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Rhoda Gray eyed the man for a long minute; then she shook her head. "I take back wot I said about youse bein' a slick crook," she announced coolly. "I guess youse're a dick from headquarters. Well, youse have got de wrong number see? Me fingers are crossed. Try next door!" The Adventurer's eyes were fixed on the newspaper headlines on the floor. He raised them now significantly to hers.
His eyes were discontentedly fixed upon the headlines of his paper, but he was thinking. "Making a lot of work for your mother," he protested, "upsetting the whole house like a pack of wolves! Upon my word, I can't see the necessity. Why can't Sally and Martie " "But it's only once in a long while, Pa," Lydia urged. "I know I know! Well, you ask Martie to speak to me about it in a day or two.
"As a matter of fact," he continued, "the criticisms you hear about the American press are founded on a dislike for our headlines and for the prominence we give to crime, to corruption in office, and to sensational topics generally; the charge of inaccuracy is just thrown in to make it look worse.
The sun shone through the little skylight gilding a tin pan that hung over the cook stove. Tacked here and there were portraits of authors, and I noticed a faded newspaper cutting pinned up. The headlines ran: "Literary Pedlar Lectures on Poetry." I read it through. It seems that the chief Whitman disciple in Camden is Mr. Traubel; and Mr.
Tomorrow the whole town will be looking for you, and Noonan will hear who you are and where you are. Then! Say, girl say, girl, it will be grist for our mill! Fancy the headlines all over the United States: 'GANG KIDNAPS CANDIDATE'S WIFE MYSTERY SHROUDS PLOT CANDIDATE REMINGTON IS SILENT." "But he won't be silent," protested the indignant Geneviève.
He alone was in the headlines, he alone was discussed. No one was to be allowed to forget that he was the clever young surgeon who had saved the great Marraville. The account dwelt upon the grave personal sacrifice he was making in leaving New York just as the world was beginning to recognise his great genius and ability.
"The coming of the mail is the most exciting event of every day now. Father just snatches the paper I never saw father snatch before and the rest of us crowd round and look at the headlines over his shoulder. Susan vows she does not and will not believe a word the papers say but she always comes to the kitchen door, and listens and then goes back, shaking her head.
Headlines an inch high would proclaim the discovery of the missing Stanley G. Fulton, and the fine print below would tell everything that happened, and a great deal that didn't happen, in the carrying-out of the eccentric multi- millionaire's extraordinary scheme of testing his relatives with a hundred thousand dollars apiece to find a suitable heir.
The more of a fighter he was the better he would need to fight before he got through. Jurgis had got the habit of buying the Sunday paper whenever he had the money; a most wonderful paper could be had for only five cents, a whole armful, with all the news of the world set forth in big headlines, that Jurgis could spell out slowly, with the children to help him at the long words.
For months preceding the election it was filled with objections, innuendo and abuse in prose, verse and pictures, all designed to impress the reader with the absurdity and danger of giving the vote to women. It appealed to the farmers and to every class of people connected in any way with the manufacture and sale of beer, saying in headlines: "Give the Ballot to Woman and Industry goes to Smash."
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