The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26

of days and quits looking. The same
vast circle Of heaving humps is spread
around you all the time, with you in
the center Of it and never gaining an
inch on the horizon, so far as you can.
see; for variety, a flight of flying fish
mornings, a flock of porpoises throwing
summersaults afternoons, a remote
whale spouting Sundays, occasional
phosphorescent effects nights, every
other day streak Of black smoke trail
ing along under the horizon; on the
single red-letter day, the illustrious ice
berg. have seen that iceberg thirty
four times in thirty-seven voyages; it
is always the same shape, it is always
the same size, it always throws up the
same old flash when the sun strikes it;
you may set it on any New York door
step Of June morning and light it up
with a mirror flash and ] will engage
to recognize it. It is artificial. and. is
provided and anchored out by the
steamer companies. l used to like the
sea, but I was young then, and could
easily. get excited over any kind Of
monotony, and, keep it up till the
lnonotonies ran out, if it was a fort
night.
The Summer Home. "
"Last January, when we were be-
ginning to inquire about home for
this summer, I remembered that Abbott
Thayer had said, three years before,
that the New Hampshire highlands was
a good place. He was right-it is a
good place. Any place that is good for
an artist in paint is good for an artist
/ in morals and ink. Brush is here, too;
/ so is Colonel 7. W. Higginson; SOC is
! Raphael Pompelly; so is MI. Secretary
Hitchcock; so is Henderson; so is
Learned; SO is Sumner; so is Franklin
MacVea gh; so is Joseph L. Smith; SO is
/ Henry Copley Greene, when l am not
!. Occupying his house, which / am doing
/ this season. Paint, literature, science,
craftsmanship, history, professorship,
law, morals-these are all represented
here, yet crime is substantially un-
known.
F. ''The summer homes are high
perched, as rule, and have contenting
outlooks. The house we occupy has one
Monadnock, a soaring double hump
rises into the sky at it's left elbow
that is to say, it is close at hand. From
the base of the long slant of the noun
tain the valley spreads away to the cir
cling frame of hills and beyond the
frame the billowy swep Of remote great
i ranges rise to view and flow, fold upor
fold, wave upon wave, sofe and blue
and unworldly, to the horizon fifty
miles awaWE ! Gs3s*ss *zS -
f Thirty-Five Days Work: ok.
/ cit is claimed that the atmosphere
! of the New Hampshire highlands is ex
I: EXCEPTIONALLY bracing and stimulating, ant
4 fine aid to hard and continuous work
! 1t is lust claim, / think. [ came ii
May, and wrought thirty-fve successive
days without a break. 1t is possible
+ that I could not have done it elsewhere
III do not know; I have not had any dis
position to try it before. 1 think [ go
Z. the disposition out Of the atmosphere
i this time. I feel quite sure, in fac
\ that that is where it came from.
4 ''I am ashamed to confess what al
intolerable pile Of manuscript I grount
out in the thirty five days, therefore
; will keep the number of words to my
E self. I wrote the first half of a long
i tale-tThe Adventures of a Microbe =
4 and put it away. for finish next sum
mer, and started another long tale
=, 'The Mysterious Stranger;' [ wrote th
first half of it and put it with the othe
for a finish next summer. I stopped
}, then. I was not tired, but had NJ
books on hand that needed fnishin,
; this year except one that was sever
? years old. After little took that on
up and finished it. Not for publication
: but to have it ready for revision mex
: summer.
"Since 7 stopped work 7 have ha'
} two months holiday. The summe