Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1917 — The Only Way. [ARTICLE]

The Only Way.

Theodore Dreiser, the New York novelist, helped himself to some tiny rice-birds at a luncheon at Sherry’s. “What little things rice-birds are!” said a poet. “Here are nine on this one piece of toast. How do you kill enough rice-birds for a meal, anyhow?” “Why, with Insect powder/ of course,” said Mr. Dreiser, taking up a brace of birds on his fork.