The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-02
ABE MARTIN" IN KIN HUBBARD ALMANACk
Small Volume Filled with Droll and Pointed Aphorsms
New Detective Story, William Bayard Hale
in Century, and Paul Hester.
ev ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

eY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
To keep it up day after day, week in
week out, month following month, and
months piling up into years, is indi
catlve of amazing versatility. Also
OF physical endurance. And only the
mentally fittest can survive.
1t is with some hesitation that one
might say this about kin" Hubbard
the author of the famous ABE Mar
tin" aphorisms which have for years
been one of the chef d. oeuvres of the
Indianapolis News, if this were destin
ed for his sardonic eye-but it is the
truth. No one but a genius could
stand the strain
That the vein is in no danger of be
! ing worked out is seen in Abe Mar
tins Almanack for 1911, in which vol
! ume is included under one cover the
| rural philosophers utterances for the
year, the book being full of that ex
quisite drollery and gently sardonit
take-offs on the great social game
| which makes Abe Martin such catholic
| reading.
! This is another instance of section
alism yelling universally.
Hubbard dedicates this volume tC
Mr.. Romeo Johnson, of the Indiana
polls News, and a former resident OF
this city, by the way. the book lnclud
! ing, in its introduction, a poem by
James Whitcomb Riley and clever
diatribe by Booth Harrington. The
! Riley verses going this way:
Abe Marti1l--dad- burn his old picture:
P'tends he's a Brown county fixture
A kind OF comical mixture
OF hoss-sense and no sense at all!
His mouth like his pipe, S allus goin'
His thoughts, like his whiskers, is
flown.
And what he don't know amt worth
| From Genesis clean to baseball!
The author, Kin Hubbard, S so keer
| less
He draws Abe most eyeless and ear
| less;
But he's never yit pictured him cheer
less
Err with fun at he tries to con
| ceal--
Whuther onto the fence er clean Ovel
A-rootin' up ragweed err clover,
Skeert stiff at some "Rambler' e.
Rover
Er new tangled automobeel.
! The last verse ending with
ABE Martin, the Joker on Facts.
Here are two or three of Abe Mar
tins pregnant sayings:
A slangy evangelist does about al
much good as an auctioneer.
There's many slip twixt tn blue
prints an a new house.
/ One good thing about livin' on :
farm is that you kin fight with YOU
wife without bein' heard.
Miss Fawn Lippincut says that one
bad thing about white shoes is tina
they all look like number Fights.
Fer every Teller that goes in the
chicken business, one fails.
| People that blurt out just what the,
think wouldn't be SO bad if they
thought.
Kindness goes long ways lots o
times when it ought to stay at home
Endless are the detective stories
! Some good, some bad, some neither
and others yawn-producing. ......
/ The Man in the Brown Derby,
by Wells Hastings and published by
the Bobbs- Merrill company, however
might be classed with the good ones
For it is a very readable tale, after
The manner Of the more or less prepos
ferrous stories of it's class. Is, in fact
very we'll written and holds the atten
ton.
The plot hinges upon the strange ad
ventures of young man whose life
had been blighted by a birth mark or
his hands, who answers an advertise
ment and finds himself in a days
time married to a beautiful girl, the
pOssessor OF home and money and
amazing action.
That the finale is happy one is
of course, inevitable since it is detec
tive story, but it also relieves a Ger
tain tension since it is revealed that
the hero's hands, which have been
scalded are made over into nice white
ones, just like everybody else's. The
only obstacle to eternal felicity is
thus removed.
The most interesting part of the
text might be in the following quota
ton from certain militant Mrs. La
throp," who mixes up with the plot
and lends the heroine her wedding
dress in which to be married:
NO." said Mrs. Lathrop. Don't you
go wasting your money on any of those
silly detectives. I had a cousin once
who hired one of them to detect who
stole silver teapot. And he detected
round for couple of weeks, and after