The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-03
NEW BOOKS.
A Lady Journalists Reward.

4 Lady Journalists Reward.
Mr. Granger was roaring lion OF an
editor and Millicent Waldo had great
deal to do in Ellen Olney Kinks story. "Good-
bye, Proud World" (Houghton. Miffiin
4 Coz. Lawrence Snow, the best writer
on the Daton staff, felt chill in his spinal
marrow and. il hurts us to read. found
himself crouching close over his task like
a whipped cur" whenever the chief walked
pondero,isly by. Millicent had been for
nine wears at the head of the Hearth and
Home department As We have said
Mr.. Granger saw TO it that she was kept
busy. She had to receive all the visitors
that came to the DGwn Office, and she was
IN astonishing reservoir of copy" Not
witnstanding tnat she gave half of her
law to visitors, she still maintained I'M
deviatingly "her stint Of a column each
for both morning and evening editions,
a double amount for Saturday, and on
Sunday whole page" 1t is wonderful
that after nine years OF this her mind re-
NAMED seated on its throne. Well may
Mr.. Granger have said to himself, as he
did occasionally, that she was plant and
fitted in. Lest the reader should be think
ing that her pay was a million week,
we will say at once that it was forty.
We find her with tired feeling at the
end of her nine years as head OF the Hearth
and Home department. She herself often
wondered how it was that she could still
turn out, inevitably and in such faultless
shape. the Saturday Book Talk and the
Sunday Table Talk. The typewriter still
clicked as if inspired when it came to the
weekly page about the new books and
tho magazines. We have not found that
she did the stereotyping or ran the presses,
or that the Harlem Bureau Of Help Wanted
vas under her care, but she certainly did
enough to warrant the feeling that she
would like to rest for period amid country
scenes.
We we're glad when there came to Mil
licent one day an old gentleman from
Windybank in the State OF Connecticut.
who informed her that she was heir to a
substantial house in Windybank and to
further property yielding an income OF
$1,000 year, left Of necessity by an aunt
who had recently died. Millicent sighed
as she looked about the handsome and
commodious quarters Of the Hearth and
Home departmental the japanned type
writer at the long and massive table with
its orderly regiments and battalions OF
new books and magazines, at the roller
desk with its gorged pigeonholes and its
expansive fat surface high piled, at the
bronze and red leather utensils used in
her art, at the maps on the wall and the
flowers in the sunny window, at the spirit
lamp and tea kettle and blue china cups.
Her dream had crystallized. The smiling
country beckoned. The next division of
the book is entitled "Windybank."
Very charming is the setting forth Of
Mlicents further experience. One of the
mahogany clocks in the Windybank house
struck 100 friendly times in celebration of
her arrival. 1t was her almost incredible
good fortune to find a ready made house,
keeper, who had a passion for saving her
employers money and for eating by her
self. Her Joy and peace were great alto
gether. Hither almost nothing had come
10 her for nothing. Now; ITO have
house of ones own, with windows to look
Gu Of at sunsets and sunrises, door to
open for warmth and light and yet to shut
behind one upon the world, a fireside. a
chair to nestle in before the fire and watch
it blaze up and die away. leisure to sit and
gaze and think over all the meanings of all
lne Gays OF tNe years Vi oIc NE -iof uh
the world as though one could ever find
out. to say nothing Of the possibility of 60
ing mad at such hopeless business. We
had as soon do the Questions and Answers
for the DdDn newspaper.
We had not meant, however, to interrupt
the thoughts of Millicent at this point.
ITO read all the books one has longed to
read, to look out and watch the shiftings
of the sunlight, to feel the drop Of the fly
Ing world toward the east. and to be able
TO watch the alterations of morning, noon
and night, the rise Of the planets and the
consultations, the changes of the weather
and Of the seasons" Occasion for Joy
indeed, and quite different from the posi-
bilities in the little fiat in Eleventh street
and in the Darn Office. The old clock
maker came and repaired all the clocks,
throwing in without price much picturesque
and wise philosophy along with his con-
scientious work. The carpenter came, al d,
in the place of the narrow and too formal
windows overlooking the street, appeared
a fat and comfortable cluster Of windows,
obviously stretching out as far as they
liked. Pictures were hung above the cherry
wainscotng rich and dark with age, b ooks
were bestowed, the garden was attended
TO- When Reuben Holiday came Mill
cent had no notion that he had ever seen
this pleasant house before; but he had
seen it.
Reuben Holiday was well known
writer of sket ches Of travel. not too young.
Here and there in the dark hair thrown
back from his forehead was a thread Of
white, and there were deep lines on his
face" George Haddon of the Da,on, Mill
cent remembered, had a special liking
for this mans work, finding it vivid crisp
and convincing" Not Of every travellers
work can so much be said, The Baron
Munchausen's, for instance. The Baron
was vivid enough. and he may have been
crisp after thorough cooking, but that
he was convincing nobody has ever de-
clared. We shall not say who Reuben
Holiday, the traveller, turned out to be.
1t tells in the story and the story is one that
will be neglected by no reader who is wise
and wishes to be fortunate al well. A good