The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

the paper and Kisses when she sticks it into
the ink bottle. she pulls it out by means Oh
a pair of tongs and puts in a new one.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes with q pen,
and her Ms. is quite plain in one way.
That is, it is not pretty. She is quite pleas
ant and genial unless one treads on the
tail of her coat. She then writes or speaks
with flashing eye and distended .nostril IN
clarion tone. Al such times, If she were to
use the typewriter. it would sound like a
xylopbone trying to convince a W
mower of the error of its way.
Rose Terry Cooke says she has written
with a gold pen on lined paper. holding the
clip on her knee. all through her literary
career, and she has been writing for forty
years. She says so herself. How few of US
authors are willing to come out and state,
over our own signature, that we have been
on the road so long. Aside from Rose Terry
Cooke. i may safely say that John u. Whit
tier and | are almost alone III freely &C
knowledging our ages
Adirondack Murray dictates to a type
writer, and has for fifteen years. He die
tates from twenty to thirty words per min
ute, when he 10 feeling we'll and his thinker
Is frolicsome. He dOesnot require a stenog-
rapher, but pours his soul into the front
teeth of a typewriter and receives his copy
George II. Jessop, when hurried, has to
call III the typewriter and stenOgrapher,
but thinks It does not insure such good re-
suits as the slower. but surer. pen. He
bulukb tuo pen is mlkutlcI budu III
Professor Boyesen says he cannot use any
mechanical cOntrivance to take the place
of the pen. The noise of the typewriter
annoise bim, as one might say.
Edgar Saltus says that the critics accuse
him of writing by means of a lexicon. but
he claims that such is not the case. He
NJ lola writes: 81 shall embezzle one
email moment from my dimunitive leisure
to say that | write my, what you should
call OnaOna- literary works with nv own
hand with the cooperation of the pen.
The thoughts are also my own thoughts:
They pay me first rate. They. are not nsed
yet so much as textbooks in the schools as
l might wish, but they remunerate me first
rate. 1 write my manuscripts IN French
first. 1t Is pure French; that Is, it is pure
for French. / keep my vocabulary in the
basement with chloride of lime on it when
l shall not want to be using it. / agree
with NJ. Anthony, Comstock that the pen
is smuttier than the sword"
Richard Henry Stoddard says he has
been compelled to use the hand of another
in the past, because of impaired eyesight,
but prefers the pen and his own right hand
when his eyes will permit
Brander Matthews does all his writing
with a stylograhic pen. but all important
tVne.w Thf Ptfa form a befor re0i # go me P to the he
printer, and revises considerable wen then.
Mary j. Holmes writes from Naples,
where she is associating with Vesuvius this
season, to say that she IS still old-fashioned
enough to patronize the steel pen, and by
that means has already succeeded in writ
ing a trunk full of blue covered books. She
is not proud of her penmanship, having
been compelled several times to cross the
Atlantic in order to make out a word for
the printer before the work could 60 OIL.
Theodore Roosevelt uses a pen. but is
liable most any day to adopt the type
writer. He interlines a great deal, but uses
q Remington in illustrating his work.
Mrs. Darlington writes that she has never
seen a typewriter in her whole life. She
has been able to make errors enough with
her pen without seeking her sentences full
of S.S and other typographical brick-or-
braok. After the breakfast dishes are
washed, she salts the COW, sets the bread so
that at evening it may come off the nest
with q group of little rolls, and then gives
a few minutes to silent thought. Then
boiling down a handful of maple bark and
inserting a little vinegar into it, she pre-
pares a fresh supply of INK. She now
brings down q pen from behind the clock,
and wiping the perspiration from her
mastiff brow, by means of her apron, she
sails in.