Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-08
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Let the literary world scott as it will
at the practical side of life and the deal
ings of the business world, but it can
not deny that it thrives on the funda-
mental principle of the world of trade,
advertising. Actors have from time inn
memorial labored under the accusation
and for long time an observing world
did not know that he men and women
who wrote, had the falling or the COM
mercial trait which ever you prefer to
call it. developed to an equal degree. 1t
may be that it has been developed on
the more recent writer's that Lowell.
Hawthorne and Longfellow did not
seek for notoriety hoping thereby 10 adj
vance their fame. But whether Of an
Gent or recent development it is GER
tainly trait which is to be found
among the literati of today The money
return to Kipling from serious illness
can not be estimated; Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett. just like an aspiring
actress, uses her divorce to make her.
self talked about and her books bought;
Richard Harding Davis threatens suit
call attention to his sketches of the re-
cent war and even Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, who has come to us as one of
the later writers of the old regime and
of whom we might have expected better
things, gained much by the gossip con-
corning her marriage to man many
years her Junior But Ernest Seton
Thompson that was, Ernest Thompson
Seton that Is has gone the all one bet
ter for he realized that ridicule was the
best thing which could be used for his
own good. There may be times when
ridicule is dangerous to ones hopes ana
prospects but that time is past when
one has made name and place for
ones self. The friends will be more
loyal when the keen things are said by
those who are not friends. Thompson
Seton-no it was Seton Thompson
7then-knew that he knew also that the
democratic American would ridicule
man who would be in their judgment so
foppish as to change "a good honest
name" He knew there was no danger
that his fame would die out when the
name he had made famous was used no
more or rather used in different COM
bination. Thompson knew all
that and Thompson-Seton Is rsapins
the reward for the bookdealers are
swamped with demands for his books
and the newly hyphenated name Is or
the boom again. A wise man was Sc
n-Thompson but what will Thomp
son-Seton do, when he discovers that
something must be done to revive again
the fame of the wild animals. Like
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ediy find way" and will undoubtedly
be an amusing find too. But really at
ter ALL is it any ones business but his
own what he calls himself OF course
1t isn't and that is why you and are
saying and writing so much about 1t
He is a wise man and he knew just how
we would talk and write and that is
why he did it. Both parties to this con-
tract should be satisfied. We are having I
the pleasure of talking and of writing
of that which is really no concern OF
ours and he is having the free adyertls,
ing. The only difference is rnat ne dis
plays wisdom while we are dislaying
human nature.
You may not believe 1T, but 1t is a true
story nevertheless. She Is wha. you
would call an exceptionally bright
young lady and she is in her junior at
good college. She must know some
things Of course or she never could pass
for an exceptionally bright young lady
nor could she be in her junior year at a
good college. But one day this weak She
said: who is this Tammany of whom
we hear so much and is he q democrat
or republican and what is 1t that he
has done that is so bad?" Yet at the
time she was preparing for debate In
which she was to affirm that the one
great reed of this time is that Women
should vote! Her father and her broth
er tried to explain the politics of New
York to her. and because she 10 an ex-
ceptionally bright young lady and far
enough advanced to be in her junior
year at a good college, she really
seemed to grasp it quite well. She &C
tually began to read the papers and to
say that there were many very interest
ing things about affairs in them and
that If it were not that her Greek and
her geology took so much of her time
che would try to read every day. Il am
going to make a practice of reading al
least one good paper, editorials and all
every day." she said, " but | can't un-
til after the debate comes off, you
know 1t is to be hoped for the sake of
the rights of the women, that she VIII
not expose her total ignorance of poll
tics when she is urging her fitness to.
take part therein. Inconsistent? or
couse che is, but after all who is not ih
onA way or another and If she is really
an exceptionally BRIGHT young lady, she
viii learn in time and by experience ana
that is the only kind of learning which
to much after ALL
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