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PAGE FOUR, SECTION II THE COLUMBIA EVENING MISSOURIAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER-29- , 1922 .. IS ABOUT MISSOURI WRITERS AND THEIR BOOKS

j Some Town-Ha- s Some Missouri Writers Tell Why They Write Authors o'fthe State Northwest Missouri Most Writers To Square Inch homer cnoy I have actually written is so incommen- MYRTLE JAUISO.t TRACHSEL "111 lell ou how I wrote my first surate with what I wanted to write, I "It is nearly four years since I sold Uory. have taken the pledge, only to break it my first story, one worked out to amuse "1 was 12 years old and liieJ on a when a plot hangs at the door of my my little daughter. Since then I have The Government Even Undercounted Its Population, brain and will not be silenced until I written at odd moments and aold'nearly . - --- r- farm near Maryville and c bad coming ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHKErIBHk - J ... r. But Chillicothe Doesn't Care It Has Authors! to our house one of those mail order commit it to paper. two hundred stories, articles and verses. magazines 25 cents a )ear, or 35 cents 1IAEBELLE B. U CALME.VT That does not sound like a great achieve the rest of vour natural lifetime. Once At the age of 12 I sold my first story ment, but it means I have sold prac- Up in Northwest Missouri where "the Journalism, lives in Chillicothe. She got started coming no human agency and received $2 for it. If the editor tically every word I hare found time to it skies are a little bluer, the grass a little taught in the Chillicothe High School could It was called The Para had only known it, be could baie had write." stop it. greener and the handshake a little warm- for three years, resigned her pos'niun gun Monthly and its advertisements ran it for nothing. Scleral years later I ELIZABETH PALMER MILBANtC is Chillicothe. This little er" Missouri and accepted a reporter's job on a e mostly to cures for stammering and how chanced upon another coercible editor "You ask how I 'happened o write.' city sticks out its chest when population paper. Each Saturday night lier male money raising Belgian hares. who after three persuasions gate me a Happened is a good word. Of course, in to nr4.RZ!&UFHE&M- - 5 figures are mentioned and generally pay envelope contained three one dollar saw that magazine was check for $7 in payment for a 2,000-wor- d my very young days I planned and ful- 'BrFsS90iMViHHSrSJKBHIIIiiH9l "One day I the says "The government made a mistake bills but she kept on with the period lit- ly expected writing ottering a prize lor the best dream, so 1 story. At this in my to be a second Mary J. 1920 because we in easily have 10,000 game nevertheless. She has covered sev- down and made up a dream about erary career, I decided I would get mar- Holmes. Between that time and four tat people here." And strangers touring the eral elections for Ihe Associated Press the Ozark mountains. I had never been ried for a living nd write for pleas years ago no, I'm not going to say how Livingston County metropolis begin to and has had innumerable feature Ozark mountains and I hate not many years, that might make the story stories in the ure." think Uncle Sam was a little conservative in the metropolitan papers. to this day, but that didn't deter me. MARV BLAKE WOODsON too sad I did everything under the in his estimate. Miss Catha Wells, of Oh. I was brave then! 'I have dabbled with writing prac sun but write. Among the more import- Chillicothe prides itself upon thirty the Missouri Writers Cuild, lives "I sent the dream in to the contest tically all my life, having written two ant things were marrying, raising a fam- at kkkkkkkHBXkkl ImMmBMeimBX!nBRjMitrmmE3WL1mWbBl miles of paved streets, a number of Chillicothe. Her greatest success is with and then one 'ay my father brought novels and several plays by the lime ily, being a professional "liner" when factories, schools and churches, and a children's stories. She has )ad stories liome a letter addressed on a typewriter I was 13 unpublished, needless to sav. k came to clubs and societies, every '& large number of beautiful homes. Chilli- in Youth's Companion, Little Folk, which was a great event in my life In my teens I wrote numerous short thing but write. Then one day I was .HHHHr,'Hl&XS3aHH iMV. cothe as a literary center is hardly ever Harpers', Today's Housewife, St. Nich- and I tore it open with trembling fin- stories and poems, many of which have invited to a little club of scribblers. mentioned, but this Northwest Missouri