write a play if he only put his mind to it. Conversely, the man of let- ters, while modestly doubting his ability to do anything of real practical value, is prone to pathetic envy of his neighbor who builds bridges and designs houses. The dream of a certain popular novelist, wh name we withhold for obvious reasons, is that some day he may own and operate a sausage factory; in his moments of greatest depression he has been known to compro- mise on the airy fabric of a delicatessen shop. We could point our finger at a dis- tinguished literary critic whose cherished ambition is that his name shall some day become a household word through the medium of a patent device for dusting books. These are but humbler forms of the conviction entertained by Louis Steven- son, to which he gave expression in verse, that he had done nothing to compare with the nobler work of lighthouse building achieved by his immediate male ancestors. Kipling wrote a little story called “A Con- ference of the Powers,” wherein a famous author finds himself an object of venera- tion by certain hero-worshipping Subal- terns of the Line; but the author himself, awed before these youthful embodiments of action, can only ask, ‘You! Have you shot a man?” On the other hand, your practical man + of genius turned writer is pretty sure to be prouder of his later laurels than of his first-won fame: a case in point is Dr. Weir Mitchell. 4 4 « TH question which Noah settled out of hand for the time being, but which per- sists in bobbing up as a substitute for par- chisi and “‘Old Maid,” will hardly engross GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER “Its purity has made it famous.” 134 Chocolates and Confections 80c a pound box The Genuine Aristocrats of the World of Sweets. Applauded by the belles—sought by the beaux—of past generations, Whitman’s has never relinquished its position as American Premier of Confections. Best druggist in every community is our agent, or send $1.00 for specimen box. Wh many, vstsrcees Corsa mate invents Htnans, aint cece STEPHEN F. 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