The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-04
Andrew and Imogene Little Life Condolences In the Ex. perience of a Couple, Phil
 osophic, Though Married

Does that Williams boy across the street have any other occupation in life aside from sitting the front stoop smoking cork tips?" asked Andrew as he looked out of the window. You are making fun of Charlie, of course,'' said Imogene. You cannot un- derstand any other phase of life except money grabbing. That boy is a perfect genius and one of these days when the world recognizes him, he is going to be famous"
 "Meanwhile' laughed Andrew, some one else has to feed him. That same budding genius tried to touch me for sl a few days ago and as I got nearsighted and couldn't see it, I suppose he went
 home and wrote an essay on mans in humanity to man!
 There was time when the world opened it's arms, it's purse, it's free lunch counter and it's eyes at genius, put 1t takes more than long hair, a greasy col 1 lar and fringe around the bottom of mans trousers to get him by in this world.
 "Al educated pig which can pick the ace of spades out of a pinochle deck makes more money for it's owner than | Bible scholar who can prove than an epistle is not the wife of an apostle Where the budding genius in the his- tronic line once had theatre all ready 1 for him to start out as a star, today an
 l entered apprentice actor must go on the road with an Uncle Toms Cabin com pany and play minor parts till he gets so
 l hoarse he can't bark, before they will | let him understudy Simon Legree. "Where the columns of our magazines | were once open to the young poet, to-
 | day he pays advertising rates to get his poems published in a country weekly till at last some happy day he gets a letter | from a firm of publishers praising his
 work and offering to publish it in book l form; but the third follow up letter dashes his hopes to the ground by ex- blaming that he will have to furnish the | mazuma for the first edition
 {, "A long-haired fiddler who has tor tured a neighborhood from infancy, in fancy sees his recognition in letter from l a firm of music publishers who want to publish his latest lugubrious score, and ] then tears his hair and gets a job as a car conductor when he discovers that he will have to put up s75 for the picture l on the cover and buy the first 250 copies at 60 cents per eachi
 From the rolling prairies of the west to the mountains of the east. frowsy headed girls who can paint storks on screens, blue roses on plates and who can write stories with a sob to every paragraph, are sitting lonely and for lorn, while the girl who can paint a kitchen or who is the author of a good lamb stew, is getting married and keep ing three kinds of automobiles in her ga- ragei
 If I were a genius you would be put ting new feet in 25-cent hosiery instead of having silk make your ankles itch # I could write poems you would be doing your own washing. If could play tne fiddle you would never hear the orches-
 tra in the Cafe Royal play note. If 1 could write magazine stories you would
 be turning that bon bazine dress you had
 during the Spanish-American war instead of wondering what color to have your
 new trfcolette.''
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