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THE SUN, SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1913.
MEN BEHIND THE CARDBOARD WHO PLEASE PUBLIC
Here Are Photographs of the Comic and Political Cartoonists
Whose Clever Work Has Gained for Them Thou
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AI'KW month ago there was
printed tn tills section of Tiik
Si n a page of photographs of
Now Vork'tt comic artlntx who
llr.il it liuril work to be funny. After
the publication of these u flood of let
tor reached tiik Scn office requesting
another page of pictures of artist
whoso photographs were not published.
Shown in the accompanying group
.if men whose clever work for different
New York newspaper has made their
n. wiles Known In almost every hamlet
In i le I ulted States. Among them are
uil wht have left the Held of news
paper illustrating to enter monthly
magazine, book work or to take up the
inoii .inns task of painting.
Oiotiped In this lot are men who teach
big moral lessons by their cartoons.
Kembel, whose pointed picture 111 the
Kvkn'IN'ii Sf.v and Siwhay Siw often tell
st ry that would have taken n column
of word to convey to the reader, and
'W A lingers of iiimt's HVW.' and
the llrrttltt are almost a well known In
Purope as they are In the t'nlted States.
About a year nun the latter artist, while
alighting front a street car, fell and
btoke his right arm. dialing under the
Inactivity caused by the bone knitting
ir ices, Mr. Holier decided to draw his
TRIALS OF AN
Political Campaigning in the
Country Attended by
Many Amusing Adventures
Br CONSTANCE WILLI (MS,
IT is the custom at elections tn
England for women to take a
prominent part in the ennuis, ami
the electors feel themselves de
frauded if there are not one or two
feminine speakers who expound such
questions as free trade, tariff reform,
education. Insurance, or whatever topic
may be uppermost at the time. The
payment for this work Is, on the whole,
good, but the work Is hard, much
election speaking being done out of
.loors.
Open air speaking Is difficult and
trying for a woman, especially In the
winter. At the election In Manches
ter when Winston Churchill was de
feated the great Idea was to hold
meetings out-dde the factories at the
men's dinner hour. We were a team
of three or four men and myself and
had come to the toivn to preach free
trade.
We arrived outside some big cotton
mil: to find the speakers of all sorts
of societies in full blast. It was dif
ficult at first to find a pitch, but our
captain was nothing daunted, and, se
lecting a favorable position on the
edge if the footpath, said; "Now, then,
Hrown, go ahead."
Mr. Brown took of his hat and
began In a voice that shook the wall".
He went on hard for ten minutes. No
one txk the least notice of him ex
cept thpe exceedingly dirty children
and a lame dog, who stood in a row
and gazed solemnly; the rest of us
clapped entl; i-lastieally at intervals.
"Tliis won't do." said the captain,
and Mr. Itrown, stopping In the middle
of a sentence, hurried tiff to a cottage
to borrow a chair on which to Maud.
"You'd better try' tin y told me. when
the "platform" was llrmly planted In
the gutter.
Clutching the captain's MioulUr to
i vti' i i iii .-vi i, i ut'Sdii. id i in nun
I mounted the chair when there was a
wild rush from the other audiences. i
"It's the bUlfrasette! It's the suf-
tragettes
tney yeneu. an, we wen
s on surrounded by a good tempered
ciuwd of men and girls who listened
fairly quietly to my remarks.
Audiences ill remote country districts
are the most long suffering, they wi.l
listen silently and for hours to the dull
est disquisitions on any subject. It Is
dllllcult to tlud out what they really
thiifl;, for the squire ami the landlord
still hold sway, and for a man to bp
found attending a Liberal meeting anil !
uppl. Hiding might mean the loss uf his
work or expulsion from his cottage.
At an election in one of the rural
counties where we had been working
we reached a small village later than we
expected, our motor car having burst
a tire en route. It was about nine
o'clock, the summer night was creeping
oil, there weie lights ill some of the
upper windows of the cottages and the
whole place seemed asleep.
