JUST AS GOOD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 April 1916, Page 3

JUST AS GOOD

(By WALT MASON , .) You write a book that makes a nit; it's full of happy phmsus ; and readers all refuse to quit a-singing of its praises. The novel tan your volume buys, whatever h# can strike it; and then the Just As Goodcrs rise, -mil write some book "just like it." Tho gountry's inundated with your type ot sparkling story: and Jones and Brown and Jinks and Smith are Borrowing your glory. Tho Jiwt As Goodcr lire in wait "for all who gain attention, and all their curves he'll emulate, with gall too fierce to mention. If you invent a garden gate, that" has all others beatsn. the Just As Gooder makes its mate before his grub he's eaten. If you turn out a type of pome, you haio rlio .same old trouble ; the Just As Gooder rushes home, in haste to write its double. It you've a cold—-such ailments rise, at divers times, and curse one—the Just As Gooder eite and lies, and says ho has a worse one. The Just As Goflder trails along, like doom, belfmrl his betters, and makes a mess of Art and