The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-03-22
psasnres Of Literature

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m FIND the life of an editor very
;,tere,ting," said Mr.. Dobley at
..vly inaugurated late breakfast,
- I .hall never fail to be thankful
~. I east Oh the loathsome trammels
81. hardware business to soar in
:, matted skies of literature
! = tlourht only angels and birds
: said Mrs. Dobley, putting
. n the coffee. She was really
- ..ch astonished at the manner
xlieh her liege lord had launched
81 into literature. For some three
-,,l. ~ he had been proprietor and
- 81 the Green Giraffe, a mag
fsi.e devoted to art and high class
ssl.s.re. Il was an expensive affair.
stei On thick paper with ragged
1s and wide margins, and had q
- one could see a block of on .
F. night, 70 brilliant was the color
sfou are becoming an unconscious
noriss, my DEAR" said Mr.. Dobley,
htisf he top of an egg gracefully,
e beits the wife of a literary man.
81 sasei in the language of the up
,lnte b = backer-a person who puts
s1oey into art for arts sake and also
|sith ! dim idea that it will return in
- uanifold. And sometimes an AN
M ) also bird"
II b all 90 interesting to me. John, y
1tIllJE Dobley, "and am SO anxious to
u about it. Yet it seems little
r teyond me. There is the cover;
"a I'll with the purple hair eating
- grapes, and the week before it
Eea like an advertisement for a
u restorer, that awfully purple man
- areen whiskers. / confess can
II u1dsrstand it."
EAst week we had Dom Paul, I be-
- nid Mr.. Dobley, thoughtfully,
Il the girl eating grapes is Harvest,
ohk. Most Of these things are SYM
klal you know"
ut why didn't they make the
ats purple? They seemed to have
~ q purple. think it would do
&a II 5 house where there were chill.
as have . picture of anyone eating
- gapes."
Artists, my dear Mrs. Dobley, must
Aliowed Z certain amount of license
~ VIDE latitude, I may say, in what
Ia draw, that will give their imag'
ioas free scope. You can't put q
kush in q mans hand and say
- ~ one Of your number 38-agatt
~ copper lined with long handle
= Ntssed to say in the hardware bust
1ou would warp his genius. You
~ to him, give me something that
nake people sit up and think"
Wel. ] ut up half the night think
l. aesut that girl" said Mrs. Dobley
- could not make it out. Ther
s was poem on the first page tha'
ne. It sounded magnificent,
- eae read it out loud, but what i
wss . mystery. ! should hav,
- 4 for : puzzle, but know yo,
eave puzzles in the Giraffe"
1es feier now to that magnificen
p Swampleigh. My dear, VI
= vague in literature if we wisl
als The charge of being old-fash
0wanpleigh never makes mis-
4ake the name of the magazine
syested It. He told me how it oc
e him one night. He had re
g and fallen into a light slum
oddenly he awoke. At the foo
~. I'D . figure seemed to shap
no 2 sort of mist and he kne,
Vas IN inspiration. First h
3 4 was camel, then its nee
= upward and Swampleig
elnseh murmur: The Gree
The very thing! He knew b
ane that would make a big ser
wAat does it mean?"
aps Swampleigh is the osl
4 - has thorough knowledge I
fltle means. 1t means ever,
- i means nothing. Ever,
.aats to know what is in
: With such a name. Once the
nave 'em. It's like a doubl
: coal scuttle that Freshin,
TED last year. People saw II
tae catalogues and went wi
bought some. 1t simply Wi
= that couldn't tip backwar,
- all.r
sHampleigh on the starr"
Weigh is on the stan, but
much that we shall lose hi,
: has always had dyspepsi
- kept him morbid a
. ~ his ideas, He hates ever
~, somebody suggested l
rater aa . cure. and 1,