Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-25
HOW GEO. ADE CAME
 TO WRITE IN SLAN'.


 cago paper, on which he made ms reputation daily column of matter called stories of the Street and oi tbe Town One day he was hard put i to it for copy, and to take the Piace of the usual string of sketches ne wrote an account of q church soclal which he had heard from the lips of a tough and slangy youth, who had been held up for tickets by q member of his family. Mir Ade gave the name of "Artie" to the young man.
 The sketch was written with no l thought of fame ahead, but merely to fill d column. Nevertheless, the comments on Artie were so favorable withaI that "Artie& appeared again tie following week, this time slanglly giving an intimate picture of poker game. Thereafter. the demand Tor "Artie" was so pronounced that he made weekly appearances.
 These "Artie" stories constituted Mr. Ades first book, being published between covers i'll 1S96. Six years later hundred thousand copies or the book had been sold
 Mr. Ades second book was Doe Horne" and two years after "Arties he produced the Pink Marsh papers, both selling away up in the thousands and adding greatly to his reputation gained by cultivating "Artie,
 It was in 1899, while considering with his publishers a book to be ls- sued for the Christmas season, that Mr. Ade said, after stating his opln- ion that the American public took kindly to the humor of the up-to-date slang in it's most aggravated form:
 My notion is to run the slang of Clark street (Chicago) into the pom derous and archaic mold of fable. That ought to give contrast that will jar them.
 And SO was born the far famed Fables in Slang g''-so famed in fact as almost. but not quite. to make the public forget "Artie.
 More Fables" followed. Then came The Girl Proposition. and laughter rdlloe vbgT pvyl.".. vbgkqJ laughter rolled up from every corner of the states. In quick succession ap- peared the books People You Know - "Rreaking Into Society" and True Bills" MT. Ades most recent book is "In Pastures New" i'll which the au- thor goes abroad in company of the inimitable MT. Peasley of Des Moines. It was Peasley, who. going to Brus- sells, got off at Antwerp and didn't dis cover the difference until he had gone sightseeing all over the town with a guide book and man of the for- mer city. admiring everything and identifying everything in due or der
 Mr Ade's entry of the dramatic field was quite as accidental or uninten- tional as his pre--emption of the feld of slang \ young friend, composer, asked him to write the words of a song. Before Mr. Ade was aware of it. the song had developed into the li- breto of a musical satire intended for amateur publication. Henry Savage baor1 of tho niacp af oncp Spcnrad if and so the world of fun became ac- quainted with the joys and woes of the Sultan of Sulu. This was in 1902 Peggy From Paris followed the next year, and in that year also was pro- duced the County Chairman. Two years ago came the "Sho-gun and the "College Widow.
 Mr. Ade's first literary effort was made when he was 12 years old, II was called "A Basket of Potatoes. Od- dly enough il was in form of a fa- ble, and il saw the light Of day in the Gazette" of Kentland. Indiana where Ni Ade wa sborn.
 " nl4E dl Fuiuue NlAtlSllA. Where he graduated in 1SS7. Mr, Ade wrote for the university publications and WIS university correspondent for sey- ral eiiy papers. After leaving col l.-a fe worked on two newspapers in f.ataNette, the university roWn In l1i0- ot l>9o, he went 10 Chicago and 4o5 a job as reporter on Chicago aap4e at >l0 a week.
 Less than ten wears later he was 2atheriu2 in the dollars by the thou sands.
 Nah i portion of the money that Aae poured in on him ;ss a resul5 of Ys,,.ns slang to suit the popular fancy Mr Ade has purchased an eN- .et.>tNe farm near Brooks. ind Here 4e spends a good pag; os his time. Aal though he deu9hts to loaf on the ';9ttu. still he sees TO it that il brings .,,n il \ Der cent on the money in vested Ia c3lfS his .tnl.taS-Sanl4 qOQ