olas, Farm and Fireside, Scientific gers and Heaven was in that letter. I since been published. I did not begin Among other things discussed at this city has mere writers than any other American, Illustrated World and many have. bcn happy on man) occasions but to market material until six or seven club was a meeting at Powerside in the " 1 ' city its size in Missouri. other magazines. Miss Wells is not only have niter soared into the empyrean years ago. The first story I ever really, Ozarks. One member turned to me and IBB1 ffifiw r ifiinWIi mKM William 11. Hamby, known to a writer ol note but takes an acute int. to Weekly first I: Collier's outing, won't blue of rosier clouds than when I read sold was on its said: 'You'll go to the iliiB ttiTlMBS5tWiTiwrWMMwliff'TBmi'ifc it 1 as simply w3KILLW.r "Bill" Hamby, is erest in politics and " BiBiBB at one lime was that letter, the letter begged to in- trip out. ine Jate of this story is you?' I went. I found the Missouri kBkVkkkkknBkkkB BIBin9kRff.Kf fisfSzsHkVkkDH BkkkkHkkkkff "SkkkBSBBBs BkSkkm!MkSBBSH now in San Diego, Cal. He lived in candidate for office. She has taken some form ir.c thaat I had won the grand shrouded in mystery as it has never seen writers a bunch of the finest people in fiSctSrfHikBBBnkkJ ksVkkkkkkSf"?kHp&-V?- kBSBSSkkV&BSBSBBBH BkkkkBkfSMfkltkl jkBBSSBSsfkKlBM Chillicothe for about four years and it work in the School of Journalism here. prize. I was wonderful. I was the best the light since I read proof on it sever the world. Out of the goodness of their is whispered around town that "Bill" Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Milbank is a in the vrLole United States. The check al months after its sale, to this mis-ute.- hearts they made me a member of their is taking a vacation out in California and member of the .Missouri Writers Cuild was for a dollar!" Guild. I had to make good. I had will soon be back "home." Hamby has and lives at Chillicothe. She lias hail CHRISTOPHER BOOTH TRANCES S.ORV1U.E CHAriUN to write and the long buried desire to had stories in Everybody's, the Metropol- stories in the New York Bookman, "I always wanted to write, even so "My first published work was in the do so came to life stronger than ever." itan, Saturday Evening Post, Century, Christian Herald, St. Nichols, Youth") early a 12, a wish, that had to be Chillicothe Mail and Star, a group of CORRl.NNE HARRIS MARKET J - Munsey's, Holland's, Sunset and many Companion, American Forestry, Sunset timidly, for my father wanted poems, offered, anonymously, at the ripe "How do I happen to be writing? vt other magazines. He has written wo Magazine, Holland's, Boston Tranjcripl, to make a lawyer of me. I think that age of 12. I felt sure that they would Well, k is ihe thine above all orhers J. Breckinridge Ellis, in tcheel chair; just behind him is Mary Blake Woodson and behind her is Louis Dodge. At the successful plays and innumerable photo Detroit Free-Pres- s and many farm and my oentful profession was settled when be printed, perhaps with a note to the that I have always wanted but extreme Ifet is C. Shoemaker. crutchis, stands between him and Mr. Currie, editor of The Ladies Fh)d Catha Tells, on plays. He has sold the movie rights of Sunday School papers. the wife of the then Congressman effect that the editors were reminded until my husband diedj-ww- ere mar- Heme Journal. Tom Morgan is at the extreme lejt. all his recent stories. About three yearlj Mrs. Mabel H. Eastman js another Ceoncy of Marshall, Mo., told my for- of Mrs. Browning or Tennyson, and I ried only two years I dranot have time. ago, he wrote a series of articles for Chillicolhean writing for magazines and tune (just in fun) ind decreed, with was a little disappointed when I read Immediately after Mr. Markey's death Sunset on the merchant marine which newspapers. Her stories and poems have all due solemnity that my plan pre- the heading, "From One of Our Little I went to new York Gty where I had NEURITIS IS PAINFUL have been incorporated in the Congres- attracted wide attention in literary cir destined mc to authorship. How child- Friends." two years graduate work in English at Winston Churchill Gossip sional records. cles. She specializes in poetry and fea- hood impressions do bend our lies! I J. E. CRIVSTEAD Columbia University. After 1 returned BUT IT DOESN'T HURT Miss Laura Schmitz, a former officer ture story writing and has had stories took it all quite seriously. The Fates "You want to know how I came to home I took Dr. Esenwein's advanced "To be best in anything," says Alice