The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-20


They say Charles II. Dana doesn't be-
4 here ~ pct names says Eugene, as he
/ witches Sister Girls curls. while POsie
forsakes the train Of cars 10 stand by his
/ knee, but do. III they show a child that
I YOU love IT, ! believe in home and in home
names. ] wouldn't have "a house where
you couldn't delight in
/ Plttypat and IippytOe:
Fooprints up and down the hall
Ilaythings scattered on the floor,
ringer marks along the wall
Iell-tale streaks upon the door
Where are you going. Poster"
10 see 70 my chillun,' say the blonde
mite in his funny play clothes and pres
euliN ne IS busy with hoe and rake again.
3ut 2y ne renee, picture of wholesome
"Posie thinks he has a family Of big
BOYS and girls explains Mr.. Field; he
gig and delve all day to support them.
But come and see my den"
And up we 90 into the workshop Of the
keep out II she could. Sweet-faced, Sc
rene, as yOung-looking almost as Miss
lrotty, she processes no mission, no new
old shoes over the floor and coats have
no business to be. And yet the den is the
most habitable spot imaginable. It's ching
ho"ered wall paper came later than
ANY color, so long as it's red,
Is the color that suits me best
but may be it came because of it, Al
any rate, II IS warm and cosy. The huge
writing table looks like work with plenty
Of elbow room. And the books for this
room too, is fun Of them, are like the
II haven't any fine bindings, for 1 can't
AFFORD them, but here is my biggest book"
"a Horace too large 10 lift-"and my small
tesl ones "a couble Of thumb Bibles"
ana here are volumes of travel and al
ventures like the strange and the weird
ana mere are fairy tales. / read fairy
tales night and day. There's a new life
OF Hans Christian Anderson Just out and
II given me new idea of the man.
all obi
seems he could be crusty enough with
youngsters that didn't attract him I sup
pose pose that's the way with all Of us. 1t is
Must a child be pretty to please you?'
iEetty 70 my taste. / must want To
pet IT, TO take it on my knee"
Gene Gene" calls somebody from
uoWh stars ana while this Gene" whom
everybody wants and who has a uuip for
look again at the book cases pointing to
odd tastes branching in uneountable di-
recuonsi at little red leather baby's
shOe hanging from a shelf of trea s1ires
that runs round "a huge chimney snr,jng-
ing up IN the middle of the room: at some
queer German child images and at more
performing bears a Graded SpeIler"
strapped up with other books, lies right
among the copy on the writing table and
tens more OF Gene than anything Gene
could say. There is an ivy leaf from the
grave of Poe a Gladstone ak a rack Of 20
or 40 canes-sOuvenirs from all over the
WorlQ-and there are photographs by the
where
The writer It the desk cannot look up with
out catching sight of the face Of a friend
A most human man. it is necessary to
shink, but one it would take years to
What are you doing now?" 1 asked
when Mr.. Field comes back again
l.. me love affairs of Biblomaniac, main
And what does a Biblomaniac love?
His books, or the poor fool thinks he
does. But really he is in love at different
different Z falr
deal OF research among dusty volumes
but i grind out about 1000 words a day.
1t VIII be ready for book publication next
year. | spend a long time over it because
l amuse myself with the copy"
DO you know Eugene Fields handwrit-
mgr Autograph fiends all over the coun-
try cherish the small neat script that
looks as If i were written with a world
Of pains; The copy" for THE Love
and clear. 1t is finished with illuminated
chapter headings and initial letters IN
blue and gold.
TITS slow work, but like it, and II
keeps me out Of mischief" this with
twinkle of the eyes. but no relaxation
Of the sober, yet strangely humorous coun.
tenance. Il might be doing something
else in the hours it takes but the some5
thing else mightn't do the world any
good and 1t couldn't be half the pleas
ure to me.
'If ia had any training, I'd have been
an artist, / suppose"
Mr.. Field certainly never would have
mechanic
if a recent attempt to learn photography
can be taken as a criterion. A Chicago
photographer lent him a kodak and under
took to develop the 30 or 40 plates return
ed. Nothing appeared on any of them
Gene" had posed his groups, considered
his focuses, but neglected to draw the
slides. Not plate had been exposed
beautiful book when completed, will
be the authors own edition of The
Love Songs of Childhood" Mr. Field
has had special copy bound with
blank page facing every poem. On these
pages he has written and signed autograph
copies of the poems, each to be decorated
when finished with portrait of the child
TO whom the verses are dedicated. the
portrait to carry the childs signature
The bright little faces that look out from
between the leaves make it one of the
most unique things in literature.
What do you like best in your wOrlS?''
/ query looking up from this fad of busy
man.
My western verse" this without hest
! tatiOn. THAT is truest and closest to ma
ture. have contrary streaks in me. There
are Two sorts OF thlngs ia IKE TO write,
! allegorical religious work and drinking
songs Yes, even like to write cenven-
| tional obituary.
How about your classical worx?,
"Oh, l don't care for that. Latin and
| Greek We're pounded into me for fourteen
/ tons of Horace and the like But |
| wouldn't, If j had my way, educate a
| child in that fashion. Spelling and cipher
ing are enough: then let a child. read.
| France or German by going to GERMANY
! or Chinese by going to China And if one
/ isn't going to those countries, what does
| one want of the languages p"
Then you don't care for French or Ger
| man hterature2"
"Oh, I'd trust to the TRANSACTIONS I be-
| lieve in English. There are plenty of peO-
| pie who can talk French to you as fast as
! an express train, but they can't get Off AN
/ English sentence without hurting your
| ears. :
and I like newspaper English. Your
! professional literary people turn up their
/ noses at newspapers; but what do thew
| amount to- With exceptions, they form
| the most narrow and selfish of all classes
/ living as they do out OF the real world
! If any mans got blood in his veins let him
| choose between a good newspaper and q
magazine. One deals with what Is life or
death to you to-day, the other prints
! when it gets ready something written
! three or four months or three or four
/ years ago. II takes a geologist to GET
| up an interest in such fossils.
! ''Such egregious rot l uttered,
| Such suits the magazines"
! And what dreary stuff is magazine
! have 365 of them a year, or a GRAY
! Day or Broken Hearts, Who wants
life with these poets that yearn and
/ groan and pant"
/ How do you write your verse -