The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-06-23

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rain,
Wy rains my choice.
Men ginerly, to all intents-
Although they're apt to grumble some
Puts most they're trust in providence,
And takes things they
That is, the commonality
Of men that's lived as long as me
Has watched the world enugh to learn
They're not the boss Of this concern.
With some, of course, it's different
- I've saw young men that knowed it all,
And didn't like the way things went
On this terrestchull ball
But all the same the rain, some way
Raned jest as hard on picnic day;
En-, when they rally wanted it,
1t maybe wouldn't rain bit!
in this exstunce dry and wet
Will overtake the best of men
Some little skft O. cloudsll shet
The sun off and then.
And maybe, whilst you're wundern who
You've fool-ike lent your umbrell' to,
And want it-out1l pop the sun,
And you'll be glad you hain't got none!
1t aggervates the farmers, too
They's too much wet, err too much sun,
Err work, er waitin round to do
Before the plown's done;
And maybe, like as not, the wheat.
Jest as it's lookin' hard to beat,
Will ketch the storm-and jest about
The time the corns jintin' out
These here cyclones a-foolin round
And BACKYARD crops-and wind and rain
And yit the corn that's wallerd down
May elbow up again!
They hain't sense, as I see,
Fer mortuls, SIGH US, to be
Afaultin' Nachurs wise intents,
And lockin horns with providence
1t hant no use to grumble and complane;
It's jest cheap and easy to rejoice
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain,
Wy rains my choice
BY James Whtcomb Riley.
GENIUS is TAKING PAINS
DR.. Roy L. Smith
A LITTLE pocket notebook belonging to
~ Charles Dickens came to light the othe:
day which furnishes an interesting side
light on the genius of Englands greatest novel.
ist
This little notebook contained nothing but
Erasures, changes, variations indicates
the evolution through which the names of Die
kens' characters went before they emerged on the
printed page in startling suggestiveness. Nc
name was right for Charles Dickens until it was
perfect.
Herbert Kaufmann of Americas great
est editorial writer's, especially noted for hi:
brief, punchy sentences writes and re-writes ev
cry article dozen times more. An article
A.. H.
in its final form will appear in six thou
sand words in the first draft. Each rewriting
thereafter consists of the elimination of waste
words. The final article is the quintessence Of
eleven longer ones which preceded it.
Ebert Hubbard said of Robert Louis
Stevenson. "He never used a synonym" If HI
could not find the right word he waited until il
found. No sentence ever went to the print
which did not express exactly what Stevenson
intended it should express.
Irwin Cobb Americas humorist, is one O.
the mast painstaking workers of all our modern
writers. His free and easy style is studied GU
with scrupulous care. He once spent three day
in the New York public library hunting for on
word to complete story. Nothing but the RICH
word would do.
at is only trifle," says the amateur tn
'-SecOnd-rater. "a trifle can ruin perfection
says the trained worker with conscience and ex
perience.
Not every be brilliant, but any MAJ
can be accurate and there is genius finer thai
the genius for accuracy
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FOOD AND HEALTH
I" HE usual process for getting thin is t.
cut down on food. Most of US in tn
United States eat too much-thn peopl
as well as fat people. The fat people know
when they over-eating, while thin people d.
not have the daily evidence in the form of ex
baggage. Some thin people actually
eat much two fat people, without putting
on an extra pound of weight. On the other
hand, these naturally thin people cut their
diet by half without losing pound
Men have been preaching the doctrine Of