Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1910 — AUTHOR ON TOMATO RATIONS [ARTICLE]

AUTHOR ON TOMATO RATIONS

Barry Pain, Noted English Humorist, " Underwent Poverty Period After Buccess. . London.—Barry Pain, whose new “Eliza” stories are to be published shortly, is undoubtedly one of the most popular of living humorists. After leaving Cambridge university, Mr. Pain became a classical tutor at a “crammers;” while there he sent an article to the Cornhill called “The Hundred Gates.” It was accepted promptly by James Payn, then editor of that periodical, who, furthermore, sent the young author a very kind letter. The cleverness of this article attracted the attention of Sir Francis Burnand and Wemyss Reid, editors of Punch. Mr. Pain’s subsequent contributions to Punch and The Speaker were so successful that he resolved to come to London. Then came “a period of romantic poverty,” a period in which he lived on bread and tomatoes and in a laborers dwelling. It was during this time that Mr. Pain received a visit at the laborer’s dwelling from the pompous butler of his editor with an invitation to dinner.