The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-09

says Mr.. Stefrens. They are so human
and helpful. The only thing 1 hold
against them is that they boss"
Mr. H. c. Chatheld-Taylor has spent
the winter in Paris. where he is nov
slowly recovering his health. His work
upon the Moliere novel proved too ex-
acting, and the illness which was the
result of it has delayed the compile
ton Of the book.
March Is BIcClure-Phillips published
'By the Fireside." by Charles Wagner.
author of The Simple Life: 'sThe
Picaroons, by Gelett Burgess and Win
Irwin, joint authors OF The Reign OF
Queen IsyP 'Susannah and One
and Daughters of Desperation" by
Hildegard Brooks.
When Ellis Meridith wrote her story
of mother love, Heart of My Heart"
she had no intention of having il pub
lished. 1t was written because the
subject was one that had had a life
long interest for her. When the book
was finished it was laid away and
brought out only once in a while to
read to intimate friends who persuad-
ed the author to assent to its publica-
ton. The author admits that there
was some purpose behind her book.
If hope to accomplish anything,
she says, ''it is that people should be
made to think what it means to thrust
d
protest against all this race suicide
trash.''
Katharine lyman. the novelist, whose
latest book, THE French Wife, is re-
ceiving much attention was born in
Dublin in the early sixties. Her home
from early youth was a low matched
farm house under the Dublin noun
tains, with wide. lonely fields about it,
and as cut off from city life as though
it had been five hundred instead of
five miles from town. The farmhouse
was and is a delightful place irregular,
wandering. AS she remembers it there
was a tangled orchard at the back, a
garden with sun-0ial, a summer
house, a labyrinth of little fiower-beds
with box borders, a privet hedge, a
great walnut tree which, alas came
down in the big wind of February,
1903, that destroyer of the souls and
actual landmarks. There were many
squat and gnarled apple trees en-
croaching on the flower garden, plums
by the southern wall, a row OF holly
hooks, many clumps of laurestlnas
and portugal laurels. Outside there
was n duck pond, which she always
thought to be the pond of Hans Ander-
sens Ugly Duckling, where the sports
mems shots came to put an END 10 the
foolish chatter of the wild geese. There
was an island in the midst with a wa
which one descended by three green
and Shiny steps, from which one
brought up in ones pitcher a shining
ninnow or two All the fields were
clear streams from the mountain side
ran over golden sands, singing all day
Wonderful things those fields , nag,
blackberries, mushrooms, brilliant little
crab-apples, the red fruit of the
quicken sloes, what-not.
What part luck" plays in the world
and its affairs is one of the underlying
tenets which has much to do with the
central theme of "A Failure" Charles
BIoomingdale, jr.,s novel, published by
J. B. Lippincott company rms IS
illustrated in the following converse
ton which takes place between Dun
wolde," a senior at college, and John
Franklin" the hero of the book:
"Dunwolde filled his pipe ana puIle S
meditatively before he answered
Then he said: I don't care what it is
cal1ed=F'ate, Chance, Luck, Kismet-
call it anything you want, there's an
element of chance that has to do with
a mans success. You know. and
know, a score of men of brainy at
tainment, good hard working fellows,
who make but pittance when COM
pared with the wad rolled up by an
illiterate contractor who can hardly
sign his name. And the careless,
slip-shod fellow who goes on his
whistling way and doesn't care if
goes round on its axis once in twenty
four hours or once in forty eight
those fellows get along and make their
piles of money. You can put it down
as an axiom that success in life is
nine-tenths luck and the other tenth
ability You're talking like a fresh
man, not like a senior. said John.
You're too radical, Arthur Lots of
fellows hit the bulls eye-lots don't.
And when they don't hit it's their own
fault. Their mental eyesight, or their
business eyesight. or their hustling
eyeSight. is at fault-perhaps all three
All of US get a chance to shoot once or
twice in our lives-and it's a case of
miss and OUT largely-just as it is
in any other tournament .
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