Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-27
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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I was bern when my mother was dle aged man. had done something in a literary way, and was turned over to him by my mothers mother to be looked ovcr He took me to his study and sat down with me. first sharpen ing his pencil with which to cut me in pieces, for l heard him say that my mother knew nothing about writing and lle supposed ''the thing was full of rhetorical blunders." When he be- gan to read me he wore a bored look. but he had read but one paragraph before his expression changed. As he read on he forgot who had written me. and when he had finished he ex- claimed:
 By thunder!'
 Then he called my mother and her mother into his study and asked my mother:
 "Where did you learn to write Eng fish correctly:"
 At school"
 "School be hanged! There's some
  at all. It was born in you. Send your story out just as it is. If it is appre- ciated it will be accepted. but l don't believe it will be. It will come back to you and keep coming back"
 They took me away, and the mother said to the daughter: Your uncle is sore because all his own manuscripts come back to him. Don't you believe him, my dear. Your story will be ac- cepted. and you will get good price for it.
 The next day l was sent to the Globe Publishing company. l was turned over to a young fellow they called weeder. He looked over the manu- scripts which came in the mornings mail and out of the lot picked one. heard hi.l mention the authors name. l had heard it Often before The rest of Us were put, in envelopes with printed slips with the editors name to them. saying a few very nice things and thanking our parents for sending us in Then We were put away for awhile and when il was convenient were sent back to where we came from.
 When my poor litt,e mother saw by the bulk of the package tha, had been returned to her the tears started in her eyes Her uncle sai,. "l told yon so don't believe they read a line of it. However, l knoW Simpson X Co. They've turned down q lot of my work, bat perhaps they'll read this if 1 make a pelsonal request Let me have it tomorrow
 The next day he took ne to Simpson x Co. and had Il luls:, IllN about me with the editor. who W's very polite and promised to give ml hs especial attention. After my mnthers uncle had gone away the editor tossed nl,. to weary looking man sitting at d desk covered with manuscripts and said:
 Read that"
 It was two weeks before the tired looking man took me up in my turn then ran over twenty pages Of me in as many seconds and wrote on my wrapper Declined" And so l was sent back again to my mother who had hoped that her uncle's personal CT fort would insure success She WaS nearly as much disappointed as at first
 And so l continued to go from one publishing house to another without acceptance. Finally I attracted the at tention of an intellectual looking edi tor, who wrote this criticism:
 If We were looking for literature 1 would recommend the publication of this book. But as We are looking for 'best sellers l would decline it.
 However my mother got nothing but the printed slip when l was re- turned, though it was couched in just as polite terms as the first
 Meanwhile publisher told my moth CT that she would better write some thing "startling'-a trite erotic he said. So innocent was she that she thought he said cratic She went to work and turned out my brother Poor boy. He was deformed in frame and intellect from birth Mother was very much ashamed of him and wouldn't acknowledge him by publish ing him under her own name. But he was published uner d nom de plume and proved a second best seller.
 My mother continued to give he all her affection notN Nithstanding the fact that my brother made so much money for her. She was now deluged with requests for something from her gift cd pen" She sent me out once more and l was acce. ed at once, but she refused to permit my publication un- der the name which had been append ed to my crazy brother The publish CTS would not issue me unless she con sented to this. They offered her a large sum with l,lat name to me, but she was obdurate and so was obliged to remain in obs ality.
 Mother would "ite nothing more, and at last. poi naking any money, which she l.H,tct 1e wrote the pub