Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20
Genius Often Met
Any Successful Poet Can Testify
to the Truth of This, for
He Comes Up With it
Everywhere.

II was dreadfully disappointed at
not being at home when you gave the
reception at your house, SO that your
friends could meet the literary lion
who was visiting you. But l know
your reception was a great success"
There were lot of people there"
II have every book of poems your
famous friend ever wrote. l just love
1im for what he has written. l knew
he was pleased to meet all your
friends"
II have a suspicion that he was not
exactly delighted. Let me tell you
about it. l presented Mrs. Gushley,
she weighs 200 pounds If she weighs
an ounce, and when l introduced her
she held out her big hand and said:
meet you'll"
Fellow craftsman"
Eyes. fellow craftsman. Then she
said: I am . writer of poetry myself
My husband wants me to write sto-
RES, but l tell him that shant do
is too hard work. Frequently when
| am sweeping l throw my broom
aside and pen poem, and then pick
up my broom again and go on with
my Homework. A person can write
perfectly good poem in ten or fifteen
minutes and not miss the time at all,
but if | were to write a story suffi-
GENTLY good to make a hit with read
ing public it would take me the bet
ter part of the day, and I just can't
spare the time from my more i'm
pOrtant duties. | have brought roll
of my poems with me and I am going
to permit you to read them-and that
is q privilege | do not grant every
one
AT that point | succeeded in tear
ing him loose from her and took him
across the room and introduced him
to our minister"
Gracious! He must have been glad
to get away"
"He thought he was. But our min
lister said: I have long looked for
ward to this opportunity of meeting
you. l have a little girl eight years
Of age who is of literary turn of
mind, and you will be astonished
when you read some of the poems she
has written. l have brought few of
them with me, and l am going to let
you read them as soon as we can get
away somewhere by ourselves shall
not be at all offended if you read them
aloud. Understanding poetry, as you
do, your reading would give them that
expression which is so hard to i'm
part to the best poetry. l want espe-
cially to speak to you about getting
them published and to learn the name
of some honest publisher with whom
we could trust her work. 1t would be
just like publisher to steal the poems
and rob our child of the fortune to
which her genius entities her. I'll
tell you what you can do! You take
them and give them to your publisher
and get them published. Just step in
here with me-
Then / succeeded in prying him
loose and took my lion across the par
lor and introduced him to DR.. Will
liams.
Well, that must have been a relief
to him. There is no foolishness about
DR.. Williams"
Isn't there? The doctor button
holes him and began: You are just
the man l have been wanting to meet
You would die laughing if you could
hn
boy Preston has written. He's a
genius, that boy is! I'm going to call
him in here as soon as the people
stop coming and have him recite some
of his poems to you. l wish I could
remember that one about the mud
turtle. It's a scream!' "-Chicago
News.