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comment upon that cute little Wedge-in
of yours with reference to the lemon
meringue pie. That was characteristic
catty touch. You've got the idea of
course. that you stick these little things
and get them over without their being
noticed. but the ostrich that buries his
bean In the sand thinks that he ism t
noticed. either. So the lemon meringue
pie that Isabel was making at the time
she permitted the meat to burn to the
waters edge-that lemon meringue pie is
just one lovely lemon meringue pie, is ii :?
That's the comedy end of it all right. You
that I'd be SO tickled foolish over hearing
about the lovelfness of the meringue pie
that I'd forget all about the holocaust
of the meat. l guess that hasn't got the
cat-dab sign tackled all over it. Just be-
cause you say that the lemon meringue
pie that caused the catastrophe to this
dnner-just because you are there with
the observation that it's cute little pie,
why, you confidently expect me to rear up
on my hind legs i'm an excess of glee. as
it were. and promptly forget all about
this clinkery mess o meat that you've
planted in front of me, is that it?''
"Oh. / never thought of it i'm that way
said Mrs. Jobson. in her imperturbabIe
way. Il only mentioned the lemon pie
by way of explaining how 1t came about
that Isabel
Look a-here, there's heap too much
drumming on that Isabel chord around
heAN' ohd ~ p0SbhihS ~ S,-t
the collar band" jounced in Mr.. Jobson.
"Isabefs the goat. the Patsie. the She
done-it. for everything that breaks loose
around this drum. Why the dickens can't
You let that woman alone. hey? Why
can't you skate to the center about once
in a billion times. anyhow, and own up to
it that Isabel isn't the cause of everything
that goes wrong in this wickieup?"
''Well. Isabel. you know. lis subject to
periods of forgetfulness, and She
Isabel is nothing Of the sort" re-
bated Mr. Jobson. She's the SWEETEST
dinge we ever had around these works,
and you know il. only you won't nudge
out into the open and acknowledge ii for
fear that you won't have anybody to
saddle things off on if you do. I've been
watching that womans curves around
here for some time, and she's wonder
She's got II forty ways on every boog
maid that We ever had in this shack
punctual. tidy. quiet, helpful, industri-
Gus and all like that She's hit with
me. Haven't seen her make one mistake
yet. I'm not going to sit here and
permit you to knock Isabel. She's all
to the candy with me. and l think
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ing his picture taken. and it's hard to get
him. But when he does face the lens he
falls naturally into the position, doesn't
have TO be directed to smile doesn't
stiffen up like so many Photographic sub
iec.s, and generally knows the game so
we'll that all of his pictures are sue
cessful.
Mr.. Roosevelt was an excessively hard
man to pose for the camera. He was
what we call a rigid subject. 1t was i'm
possible. it seemed for him to fall easily
and naturally into a desired posture He
had to be bent. twisted and generally
forced into the proper position. He I'M
consciously fought the photogra pher. as
we say When in the chair for bust
picture he had a way of thrusting his
chin far forward in a grotesquely agrees
sive way which, in picture. would make
him appear to be saying to the beholder
of the portrait, Say. what's that YOU say?
Say 1t again. l double -dog-dare you TO
say that again.
And he generally had the fidgets when
he faced the camera. 1t appeared to be
positive misery for him to stick to one
position for more than two seconds at a
stretch The very lowcut turned-down
collar that he always wears appeared to
bother him considerably when he was
under the lens, and he had way of in
cessantly grabbing at the front Of the
collar with his right hand as if he wanted
to yank it off and toss 1T away. His hands
appeared to be doing something all the
time anyhow. l never photographed
man who had less natural repoze. I used
to wonder how Mr.. Roosevelt ever slept
al niSht-how he got to sleep. that is
once | photographed him he sat
back in deep chair beside table. 1t
took me a good five minutes to pull and
haul and tug him about in the chair
that he'd look natural and he was so UNI
yielding under this work that it was like
moving a sackful of steel billets. And lie
would persist in sticking his chin for
ward i'm that challenging way. despite
the fact that I yanked his head back
half dozen times.