Mary Kimball, although born J. of the Missouri Writers Guild and at in Harpers, Munseys and a great many had decreed it; I must write!" be a writer. Cod Almighty did that, course because I wanted the criticisms. B.'cckenridge Ellis, writing of A GOOD DISPOSITION New England, is known the "Gyp- 'Winston in as one time a student in the School of metropolitan newspapers. LOOsC PLATT IIAL'CK don't blame it on me! I don't know I had been out of school just six Churchill, "merits recognition. To be A Utter, typewritten signature and sy of Missouri Writers." Her best work "How do I happen to be writing? Be- the meaning of "divine afflatus" and months when I sold my first story. It best painting vanished in the life of all received from Miss Marv Alicia is that which deals with the Ozarks. cause I can't help myself. When one is "inspiration," and the only objection I is doubtful if anything in this life will one's native land is to have reached the Ouen follows: HE WAS MISSOURI PREACHER innoculated with the scribbling itch, all have to the writing game as a means of afford me another such thrill. I have inner circle of the great. This is one John P. Gilday, the Missouri poet, When Mark Twain i have your letter dated "10", but I 7 one tail do it to scratch literally. A getting the pork and beans is that there since sold about thirty-fiv- e stories, but reason why we are unwilling for started as a politician. He entered the Million of Harold Bell Wright's the alas! can't use my pen. I have a very Visited Columbia hundred times, in dsepair because what is too much work about it." they have been colorless experiences." world to forgit that Winston newspaper game late in life. His writing First 8 Books Sold. Churchill i mean neuritis how many ways Fate a Missourian." personal Harold Bell Wright was born at Rome, is finds is marked with great charm. to bitr u! a toothache wrenching N. Y 1872. He has had various occu- hon- IWinston Churchill The University of Missouri does CURTIS CONNECTS HUMAN entered newspaper work. He became was born at St. arm and finger, with it the Muses will Emily Grant Hutchins of "In Louis .author pations beside that of an author, having or to her native sons who liave in some AFFAIRS WITH SCIENCE Hugh Grinstead Won't owner of the Nacona (Texas) Times, a in 1871 and attended the U. S. linger. . riot dian Summer," a popular novel, is regu been employed as a painter and decora way made themselves famous and also weekly Following Nvaal Academy at Annapolis. He has Women small paper. a series "I pick this out with one left digit, larly connected with the St. Louis t. 1887-9- His New Hook Is an Answer to the Write About lived in New tor from and as landscape to others who deserve praise. So the of changes during the next ten years, Hampshire for years, and the while my nerves are in a fidget. on Her first novel promises much painter from 189297. Between 1897 commencement exercises at the Univer- Current Furor Human bought the (Mo.) Journ- was a member of the legislature of that"! he Morrisville "Forgive the lack of fads and style. for the future work of this writer. and 1908 he held the of sev- Evolution. A Columbia state from 1903 1905. pastorate sity in the year 1902 saw some of the writer. If. F. Grinstead, al, college-tow- n paper. was in 1912 to 1 liave a It to stop and groan a while. Dear eral churches in Missouri, Kansas, and greatest array of brilliant Missouri minds has achieved a national reputation in that sold his entire interest in the He is called the nation's greatest ro- young lady, do laugh, Sue A. Arnold McCaustland of Lex An answer to the current furor over be not I cannot write California, and it was while he was so present. writing of the life of work- paper and began writing short stories. mantic novelist. an ington is the oldest regular literary wom- human evolution, is the work of Dr. autograph" engaged that he studied the peoples of ers, of western ranchmen, and especially "For three years I had been formulat- Mr. Ellis says of him: an in Missouri. She is almost 80 years Thi commencement day is one of the Wintcrtnn C Curtis, "Science and Hu- the West and started on his career of of the gold prospectors of Southwestern ing a story in my mind. It was complete "At one time it was noted that the old and for sixty years has been writing. greatest that has ever taken place at the man Affairs'' which lias just been pub- authorship. United States, but has never written a in every detail before I sat down to write initial "C" entered into the titles of all Edn W. Underwood All of the money