The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-23

odd Eli Smith has got it sized up
about right" said the Kid Statesman.
as he aimed ball for the side pocket
and tried to look unConcerned when II
went into the corner one.
And what ioes Bill say?" asked
the Old Politician. quietly spoting the
bal.
He says this man Cruce aint any
advertiser He don't face his game up
bold before the public. He amt onto
the first principles of political adver-
tising. Where would Roosevelt have
been II 1t wasn't for the camera men?
Nnerc would Teddy have been po!it.
ical II old Vorsrhagin hadn't painted
him on his fiery steed. with his sword
up in the air. riding like mad up San
Juan hill, at the head of the gallant
Rough Riders. when he was really up
on Kettle Hin cooking at it with his
spy-glass."
The old man lightel his pipe and
used the bridge to carefully slide a
ball nome across the tab @, but said
nothing.
Hes letting Alfalfa William get
away with the goods Did YOU see the
last number of Watson's magazine"
"Um4hu'
That's the stuff that goes-that's
the creamy dope for the hoi polloi.
Tney ,ap II up like Budwciser suds.
There sits old Bill with a three weeks
growth of beard on his face and a
pair OF bib overalls on, with some
ten foot corn stalks stacked up behind
him and a look OF weary toll upon his
countenanc,A-
Yes" broke in the old Politician.
with energy. and by his side sits an
81 500 a year private secretary, with
an Eng ish worsted suit on. and a
diamond pin that must have made
tat photographer blink. You may be
right, my boy-perhaps Lee iCruce is
not up on the advertising business,
but by the same token, neither Is
your friend William. Have you ever
studied art, my boy? Have you ever
gone in for art for arts sake? Well
there's thing in art that they call
UNITY don't know what the devil IL
all means myself, but have got glim-
merings. For instance, If you're going
to take q picture of a COW. you mus mt
put ii aboard ship. II you want to
preserve the unites. you wouldn't
take picture of gun boat on HiCk-
ory creek. or put a bull in a parlor
or fine lady in an empire gown and
a Gancsborough hat a twisting a calfs
tail to gt it to go through the barn
yard gate, you understand?
Il don't catch you, Percival," said
the Kid lightly.
"Ill eloosilate the bearings OF the
observation, Mr.. Kyrley Bellew," ans
wcred the old man. "Ill not let you
suffer for .ack of comprehension. I'll
take the blue ball for the side-good
You see, my lad, overalls and boards
is al right in their place have
nothing agin them. As adjuncts to n
political campaign, they may be used
10 good purpose. Many man has vot-
eu for a pair OF overalls and a ragged
beard and found out afterwards that
neither one of them went into office
with the man after he was elected.
But that's neither here nor there. But
II you are going 10 be horny handed
son OF toll. | say, according to the
canons OF true art--and what would
the world be, my boy. without art--if
YOU are going to do the thing up ar
tistically, YOU must look TO your stage
settings. Now. who ever heard of
man cutting corn with private sec.
rotary with a diamond pin in his era
vat and his hair parted In the middle
trotting along taking notes? Now.
want 10 be fair with Bill-perhaps
that's what they call this new tangled
intensive farming. Maybe so. 7 am
sure don't know. But what | say is
that IL isn't art. my boy. and IL isn't
n proper preservation of the eternal
un't'cs, YOU understand.
Nov, OF course, If IL was intended
for a picture of an English landlord
in consultation with his oversoer. II
would have como nearer hitting the
mark As IL is. II IS Ike that picture
of the last supper that Mark Twain
tells about. In one corner Of II the
artist, by some strange freak OF fan
cy-yOu know them artist fellcrs are
all freaks anyway-had painted i'm an
Dld-faShioned hair trunk with straps
over H. and Mark says that when he
got his eyes on that hair trunk. he
cou dnt see anything else in the pic
lure ever afterwards, II was a pic
lure Of a hair trunk with the last sup
per as a back ground And so II Is
with Bill's magazine poster As the
Drcsentment of an illigant private sec
'ctary arrayed like solomon I'm all his
: ory, with coklehurry William as a
back ground it's a glittoring success,
but as a campaign document, my boy, /
mark my words il will keep Bill busy
rom now till primary day explaining
hat private secretary"
We'll Rill's the boy can do H."
said the Kin II there's anything that
Bill can't explain, | don't know what
{ is."
"Surc,-well, we'll wait for his next
ecture on How 10 Farm with a pri.
'ate Secretary" I'll go 70 hear IL.
m always anxious To hear of the
attest modern devices The only VIVID
" farming the old man was used TO
was 10 do sentry-go with a mule for
,ace maker and a pair OF sick nan.
Hes for props, But there Is one thing
'ure, I've never tried To raise corn
With private secretary. Maybe It's
III right. We liYe and learn"