Mr.. Roosevelt | finally had to say TO
him. I hope ! haven't said done any
thing TO cause YOU to look that way-as
if you had chip on your shoulder and
were waiting for me to knock it off, And
once again / lowered his chin. He
laughed sood-naturedly, and then
sneaked the prongs of the headrest up to
his back hair. although | knew that lie
didn't like headrests.
Now, sir, If you'll just rest your head
against this. I started to say as l es-
saved to fix the prongs of the headrest to
the back of his head, you'll have the
right position and
NO, no. no! rake lHaI lIlnS away.
Take it away by all means, and at oncer
he broke out. soon he caught on To
what l was doing. And he shot his head
forward away from the prongs, and had
to move the headrest completely off the
scene before he was satisfied. I'll hold
my head all right he went on. Go
ahead
HE did pull his chin back a bit then,
but lie Immediately began to beat a tattoo
on the table beside him with his right
Land ! requested him to Delay that
drumming while | focused him. and then
he began to beat the same kind of a
tattoo on the left arm of his chair with
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a report of a subcommittee. which has
just been submitted to the education COM
mittee of the London county council, is
interesting in that it proves that the eIe-
mentary school children of London are
remarkably faithful to their favorite story
books.
The appearance of Bunyan's Bible on
the market recalls other editions of the
Scriptures containing glaring errors in
printing. For instance. the wicked BIZ
BILE is so called from its omission of the
word mot" i'm the seventh commandment
while the "Printers' Bible contains per-
haps the most strangely appropriate mis-
reading of any printers have persc-
cuted me without cause" psalm. cXix),
printers being substituted for princes"
In another edition the statement in Gene
sis that Joseph was ''goodly person
reads Joseph was d jolly fellow
A version published in 1868 is known as
the "Treace' Bible, because ii alters a
we'll known line into rs there no treacle
in Gilead?" Then there is the effected
.Breeches" Bible, so called because it
substitutes "breeches'' for apron in de-
scribng the attire of our first parents.
and the Vinegar" Bible. which relates
the parable of the vinegar" instead of
the vineyard" And as an instance of
the careless repetition of an error there
are several "Bugge" Bibles, thus termed
that thou shall not nede to be afrayed
for any bugges by night" instead of the
terror by night as usually printed.
During the past ten years there has
been an extraordinary increase in the
market value of first editions of Burns.
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n REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES COR
N DON EDWARDS of the first Georgia

Isabel hasn't come YETI roared Mr.
Jobson. mega phonically. What have
been telling you right along about that
Internal lazy hashslinger? Isabels fired;
dye hear that? She's fired. Canned,
Timed You tell Isabel that just the
instant she pops her nose in the door
today-telI her that | said so. Don
waste any words on her, or give her any
explanation whatever. but just tell her
that she's not working here any more,
and if she gives you any slack why tele-
phone for a cop and have her chucked
into the street. No dinge is going to
rub it into me Ike that and get away
with 1t, I'm telling you that. Isabels
fired and fired for good. and I'll drop
by the intelligence Office on my way down
this morning and send you another one
up here"
But Isabels still on the job. and Mr..
Jobson had forgotten by the time he ar
rived home that evening that he'd left
imperative orders for Isabel to he fired. >
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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the Big Divide without ever futtering
back to life long enough to ask for a
cigaroot.
''Show me! y
And all the time. instead of bobbing
around in that foolish little parade on the
way to the jumps. he could be up in a
box in the club stand listening to the
flutes and the fageolets wailing TO the
googoo music and unreeling the winsome
steam into the ear of something winner
looking sitting alongside of him. and with
enough of his pocket change down on
something he'd heard about in the timber
sprint to make him feel like watching 'em
sail over and the infield grass a-waving
in the breeZes. Alcwyn, and a foot-high
beaker of the hissky amber wet after it
was all over and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-03

Say. that nd be me-in the box,
Because, DO, as long as I've got two
plaster shinpiaster in the kick in sight
I'm going TO be as busy ducking trouble
as one-armed bill poster with the hives.
And a-riding horseback over heaped-up
brush and puddles and things is trouble
all the way from Little Necks to coffee.
or l don't know the difference between a
saddle cloth and slate pencil.