which she receives University of Missouri. At 10 o'clock lished. love story. his works, as a sort of trade mark, itist Of the several books that were written the morning of Wednesday, June 4, 1902. it." he said. This story, the first L . - from her writing is given to charity. It- - to forth of ... - by Wright perhaps Brookings attempt set certain In all the years that he has been that he had ever written, was accepted as nis home today is Cornish, N. II.. ; indf Edna WortlileyUndcrwIodlhose new Mr. the more popu Robert Samuel of St. Louis; the humanistic of natural science lar Beverly Thomas Galloway the aspects contributing to the Youth's Companion, hv the American Bov. Mr. Grinstead his name is Churchill. That this was by'lWer"The Penitent" comes' out in William H, Hamby, writer and dream were his first two, "That Printer of of clas from a biological viewpoint, with illus- desiKn wh twelve before he sold Udell's," and "The Shepherd of the of "81, Chief of Bureau of Plant Indus- Munsey's, the Open Door, and Western writes on an average of three stories I ne 'ooked at the "C's" America, England. Australia, France. er, wrote years a trations largely from the field of biolo- Hills." The scenes of them try Washington; Ethan Allen Hitch- Stories, he has written but one story with a month, with a generous mixture ol on his books The Celebrity, 'Richard Holland, Germany and Belgium lived and Story. His first story brought $2. Today are laid in at gy. Although the author is professor, Secretary of the Interior; a woman in h. "And this woman," he filler" miscellaneous articles which he Carvell,' 'The Crisis' 'The Crossing, WTote in Kansas City for seventeen years. he is a writer. He has writ Missouri's Ozark mountains. cock. James uf zoology the University, and in most remarked, "I had to kill off before ihe sells to Popular Mechanics and other 'Coniston,' A .Modern Chronicle,' 'Th She speaks eleven modern and one an ten several successful scenarios. Although Mr. Wright's work can hard- Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture; and a of his experience has been in that end of the story." scientific magazines. Inside of the Cup," A Far Country." cient language, and has translated from ly be classed as literature, it has proven Missourian, and Samuel Langhorn Clem- branch of science, much is contained in But with 'A Dwelling Will Lengel, formerly editor of var- to be extremely popular. Of the first ens, better known as Mark Twain, re- "Love stories are not in my line; my No," said Mr. Grinstead, "I do not Place of Light,'; the Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. the book that forms no part of routine ious trade magazines and also of the eight by ceived the honorary degree of LL. D. I in ne aesenea nis mascot, ami it She has been invited books written him there was interest lies in the outdoor life, I lived usually write out the plots of my stories ifii, just to become a: zoological -, ... Munsey Magazine, is now free lance instruction. v.rsnnnt...... ho ...... Mirl ihnl,..(,. ,(lcth. u.i jtjiw uica' 'Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of more than seven million copies printed This wa the year that Mark Twain very thoroughly. writer. In addition to his regular line of The book is divided into three parts. sures up to the best of the others." 'England. Through her reviews of and bold. came back from his eastern home and "I plan the whole thing in my mind, art literary work he is writing songs and The first deals with the history and sig- When he was elected an honorary land letters in America for foreign peri-r- Percy Mackaye, in criticising Mr. visited in Missouri. While he was in then sit down at the typewriter and i scenarios. His home is' now in New nificance "of science, taking up its mean- member of the Missou Writers" Guild, cdicals, s1(. has been instrumental in Wright's work, said: Columbia the honorary degree was con- write it from beginning to end. Some- York. origin Mr. Churchill said I "Mr. Wright the feet of elccis-- d ing to mankind, its and decline, times I write the title first and fit a having two American short story writers' sat at prosiac, ferred upon him and he was as the and growth "I feel much honored being his English not so much of the earth and final emergence of story to it. The Youth's Companion at se work translated to apiear in French One of the best known writers of race-- as an Imaorary member of the Missouri modern lected as honorary member of the Wri-er- mine, and missed a golden opportunity; science. always uses the titles given by