The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-05-24

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@% write SO last my hand gets covered with
& n Mk ink up 10 the wrist and have a dreadful
v@8kS u time afterward. with pumice-stoue. Even
b4E& Ewhen angels are not guiding though,
usually have two beautiful hopes sprout-
s6usAG ing in my breast when | begin stor.
One IS the hope Of making to life
well do realize that this is the highest art.
My second hope IS that Sister rmngarde VIII read
the story aloud to our literary class ST Kathsrnes
She does, sometimes, read girls story when II IS very
good She hasn't read OF mine for ages, though
she told me with her lips that several OF my efforts
held striking examples of what TO do and what to
avoid in writing fiction But I've got to write this piece
OF literature without either an angel hope
know already that IS not going to be true 70 lie, and
that Sister lrmngarde IS not gong TO read it aloud
the class And the only example in IS Mabel Bios
som, who is indeed. a terrible one.
Not that the story isn't going to be good Its going
to have ruin IN II and chuTchyard and ghost and
grim mysterious. bood-curdling happenings II those
don't make good story. don't know what does And
action There's much action that the mere mem
oTy Of all that happened that necr-to-be-forgotton
Halloween night makes feel tired now AS for
Mabel Blossom, she's black and blue vet from the
exercise she got But story with ghost in it can't
very vel be true TO HE can it And woe IS me-
It has wickedness IN it, too; and Sister Tmngarde
shrngs from weSedness the way a sensitive plant
shrnks when you put your foot on it.
You can see how discouraging all this IS, but I've
got TO write the story the My art is before
all and whenever plot is inside of me has to come
out no matter what il IS Not wckedness can
stop me Only las; New Years Day wrote this
terce in my resolution book It one OF seventeen.
but il came first
There is no subject in life that l will not write
story about before get through"
I don't think ! ever made resolution that was so
interesting. The more thought Of it. the more liked
l. read it aloud right away to Mabel Blossom and
: Maude Joyce. and Maudie clapped her hands and
Mabel went to her room and began to pack her trunk
She knew II meant that I would probe deeper than
ever into her soul and read her thoughts before she
knew she had any and well indeed might Mabel Bios
som trembe You see, Naudie and Mabel and | run
yl- hut t.l,4 .ft
girl who thinks Of Intellectual things and does them
Maude is the girl who thinks Of spiritual things and
does them. Mabel Blossom. alas aack is the one
who sometimes thinks OF wicked things and does them
and gets the rest OF into trouble Yet love her
| wonder why ! will anayze her sinful heart, and
perhaps will ear2.
Mabel doesn't like this let her read all write
just as fast as / write it, so she fx her mind on
higher things; but she most always feels disappearing
and cross over VII say about her I'm afraid it
doesn't really develop her spiritual nature much Still
CT course ! have to keep right holding the mirror
up 10 her, Shakespeare says To make everything
clear, will describe the difference between Mabel
and Maudie, they look to the piercing gaze Of an
eye that into the deepest receses az human beings
] mean my eye The gentle reader ought to know that
didn't -
When | am with Maude we talk about life. and
ideals and the community spirit % hepfulness and the
hundred best books and what they do to you and the
growth of the soul actually feel my soul grow
while Maude talks sometimes It stretches and stretches
till | think she must be blowing il up the way a boy
my room evenings | can feel my soul begin to spread
ana sometimes though never limited 7 - Naudle, It
makes me teel tired and nervous Maud'e IS interested
IN her SOU all the time and am interested IN my soul
some OF the time. | suppose that's the difference
Mabel Blossom doesn't seem to be much interested IN
heT soul any Of the time
Then Mabel comes to see me we always laugh lot
and we talk about spreads and the convent clubs and
my stories ana iabels pauents-the ones she IS going
to nave when she doctor and what she going 70
do to them and I feel the way you feel when YOU
put on IA wrapper At night and sit down before the
open hre @th your feet on the fendcr-warm and
eemty and rested-and my moral nature slurbers i
Maudie Joyce said Let cut lessons tomorrow. and
sneak into town and Rave tea and cakes and Jam at
Roberts Z be s. surprised J. d fall Of my chair
hfst hen would get up and SHOW Maudte how
efeaoilH II was 70 hfeak ne rules ara wat IT WOULD
90 TO the soul and ne wouldn't 60.
But II Mape! Blossom said H. somehow 1t would seem
oiheIent-as II one ne@Ied exercise. yoH Know, and
1oqrshment ana the mind must n9t be o,ertaTfd
dr;nL;ne ,sa s.e@ w, -. rs,.rn az lnf