The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-23
From, Other Pens
SOME WRITER'S GET RICH.

= NIXON sold Paradise LOST for E3os
$l0o In American money. Poor Chatter
day. committed suicide by jumping
from London bridge into the River
Thames. It was either this or starva-
ton. and he selected the former. His
verses were q drug on the market.
Literature was q poor breadwinner in
those days, and the man or woman who
depends upon literature today, unless
success has crowned their efforts.
stands precarious chance of making
= fortune 1t is pleasant to call at
brought to light. In the recent divorce
trial In which the wife Of George III.
Broadhurst sought separation and all
mony. it was proved to the court that
Broadhurst's income Is $125, 200. This
is from the royalties on his plays alone.
clyde Fitch. who began life under very
impoverished circumstances, left a for
tune Of $3.50. 900. and his plays are each
year turning in q steady income to his
estate. Walter Browne. who wrote
| 'Everywoman." knew what 1t was to
starve. It IL related that fve months
before "Everywoman'' was produced
he wandered into Browns chop house,
in New York, and met a party Of
friends. IF I only could raise $50"
ne n. sishsd' What for? was asked
He did not have $50. did not get a d.
vorce. died on the night of the first
performance Of "Everywoman'' and his
widow received $1e5.0o0 the first year
in royalties from his play. Last fail
eweiled by the statement that a sio.-
coo prize for a novel had been won by
LeOna Dalrymple. young girl in Pas
sale. There 10 a fortune in the pen
If the right hand directs II and the
an uncertain field. but It IL one rich
with opportunity. a field which does
not discriminate against sex. Fortunes
have been made and fortunes will con-
tinue to he made by the fortunate
writer IF plays. poetry or ordinary nc
PARIS BEHIND TIME.
In an effort to introduce a new Gus
torn, Parisiennes are going to dancing
parties without stockings. 1t may
seem cruel to say, but it Is a fact. that
turies-the number il unknown-be-
hind Manila, Batavia, Tokyo and
Kobe. Tagalog bellies, and very ''like-
ly girls they are. may be seen any
evening in Pal0inar park. just outside
Of Manila. dancing without stockings.
They also, by the way. wear the heel
less slippers which New Workers and
Parisiennes fondly imagined to be an
innovation when they introduced them
as factor In the turkey-trotting
equation last year. The Filipinos wear
dancing slippers which are not only
without the protection under the heel.
but also without anything behind the
heel to hold the foot in the footwear.
In the counterpart Of the bath slipper
Of the Occident. the Taga1og girls
dance gayly and gracefully without
flinging q shoe during the entire
evening. Americans-mission and
hopeful tradesmen-have made an
arduous effort to persuade the FIJI
pinos that stockings are preferable in
many ways to bare legs. But the mis-
sfonaries and the stocking vendors
have had an unsuccessful experience,
as indeed they should, for there IL no
earthly or spiritual objection to the
absence OF stockings. Wearing them
Is merely q custom. OF course, any
radical change Of custom or unwil-
inferior race to adopt the customs OF
their supposed superiors is regarded
as an evidence Of moral delinquency
japanese girls, with their muscular
yellowfsh pink calves flashing between
ktmOno and sandal, have been seen in
the japanese cities for nobody knows
how long without sacrifice Of maiden
" dignity, and the Dutch and other
Europeans In Java have abandoned
bookings with q resultant increase in
solid comfort, and . decrease Of ex-
pense, and the trouble of darniug.
which weighs heavily upon the femi-
nine mind in an equatorial climate. II
there II anything new under the sun
It will not be discovered by the shall
low-pates who inaugurated fashions
for western Women.-Louisville Couf-