The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30

TO the editor:
] reed. a letter the other day from
a man in Kansas City that had read
a article in the American Magazine
for June by man named Geo. AIDE
on the joys of being a bachelor and
the Kansas City man wanted to know
had | read the article and what did
! think about it and also would |
try and find out for him who this
man AIDE is as he use to have cousin
by that name that the last he heard
of him he was a rubber in a turkish
bath and he thought it might maybe
be the same man, as this article
sounded like it might be the works
of rubber in a turkish bath.
Well friends, read the article my
self and to me it sounded like the
vale OF a lost soul and ! also was
curious as to what kind of man
il could be that would let out a
squawk like the article in question
SO | made inquirys and found out that
this man AIDE is a man who | have
met personly around at my different
clubs and he wasn't never in turk
ish bath only as client, and like a
good many other people he had gotten
the idear in his head several yrs. ago
that he could make a liveing by the
pen but turned out to be complete
fioy and is now a golf professional at
9 hole course at Brook, Ind.
Some of my readers may be struck
like | was by the quaint name Brook
and wonder how they come to call a
town such a quaint name like Brook
Well | make inquirys into this pit. also
and it seems like the town got its
name from the way the people that
| lives there talk and instead of talking
like other people they babble.
Some of the old timers who / asked
them about this AIDES literary efforts
told me they couldn't remember much
about him only that he was supposed
to be humorist writer and the way
he got his laughs was to make pretty
near all the words begin with cap
ital letter Like for inst. suppose he
was trying to tell a story about cat
and a flea, well they wouldn't be moth
| ing to the story but when he come to
! the words cat and flea he would write
them Cat and Flea and it looked so
| funny that a person couldn't help from
burst out laughing the LIST. few times
but after a vile it begin to paul and
people quit reading them and he floped
and had to take up another line OF
work.
HOW MAGAZINES ARE RUN
Now in regards to this article,
suppose the LIST. question people will
ask in regards to it is how it come
to get printed. Well friends | guess
| am in a position to give you little
inside dope on that question as
happen to know how present day mag
azines is ran, namely they are ran
a good deal along the same lines like
a moving picture theater in a small
town.
Every once in so often the mgr
of the last named digs down in the
old pocket and buys a Chaplin picture
or a Charles Ray picture and the
J customers jams the theater and say
what great picture it is and it must
be a great theater to have such good
4 pictures and the mgr must be liber'
al guy to pay big money for such pic
/ lures and etc.
Well, you watch the kind of pic
lures this same theater runs the next
or wks. and notice the let down
but the fans still remembers the good
picture and before they begin to for
get it, why the mgr. runs in another
good picture to freshen them up.
And its the same way with the editor
of a magazine and | wonder if my
readers seen the May number of this
same magazine that this article was
in Well any way the May number
was a kind of a all star number which