Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-19
Making a Chump
 Of a Hero
GOriginaLl

''that it would be nice for us to make a story together?"
 We were sitting in the library in easy chairs. before a log fire. Story writing; was a part of my work, and 1 did 1t for pay. Therefore I discouraged Ju- lia's plan.
 "There'S too much shop about it for me" I said.
 But I'm curious to know how these things are done. Come; yield to me for once. How do you beginY
 "The first thing to determine upon is a plan. To tell the truth, one seldom strikes an original subject for story. but if one is handy at the business he may take an old theme and serve it up daintily, so as to give it the flavor Of originality. In all or nearly all stories there are a male lover and female lover, a vil'-
 You mean a man who has given his heart to a woman who responds to h passion"
 Yes; that's it when we get it on pa per- but before that we say irst-tO take a common subject-here's the man lover. here's the woman lover-Or loyeress, if you prefer it. And now for the complications. Experience teacl,Cf us to avoid details that are very cOm- mon Don't make the lover and lover ess''-
 "I wish you'd find other names for them"
 -"spoon in the conservatory"
 "It's q delightful place for Iovcmali- ing"
 That's the reason story makers a'- ways use it. Then don't make ti.. lover rescue the-the girl from a fire. | The firemen are the ones to do chat if | it must be done at all.'
 Never mind the dOn'ts. Get Oa with the story Well. first we'll give them names. i The lover is Charles. Perhaps we'd | better make him q young lawyer; tho Ioveress-I mean the loved one-i" ! Lucy. and the villain is an officer of the United States army who diStiI- guished himself in the Spanish war"
 What a funny kind of villain" cried | Julia. suddenly looking up at me. l w lGfeln UOeS niS NilldihS SOIISiSl "In loving the heroine"
 But Captain She stopped and 1 colOred.
 Captain Pebbles to give him name, | is really not so much to blame as Lucy, who fails to see Charles advantages and insists on giving her heart to the captain. You see, the yillainy is in the military trappings that have induced so many girls to lead garrison lives whu might otherwise have had comfortable hOmes."
 ''I See.'' said Julia, wagging her toe on foot rest, but I don't think that has anything to do with it if she love. him."
 Well, to go on with the story, Lucy | gives Charles the grand bounce. i mean she dismisSes him as a lover, though she retains him as friend. You see, Charles has loved her long while, and she vas always very nice t0 him till the captain came along. when she changed like a weather Vane"-
 Nothing of the kind. ! mean you can't make a heroine of girl as Gckte as that
 
 it. so after bearing Lucy's aeceptancr of the captains attentions for some i time he just buttons up his coat, pu.S | on his hat with a slap on the crown, crams his hands into his trousers pOck. | cts and goes off by himself, perfectly indifferent"
 Wouldn't it be nice complication ] to have him suddenly struck with aG- other girl?" asked Julia, glanring at nn. | sidewise. And then he finds out when | it is too late that Lucy's acceptance oi 1 the captains attentions were simply | the result of pique." "H'm! It seems that we arc going | all wrong. The lover and lOveress (es- l cuse the word; can't find anOtherD az pear to be very commonplace people, | easily made jealous without cause, cs- | pecially the girl''- You mean the man. Well. never mind which is 10 blame. | The villain turns out to be the only sep sibIe one of the lot, and real hero \ | d military way if not as a lover" 1 Let's have it that the captain is ens gagged to another girl all the while" "What?"
 ''Yes; the captain is engaged and has | made Lucy his confdant."
 That won't do." "Why notF' l Because it will make the hero of the story appear like an oyerjealous chump. | Besides. the heroine has no business to have secrets from her real lover" Do heroines go about revealing COZ | fdences?" I scratched my head thouGbtfuig. l 9ad set out to make my princi1::i '.:';'. | hero Julia had shaped hin D @j r.. I'll tell you what we'll do Sai.. s: 1 last "Thackeray made hCio in '|'-'-'- | ity Fair of Major Dobbin, y:io sg:.;'. in as a chump. Suppose we r''ycF'tr :.''' process and make chump or ;li' i!.'r;a
 "We don't need to do that. "'.! ii-.-' has made a chump of himself