The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-01

about how walked In the kitten gar
den and found kitten tree and gath
cred all the kits to make this kitten
wreath for thee"
Later another drawing. showing
what he called a kitteniere, was &C
companled by:
, DO you remember the kitten wreath
sent you once? That was a great
kitten year. Now the trees are bare
and only one little kitten have been
able TO shake down for you.
Il sent thee once kitten wreath
Now all the trees are bare,
And l can scarcely find enough
To make a kitteniere."
A Rebuke From Harvard.
When Edward w. Townsend
launched "Chimmie Fadden'' upon tho
! scene OF fiction he unknowingly i'll
vited future correspond of a trou
| blesome nature. The gorgeous slang
OF the little Bowery boy created a
| widespread impression that his Gre
ator must also have been Bowery
| derived, and led to complications whe-l
| Mr.. Townsend turned to fiction deal
| ing with other conditions Of life
Once, in short story, he made use
| OF certain adventures he had shared
| with a couple of Harvard men while
travelling in the Hawaiian Islands.
| That provoked a letter of stern re-
Duke from a Harvard undergraduate.
That the author should presume 10
| speak Of men and measures not OF
| the Bowery made the undergraduate
| sad; that he should attempt to tell
| what a Harvard man would do under
any circumstance was a piece of i'm
pertinence that could not be encoun-
tered without indignant protest.
When he was very young man
Mr.. Townsend reported for a news
paper a law trial famous throughout
the mining states and territories
| which revealed that a mine swindle
had been perpetrated through the
sailing OF a bag Of ore samples by
| the injection OF a solution of gold
The cautious expert, who had per
| sonally broken down the samples OF
| ore, had placed the bag containing
them under his pillow at night, but
the needle OF the syringe had got there
Just the same. Years later Mr.. Town
send used the incident in a magazine
| story. From a stranger whose letter
| head proclaimed him a metallurglst
and assayer he received a commun-
cation informing him that such a de-
vice was a chemical impossibility. and
warning him TO avoid in future such
| technicalities.
or whimsical nature was the let
ter Mr.. Townsend once received from
a New York merchant asking il the
copyright covering the books pre-
vented the use Of a menu one OF them
contained. Assured that the menus OF
fiction were free TO all he explained
that he wanted to give certain chef
an order to duplicate a dinner De
scribed in Days Like These but
that a painful experience he had had
with the law prompted him to ask the
authors preliminary consent.
| Probably never in the history OF an
thorship has a writer's letter box been
SO full as that of Rudyard kipltng
when he was lying desperately Ill at
the Hotel Grenoble in New York. From
all over the country, and indeed from
all over the world. were those letters
OF generous sympathy. They touched
hpling deeply. Never again was ne
to be the somewhat acrimonious cor
respondent OF the early days. once
before a fiippant stranger had writ
ten: II read that you are paid at the
rate OF a shilling word for YOUR
work. I am enclosing an order for
shilling. Please send a sample. KIP
ling did, His reply was Thanks