Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1903 — A Witty Query. [ARTICLE]

A Witty Query.

The independence possible to authors who have attained literary übiquity and incidentally the gentle and chastened spirit of the modern editor who has these authors to deal with is illustrated by this story from a New York paper: A young woman who is not only versatile in literary matters, but has her moments of domesticity, recently received a letter from the editor of Harper’s Bazar, asking her to set a date for an interview in regard to a story. The author replied: "Unable to come owing to quince preserves.” The editor, being a ognized the force of tho excuse and rejoined: “Are you doing them up or are they doing you up ?”