Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-25

rs symmetrical as Edgar A. Poe's, and as
fast as tho pen gets 80 hot, that 1t burns
holes in the paper and Kisses when she
sticks IL into tho ink bottle, sho pulls 1t out
OF the holder by means Of pair OF tongs
and puts In q new one.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes with pen,
and her Ms. Is quite plain; that is, IL ia not
pretty. She Is quite pleasant and genial
unless one treads on the tail OF her coat.
She then writes or speaks with flashing eye
and distended nostril In clarion tones. At
such timo " she were to use the type
writer II would sound like xylophone try
ing 10 convince lawn-mower OF the error
OF Its way.
Rose Terry Cooke says she has written
with gold pen on lined paper holding the
clip on her knee all through her literary ca
rcor, and she has been writing for forty
years. She says so herself. How few of
US authors are willing 10 como out and state
over our own signature that we have been
on the road so long. Aside from Rose
Terry Cooke may safely say that John @.
Whittier and are almost alone In freely
acknowledging our ages.
Adirondack Murray dictates TO typewriter
and has for fifteen years. He dictates from
twenty 10 thirty words per minute when ho
Is feeling well and his thinker Is frolicsome.
He does not require a stepographer, but
pours his soul into the front teeth OF type
writer md receives his copy ripe for the
printer.
George II. Jessop, when hurried, has TO
call In the typewriter and stenographer, but
thinks II does not insure such good results
as the slower but surer pen. Ho thinks the
pen is mightier than the sword.
Prof Boyesen says no can not use any
mechanical contrivance 10 take tho place Of
tho pen. The noiso Of tho typewriter an
noys him, as one might say.
Edgar Saltus says that the critics accuse
him OF writing my means OF q lexicon, but
he claims that such Is not the case. He
writes with his nerves on plain paper.
NJ. Zola writes: al shall embczzlc one
small moment from my diminutivc leisure
10 say that write my, what you shall call
Opaque literary works, with my own hand
with the cooperation Of pen. The thoughts
nro also my own thoughts. They pay me
first rate. They are not used yet 30 much
as text-b books In the schools rs might wish,
but they rcmunernte me first rate / write
my manuscripts In French first. 1t is pure
French; that is, 1t Is pure for French.
keep my vocabulary IN the basement with
chloride OF limo on II when shall not want
70 be using IL. ! agree with NJ Anthony
Comstock that the pen is smuttier than tho
swordn
Richard Henry Stoddnrd says he has been
compelled TO use the hand OF another in the
past, because Of impaired cyesight, but pre-
fcrs the pen and his own right hand when
his eyes will permit
Brander Matthews does oil his writing
with stylographlc pen, but all important
work like plays and stories ho puts in typo
written form before 1t goes to the printer,
and reylscs considerably even then.
Mary J. Holmes writes from Naples, where
sho is associating with Vcsuvius this sea
son, to say that she Is still old-fashioned
enough TO paironizo the steel pen, and by
that means has already succeeded In writ
ing trunkful OF blue-covercd books. She
Is not proud OF her penmanship, having been
compelled several times to cross tho ATTAIN
tic In order to mako out word for the prin-
tor before the work could go on.
Theodore Roosevelt uses q pen, but Is
liable most any day to adopt the typewriter.
Ho intcrlines great deal, but uses Rom
ington In Illustrating his words
Mrs. Partington writes That sho has never
seen typewriter in her whole life. She
has been able TO make errors enough with
her pen without socking her sentences full
Of 8 . and other typographical brick-or-
brock. After tho breakfast dishes are
washed. she salts tho COW, sets the bread
so that at evening 1t may come of tho nest
with agroup Of little rolls, and then gives