New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-28
from the far east 10 the shores Of the Paciht iescs
cha sing Of at at at dozen different points,
SPRING CLOTHES IN FALL Styles
CHANGING POEM TO SUIT THE Seasonal
wOFrL MAIDE-N'S TRIALS

CHANGING POEM TO SUIT THE Seasonal
woFrL MAIDEN's TRIALS
literary man in this city who has taken to revising
manuscript and dispensing criticism ana ADVICE 10
Young literary aspirants. ~ profession. mas COSBY
little and library uptown where the crushed ppct
when no longer proud,
refuge finds. and has his claim, allowed
Tho critic and advice d p"n,rr j. kindly. b'nev"
lcrt man with poetic temperament. that suggest the
possibility Of hi> having been spring poet him'"I'
some twenty years aco. and having got oT"r II SADLY
At all events he has soft side for thes" tender spring
soue>i"rs AID lneorion>. though by no means mute"
Millions and at his Office they are borne with always
and made when there Is any possible chance OF doing 81"
The other DAY a young. cadaverons. wild eyed GIRL
with all the symptoms OF being dcvonrcd By the hTes OF
literary aspiration, raped ncrvon,ly al his study door
sh. yl,uced about cxctedlv Us she came in. 10 -ec
rrrhau, II there wcrr any Of those brutal signs
about to the effect that spring poets were buried
I'm the back yard. which the funny man hiS
written about iii he almost believes In them himself
and >ceng nothing Of the kind but only the Kindly
face %, the critic full Of sympathy for her painful
aladv the and overflow cd on Ia ltt'c r'
Of nan>cr.p, that She drew from her rcfltule ana
handed 10 IN. literary surgeon. Her story was pitt
SO had sent the lritl" poem entitled spring l.
uagazirc Tine ago. III" said and had hNtrh' tcu
tharlie- here -hc blushe and all l"r friends TO be-
Oh tie lookout for II IN Ia" nrM months issue bnt II
wA>nt ini'h"d
II came hacs IN tho cours" o, time with some hintS
a, ERECTION and ,ullc good advice generally, 80 she
explained II, non APPEARANCE 10 her friend, by littl"
h, lie 10 the effect she had forgotten to send
1: After all and she told everybody thar II would come
ont N III" ncAt month. She corrected the POEM nc
c,rl,ny To- the advice md forwarded II again and
again II WIS returned for correction. This give and
return process had been going on I'LL IN" spring mao
| sldcd into summer and summer into autumn. Inc
~ al wanted something 0One 10
~ ri she was almost driven distracted. "Chnre,' ,
had como 10 tho c,ncln,Io that she had not IN" divine
ar.tu, and ali tho girls whom sh" knew h1d br"h
asking a,nut that spring poem in contemptuouS zones
! and lrrc the wrcd rp again
The critic unrocd tlc l!rtie scroll and read tue
poem /, WAS good rra.lv good. The last criticism thar
cam, back from the cantor of the magazine Nsid q
much hut 81. :r,,cd that II was now fall the poem
u,d hardly be- appropriate for their O"t,ber number
and ,io,, That a poem Of equal merit on Autumn
would be- acceptable
uv,,y tell me- SIR" she aid what shall do -
Tn. .rtc wa. touched hv her distress and said :
"w,y don, Won write POEM IN autumn, then
.Oh | couldn't, ,uldnt: rpulint. exclaimed IN"
girl c\c,.dlv I'VE been tx months wOrkVH on
,n. .urur POEM, tn think ~: nothing e>c. and III
tired on, Don; ,ou revise p'1n~ for pop'" ~'"'c'
/ ,u,c>" She continued booking mp at him h'-cerhshgN
ooh ,c>" said ia" critic It hat'> III! business
| II Won have an outline Of poem Oh autumn. VIII
de- nv bet ~ ,f"c II an a't'''" h"''h' anu "''p ~"
I IN any WAY ! can.
No. Int | thougit." said the giil. he1'''uhgN'
that I, Won know hay" h"ar! how clever yon
| ,rc At such thing ard | thought | would ask you
| II Won coidmt Just change this spring poem 80 that
| n wuild do fIr the fali. A., ,.,,
| The re-, ser If mauu>rnpt WA. amused lie Ioohed
| over She hrlc poem .'raih.
"U'm, Let ne ,cr. he AID 1870. g.. -
Then he. bean erase ana III IN. flncnlatlhS I,n
,nn m NM with an amused smile and half under as
hr.lth -. Honey bees . hotter perhaps hx'nr =,
.rc.' - Uuddng leaves - gathered shrav"V and
H. ,rc,,led The ,hcavr> into the second v"rN" " Kob
| ms u"st hItuic = W.. Nv au.h,i,
"Call IN again t. morrow nf ,aio' ''''' ""'''N'
| . ,n. in see what ] can d. with II.
I'm th, morrow she Their" and got III" fhI poem
IT,, r,y,lu, published II. and III" v"unc woman No"
49," ,I', n ,', hasn't the dvinc ..atas she Knows
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