KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER, 1966 PAGE 17 MARK TWAIN AT MANY POINTS In the 1860's Twain went out West to museums at either Scottsdale, Arizona, by prospect for gold and later wrote arti or Banff, B.C., Canada, and you'll see Martha Dudley Smith cles for the "Territorial Enterprise". his figure included in both those ex A desk he reputedly used, testifies to hibits. Midwesterners, out to see the United the "life that was" at the present Records there indicate that Mark States and canada on vacation, soon ghost town of Virginia City, Nevada. Twain. in manhood, was five feet, discover that Mark Twain left his im Since 1928 Angels Camp, California, eight inches tall and weighed an aver print at widely-separated points. He has honored his story The Ce?ebrated age of 129 pounds. He had a great tuft almost brings to mind the "Kilroy was Jumping Frog o_f Calaveras County of sandy hair, which later turned sil here" notices of world War II. with a frog jubilee the third weekend ver. In his last years he wore white Probably these travelers remember of May each year. Angels hotel, where clothing almost exclusively. Samuel Clemens - the beloved Mark Mark Twain stopped, is still in use. A In lieu of a trip to Mark Twain's Twain - as the author of The Adven statue of him stands in Utica Park, haunts, discovering them in his biogra tures of Tom Sau·yer and The Adven Angels camp. phy makes lively reading about a great tures of Huckleberry Finn but may San Francisco has a Mark Twain American who indeed traveled far, have skipped studying his biography. hotel and Berkeley, California, has a both from Hannibal, Missouri, and his They took for granted that Hannibal, Twain avenue. Travel on to the wax birthplace, Florida, Missouri. Missouri, was his principal stomping grounds. Of course in Hannibal who would ever think Mark Twain had ever gone away? 30 DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER Besides his boyhood home and his father's law office, there are the Mark 1966 Twain museum and bridge, the historic 5AI old stem-wheel riverboat, "Missis S Ep.,.eN\B;R n-1u F2R' \UE WE 1 3 sippi'', Becky Thatcher's house, Mark MON Twain cave and statues not only of 5UN g 10 Tom and Huck but also of Mark Twain. 8 Perry, Missouri, has another Mark 6 7 17 Twain museum. 4 5 15 But, a surprise comes at Elmira, New 13 14 24 York, where the octagonal study stands 11 12 22 on the Elmira College campus. In that 21 structure, resembling a pilothouse on 20 ~o a riverboat, Mark Twain did much of 18 his writing, reminiscing about his boy hood days on the Mississippi River. 25 In his time the study was on the Quar ry farm, property of his wife's older sister and brother-in-law, the Theodore W. Cranes. Once Rudyard Kipling vis ited him there. Mark Twain (as well as his wife and four children) is buried in Elmira's Woodlawn cemetery. Summer visitors tour the $131,000 house in Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived seventeen years with his wife • • • EVERY ONE OF THEM A and children. At that address friends of the family gathered in great numbers and were free to come and go as they WORK DAY ! pleased, at any hour. Every day, in every household, there's a cleaning job to do. Prior to his death in 1910, Mark If it isn't laundry, it's dishes ... or windows ... or walls or Twain had lived at "Stormfield", Red doors or walks or floors. ding, Connecticut, That house burned in 1923. In Redding, though, he gave a Thank goodness for Kitchen-Klatter Kleaner: the powder library to the town as a memorial to cleaner that goes into solution the minute it hits water (even his daughter Jean. Today it is princi hard water). And how it cleans! pally supported by the local residents. Early in life Mark Twain worked for Grease and grime melt away with a wipe - and because his brother, Orion Clemens, in Keokuk Kitchen-Klatter Kleaner leaves no scum or froth, cleaning time and Muscatine, Iowa. Among historical displays in Keokuk's library are two is cut again (you save rinsing time!). Even in little 28-day Feb samples from the Clemens printing ruary, you'll welcome shop: the first Keokuk city directory and a menu printed on silk. They also claim to have the only oil painting KITCHEN-KLATTER KLEANER known to exist of Samuel Clemens.