Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-30
BOOKS and AUTHORS
A Long Story.


3as anter grave. a chapter gay;
."yes through scenes of shine ana
: chilling grief or laughter warm t,oso
s.ht brings pause. The pages ciose'
Expectancy yields to repose,
Aphrase familiar halts the TEXT
~ he continued in our next
endless chronicle and strange.
h follows the mysterious change
passing time and knows that ne
figure in the plot must De.
tnd as the swift years SIP away
araething within him seems to say
This tale so varied and perpleXed
Er;i he continued in our next.
Washington Star.
"you can't think what / have been
L,o;rc ,b;s afternoon" said Mrs. Kate
no,,,las wiegfn to an interviewer who
r,shed news of her forthcoming play.
Ipebecca of Sunnybrook Farm y
have been buying a stage coach for
pebecca's entrance in the first act! 1t
4, the oueifltest, most beautiful old eX-
|smrle Of the thoroughbrace Concord
|tage coach that ever was seem a
|,eighbor of mine, Mr.. Hargraves o.
|Nest Buxton, has been helping me to
sour York County, and we have been
|reatly aided by an old stagedriver
Friend who remembered ,oach extli-
Ihted in the County Fairs Of twenty
Irears ago. After finding it in an ola
harm near Prout's Neck. and alter
Earning that it could be bought, L
simjdly approached Klaw & Granger
Injecting a courteous refusal. usH'
ksery argument possible in MY letter
request. for an old-fashioned stage
bach of this kind is no Inexpensive
life. i really expected them to an
wer: Dear Madam. We are in rec. iDt
y vour esteemed favor of the list Sep
ember and would say that We think
he distant rumble o a stage in the
Kings will do very well for your play.
HE approach of 4 vehicle can be east
! initiated and Rebecca can enter the
: nick house gate inexpe nsively on her
I'm feet Judge Of my surprise when
Naw e Erlanger telegraphed: Most
krtainly buy the stage at any reason
bile figure, and send to the New AM
kerdam Theatre, New York" Now this
Dnesucfi gem of d coach, all dark red
nd bronze, with gaily painted wheels.
normous brake. hurricane deck, anG
uggage rack, will roll up to the brick
Ouse and Rebecca's face will peep
kom between the quaint silk-fringed
urtains," Mrs. Virgins latest story
Susanna and Sue" which has been
INNING serially in one of the popular
hagaZines, will be published in book
orm by Houghton, Mifflin Co. on Oc-
pber q. a scenic artist has been stay
hg at "Guillcote," Mrs. Virgins sum-
her home in Hollis. Maine, making
ketchns for the production. Every eff
brit is being made to secure exact local
olor and perfection of detail, for Mrs
Virgins ambition is to have a state o
daine play that shall be true to the
pill. Mrs. Wiggin has just returned to
few York to assist with her collabora
pr, Miss Charlotte Thompson, at the
ehearsals of the play
pnfessions of a Successful Teacher.
fChe fable of the teacher was writer
ing ago. There was a man, you re-
r-hlllsz. VI LII Ills sSlul, lfdu lIle
ask of urging on a loaded donkey. He
Pied to please everyone, tried carry
hg the donkey's load. tried making the
|onkey carry him. tried carrying the
Donkey. You will recall what hap
)ened to him. or possibly the public Is
more interested in the fate of the don
Key. For they are little donkeys' these
upils of ours. You may attempt to
sguise the fact by calling them little
aerubs and angels. but the teacher
yes The ears pceping up through the
ao. And the task of donkey-leadins,
nde:' the observation and advice OF
hers, should not be the sole work of
strong man: therefore. very properly
the scheme of the universe, it isn't.
for the women who are forced to-
ontlnue such tasks. who hate them,
nd are ashamed of them, you may
pity them, which is one of the reasons
Or their shame-but We can tell you.
e who know, that the children mos
Ned your pity" November Worlc
York.
those who were in Picking during