Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1914 — Stories Old and New. [ARTICLE]

Stories Old and New.

Some men are born story tellers, sdme achieve the story telling faculty, while others —who constitute the great majority—can only Bit in amazement and listen to the man who can glibly reel them off, one after another, as if they were all new, fresh and original* You can recognize a good story by the number of times yodT meet it, for the good story is picked up and repeated, interchanged, enlarged, improvised and spread, until It is liable to reappear, as natural, or in disguise, at the four corners of the earth, and at widely separated periods of time. That’s what makes the modern story teller such a delight, because until he finishes you cannot know whether you are about to meet an old friend -or be initiated Into novel mysteries. The redemning feature of it is that every year another crop of listeners grows to maturity for whom the old ones are always new, and who, in consequence, must be the perpetual inspiration and the |lvJpg encouragement to the story teller.