The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-18
Martin Dooiey on Books.

In longer tn wurud lasts tn more books do be comm
out Day be day rrcad in tn papers announcements "
new publications that look like TIL delnouent tax list Tbevs
publisher in ivry block in THOUSANDS " happy homes
some wan is pluggn tn romantic novel or whalin
out pome on tn typewriter upstairs family without
an author IS as eontimpube without priest Is
Malachi nearsghtcd peevsh averse to tn suds an can't
tell whether tn three in til front yard is blue or green
Make an author " him Does Miranda presint no at
uac'ons to tn young iv tn neghborhoodt does her
o'esKt ahrfs an is she poor with tn ranger Make
m suihoTeen " her Forchunatey tn manly Instinct is
often too sthroug fr tn designs v tn family an NANNY
man that II HIS parents had had their way might have
az this moment maxim artificial feet FIR deormed nome s
ladn what fnd Hogan calls glad free an timperv-
mintal life on tn back a sthreet-car
but lithachoor Is tn lifewurruk iv tn modhren
woman Ih control is passin into tn hands iv tn fair
sect an tn day VIII come whin tn wurrud book will
no more to abebodicd thin tn wurrud gusset Wo
men write all tn romantic novels that arre amy good.
MATS because vry man thinks tn thrue hayroe him
self, an ivry woman thinks he's James K Hacket Wo-
men writes all III good romantic novels an reads thin ALL
womans rcadiu' is nvcr done Hardly a day passes
but some lady frind Nv mine stops way to
catch an asks il don't regard Morse Hewlett as
tn gr-reatest an mos homicdal writer iv our time an
what I've got say about innellys attack on Stevenson
Madam says Il w'udn't know Morse if | him
gon down tn sthree in hand an fr Hinnelly his
name though his language is familiar amy
whan who iyer helped load scow. Stevenson says,
doesn't appeal to an il he shud, TN rcvarse tn de-
oson tn ground y TIL bad previous characker iv tn
plaintiff while" says, "admittin tn thruth iv what he
said But says l. "th only books in hr'y is tn Bible
an Shakespeare says J. They're gr-reat fr ye" says
She 80 bully fr tn style Dye thin all tn time :"
she says. Il nivcr read Thin says Il thin fr pur
poses y de6nse have nivcr read thm but I'll nver read
anything else till have read thin says. They shtand
between an all modhren lihrachoor' says l. I've
built thin up into kind v breakwather' says AN
behind cam an contint while Hall Game RACES with
out" says l.
"Rcadin me rnd is talked about be all readn' people
as though tn on'y thing that makes man betther
thin his neshbors. But tn thruh that readn is tn mex
thing this side iv goi bed fr restn TIL mind With
mos people takes tn place iv wurruk. doesn't
think vhin he's rcadin if he has tn book no fun
Believe me Hinnissy readin thinkin' 1t seems like
it, an whin in talk sometimes it sounds like
it. It's kind iv nearthough that looks ginooyne tn
thoughtless but ye can't get anything it. Nanny
man knowed has doped hmsf with books that hed
stumble over carpet tack Be hiyns that la ad Carnayge
knows his business He's studied tn situation an he UNI
dhersthands that if he builds bres enough an gets enough
people readin books they won't be any left afther
while capable Nv takn away what he's got We he didn't
learn how to steel blets v "Whin Knighthood
Was in Flower
Am again all books says YEP I'm not If had money
I'd have all tn good lhrachoor v' tn wurruid me
table at this minyt mehtn read it, but there it'd be-
slyes il they didn't r other stmylants have no
that's addicted to it, In moderation mind ye modhera-
tion an afther tn chores done FIR frnd v Hogans
saws Much rIldn makes full man." and he knew what
he was takiu An do object TO tn pursuit iv h
rachoor; Oh faith no As pursuit t is fine, but it may
be bad r amy poor that happens catch tFrNLEY
P DUNE in the May Century, New York Condensed Tor
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