Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-15


No one else could get the exquisite cNcct
IN reading "Alnrsc Chan that Mr.. ppge
gets for the simple REASON thut there is
no other public reader In the country
who has the same mastery Of the negro III.
alect as well as they themselves aud writes
Il with the same precision n college pro-
fessor puts into the study of o foreign
tongue.
Furthermore. the natural sweetness Of
his voice has remained unspOilcd by any
cut aud dried theories of olocuhon
teachers.
And that brings me to the no1t point:
An author who wants 10 become "a
vOrite as a reader should know that IN
trying o. improve himself on make any
material changes in his natural style ho
IL pretty apt to KIN the goose that lays
the golden eggs. His admirers have
summoned him from his seclusion not
TO hear nm orator or trimmed clio.
cutiunist and not TO see Lord
Chesterfield They simply want 10 gct
acquainted and M thoroughly as posi-
bic, with the man who lay his writings
has been able 10 move them. They want
10 know him as lac *, and the more out
of the ordinary they fluid him the better
they will be pleased. They want him
served up an nntiwel Should he have
q hunch bnCk, glccu eyes and wohhCl
feet they Will be enchanted. II hc has
u piping squeaky voice, that " precisely
the voice they want ~ hear. II lac has
strong and wlnHome personality. nl
his own. 1od-giyen, then let him show
Il aud stick 10 IL aud not try 10 tone Il
Down To- the dun standard OF fashionable
mediocrty.
MIR Page has understood this In his
readings, but his fellow novelist from
| MOOD LulnM lu0ulna au uuoS 3W
| w. Cable unfortunately has not Those
| who remember Mr.. Cables first public
| readings and have heard him recently
must be- struck with the difference He
-uapsuoJ pun Apu9lslsL9d M patI1 SUI
! uously TO improve on what only needed
! 70 be left alone, that today lac Is neither
! himself or my body else. He rs only nn
! ol palsanHns puJpJ 5sIMun Nv 'uouBum
him one day that the old Creole songs he
used 10 sing 10 the delight OF thousands
snomuJu - Wnom cql u poUV5Wun eIaM
novelist Mr. Gable thought the thing
over carefully, decided that his friend
was right, and now the Creole songs are
-op 20 GuM IuulhuO SIN Ol ttul1f ~ eN5kla
| he took 10 iampcring with his voice and
| Initiating this man or that until he has
| finally succeeded IN almost entirely trans
forming the character of his rcnding with
| the result that thecharm rs Hrently les
sened. And the unfortunate part Of II
| is that having made these changes aud
| notifications Ia himself he Is today pow
| -op 20 kRM IuunHOaul % uIuIaL % saL0
ing things One haelsthat there n soho
| GllauwuudsJo Nau[ y SupuaI VII ~ auuu
aud he feels Il also and deplores Il no
doubt, bur crn DO nothing.
Mr. Gable Is certainly the most dimin-
utiyc Of American author-renderH He
weighs only ninety pounds and Is small
Iva proportion. He wears q full brown
heard, and his voice, though high and
shrill when he speaks, is Of q fiue tenor
calibre when he comes 10 sing, which un-
fortunately he does not DO often enough
| He h the nenteat, naitiest and most pre-
else OF men, his handwriting reseinb-
ling copper plate with never blot or
an erasure. aud his clothes and linen
always looking as IN they had Just been
pressed and stlnched.
lie IL a devoted friend and admirer Of
Mnrk Twain, whom he can mimic 10
not tell himself which II which In the
dark. When Mr. Clemens aud Gable
were on their rending tour together they
used 10 have warm religions discussions,
Mr. Cable arguing from the orthodox
side. he being very strict in all his ideas.
while Mark, half for the fun of teasing
his friend, used u so in heavy as The
champion Of the world, the flesh aud the
devil
Everyone knows how Mark Twain
comes upon the stage. how he drawls
and looks bored. how he thrusts his
hands deep down into his pockets, scans
the ceiling aud seems preteinnturnlly
solemn just nc the moment of bringing
down the house. He has got quite gray
Of late years and his face has the color
Of ivory with scarcely touch Of color.
Now a word about the dress of orr
authorreaders. DO their clothes bear