Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — Ways of Some Men. [ARTICLE]

Ways of Some Men.

Sarti, the musician, composed only in darkness.— '"'Turgot never worked when he had dined heartilly. SehillerrbefeFe composing, put his feet in cold water. Bossuet wrote in a cold room with his head warmly enveloped. Buffon wrote in lace ruffles; Alexander Dumas in his shirt sleeves. Voltaire had in his room sometimes five desks, at which he pursued different tasks. ' : Milton composed his “Paradise Lost” in/j a /targee -armchair, with - his head thrown back. Michael Angelo, Leonaodo da Vinci, Titian,, and Reuboa passed from the chisel to the pen or brush. Gretry, when composing, breakfasted and took coffee, and then applied himself day and night to his piano.