The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-08-17

that n business man In a building
next door to his employed as ste
nographcr n girl with whom Mr..
Reeves correspondent was deeply
smitten. lie wanted to know what
took place on the other side OF fire.
quently drawn shades. and craig
Kennedy was elected 10 furnish
the pceping Romeo with a scientific
x-ray eye. Then there are the let
ters correcting scientific slips. in
one case Mr.. Reeve had Craig Ken
nedy stain a germ. then call Jane
son TO see its peculiar. telltale
spiral motions under tho micro
scope. A bacteriologIst In Wis
consin university wrote by special
delivery: e. and. you darn
fool. don't you know when you use
that stain II kills them and they
can't wlgglc?"
Tn somewhat the same vein as
L the letter TO Irwin S. Cobb from
the artIstically inclined young
woman Is the letter which Booth
Harrington considers the strangest
that the mail has brought him.
II was received a long time ago
and was from woman who said
that her husband and son had
terrible superiority TO her. and
that she felt that she would 80 down
under II unless she could In some
way show them that she was capa-
Bile OF writing a book. She wanted
Mr., Harrington TO write tho book
and put her name to II as author.
so that she could surprise the over
bearing husband and son with this
proof that she was at least a novel;
list. Says Mr.. Harrington. "The
letter was earnest. troubled. and.
I think. profoundly sincere"
E,RNEST POOLE writes:
~ Letters from. people about
my books? II seems to me that I've
had them from every country on
earth-but lest from this rash
statement the reader may jump TO
the conclusion that | am a very
large headed young author
hasten to add that put this down.
not TO my own prowess, but to the
miraculous growth of the means OF
communication these days. binding
the readers OF all lands so amaz-
ingly closer and closer that even
such books as can write are trans
lated in six or eight languages and
read in the Australian Bush in a
year or so after the wrlting-while
poor old Homer had to wait for a
thousand years or so. had letters
during the war from hospitals and
prison camps pretty much all ove'
Europe. I've had them since from
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia,
Siberia, Pel<in, Toxic, French Indo-
China. and the above mentioned
Australian Bush. This last struck
me especially because it was writ
ten in pencil before small camp
fire by one of two young Brltishers,
both of whom had been reading
Blind and arguing over the war
chapters"
/" A MOTHER very modern mes
"A sage" Mr.. Poole continued,
was this wire, received last winter
from preacher in Detroit:
Preaching radio sermon ten thou
sand people Sunday night about
your novel 'Beggars' Cold Please
telegraph 100 words main idea
Of book as you conceive It." In
the next few weeks | had mes
sages from two other radio clergy
men. One of the most human let
ters that Mr.. Poole ever received
was from young woman in Can
ada. 1t read: II have read a book
of yours and 1t has occurred to me
that you might be my uncle, Ern
Poole Uncle Ern left home about
ten years ago. He said he meant
to write for living, but we have
never heard of him since till
read your book Now If you are
my Uncle Ern | want to tell you
what I think Of the way you left
my poor widow mother and have
not even written her since-Dear
Slr-if you are not Uncle Ern
please pardon this presumptuous
letter-but If you are, you're cow
ard and sneak and quitter for run
ming away like that. Ifyou are not.
please excuse this"
Longfellow's Vogue.
T ONGFELLOW undoubtedly made