Drawing the motor up against the
wall of the church which seemed to be
the enure of the village we prepared
for our meeting. Two of the company
sat on the wall ami smoked, while u
third made night hideous by sounding
the motor horn In order to announce
our presence.
The captain decided that I must be
gin. No sign of an audience was vis
ible. The stars peeped out one by one,
and a slender moon rose above the trees,
while bats ilew past ami round us, and
an owl hooted from among the Ivy on
the church tower. It is. a .strange sen
s.itioii to speak out Into the night in a
sol t of monologue. Pacts ubout ex
pot t and Imports, about the insurant'
act or education sounded odd when
mingled Willi the scent of (lowers from
the cottage garden or the sleepy twit
ter of an awakened bird.
After a time dark forms crept to
ward us from various points, upper
windows were opened, and at the end
of ten minutes the lamp shone on an
audience of twenty or thirty. The ter
ror of these villagers ut some unknown
power was pathetic, A daylight meeting
in the Interests of the Liberal candidate
had never been possible there.
"We daren't come," said one of the
men; "we're marked men If we do, Why
don't you always come at night?"
Ami then the audience slunk away,
they melted, and 1 was left addressing
my remarks to a gentleman on a tall
horse the squire, who hail come round
to see what the unwonted nolso was
about As we drove away sleepy voices
called "good night;" only the owls in
tlie chinch tower were Indignant at be
ing disturbed. As I said before, the.
rural population Is wonderfully patient
and long suffering.
Speaking Is not of course always con
nected with the actual work of an elec
tion. The vital spark of interest has
to bo kept alive between times. Last
winter 1 was announced to address a
political cartoons with his left hand.
Ills lltot attempt was a success, and
the carloon was published the day after
It reached the llrrnld olllce.
Pvery one remember the wonderful
popularity enjoyed by the Yellow Kid
comic of years ago. Itlchard mitcault,
the originator of the Kid mid Muster
Itrown, 1 the only nrtlt who has to
his credit two lilt; successes In comic
cartoons. Through the medium of news
paper syndicates these comics reached
millions of readers In the t'nlted States,
It Is said among artists that the name
Yellow Kid came to Mr. Uiteault's
funny boy through n mistake In the
printing department of the newspaper
which published the series. It seems
that the man In charge of the printing
press was Instructed to use an Ink of
a certain color, but by a mistake used
yellow Ink while "making ready." When
Mr. uutcatilt saw this he quickly np
pi eclated Its value, and thereafter the
seile was printed under the title "The
Yellow Kid." Mr. Outcault was the first
artist In the world to make colored
comics, und the present day newspaper
colored comic supplement Is the out
growth of his early work In that direc
tion. Charles Dana Gibson is another nrt
1st whose work Is very welt known
ENGLISH WOMAN
meeting in a lemote locality In one of
the London suburbs, in a chapel mis
sion room. The cold was bitter, and
the snow, which in London had been
swept away, lay a foot deep outside
the station when I arrived. As I en
tered the hall I perceived by the light
of one gas jet a gentleman with a
pocket full of papers looking at a
map of Pgypt on the wall. We glared
at each other for some time.
"Are you the speaker?" he asked,
looking at a handbill,
"Yes," I replied.
"Ah.t' shivering, "I'm a reporter,"
and the Irony of tils tone cut me like
a knife.
After a great deal of stamping and
puffing outside a gentleman In a top
hat and wearing an Immense muffler
appeared. My hopes of an audience
were dashed, however, for when he had
at last unwound the muffler he an
nounced himself as the chairman, with
many apologies for being late.
No one else came, so I gave the re
porter the heads of my speech and
tramped back through the whirling
snow to the station.
I learned next day from the local
paper (on our side In politics) that "ow
ing to adverse meteorological condi
tions the audience, who listened with
keen attention, was not as numerous
as might have been desired.
Country work b the most arduous, as
It of tin entails a great deal of walking
during the day, with a meeting at the end.
In one village we succeeded in col
lecting a crowd In the reading room, at
tracted, I am afraid, by curiosity rather
than a desire for enlightenment. Every
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to our views, and we found the room
packtd with noisy opponents.
