Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1920 — AND SO IT WAS ILLUSTRATED [ARTICLE]

AND SO IT WAS ILLUSTRATED

The Way of Modern Artist With a Story That Really Captivates His Fancy. “This is a peach of a story,” thought Dasher Christy, the eminent illustrator. “I enjoyed every word of it. It’s the kind nf a story I like to Illustrate. I. gives me something to work on. This description of the heroine, for instance.” And he read it again for the 10th time —“Myrtle Stedfast had liquid brown eyes with- prominent pupils, a dainty Irish nose to which a crescent shaped freckle on the very tip lent added piquancy, fiery red hair with a glint of green where the sun caught it, a ravishing rosebud mouth and teeth like new ivory that has just been mined.” “The hero, too —a masterpiece,” mused the eminent illustrator. And he read over the hero’s description once more-7-‘.‘Pete Jardiniere was above all, a manly man. He was 6 feet 7 inches tall, as blond as the moon and as fascinating as the devil. His eyes were black as ripe coal, his teeth white as unspoiled snow. He was the slenderest man Myrtle had ever seen with the exception of the living skelerm.in the side show.” Two months later the story appeared in McEvery’s Magazine, illustrated by Dasher Christy. Tn the pictures, Myrtle had purple eyes, a perfect Roman nose without a freckle, black hair and no mouth, while Pete was a little fat man with pink eyes, gray hair and a red mustache. —Detroit Free Press.