Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-12

doubtless many Of the leaders Of tic New
YORK sun, when II announced that il was
gong u tell them story about bright
new nickel skipped the paragraph adrotly,
ana Tel To perusing, as they supposed, some
les funiiiar tIlc. But after all, the nickel
story wasn't such a bad one. Read. and
sec;
once upon time a bright new nickel lay
lHVlllngy in the middle Of the II Jor of a Full
Ton fctfy-boat People, as they passed it.,
safei wstinly down, and he.itatcd but
no one stopped; they were all ashamed to
PICK II up When the boat entered the New
loik slip the passengers all went out except
TWO. One Of them p9ckctcd the nickel. IL
tod You how it would be-" he said 10 the
other; II knew no one would touch it. You
have lost your bet"
a correspondent oi a New York papcr ia
anxious to know why the fashion magazine
never show the styles of drcsss for fat
girls ? 'ln the fashion plates" hc-or she p
says, 'thc bean pole variety Of young lady
has exclusive possession" The inference
would be that The ia. girls arc MT WORT
dressing wasp wasted damscl heinz far
ahead Of them in style" This a decided
mistake. The true reason is that the fat
girls do not require any information aiou
fashions. They are attractive enough if they
only wear what fits them. 1t is the lean
lasscs who Lave 10 90 to the fashion maga-
zines, to got something 10 make themselves
look prcsennbln.
There are various sorts Of grief, and not
only docs It express itself in variety t
ways, lut hsls-well, with some peol
longer Than with others. Iou cannot always
prophesy from the torrent of funeral tcai =
that there will never again be welded smit s.
MIR. Dledric Van Prouk was put, in proles.
sional purlance. ''tndcr boald,n and every
body said that the widow, in spite Of her
youth and blauty, would not last long. Her
grief was OF tue Niagara sort, and flowed
prOdignlly and endlcssy. She even lad Ii r
departed carved in wood, life size, and SIZE I
many months in its mute c1mpanionship
AT last, however, the fatcd successor arriy, d.
The irresistible Conquator made his plea and
was accepted. One morning when The ser
want announced that there was no kindliug
wood in the house the widow quietly r.
marked in swce-ly broken English, May pc
/ it sh well enough now 10 split up old Van
Prouk vat ISL up sais."
Nowadays tie person in high life who
does not write his or her novel. is the ex-
cepti)n. For those Of or readers who are
getting ready torerf)rm this necessary duty,
we append the following advice from an cx.
change
good novel generally pays its writer for
the time and trouble expended upon it. But
bad uovcl brings him nothing but discfcdit
Therefore the weaver Of plots must be of
stout heart and made Of stcrner stuff than
the majority If those sickly scntimentalists
Whose names are enrolled upon he librarian >
retired lists lie mus. not be cowcd by
repeated failures and disappointmcnts-
everything comes TO The man wh) can
wait-aud above all he must he conviu cd
That the divine spark Of genius is ufllme
within him, tina he loves his ant for its own
| sake, and is willing tusiCriiicc at the ait If
| Of fame endless considerations of worlu V
character. Novelist after novelist. who ha
| 10 higher Or wcrhicr motive than the graft
licalion of a stupid vanity, sp.ntgGss TO the
wall, and the sooner the better. l. is III
| credible how slow process is the at'aiu-
mcnt OF popularity, 50 far, at least, as the
novelist who appeals TO the circulating libra
ry is concerned. The press may praise book
after book of lis, and still the public re
| MS Blind as to his merits. In many cases
npul'rity has been secured, not by sheer
torcr of genius, but by some happy 'iluke."
good publisher usually knows when he j.
raliichiug in materials which are. or ought
10 be, marketable. And a jldicious and
generous system of advertising has, in many
instan O., laid the foundation OF the novel
ISIS and the publishers fortune. Not that
ADVERTISING VIII always accomplish the end
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