The captain was greeted with a storm
of shouts and hoots and the singing
of "We won't go home till moraine."
He suicided after half an hour's un
equal contest. Mr. Urown, who has
the strongest voice In the party, roared
at the amued crowd, who made nurc
no so than ever. Then he lost hln tem
per when a soft rljv tomato hit him
on the side of the jaw. It Is not a bit
uf UH0 lom(; yol. t0II)pep on such oc
cixions1 ih' only thing to do is to wipe
up the me3 ami go on, or try to. Aft?r
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1 felt rather forlorn, when, in re
sponse to a sign from the captain, I
sto. d up. There was a momentary
pause, it was pomethlng of a novelty
to have a woman address a meet'ng on
any subject but the suffrage. I was
even allowed to say a few sentences,
then the noise began again, a tomato
Money Changing in Europe.
There is one comfort about travelling
In America. You c.tn go for days and
days In the United States without get
ting out of the country or having to
change your money Into a new cur
rency or hearing a new langujgu or
getting used to a nuw set of postage
stamps.
In Kurope It Is different. You go to
bed at night In Prance with a pocketful
of Trench money. You wako up In
Italy, say, the next morning. If you
stop off anywhere In that country you
have to change your Trench money
Into Italian, and you always get the
worst of It In the exchange. And the
Italian banknotes are so unimpressive
that you are always wanting to give
them away. An American Isn't used to
a coin smaller than a cent and when he
gets a lot of tiny coppers he Is apt to
lose all Idea of their actual value.
Money changing Is one of the big In
dustries of Purope. Around the rail
way stations the money changers' signs
nro thicker than those of the ticket
scalpers used to be In South Clark
street, Chicago. The very first sign
you see entering the city of Jerusalem,
by the way, Is that of a money changer.
Postage stamps are nnother worry. You
am buying postage Btnmps constantly
and sticking them on letters without
nny certainty that you are getting
enough on. One American lady In
Cairo, Rgypt, told a friend with a sigh
of relief that she was sure her letter
would get to America because she had
put fifteen Sphinxes and Pyramids on
the front and five on the back.
Another thing that worries the
American traveler on his first tour Is
tho way the names of the towns have
been chnnged since he studied geogra
phy. He tlnds that there are no such
places ns Florence, Naples, Cologne,
Alexandria, Jerusalem, and so on. If
he wants a ticket to one of these places
ho learns that he bus to nsk for them
by unfamiliar names. Florence Is "Pl
rence; Naples, "Napoll"; Cologne,
"Koln"i Alexandria, "Skanderleh": Je
rusalem, "El Khus." &c.
Then when the tourist reaches Con
stantinople he tlnds that his calendar
Is nine days ahead of that of the Turks,
his watch seven hours behind and that
he has arrived In a month that be never
heard of before.
both here and abroad. Ills pictures
which appeared In Tilt! Sun tinder the
title "The Pictures That Made Gibson
Famous," drew renewed Interest to his
inimitable work und were an acid test
of his popularity with the reading pub
lic. The peculiar Impressionistic style of
Wallace Morgan, "Morg" to his friends
and associates, Is always a delight to
the eye. Mr. Morgan lias forsaken
newspaper work and now devotes his
entire time to magazine and book Illus
trating. .lames T. McCutcheon Is nn artist who
has enjoyed for years a reputation as a
funny man. Ills pictures, which ap
peared In the Chicago Tribune, met with
Instant success, and he Is considered the
most popular comic artist In the West.
P. T. Itleffards Is a political cartoon
ist not unknown to the New York news
paper reading public. His pictures now
appearing In the Lmltva' Hume Journal
are attracting favorable comment.
Orson Lowell's social cartoons In
Life, James Montgomery Plagg's Illus
trations and conceptions of pretty
women, and George McManus's comic
have gained for these artists thousands
of followers who never fall to buy the
publications In which their work Is presented.