Yep. whenever / see these Mister boys
with bank wads that eight Eskimo dogs
couldn't pull on a sledge-when l see
'em bouncing along over the stills in
these chasing evcnts-I wonder what 1t
I'D look like to see the president of one
of those 18th street banks working ON the
Potomac flats for sl.25 a day.
And it's just about the same, when
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his left hand. He smiled very broadly
when I requested him to discontinue that.
and by this time he was huddled all in a
bunch in the chair again, and once more
l had to take. care of him and unravel
some of the knots of his rigid position
Finally / got the snap at him. but the pic
ture wasn't satisfactory TO me. although
he appeared to like if. He was pro-
foundry bored by the time l got through
hauling him around in the chair. and
when Mr.. Roosevelt is bored his EXPIRES
sion is sort of sardonic- That's what
allied that picture from my point of view.
In that picture his lips sort Of curve away
from his teeth and there is almost a
contemptuous expression in his eyes.
His expression in that picture seems to
say. Great Godfrey. but | wish this in
fernal fool of n photographer would hurry
up this business and let me get out of
here.
And. as a matter of fact. Mr.. Roosevelt
always was in a terrific hurry to get out
think Mr. Roosevelt. while President
liked to be photographed. He liked. at
any rate. to see the finished pictures. He
always wanted proofs Of all the plates.
and he generally ended by ordering copies
struck from all of the different mega
tives.
During the last couple of years of his
incumbency he didn't much care to be
photographed full length or tllree-auar-
tiers. for heesrew undeniably stout i'm spite
Ting and so on. About eighteen months
ago. maybe you'll recall. he took off about
fifteen pounds 10y dint of immense effort
and dieting. When l photographed him
the next time l noticed his decreased
girth.
You don't want to get too thin, Mr..
President l said to him. Folks won't
recognize your pictures if you do He
seemed immensely pleased at that. Il am
pretty well down, don't you think? he
asked me, and he patted his white waist
coat with manifest delight. But it's
tight-it's fight and his teeth suddenly
came together with click.
Once | asked Mr.. Roosevelt To permit
me 10 photograph him without his eye
glasses, just sort of novelty, but
he wouldn't consent To this. The eye
glasses are just as much d part of me
as my ears. he told ME. and | have
bad staring look without them. | look
like somebody seeing Il ghost.
He wouldn't brush down his hair.
either. if it happened to be tousled when
he removed his hat upon entering
studio. L don't like sleek hair he told
me once, when l handed him a brush be
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once the border of a government reser-
walton. And Mr.. Burleson got it cheap.
So far, so good. Mr.. Burleson thought
the fence would look fine when 1t was
painted and fixed up and was tickled to
death with his bargain. But it is diner
ent now. Just day so ago he re-
ceived copies of all the Texas papers and
in most of them. featured the leading
editorial, was the story of how he had
secured the fence from the government
free of charge, was having 1t painted and
fixed up and would then ship 1t to his
home town TO inclose the principal park
In that metropolis of erudition.
Dr.. Burleson Immediately went cunning
for the man who had started that fence
story and finally he found him.
Look here he growled you GER
tainly did get me in bad. Can't I buy a
fence without having some blamed busy
it? / didn't buy the blamed fence to put
I bought it to fence in the yard around
my own home. Now, with every paper
in my district thanking me for my pub
lie spirit and interest in the district, my
town and my constituents. as shown by
my work in getting this fence from the
government. free-free, mind you-it Will
look grand when I put it around my own
ward, won't it? I guess I'll stand well
down there. won't /? G'wan. you make
me fired
And Mr.. Burleson. having shipped the
fence for which he paid real money, down
to Texas. is wondering what he is gong
To do with II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-03

HE Swampoodle
tiink was speaking
of the gentleman
steeplechase riders
Of Washington who
are going to "ac-
cept mounts" rs
the saying runs for
gent riders, at the
forthcoming Pimli-
CO meeting.
THE thing is,
said the Swami
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r. TAFT is going
to prove. ! think
the easiest poser
f o r photographs
of all the Presi-
dents I've pointed
the camera at. ana
I've had the lens
OF quite a numoer
of them said a
local photographer
He isn't particu-
larly fond of haV-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-03

HE Jobson maid-of-
all-work permitted
the water to get
low under the pot
roast in prepara-
ton for the Jobson
dinner the other
evening. Mr.. Job
sons eyes sparkled
W j t h d elig h t,
though he scowled
heavily when. in
taking his first bite
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of anything with which to fill Il. Mr..
