Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1920 — ALL YOUNGSTER COULD SEE [ARTICLE]

ALL YOUNGSTER COULD SEE

Urchin Had Developed Decided Streak of Realism at Early Stage of Hie Career. J. Jefferson Jones, the New York publisher, said to a realistic novelist the other day: “No, my boy, I can’t bring out your novel. Your novel Is realism, and realism is what the American public won’t accept. Why? Because realism tells unpleasant truths. “Realism is like an enfant terrible I know. A gentleman was calling on this urchin’s pretty mother. The gentleman had an odd swastika ring on his Anger, and he held out his hand, palm downward, to show the ring to the enfant. “‘What do you see there?’ he said. .“The enfant terrible looked coldly at the back of the gentleman’s band, then answered: “ ‘Freckles and brown hair.’ ”