The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-10-03
NE w YORK LIZ roo
SORDIDF OR AUTHOR
florence Brooks, Writer, Poet
and Artist, Now in Noun
tains near Cumberland.

tains near Cumberland.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, Oct. a.
8ecause she found little old New
ORR too sordid. too full OF tall
buildings of steel and stone. with too
many myriads of lights. too full OF
culture to dream. to develop her
Ideals and her ideas, Florence Brooks
poet. artist. novelist. ran away to
seek adventure in other fields. The
scenic mountains Of the Alleghenies
tured her and she is now in Cum
nerland. writing occasionly, but for
the most part just gazing at the tow
lertng green hills or the placid Poto-
mac and dreaming.
Florence Brooks is Mrs. John Ma
rome in real life. She lives in New
York with her husband and family
of hve. A son is with her in Cum
bertrand. About a year ago, Novem-
Den, l3. 1914, to be exact. the Ma
rome family left New York and
started cross country via automo-
bile. Besides the. family Mrs. Ma
rome took along her trusty typewrit-
or, wad OF copy paper and a fire.
sess oker, and under her oil skin
ned bonnet she had packed away
Thousands Of dreams.
Travelled Gross Country.
For q year Mrs. Marone has tray-
leled. Much of her time was spen.
IN the South. New Orleans and Sa
yannah, where her husband went
back to New York. Later he Joined
her and they continued their trip to
the coast and now Mrs. Marone has
selected the Queen City OF the Al
lleghenies" in which to put her
dreams and adventures on paper and
dream some more.
y have collected such a mass of
Details" said Florence Brooks, as she
'is best known, that I don't know
where to start writing. But before I
get down to real hard work have
written two very short stories, Just
tlled with impressions of Cumber-
land. Its scenes and its delfghtful
people, and these stories are now In
the hands Of my agent. One Of these
Istories Is q little adventure Of war
lcprrespo who came back to his
native town after making reputa-
top by the stuff he sent back to his
paper. While / have not mentioned
the town Of Cumberland, I have
sketched the scenes and the people
with this city in mind.
plan to remain here several
weeks and as soon as I clear up some
OF the mass of material accumulated
during my trip in the South and
West 1 hope to gather material here
to furnish the foundation OF a
novel"
Mrs. Marone and her son have an
apartment at 50 Washington street,
Where she expects to stay Indefinite
".
To Exhibit Paintings.
To be exhibited at the Cumber-
land fair are over fifty sketches In
water colors. done by Mrs. Marone,
of bits Of semi-tropic Florida, coll
1ected during their recent motor trip
and now shown for the first time.
They are subjects that lend them
selves to quick Impressions, and were
undertaken as studies for founda-
tion to illustrations for the literary
work OF Florence Brooks. The mo-
tor tour was undertaken by Mr.. and
Mrs. Marone In order that the lat
ter might collect material for stor-
les and romances in the South. Mrs.
Marone is most delightful with the
abundance Of color. beauty, charm
and interest encountered in the var
stous southern states and has taken
hundreds Of notes for future use.
You have no doubt read much Of
Florence Brooks. Her works have
been published in Smart Set, Town
Topics, Scribner's and Century and
In many other magazines and per-
iodicals. She is the author OF "vag-
aries" asbatch Of short stories; 1.-THE
Destiny" a collection OF poems, and
Love Sonnets."
Can Write Anywhere.
Her philosophy of life is simple
She says, 81 have lived my life. and
want my dreams again" During
the trip across the continent the Ma
rome party stopped at hotels, inns.
farm houses and Slept out" In all
these places Florence Brooks dream
ed dreams and wrote them. She
would sit in the tonneau Of her auto
mobile and clickety click OF her type
writer or sit down in the desert while
her husband swore underneath the
stalled machine and typewrite some
more.
Mrs. Marone is a great lover OF
the out doors. THE mountain breeze
s. tonic to me-" she said. $50
don't be surprised II while tramp
ing over the mountains or along the
river these joyous fall mornings you
should hear the clickety click Of a
and see Florence Brooks
sitting on log writing story OF
the Cumberland girl and the Allie
1gheny mountains