The Cairo bulletin., 1912-02-19
BOOK CHAT
A HALO IN DISPUTE.

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On the occasion of a recent recep-
ton at The Country Life Press, at
which Don Marquis, author OF
"Dannys Own story and Ellis
Parker Butler, author of "Adven-
lures Of Suburbanite," Pigs is
Pigs ETC., made brief humorous ad.
dresses, the two authors and Mrs.
MARQUIS were lined up for fash
light photograph. Purely by mad
venture Mr.. Marquis stood immedi'
.ately under an alarm clock that had
been left on one of the book shelves.
Nobody noticed the alarm clock I'M
til the picture was printed and each
of the authors was sent copy.
Their comments, which came back
Immediately, before either had seen
the other, will speak for themselves.
81 have received the photograph
entitled "The Mephistophelian
Waiter, the Lady and the Saint, !"
and have looked at It, ! have only
one complaint to make
"God.-and my fathers-are doubt
less to blame for my face, and my
tailor for my clothes, and willing
facial muscles for my santanic grin,
but why, oh! why did you sneak my
halo away from me and hang 1t over
Don Marquis's mussy hair? Any
one can see that my Ga halo is a
misfit on his Z q head 1t looks like
cheap hand mirror when he wears
it, or like bright, but small thought
lost in his hair jungle.
81 am sorry this happened. |
don't like to lend my halo to any
one, and when | pose with a beatific
smile, and with my glossy hair and
glossy face all prepared to reflect the
shining rays of my halo, and then
find the halo has been sneaked away
from me and stuck on another man,
on whom it is a mislit, am panied;
yes, by golly, am panied.
Yours,
ELLIS PARKER BUTLER.
THANK you for the picture.
THAT Is halo. 1t hasn't any
thing to do with genius (if any but
denotes virtue.
| 81 am sorry that you have started
this alarm clock theory. can see
Inc evidences of an alarm clock my
self.
bat on the contrary 1t has always
been known in my family, and
among my close friends, that ! had
a halo. When / was kid at school
| the teachers used to notice 1t. Where
| the customary stunt was to show
your sore toe for a bite of apple,
always showed my halo to the othei
boys. AS | grew older, and began
to take the girls home from church
sociables and spelling bees, 1t go
| to be nuisance, however; ii woult
| shine over the hammock on thu
darkest summer evening. or cours'
lit was a comfort to any parent t.
know that the young man sitting Il
the hammock with her daughte
i. was young man who had a halo
. but 1t was inconvenient for me, a
sltimes. I never could get an
; privacy; other boys could stea
|, ! watermelons, for instance; but
| was always doomed to virtue; m
. halo marked me; but for that
: might have ben a successful chicke
I thief. 1t led me into terrible at
B venture one time, however. Whe
.lI was a stripping 1 fell, one night
|. II know not how---into the compar
: of a number OF rude and drunke
: roisterers; two OF them at a tin
i would hold me while the others trit
e ! to blow the halo out; their aicohoi
breaths caught fire-in a morflel
Ill we were all surrounded by q she
: of fame--the situation was tru
!. desperate---but summoned
,e presence of mind and cried QUIT
II be continued in our next). 4' ~
ISL "Yours sincerely, ~"
I'll "DON MARQUIS. !"
Ell Samuel Gordon has an intense
a. dramatic story Of two great singt
~ In March AinsIee's. "Etoile. du Nor
Ii has had Paris and all France at !
IN feet for years when young &
I'd from the country suddenly appe
IL before the public, and the fic
Parisians are on the point Of ira