AS A SPEAKER
Pay Is Good but the Work
Hard Most of Speaking
Done Outdoors.
came perilously near, and an overripe
pear went squash against the wall be
hind me.
I implored them to spare rav hat,
which eomo one was kind enough to say
was a pretty one. Then I told them
feeble anecdotes and sjorles with little
or no bearing on our propaganda, but
the public Is like a child, it waits to
be amused and entertained.
There had been about three minutes
comparative silence on the part of th"
audience and I was beginning to think I
might come to the point, when a large
potato came hurtling through the air,
well alined from the back of tho hall,
liy some fluke, for I never couli field
at cricket, I caught it, and tn one
hand!
This was a signal for wild appliuso I
and shouts of "Well caught!" The cap-!
tain beamed approval; but my triumph
was short lived, for Just when I was
getting to the subject for which the
meeting was called some om turned
out the Eai and there was a stampede
tor the door.
One of the most trying experiences of
a speaker Is to be engaged for a fort
night's propaganda work In some re
mote rural district far from railways,
where the villages are ten or more
miles from the nearest station. Some
times the speaker Is expected to arrive
early In the afternoon and work up a
meeting for the evening. I find a good
method Is to bring a dinner bell and
walk down the village street rlnntng
It. This generally has the desired ef
fect of letting the Inhabitants '-enow
that something Is going forward.
On an occasion of this kind we made
our meeting known and a crowd of
some dimensions collected, but nowhere
could the key of the chapel In which
we were to meet be found. Thcrj was
an open window to be sure, but the
portly members of the audience de
clined to enter by that means.
I was obliged finally to make my
speech with a flat gravestone as a plat- 1
f Tin while the audience sat along the '
wall or lounged In the grass at my feet. 1
The chairman arrived Just ns the meet-1
ing was over with the missing key.
which he had inadvertently taken away
In his pocket.
Sometimes an afternoon and an evening
meeting are arranged for the same day
This means motoring many miles be
tween villages and often much search
for the schoolhouse or barn where they
are to be held. On one occasion a party
of us drove In a wagonette to a village
in the heart of the enemy's country.
The rival candidate owned all the prop
erty and no one dared let us have a
room or a hall. A farmer, however,
who could afford to be Independent, lent
us a large barn Illuminated by flicker
ing lamps and candles.
I sat cnthrontd on the only chair
while the audience lounged on the hay
and straw or stood In a packed and
silent crowd nt the back, It was a try
ing meeting. No one applauded, though
they listened with the deepest attention.
Tho air was scarcely hostile, and yet it
was not friendly. We climbed Into the
wagonette at the end somewhat chas
tened and depressed.
"Let us," I said as we drove away
In the darkness, "give one rousing cheer
for Sir " (our candidate) "Just to
show we are not afraid!"
We stood up and made the hills echo
with our shout. When we sat down
we found that some enemy had deftly
placed on egg on the sent where each
of us had been sitting. Some of the
party did not sec what had been done
In time and great was tho lamentation.
1 had mine a nice fresh one for break
fast next morning.
Tho most difficult' meetings to ad
dress ore those held In a drawing room,
or worse still, in a garden; there Is so
much to distract the attention of the
audience. In the garden the bright
sunshine and flowers are not con
ducive to a deep absorption in educa
tion or tho abstruse technicalities of the
Insurance act.
I always urge 'my hostess to have re
freshments after the speeches. If tills
Is not done audiences have a habit
of melting away when tho tea and
strawberries are finished. At Lady
A 's during last summer I had
succeeded In gaining the attention and
Interest of nn audience of nearly three
hundred, when a crash of glass and a
shriek Interrupted the discourse at Its
most telling point. A lady stepping back
to avoid the sun's rays had sat down
in the cucumber frame! She was not
hurt, hut to reguln the attention of that
audience was Impossible,
Meetings of women only are tho
most depressing and those held In a
drawing room are peculiarly so. They
are mostly composed of the middle class
woman the working woman prefers a
hall or schoolroom und can rarely be
persuaded to come Into a drawing
room. The ghastly depression of these
occasions defies description.
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