The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31

The Flirting Princess The Prince of
Tonight and Miss Nobody from Star
land Then there were my own pro-
auctions. The Flower of the RanoA,'
and The District Leader
How many songs have you writ
ten altogether?"
"Oh, some 400. There are some of
them that I have forgotten. 1t just
comes easy to dash them off, and I'M
less l am particularly fond of one, or
1t makes 2 big hit, often I lose track
of it until I hear it being played some
place, and then I recognize it. It's
like running across a relative you
have not seen in years and years. You
want to shake it by the hand and say
'hello.'''
when do you expect to stop writ
ing songs?'
when I die. I'm at it all the
time. Sometimes sit down to piano
and without any thought will pound
out strain that I jot down on the
spur of the moment and later work
out something worth while. could
just as well give up eating as writing
songs. There would not be anything
in life for me if I couldn't pound
out tune every now and then.
''Ill tell you. though, how I put it
over the small hotelkeepers who don't
have a piano in my room. I carry
a photograph and blank records with
me all of the time and when a tune
strikes me I hum it into the machine.
Why, all have to do is turn it over
to some one and tell them to put it
down in musical characters.
"In that way I sometimes compose
the music and a new song in about
two minutes.
To Be Buried in Lawrence.
But speaking of when I die
Howard declared, I'll be brought
back to Kansas for burial. Lawrence
really is my home, you know. William
| Moak, my foster brother, owns the
the race track. Even though I have
my home in Waukegan and have
| bought a three-story fat along the
Chicago lake front, still Lawrence is
my home. I always like to come back
there and in fancy live over my boy
hood"
| Aside from being a writer of must
cal scores, Howard is punster. While
| in Lawrence he visited his foster
brother, William Moak, who this week
shipped to Chicago for the use of Ma
bel Barrison, Towards wife, two colts
out of the blooded white Stocking"
"How much did you pay for the
breaking of those colts?" Howard
asked.
"Forty-one dollars was the reply
"Then here is the amount and
Howard handed Moak a check.
Never mind. but; you've giver
me the colts, it's only fair that
should pay for the breaking" came
from Howard Anyhow, I want to
| know that I've paid something fol
them. It's safer"
| Moak looked up in surprise.
| "How's that?" he questioned
| why, if you ever took a notion to
sell them ia know you couldn't
| Howard replied.
"Guess I'll take that money" MoaH
| said laughingly.
Its the first I ever gave you in my
| life, isn't it ?' said Howard, and Moak
| agreed.
| Wife's Illness Not Serious.
| Howard declared that the reported
wife. Mabel Barrison, who is starring
| in tfLuIu's Husbands in reality wa:
| only a slight attack of tuberculosi.
and that it had not reached her lungs
He said that he had bought the three.
story fiat along the lake front jus
above the Chicago Beach hotel SO tha
he might build for her a glass room
! in the open air where she could res
or sleep, enjoy the sunshine and hav'
the advantages of it without going tt
| the tuberculosis camps of Colorado o,
New Mexico.
| There she will not have to live
monotonous life like in the small town.
of the southwest" he said tShe cal
go to the opera when she likes, EMO.
the society of the metropolis and driv
the spirited team that brother ha
shipped to her from Lawrence. o
course, the horses come from warn
bIooded stock and she will have t
have her man with her when sh
drives, still they will be safe in tina
way-and isn't it better for her t
lspend the rest of the winter and tn
summer there in that way than to b
buried away off somewhere in tn
lonesome desert.