San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

ce upon a time there was an i'm
nious young man who lad every
pn to fear poverty and want for
elf and his dear ones.
had every reason because he had
born in a family of actual paupers,
less, incapable and irresponsible.
e little boy had suffered shame and
er as Il child, and he consequently
ID these same things as a man.
wanted to write.
lt how could he steal the time,
his wife and baby in NEED of food
clothes:
sat up late in the nights, scrib-
:, and he left what he Lad scrih-
with various editors for a few
Ks at a time, and then he went
bly to the offices and collected his
Ks again.
be day an editor spoke 10 him kind
that was something.
he editor said that ne had in his
/, bopular young cartoonist; all the
d loved this mans work. and he
editor-had contracted for all of il.
the young cartoonist-aias! had
AGILITY for writing amusing words ::
couldn't even write captions for his
work.
A Famous Beginning.
ne young. ambitious and unsucceSS.
writer said he would try to supply
sing reading matter for the car
list.
was rather humiliatlng business.
course, and it was rendered the
e so when the editor warned him
the reading matter must have TO
with horses, dogs, hunting costumes,
country clubs.
he pay was naturally very low, be.
be the large salary was going to the
oonist.
oweycr. the writer accepted this
bee. and he went home. and began
'rite furiously, and presently he be-
to laugh as he wrote.
augh? Why not? He was writing
first of the "Pickwick Papers"
The rest is history. How the world
Jed upon these papers, now it laugh
and cried over them, how it bought
edition after edition of the lucky
Sazine where they appeared, we all
Ew.
he artist presently died-nobody re-
hbers who he was. And then, the
or had TO hunt about to find another
st good enough TO go 81 with Mr..
,kens' famous fun.
The Sin That Chokes Genius.
often think of this when women
me that they want to write, "r
10 to do anything else, FOL that mac
and then proceed to lay down the
tlitions under which alor' they will
h to work.
believe that Pride-iust the old
by sin, with a capital-has robbed
world of more genius than ever
|erty. jealousy. Obscurity, ill health
lazincss have. all rolled together.
Snc woman, I remember. sent ne
ic ten years ago, three excellen:
iics to place for her. THY were to
published in the Atlantic, the Cen
h, Harper's, or any one of three
.ificd women's magazines. she said
would not consider allowing any
hrs to publish them.
need hardly say that she still has
IN. beautifully intact aud clean, in
fr long envelopes.
FOR another woman an interview with
Of the biggest of the editors was
anged with some difficulty. He
nted a certain sort of article: she
the material for it.
was present at this interview, and
BIT I (who have a wholesome feaf
respect for the genus cditOr) SUI
I'D in that brief half hour would IL
q TO describe.
bur amateur first RECALLED him with q
hewhat witty. but also acrimonious
count of his office boys Superciliuus
htmcnt of her. and told him with
BAT good humor what was the matter
b his magazine.
Chen she retailed exactly the con
Hons uIdpr which she would work
asked-before she had begun, even
Tor an assistant.
i'hcn she said that the Better HuS'
IDS Magazine had offered her a large
arv, which | knew. and suspect he
w. was untrue, but that she never
lid work in an office with other
nen.
DO:as Something.
he listepcd. thanked nor. and said
would hear from him. Perhaps sh,
ay yet, although this was some year,
ASK the next successful woman you
let how-no matter what her line Of
L,