Life — June 17, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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SPARKS Foto. ANVILS Recipe for a Ledger Poem | Years ago one of them confided to me his recipe for a New York Ledger poem. “ What- exer you do,’ he said, “be careful not to use up a whole idea on a single poem, for if you do you'll never be able to make a cent. I usually cat an idea into eight pieces, like a pie, and write a poem for cach piece, though once or twice I have made sixteen pieces out of one. My ‘Two Brothers’ idea yielded me just six- teen poems, all accepted, for which I received {i60. What do I mean by cutting up an idea Well. F'Il tell you. I took for a whole idea two brothers, brought up on a farm in the country, one of whom goes down to the city, while the other stays at home on the farm. Well, I wrote t poems about those brothers, giving them soch names as Homespun Bill and Fancy Jake, and the city man always went broke, and was lad to get back to the country again and find that Homespun Bill had either paid the mortgage on the place or saved the house from burning. or done something else calculated to commend tim to the haymakers who subscribed for the paper. Then I wrote eight more, and in every ene of those it was the yokel who got left; that isto say, Fancy Jake or Dashing Tom, or what- ever [ might choose to call him, would go to he city and either get rich in Wall street—al- ways Wall, never Broad or Nassau street or Broadway, remember—and come back just in time to stop the sheriff's sale and bid in the eld homestead for some unheard-of figure, oF tse he would become a great physician and re- tum to save his native village at a time of pes- tilence, or maybe I'd have him a great preacher and come back and save all their souls: anyw. I got eight more pocms out of the pair, to say tothing of some stories that I used in anoth paper.""—James L. Ford, “ The Literary Shop.” On Reading Novels The 90 Locomobile winning the 1908 Race for the Vanderbilt Cup. Average speed 64.38 miles per hour including stops. Sustained high speed is the supreme test of an auto- I think my time better employed in reading | mobile, and the victory of our car in this great contest is a triumph for our design and our the adventures of imaginary people than the factory methods. Furthermore the car was two years old when if started in the race. (12 Duchess of Marlborough’s, who passed the lat- Post Card views of race sent for 10 cents, Beautiful I1<olor poster for framing, 10 cents.) ter years of her life in paddling with her will, and contriving schemes of plaguing some, and racing rase ton aero ne romex —- The'3Q0-Afive pass) | The"40"-A seven disappointed cternally fretting. These scenes ave over at my age. inde enger shaft drive car passenger family car all the art I can, my taste for reading rould confine it to valuable books, they are al- $3500 $4500 mest as rare as valuable men. I must be con- | © cnt with what I can find. As I approach a| second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the Hewores of it. Your youngest son is, perhaps TheLocomobile Company of America. Bridgeport.Conn. this very moment riding on a poker with gt wei much Heat aiahing ian \naian have, -NIEW YORK - PHILADELPHIA - CHICAGO- BOSTON ~ SAN FRANCISCO stich he would not know how to manage. 1 am Jing an idle tale, not expecting wit or truth | and am very glad it is not metaphysics to ny judgment. or history to mislead my nion. He fortifies his health by exercise: T calm my cares by oblivion. The methods 1 BORATED appear low to busy people; but, if he improves TALCUM his strength, and I forget my infirmities, we at tain. very desirable ends.—" Letters of Mory Wortley Montogy On the Jump trling Blue Tubes COTE rORD Kone comicbooks.com