the auth- periodicals I track stories is Calvin Johnson of Kan chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Guild of my native Please he tells of the West, the where The second part discusses the biologi- or, but some magazines never do. state. "Thi; Pentitent" is volume one of the sas City. His best known short story, west Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Stephens enter- convey to the guild deep free cal science of the modem period, ex- "One of the first things for a young mj apprecia new World Triologj. three novels pictur- "Temple Dust," published in the Satur- men are to grow like weeds, rank tained Mark Twain during his visit here. and prolific; the West where plaining the and the the- writer to Ieam," commented Mr. Grin- tion." ing the crumbling of the great civiliza- day Evening Post in 1920, possesses, un women are It is reported that lie ate more hot bis- - Mr. Churchill has occupied the high gaunt and upright, withering slowly ory of organic evolution and dealing stead, "is to not underestimate work. I tion of th" past. usual merit. Johnson is now a tree lance in'cuits than any man that had ever been est literary seat of honor in America, the wind; the West with current problems and methods of believe that 99 per cent of all genius is that writer. where younger sons at me Stephens Home. Unc evening of president of zoological science. perspiration. A young writer must the Authors' League of DR. JENKINS IS WRITING and go to seek fortune in while he was eating dinner, there was a America. The third part stresses the present learn to criticise his own stories and this ABOUT NEW TESTAMENT Louise Troxell of St. Joseph is the the lifeless copy of exercise books." telephone call for him and Mr. Stephens importance of science, its philosophical is the hardest thing of all; it's a great writer of some splendid stories for chil toM him that the. caller wanted to speak B'j&MssPsW'M TROMBLY IN ANTHOLOGY Preacher-Edito- r Who Writes Not- - CATS psychological and the temptation seal up and mail drcn. ARE HER FIRST HOBBY to him because he was cousin. Mark and aspects na to a story it els Says Writing and Speak- a and meaning of scientific research. the publishers without rewriting it Twain kept on eating ami said, "I can't ture to M. U. Professor Represented in 1921 ing Are Same. In addition of being a writer of great And One of Her Stories Made The role of science in the solution of make two drafts of every story and help it; it isn't my fault that he is my I Collection of Magazine Verse. note, Mary Alicia Owen has an interna- O'Brien's 1922 Honor Roll. social problems and its higher values three, changing the story cv di'tinc-liv- e cousin." are sometimes Albert Edmund Trombly, chairman of Dr. Burris A. Jenkins holds a tional reputation as an authority on folk Mrs. Frances Norville Chapman (and dealt with under such topics as "The ery time." the department of Romance languages, place as. a Missouri writer, not so lore and Voodoo magic. She addressed a by the way, she is another one that Chil- The evening before the commememmt Esthetic Quality in Scientific Thinking," Braith-waite- The young writer must develop con is represented in William Stanley 's much for the amount or for the popu meeting of the International Congress of licothe might claim) did her first writ- exercises of that year a banquet wj held "Science jnd Fair Judgment," "The fidence in his work, enough so as not to "Anthology of .Magazine Verse larity of his novels and nonfiction books Folk Lore Society in London in 1891 and ing for a Chicago newspaper. One of in the Cottage Hotel for all the guests Scientific Spirit and the Open Mind," 1921." who be discouraged when rejection slips are for but as one injects his personality read a paper before the Congress of her stories will be on the O'Brien Roll of honor. The Columbia Missouri States- "The Value of Scientific Skepticism." writing. Every bears received, Mr. Grinstead added. When The poem, "Poetae Minores," appear- into bis sentence Primitive Religion in Leyden in 1912. of Honor for 1922. man of June 6, 1902 in mrt of Mark Tin' last chapter considers mankind and first the the Jenkin's stamp. a writer has had stories published he ed in Nation. Her books have been published in Eu- "My experience with editors has been Twain's speech made al that time. the further progress of science, wherein "Nightingales and larks seldom receives a rejection slip. If the arc found He is the minister of the Linwood rope and America. very fortunate," she says, "particularly ".Mark Twain was