Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-09
ANSWERS BY MARK TWAIN.
He Gives Characteristic Replies to Questions for Mental Album.


 He Gives Characteristic Replies to
 Questions for Mental Album.
 have received from the publishers, Leyboldt X Holt. New York, a neatly printed page of questions with blanks for answers, and I am requested to i'll those blanks. These questions are so arranged as to ferret out the most se- cret points of mans nature without hls ever noticing what the idea is un- til the thing Is done and his "charac- ter" gone forever. A number of these sheets are bound together and called q Mental Photograph Album. Nothing could induce me to fill those blanks but the asseveration of these gentlemen that 1t will benefit my race by enabling young people to see what l am. and giving them an opportunity to become like somebody else This candor over comes my scruples. I have but little character, but what I have am will ing to part with it for the public good. I would have been a better man if had had chance. but things have all ways been against me. l never had any parently. hardly-only just fath- CT and mother-and so l have had to struggle along the best way I could. I do not boast of this character fur ther than I built it up myself at odd hours during the last thirty years, and without other educational aid than l was able to pick ID in the ordinary schools and colleges. l have filled the blanks as follows:
 WHAT IS YOUR FAyORlTE: Color?-Anything but dun. Flower?-The night-blooming Sir ius.+
 Tree?-Any that bears forbidden fruit.
 Object in natnre:-A dumb belle. Hour ill the day 1.-The leisure hour.
 Seascn of the Year:-The lecture season.
 Perfume?-Cent per cent. Gem?-Tbe jack of diamonds when 1 it is trump. Style of Beauty?-The Subscribers.
 Names, Male and Female:-M'aimez 1 CIaimie,. for female and Tacus and J Marius for males.
 Painters:--Sign painters. Musicians:-Harper X Brothers. . Piece of Sculpture:-The Greek | slave with his hOd. 1 .Poet!-Robert Browning. when he has lucid interval.
 POetess ?-Timothy Titcomb.
 Prose Author:-Nonh Webster, IL D.
 I Characters in Romancc:- Byron family.
 !! In History:-Jack. the giant killer Book to take up for an honr?-Nan derbilt's pocketboOk. I What book mot religious, would yol part with last:-The one l might hap pen to he reading on railroad during the disaster season.
 What Epoch would you choose f' , have lived in?-Beforc the present Erie-lt was safer.
 Where would you like to live:-II the moon. because there is no watel I there.
 ! FnvOrite nt?--TIunting tn, tiger" or some kindred game. FavOrite occupation? ?--"Like dew oi the gOwan-lying."
 What trait of character do you mos admire in man:-The noblest form Q cannIbalisn,-love for his fellowman
 What trait do you most detest il each?-That trait which you pu "or" to. to describe it's possessor.
 If not yourself. who, you'd ooyo rather be:-The Wandering Jew wit nice annuity.
 What Is your idea of happiness!- Finding the buttons all on.
 Your idea of misery ?-Breaking al egg in your pocket.
 What is your bcte nOir?-(What i my which!,
 What is your dream!-Nightmare as a general thing.
 What do you most dread!-Expos ure.
 What do you believe to be your dis tinguishiDg characteristic c?-Hunger What is the sublimcst passion O which human nature is capable:- Loving your sweetheart's enemies. What are the sweetest words in in world:-"Not guilty" What are the saddest:-"Dust unt dust
 What is your aim in life!-To et deavor to be absent when my tim
 comes.
 What Is your motto?-Be virtuou l and you will he eccentric. But. testing aside. the Mental Ph'
 tograph Album is a novel and ingen
 ous idea. If one will take the troubl to write answers to these questions seriously and conscientiously. he wi
 discover. when he has done. that h
 has made record whereby strange } may gather a pretty fair estimate his real nature and the peculiar ben , of his character X we'll filled albur | of this kind ought to make an entel taining book to take up for an hour. MARK TWAIN.
 q grant you this is little obscur'
 hut in explaining to the unforiunai
 that Sirius is the doC-star and bloom
 only af night. l am afforded an oI 1. poriunitv to air my crrdition. nt F only lately acquired.