The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-13

DeloW nlTn the cOnllnued groWlS or the
| thus far, he would refuse to proceed
| further unless the price paid in cur
| rent tartlets of the schoolboy realm
| was doubled.
Daughters of Desperation" Hide
gard Brooks amusing satirical story
OF amateur anarchy, seems TO be just
ness to TX the public fancy. It has
jumped into immediate popularity.
The author is totally unaware of its
success. Early in the year Miss
in North Africa. out of the reach of
| any news and far away from tele-
| graphs, telephones and postohices.
Tom Mason, author of I'm Merry
Measure" was born in Essex, Conn.,.
IN 1866. His father was one or the
best known old time sea captains in
the United States, and Mr. Mason
went to sea when he was nine months
old He has been the managing and
literary editor of Life for the past ten
years. Mr. Mason is a resident of
remarked, Consists of three children,
three dogs. three servants. and only
one wife,
James B. Darlington writes in the
Lamp of "A Visit to StevenSon'S Sill
verado" in a way that is a pleasant
blend of the first-class journalist and
the discriminating literary critic. The
article is excellently illustrated. There
is also a clever article by Brander Mat
thews, Seed Corn for Stories" in which
he advocates working up the material
which other writers have suggested, cit
ing Poe, Aldrich, Hawthorne, and
Howells as particularly rich in the ideas
that they have failed to use them
selves, though limiting at them in their
books.
People who have read Mrs. George
Madden Martins Emmy Lou will re-
member, with mingled tears and smiles,
the pathetic chapter in which Emmy
Lou is locked up in a school room and
left there nearly the whole night. Real
life has reproduced almost the same in
cident. A little tot in a New York
east side school was left behind by her
schoolmateS after the afternoon session,
was locked in by the janitor, was be-
moaned as lost by her parents, until at
length detectives were sent in search
of her and found her at last asleep in
teachers chair. her little cheeks all
stained with tears.
The press has been full recently of
the peculiar psychological experience of
Rider Haggard, the author of ''She,"
ALLAN Quartermain,' etc. The story
is that Mr.. Haggard had an intense and
vivid dream, in which he saw his IA
train. A few days after the novelist
discovered that the dog had died under |
conditions practically the same as those |
he witnessed in his dream. The Incl |
dent seems almost to establish the fact |
of telepathic communication between
an animal and a man.
Another peculiar fact in connection |
with this story is that Mr.. Haggard's /
last book, .sThe Brethren" is founded |
upon a mysterious revelation, which /
comes to one of the leading characters
in a dream 1.-The Brethren. will be
published in America this fall by Nc
clure- Phillips.
Both Will Irwin and Gelett Burgess,
authors of THE Reign of Queen Isyl"
Ind "The Piearoons." have left their
native California and taken up resi- /
ience in the east Unlkind critics have
)een rash enough to say that in writing
heir books of San Francisco life these
wo young authors have drawn too |,
loosely to the living model for their
'wn comfort at home. That is, of
curse, a malicious misStatement, but l.
n great many cases there were orig
nails suggesting the characters that i
Burgess and Irwin wove into their +
tories. The social dictator in 1.-THE
Reign of Queen Isyr' and the political
loss DESTROYS of social position were
lot entirely fictitious. Many of the ,
haracters in 1.-The Picaroons' were
aiken directly from life. The tale of ;
Big Becky is. in reality, about one big
BERTHA" 4 notorious adventures, whose
ife story would be known to any San !
franciscan. The Minor Celebrity was !
weII-known character VINO cut a big
wath in San Francisco life, and man
ged at one time to take advantage of
frs. Robert Louis SteVenson's devotion
nd generosity.
No feminine interest has been neglect
d in the September Designer. There is
charming love story, 1.-The Governors ,
Cup d'Etat," for the romantic; 1.-TWO
Iirl Camera Gunners on Cape Cod" for
ne nature lover; a shadow panto- 4.
lime. '.Arlette and Orabelle,'' for
he amateur actor, and "Hardanger
Bermuda Fagoting,"
Pretty Things for the Lace Maker"
nd Modern Use for Old-Time Stitch
are THE Evolution of Green
[elp into Competent Servants and |
When the School Bell Rings the lat
ar illustrating and describing comfort
Bile and stylish garments for the
and girl. Autumn fashions
re given in this issue in abundance,
nd the millinery designs are chosen
18th especial reference to the season.
aistcoat is lucidly described in
Points on Dressmaking," thorough
up-to-date department in The De-
gner which keeps its readers in touch
18th all the latest sartOrial wrinkles.
hose in search of novelties in the en-
.rtainment line will appreciate Rosalie
suggestions for "A Radfum
arty," and Canning and Preserving
Y Mary Taylor-RoSs, will assist the
chef in preparing sweets for
inter use. Toilet Table Chat" and
Hints are two other depart
ents in The Designer which are of I'M
sual interest this month.
On one of Mark Twain's later trips
own the Mississippi, he made the jour
ey incognito in order to gather mater
i for stories about Mississippi pilots, -
Id the following story was told, by a 81
an who knew him well. of the way it
vain was discovered; 1.-THE steamer If
as hardly under way when, through h
lie automatic action of the brain, the
lthor instinctively wandered to the "
lot house, and essayed the role of theI
'eenhorn- The pilot loaded him with y,