Brownlow-Walter Brownlow of Tennes-
see-is in this class. Every time l can
not think of anybody else to write about
| fall back the Hon. Walter, and
bunch OF other newspaper men do the
same. 1t is only necessary to go to Mr.
Brownlow and fall on his neck with the
demand for news. You will get it, If
he hasn't got any at the moment in stock.
he Will manufacturer on the spot having
an imagination that outclasses the MEM
DRY of Edgar Allen Poe's attachments In
that line. However. this is by way of ex-
PLANTATION. not excuse. and as a sugges
ton that Mr.. Brownlow does not get any
lower advertising rates in this column
than any one else. even in consideration
of his long term contract.
The other day Mr.. Brownlow who has
the same sort of affection for Theodore
Roosevelt that is cherished by +. Fl.
Hartman and other notables. went to the
White House TO call on President Taft.
1t was SO long since he had been there
that ne had some difficulty in finding his
way around. but finally landed at the
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LONDON. March &c 1909
- ONE of the London publications are
discussing the question of whether
or not the success of a novelist is
- almost invariably followed by an
immediate loss of vitality in his
work The Book Monthly started the
ball rolling by declaring that such was
undoubtedly the fact. 1t is generally
agreed that this is true so far as the or
binary run of writer's is concerned and it
is pointed out that this is. probably not
always due to the fact that the authors
are in hurry to get rich while their sue
cess is still green In the public mind.
Many men. if they possess the technical
skill, are capable of producing one good
book founded upon their own experience
of4life. The man who can still go on
making characters live after he has eX-
hausted his own experiences Is a great
creative artist And 1t is pointed out that
the statement of the Book Monthly GER
tainly does not hold good against the i'm
mortals. David Copperfied'' is better
than "Pickwick"; Adam Bede'' is supe-
rior to Scenes of Clerical Life: and
''The Newcomers shows no falling off in
the powers OF the writer OF Vanity
Fair
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Mr.. Harrison didn't care for photog-
raphers. either. He said to me once that
he considered il foolish for "A man to
have his picture taken after he'd reached
the age of forty. We had to set all man
ner of traps TO get him al ALL and he
was the least photographed of all the
Presidents of my period as a Washington
photographer. He was keenly sensitive
as to his lack of stature. lie had a long
body and very short legs. and once when
i posed him in a chair for bust picture
the chair was so high for him-though
just right for a man of average stature
that his feet didn't touch the floor No
ticing this. / put hassock under his
feet. He must have been inWardly FUN
ing over the fact that his feet didn't
touch the floor. for when ] placed the
footstool for them he kicked il away with
some sort of mumbling, the essence OF
which | didn't catch.
THE negatives that | got of him al that
sitting We're mighty scowling ones. lie
was sensitive. too. about his somewhat
upturned nose. He knew just the position
of his head in which the nose showed OF
best and it was all but impossible to
get him to give any other view of his
face. If the photographer would pull
his head around TO get another view Mr..
Harrison would promptly pull ii back
again to give what he considered the least
trying view of his nose. and there was
often no other way for il except for the
Photographic to give his camera big
yank to one side the other for the
purpose of getting the view desired.
Mr. Arthur. being the grandee in all
his movements, was perfect photo
graphic subject. albeit his poses inclined
somewhat to the theatrical and had. in
consequence, TO be modified by the opera
tor. AIr Hayes, though affabe enough.
was veritable ramrod for stiffness when
he found himself in front OF camera
and he had to be unbent and made photo-
graphically malleable BY main strength"
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NOTHING pore farcical can be imagin-
IN ed than this continuing debate" on
the Payne tariff bill There hasn't been
a quorum in the House at any time since
general speechmaking was begun, with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-03
T is very convenient

7 is very convenient
to have some reli-
able card, some
regular contributor
on whom to depend
when there is q
certain amount Of
space to be filled
each week and
oftentinles - partic-
u,arly during the
o pc n legislative
season-not much
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fore starting TO pose him. and tie best
that he would do would he 10 nervousy
smooth down his hair with his hands.
