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Updated: October 2, 2026
That he had once gone hungry rather than pay more than the worth of a meal at an old negro's "snack house," was set forth as a "sub-headed" virtue. He had married above him, the daughter of a neighboring "merchant," whose name was stamped on every shoe he sold. The old man died a bankrupt, but the daughter, the wife of the rising capitalist, remained proud and cool with dignity.
"There is quite an interesting article in yesterday's Chronicle-Abstract. Have you seen it?" "Yes," said Bartley. "What article?" "This Confessions of an Average American." Witherby held out the paper, where Bartley's article, vividly head-lined and sub-headed, filled half a page. "What is the reason we cannot have something of this kind?" "Well, I don't know," Bartley began.
He had sent in to the paper for which he formerly worked a full account of the fatality, accurately headed and sub-headed; and, in his note to the city editor, he told why he had chosen the hour of 7 P.M. as the time for his departure from an unappreciative world.
"You know what I mean," continued the writer, impetuously crowding his words "you know what I mean, Marsh. My stuff in this morning's Messenger is plainly sub-headed 'A Ghost Story. That is ample notice to all. Every honorable reader will understand it as prescribing by implication the conditions under which the work is to be read."