the last man upon the. author says that the great problem Hush Grinstead story is not exactly satisfactory, the edit- Not everywhere they can't go round. Boulevard Christian church in Kansas with 11. L. .Mencker of Smart Set, who wliom the LL. D. was conferred and hi of the scientific future is spiritual ad ors will send a personal letter, explain- City and is probably better known as a Ada Claire Darby, a writer of short is as fearless in his criticisms he address following brought physical gratification. on a farm in Texas for many years and as is forth the most justment, not ing the point of difference and ask that Room enough and more there is, stories and books for children is co- have come in contact with sheep raisers lecturer and preacher than as a writer. genuine in his praise." spontaneous and unanimous applause In his xreface Dr. Curtis acknowledges be rewritten. Mr. Grinstead has Warblers, bluebirds, goldfinches. of sensational novel any many old fellows who had hunted it For several years he was editor and author a mystery She has three hobbies and the one ever beard at the University. No man the contributions to bis work made by found these suggestions to be very help publisher of the Kansas Gty Post, but which bears the startling title "The she first is for gold all their lives. I use many of names cats! The other two ever used an opportunity with greater-genius I'rnf. George Lefevre, Prof. A, II. R. ful. Many a country would be dull carried Death Cry." these same characters again and again this work was an avocation, are driving her car and working in her and to better effect. He is truly Fairrhild and Prof. N. M. Trenholme, Henry is the farorite author of Mr. Should there be a cricket-lull- . or combine several into one in new 0. along with the activities of the pas- garden. great, a man whom the world is glad to all of the University. George T. Cline, London, with his love Sirs. Emily Newell Blair, who a few plots," he said. Grinstead. Jack torate. Doctor Jenkins says, "for as a Iionor. The University will never adopt biological artist of the University, is descrip- years ago was writing fiction, is national of the outdoors, his colorful Crickets, when the larks are flown, matter o fact, writing and speaking are J. E. Grinstead Has Own Magazine. into her learned family another man responsible for a number of drawings "In writing of the adventures of these Democratic committee woman from Mis- - tions of the North and the West is an- Warm us with their undertone." but different phases of the same thing J. L. Grinstead of Kerrville, Tex of greater genius, or mure kindly old prospectors never have them na- - nature contained in the book. I make other favorite. Grinstead likes best of both." soun and is ot the ,,,, o( IIue,, a .so that my life has been given to of Colum. than 'Mark Twain.'" rich find. After all, they got the and the des- KANSAS CITY GUILD CHAPTER tional Democratic committee. She has (,,,, , , , all to write read stories of writing of fiction began in some bia, once lived in Missouri. SHE SWEEPS, DUSTS, PLOTS greatest pleasure out of life in hunting 'The also done a good deal of political writ' ert, the farm, and the sea. years he has been writing fiction, he and roaming from one part of the coun- They Meet to Discuss Markets and leisure moments about twenty odd years She Writes for Children. Mr. Grinstead is a member of the ing. thirty-od- Mrs. Trachsel Thinks Out Stories ago, he continued. was then that has produced novels and short Blanche Sage of Kansas City try to another and it would ruin the story presi- Technique. 'It While Doing House Work. Missouri Writers Guild and was stories. He publishes at present, per- to have them really discover a rich mine. The Kansas City chapter of the Mis most cf 'TheBracegirdle was written AN AMERICANIZED ARMENIAN a though she occasionally contributes ! dent of the organization at one time. sonal magazine, known Myrtle Jamison Trachsel hasn't been Furthermore, the sudden souri Writers' Guild meets every other which was nt published until 1922. The as Grinstcatfs adult publications, prefers to lie classi- prosperity Bazhdigian. Foreign Born, Has Graphic. heard to a ju-- t in so many words would ruin the man." week and not to read what has been first draft f 'Princess Salome was fin fied as a children's writer. was True American Patriotism. vhelhrr Hutchinson is right in "This Mr. Grinstead written since the last meeting either mI917 and rewritten about believes that exper- Song--. "nl owe something greater to our Freedom." but the way she does