The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1911-01-19

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editor.
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write go,sa aeiion, and IN FORE you
Z fellows to admit II jet I'il make you
change TOE spelling Of regrets to
'c.be.rk brfere I'm done with YOU
Editor wssthrook gaxed through bis
nose glasses With y sweesiy sorrowfui.
omulscient sympaibeflc. skeptksl er.
4 PRECISION 1.-The copyrighted expression
o. the editor beiea guered by the an
available contributor.
Hare you read the last story ] sent
/ you The Alarum Of the Soulr +" asked
/ Dave.
Carefully. hesitated over that
story. Shack. really DID. II bad
some COED points wns writing you
letter 10 send With Il when II goes
back 10 you. regret
Never mind the regrets said
Dave grizzly. There's neither salve
nor sting 10 'em any more. What ]
want to know is why, Come, DOW;
out With the good points FIRST"
THE story" said westbrook delib'
erately after suppressed sigh. is
written around an almost original plot
--characterizafIon the best you have
done. construction. almost as good.
except for few weak joints which
might be strengthened by q few
changes and touches. II Is good
story. except
Il can write English. can't II inter.
rupfed Dave
II have always told you" said the
editor that you had style"
Then the trouble II the
Same old thing" said Editor West
brook. "you work up to your climax
ike an artist. and then you turn your
.elf Into photographer. ! don't know
what form of obstinate madness pos
scsses you. Shack. but that ~ what you
do With everything that you write
No: | will retract the comparison with
the photographer. Now and then pho
Biography. In spite Of its impossible
perspective. manages 10 record a reet'
every denouement by those dat. drab.
obliterHting strokes OF your brush that
have so often complained OF. II you
would rise 10 the literary pinnacle OF
your dramatic scenes and paint them
10 the high colors that arr requires the
postman would leave fewer bulky, self
addressed envelopes AT your door"
"ob. tddles and footlightsr' cried
Dave derislyely. You've got that old
suwmill drama kink In your brain yet.
When the man with the black mus.
tache kldnaps golden haired BESSIE you
are bound 10 have The mother kneel
and raise her hands In the spot light
aud say. May high heaven witness
that ! will rest neither night nor day
tn the heartless villain that has sto-
len me child feels the weight Of O
mothers vengeance.
Editor Westbrook conceded q smile
Of imperyious complacency.
Il think" said he. that In real life
rhs woman would express herself In
those words or In very similar ones"
Not IN n six hundred nights run
anywhere but on the stage" said Dave
hutly. I'm tell you what shed say 10 |
real life. Shed say: What. Bessie
led away by strange man? Good
Lord, Its one trouble after another. |
Get my other bat. must bury around |
10 the police station. Why wasn't |
Romebody looking after her. I'd like to |
know For Gods sake. get out Of |
my way or I'll never get ready. Not |
that hat-the brown one with the vel
vet bows Bessie must have been
crazy She's usually shy OF strangers
Is that too much powderf Lordy. |
how I'm upsetr
That's the way she'd talk" con.
tnued Dave. People In real life
don't fy into heroics and blank verse
AZ emotional crises They simply cant
do II. If they talk AT all ON such oc-
caslons they draw from the same vo-
cubulary that they use every day and
muddle up their words and ideas liz.
tie more. that's all"
shack" said Editor Westbrook i'm
pressiyely. did you ever pick up the
manred and llfeess form OF a child
frosl under the fender OF street car
and carry II IN your arms and lay II
dow u before the distracted motherf
Did you ever do that and listen to the
words OF grief and despair as they
lowed spontaneously from hcr lipsT
Il never did" said Dave. did
roug"
well. no." said Editor westbrook.
With slight frown. but ! can well
imagine what she would say"
$50 can l." sail Dave.
And now the nuing time had come
'or Editor westbrook 10 play the ora
lie and silence his opinlonated contrib
lior.
"Aiy dear Shack" said he. III
inow anything OF life know that ev-
ny sudden. deep and tragic emotion
D the human heart calls forfb an ap-
,oxi,e. conrpdant. conformsble and
lroporiionate expression OF feeling.
low much OF this Inevitable accord
,ctwecn expression and feeling should
,e attributed 10 nsture and how much
o the Influence Of ART Il would be dit
iculi to say The sublimely terrible
oar OF The lionr-s that has been de-
rived Of her cubs h. dramatically as
ar above her customary whine and
ur as the kingiy and traascendent
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