MIR. Mckinley was singuiarly easy
man to pose for the camera-patiens, plas-
tic. submissive to the operators requests
and possessed of a certain natural grace
that made him valued photographs
subject He too toward the latter years
of his life. grew to dislike any but bust
photographs of himself for his tendency
to stoUtness was ever increasing. No
photograph ever quite did Mr.. Mckinley
justice. All i'm all. he had quite the most
remarkable pair of eyes that ever [ saw
in a mans head. They were literally
a mellow as the eyes of an antelope
brooding. darkly luminous suffused with
pity. and yet they were strong and wholly
masculine eyes, too. II was hard for "A.
photographer to catch him without an
expression of almost ineradicable melan-
choly i'm his face. His smiles were rare
and fine. but they passed very quickly.
lie was often compared with Napoleon
for facial resemblance. His face was
much finer than Napoleons. Ii was
strong. but lacked the hardness of the
Corsican's. For handsome man, with
really noble head Mr.. Mckinley was
the least vain parsonage that / ever level
ed lens at.
Mr.. Cleveland had such an aversion
to the camera that ii almost took wild
horses to get him In front OF one while
he was President. Then he'd usually pose
in disturbed sort of state OF mind.
for he no doubt regarded photographers
as very great nuisances. Had II not
been for his admirable wife we might
never have got him at all. for she al
ways assisted us in our efforts to get
sittings from him. The curious rugged
honesty, not to say the stubbornness. OF
the man was shown by the fact that he
despised photograph of himself the
negative of which had been retouched.
been taken. Now. Mr. Clevelands face
feets of his facial cutice We're brought
out exaggeratedly in the negatives. It
never would have done to finish his pic
lures without thoroughly retouchng the
negatives. Yet this always displea sed him.
He wanted the finished photograph to-
be just like the proofs. He was a rigid
subject. too. and very hard to pose He
inclined to ponderasity in the poses that
he struck for himself and lie lust natlI-
rally hated TO be smoothed out of these
postures by the operator. He liked for
example, to stick his left hand beneath
the flap of his frock coat i'm the conven-
uonal statesman pose. But that sort ot
thing Went out of date with Webster and
Clay and Calhoun. and was MADE ridicu-
ious by black-faced stump speakers OF
the minstrel stage when Mr.. Cleveland
was yet a boy. All the same. always
had trouble i'm preventing him from strik-
ing that outworn attitude every time
we wanted ii three-quarters or full
length picture Of him
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DOES SUCCESS
SPOIL AUTHORS?

Special Correspondence Of The Star
LONDON March ~;
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-04-08
REV. DIR. BROWNS WORK.
Ohciated at 1926 Marriages and 123
Funerals during Four Years
Passionate,

At meeting or the official board Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church last evening
the following committees were appointed:
Committee on pews-E. z. Howe, W. +.
Burt r. A. Spear, @, G. +. Tobey, j. l..
Hall and u. W. Mcclellan.
Finance committee -Dr l.. NJ Bingham,
G. &. r Tobey f. r. Howe. ]. L. Hail.
+. G. Lyon. j. A. Corbln, L. l.. North.
y. ". Mcclellan, Miss Mary Walker, Mrs.
6 @. T. Tohey. Miss katherine Coventry.
Mrs. j. r. Lockwood and Miss Winifred
Collins
Committee or fuel supply--E. J. Booth.
Committee on soxton-nr. l.. NJ. Bing-
ham.
Committee on ushers-E. 2, Howe and
DR.. r. c. Drew.
Committee on communion seryice-W.
+. Burt. J. \. Corbin and f O. Sinclair.
Representative to laymeus convention
Smith +. Henry.
DR.. Brown made the following report Of
hts work for the four years of his service
with church:
Received into tn, church ON profession
of faith 26, by letter l32. making total
Of 93S added to the church; OBLIGATED at
20 marriages. ana oficiated at l.5 fun
erals.
The following resolution, offered by T..
j. Booth was unanimously adopted:
"Resolvcd That a vote of appreciation
by the official board ana the church he
extended to DR.. and Mrs Brown for
their faithful services during the past
four years, and that they he assured that
the sympathy and good viii OF the church
and congregation would attend them TO
whatever field they might be called 10