Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1910 — What World Lost? [ARTICLE]

What World Lost?

"It was the worst calamity that ever happened to me,” sighed the pale, intellectual high browed young woman. "I had written a modern society novel, complete to the last chapter, and a careless, servant girl gathered the sheets of the manuscript from the floor, where the wind had blown them, and used them to start a fire In the grate.’’ “What a burning shame that was!’’ commented Miss Tartan.