Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1915 — SHOCKED ALL HER IDEALS [ARTICLE]

SHOCKED ALL HER IDEALS

Lady Found It Hard to Understand How Author Could Have Such Normal Habits. I was presented once to a lady who Immediately fixed me with an eager eye. “I am making a study of the habits of authors,” she announced. (Here a dreadful sinking of the heart assailed me.) "Kindly tell me at what hour you retire.” “Usually at half past ten,” I answered wretchedly. At that, as I had expected, her eyebrows went up. “The author of ‘When All Was Dark’,” she informed me, “sits up all night. She says she cannot sleep until she has* savored the dawn.” However, she was kind enough to give me another chance. “What do you eat?” she asked. • - "Three hearty meals a day,” I answered. “Not breakfast!” she pleaded. “Why, St. George Dreamer never takes more than three drops of brandy on a lump of sugar in the morning. Just the sight of a coffee cup will upset his work for a week.” And then she left me, sure, I do not doubt, that no real author could confess to such distressingly normal habits as mine.—Atlantic.