The Penn's Grove record., 1908-07-10

beverages except for herself. Each
member of the household orders ap-
propriate dishes demanded by the
morning appetite. Guests do the
same.
MI. Bryan seldom takes a walk
around the estate before breakfast.
A cold bath is INDUCED in as soon as
he rises. Then he hastily prepares
his toilet and descends to the base
ment dining room for a hearty break
fast of eggs, usually scrambled, beef
steak or broiled chicken, hot corn
cakes and milk fresh from his own
dairy. After this he plunges into the
work of the day. He receives his
mail by rural free delivery. He goes
over the first batch before Mrs. Bryan
has put her household affairs in shape
to join him in his workroom. Then
he begins debating to her. Mr.. Bryan
is a rapid talker, but his wife, al
though knowing one of the estab-
lished st%enographic systems, is able
to keep pace with his dictation. She
uses a method of authorizations of her
own continuance. He also dictates to
her most of his editorials for The
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the political situation in detail almost
she has been. travelling with him,
meeting the men who confer with him
and taking part in the discussions.
She now has a most capable private
secretary and handles a heavier cor
r%espondence than Mr.. Bryan. She re-
ceives herself a great many letters
and all get answers. She also an
swers a great many letters of her
husbands. He indicates the answers
and she dictates the replies.
His editorials in The Commoner
and much of his other literary work
is dictated to her, and she writes on
the typewriter instead of taking notes.
She is a capable and experienced
writer, and those who are familiar
with this class of work can under
stand the advantage of having an
amanuensis who is always ready with
a word, a phrase or an idea. In this
respect the two are in perfect sympa-
thy and together perform an incred-
ible amount of work without apparent
fatigue. They intersperse this with
attention to visitors and other mat
ters.
Two interesting personages of the
Bryan household are the grandchil-
dren, Ruth and Bryan Leavitt, aged
four and three. They are the chill
dren of Homer and Ruth Bryan
Leavitt.
Mr.. Bryan has no Office in the shop
in Lincoln where The Commoner is
published, but occasionally he drops
In f0 500 hnw fha oDo l.. o1+4;zo
along. This is a typical country news
paper office. 1t smells of benzine and
printers ink. Old piles of exchanges
are In the corner, and the man who
gets a chair with a whole bottom in it
is fortunate. Cartoons and prints
decorate the walls, and scraps of re-
print are pasted here and there. The
flies feed on the -four paste and the
inkwells clog up with ants. The
smoking pipes of the printers are
older than the town and stronger than
the uplift movement in the office of a
reform magazine.
1t is interesting to Eote that this
is the headquarters of the whole
Bryan movement. There are no
smart head clerks and liveried mes
senger boys.
1t is said that The Commoner pays
its editor about 5000 a month and
others "get a good living" 1t is a
fairly prosperous property, but no
strain is made to pile up big profits.
That is Immediately plain to any
experienced newspaper man who
watches the way of doing things. Mr..
Bryan is apparently content to have
it disseminate his doctrines, to pay
its own way and support it's workers.
and give fair returns.