her A Wierd Eastern I s""fcn "me- - We ience in any line of work is never but to discuss markets and technique. ""en V wasted now at work country than mere taxes and a half- work might indicate her idea as to time for The members are: Velma West Sykes,! Doctor Jenkins on a writer. "I thought before Tennyson J. Daft, known to his to the laws of the whether a woman can lie both a success- Calvin Johnston, Clifford R. Knight, se""1 other P' f w"'"g, me to hearted obedience I began to write that I had wasted much more intimate. friends as Tom P. Mor- Baghdigian. ful home maker and career-make- too. bepublished in book form and some to land," says Bagdasar Krekor Shall Not Care of my youth in herding sheep on a ranch gan, says in a letter: "there are a Mary BlaXe Woodson, B. Earnest WiIon, "After meeting the demands of family, MacCal-'iW- ,n Seribner's magazine. One is "Many foreign artists have come to our in Texas, but it was not a waste. It good many trial and tribulations con- P. Ca.per Harvey, MaeBelle " When I am dead and over me home and friends," she writes "I found - the artistic and literary value lecture to us or to "paint bright April lias now- turned into knowledge, and fur nected with writing for a living, but ment, James W. Earp, Grace Strickle3 V country to 1 going to have no time to write and of Te"amen'- - beautiful women." I want to go to the Shakes out her rain-drench- ed W3s nishes the background for many stories." it is the greatest game in the world, Dawson, Herbert Maugaman, Katherifie 'he.Re. . , hair, though loved do it, usually ' Inc "paint" the beauties and I to I put it Edelman, Dr. Loo Van Fossen. Marjrcret """" people and Tho' you should lean broken-hearte- d, After spending the first quarter cen and I am thoroughly in love with it." '",. """ above me until I had more time or felt more " ,,,tc'' spiritual possibilities of our country. nit tury of his hfe on Then he encloses a erse of his McCann, Bagdascar K. Baghdigia,, and , "f" I shall not care. the farm in Texas , -- - -- like l"ing it. Blanche Sage Hczeltine. jiiiii-- tut JUici Mr. Baghdigian came to America from herding sheep and doing some land sur- that appeared in the Kansas Cky Star .and Religion." His first novel was "Finally I set a goal of four good sales Armenia, his birth place, an immigrant vey work in Mexico, he became inter a year or so ago: Students Write Book of Poems. "Heroes of Faith," 1895. He describes I shall have peace, or five lesser ones a month and I found ested in the "I would loll in a Chinese pagoda and boy with 93 cents in his pocket. He has as leafy trees are peaceful, printers' trade through a Joseph Cooksey and Jolin Davenport his book, "Tlie Protestant," 1918, as "A that, by thinking on a story while wait- worked his way through grade school, When rain bends down lnend who owned a small printing burble a wierd Eastern song, scrap-boo- k the bough. are the authors of a "Book of Poems i lor insurgents" and dedicates doing the little things panga-pang- a, high school, and college, and also has ing for a friend or plant. He had been forced leave And dance the wild And I shall be cold-heart- to by Two Pals" which was published yes-j-it to "The bravest men I know The more silent and about the hous,e I could get a few hours school before finishing high school and and strum on the resonant gong. won a Master's degree. terday by the Stephens Publishing Co. J Heritic." Than you are now. about the house. I could get a few hours he attributes But, I'm too needy to travel and has had three books most of his education to ala, Both Cooksey-- and Davenport are tu--f As a preacher and religious writer He on "funda in which to write the story and get off." the time he surfeit myself with such spent in the print shop. He bliss dents in the University. The introduc- - he i molern and is constantly lmpa- - mental Americanism" published, one of Sara Teasdale. The Rand McNally Publishing Co, is was a great reader of adventure stories. I have to stya here and unravel such i -- cti-, which has been recommended as a text- tion to the book was written by Ur. A.iiem creeas, names, lorm, (From "Rivers planning t put Mrs. Trachsel' first but cared little piffle as this." church-ianity- , i to the Sea," Copyright 1915. m out for anything He by the else. R. Fairchild, chairman of the de- -' and the c!annihnr's of book in Texas. now planning three MacMillan Co.) - II. book. Like so many story- writers he first of English of the University, modern sects. more Ixiok. ?- pattment

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