The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-11
Palmer Cox and His Wonderful
Little Pictures
THAT NOTED ARTIST IN RIS STUDIO.
An OLD Bachelor Who Loves Chill.
dren and Works to Give Them
PleaSuFe-HoW tho Idea OF tho
brownies" Found RIrth-A New
Play to 30 brought Out Next
Winter


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and drum, and had just reached Bond
street, there suddenly burst peals Of
boys laughter above the tramp OF feet
and MI the martial music.
Almost at the same instant crowd
Of urchins broke through tho ranks, all
screaming at the top OF their lusty
young lungs; "oh, see the BrowniesI
the Brownies hal hal There's the po'
licemanl the Ohinamanl tho dudeI
hal hal Just see the BrownIesP'
There was something contagious in
their shouts, and following the flying
feet and pplihed eyes ! came faca to
face with the cause OF their hilarity,
Beneath the second.story windows OF
abuilding embracing the corners Of the
street hung in hugs, gray, water.colored
sketches, thirty-two Of Palmer Cox's
famous Brownies. Each proclaimed in
great black letters: "This is the day we
celebrateP
BY this time the cries Of the boys had
attracted the soldiers. Some of them
smilingly lifted their caps to the
Brownies, while elderly men and women
in the crowd, to whom the little brown
COLLINS were unknown, asked the mean
ing OF the comicai little fellows tapping
their coat tails in tho breeze, their
merry faces much discolored from the
rain that had poured upon them during
the previous night.
tits the Brownies the Brownies |
don't you know the BrowniesP" was the
only reply the excited children gave.
'Well, you little roguesl" ! said to
myself, "at last | have traced you to
your lair. Wen see now whether you
always vanish into air at break Of day"
When the procession had passed !
slipped into the building, upstairs, and
through Railways until | found myself
on the threshold OF Mr.. Palmer CoS's
studio.
/ knocked. and the door was opened
by man fully six feet two inches In
stature, with u very serious, sober face.
~ have called to soe-to see-the
father Of the Brownies" stammered
out.
Asmile slowly crossed the face Of the
famous goblin artist, but ! was well
coined in.
~ supposed" said ], much more EN-.
barrassed, am sure, than my Young
readers would have been had they been
in my place, "that the father OF the
Brownies was little Chirping mana
little bit like his famous children"
From his six feet two Mr.. Cox smiled
Hnrn nfa mo aNoin NT am almaua a
disappointment" he said. "When I
had written five years for the 81 Nicholas,
the editor expressed o desire to see me.
why, Why" she cried out, when IN
troduced myself, II always fancied you
aiunny little man like your pictures"
And then We both laughed heartily
as he seated mo in his coy study
Brownieland, as he calls it-and fell to
telling me stories OF himself and his
COLLINS.
A very bright room is Brownieland,
right on Broadway. II is cheerful,
with gay carpets and gay portieres,
divans and easy chairs.
The Father Of the Brownies" is an
old bachelor, but all around are por-
traits Of boys and girls from all over
the world, and his desks are full Of
letters. written TO him from everywhere
by children who like the Brownies.
He always answers these letters with
his own hand, and when not too busy
he draws Brownie or two on the mar
gins.
This is the place where Mr.. Cox
draws and rhymes all day long; and l
am told that there Is often hearty
peal OF laughter to be heard from the
studio, that the artist himself is power.
less at times to retain his dignity in the
presence Of the Brownies' pranks.
In the bookcase are the various
Brownie volumes. The walls are hung
with several very queer Brownies clev-
erly manufactured out OF silk and cloth,
the bodies Of some OF the round little
fellows being veritable eggs.
The feet OF some OF the little mani
kins are fastened to mats, or rounds OF
cloth that serve for penwipers. A
Pennsylvania woman labored a year
before she finally succeeded in making
the Brownie penwiper, which really
possesses the elaike characteristics OF
the pictures. A firm In Buffalo now
manufactures them; the woman taught
eight girls the art Of making them.
Many limitations have since sprung up
in various parts Of the country, and
each inventor sends specimen Of her
skill TO Mr.. Cox. Suspended by invlsi-
BILE strings the funny little fellows dam
gle from the walls about
"Where in the world did you find the
BroWniesH / asked "How did YOU
think Of them1"
WELL" said the artist stretching his
long legs with q witch as comical as his
own brown elves, II have always drawn
as boy or my fathers in Canada, whore
was born. | was fond Of putting what
observed on paper Invent out in tho
world duly 70 make my fortune and
driited to California where-well. where
] failed In business. An artist there saw
my drawings, for ] was always skeseh-
ing and said that II l put myself under
instruction 1might find market for
my productions, took up writing
funny stories and aquibs for tho Calf
fornia papers and drawing cartoons.
Eastern papers copied them. Thinking
might find better market In the east
] came 10 New York.
Frederick Juengllng was then the
foremost engravor In this city. There
was something in my cartoons that
: 6uggeated 10 him the humor Of tho
child literature OF Germany. He I'D.
visOd mo to write and illustrate stories
for children. / laughed and said, i
mover could write anything 10 interest
Children
mTTy IT," said tho ongrayoh
"Woll, 1 did, and sent poem and
picture 10 81, McholdL II was accepted
and moro asked for.
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