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He had some of the funniest drawings there, and some of the most pathetic, that I have ever seen in my life. I wonder who will have Nolan's scrapbooks. Well, he said his reading and his notes were his profession, and that they took five hours and two hours respectively of each day. "Then," said he, "every man should have a diversion as well as a profession. My Natural History is my diversion."
Tillie knew she was short-sighted about facts, but this time Why, there were her scrapbooks, full of newspaper and magazine articles about Thea, and half-tone cuts, snap-shots of her on land and sea, and photographs of her in all her parts. There, in her parlor, was the phonograph that had come from Mr.
He would snip with scissors the pages of ancient journals, and with delicate ecclesiastical fingers, drop unknown mysteries into the flames. Sometimes he would turn to the four red folio scrapbooks with their collection of newspaper cuttings, concerning himself, over a period of thirty years. Then the pale cheeks would flush and the close-drawn lips would grow even more menacing than before.
Mother and the girls will be so interested, and I must send Lou and Mab a carnation apiece for their scrapbooks." "Give me one back, please," said Sid. And Grace with a little blush, did so.
Soon another young girl, Genevieve Hawley from Fort Scott, Kansas, was employed to help with the endless copying, sorting of letters, and pasting of scrapbooks, and with the current correspondence which piled up and diverted Susan from the book. Through 1897 and 1898, they worked at top speed.
"If I'd had the rights you men keep from us I'd never have done them!" she retorted quickly. "I don't know," he replied, wagging his head and smiling. "Having rights, including the ballot, would not change the nature of a woman! Tell me, Susan, have I escaped the scrapbooks? I've wondered many times if you were keeping record of me, too." "You never did anything I could put in.
Miss Stone did not like to have little girls object and it was not polite, and besides you had to take care of things your own things. The servants took care of the house for you, and brought you things to eat, and made beds for you, and fed the horses and ironed clothes... but your own things the gods and temples and scrapbooks and paste that you left lying about you had to put away yourself!
He didn't know what was going to happen next. But as the months rolled by he became calm, and when Governor Antrobus died, Jimmy got up a remarkably good story of his life and achievements, and though there was no family left to the dear old man to buy extra copies, all the old settlers who are the hardest people in the world to please bought extra copies for their scrapbooks.
They looked at each other and laughed, then the Judge added: "And it may be I was afraid of your famous scrapbooks!" "You were never afraid of anything," she returned. "Yes, I am. I'm afraid of something now," he answered, flipping the pages of some papers which lay upon his desk. "I'm an old man holding in my hands a fuse which I must light presently, and I dread the consequences."
But he is almost more noteworthy, from our point of view, because of his use it also must, one fears, be called an abuse of a process obviously invited by the new demand for truth to life, and profitable up to a certain point. This was the collection, in enormous scrapbooks, of newspaper cuttings on a vast variety of subjects, to be worked up into fiction when the opportunity served.
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