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WRITES SPEECH TO ORDER. One Woman Finds it a Protitable Occupa tion.--Many Requests from Parents to Prepare Graduation Addrseses. Now York, December 21-"It mawkes no difference whether the sl'- , is for a feast or a funeral, I ready to write it and I guar aitee satisfaction." The speak er was a young woman who occu pies an apartment in a studio build ing only a few doors from Fifth avenue. "My charges are from $io to $ioo for a speech, and from $5 to $25 for teaching how it should be delivered. "This is my busy season, for ev erybody who has any ambition to be known as a speaker has some thing to say at Christmas festivi ties. If you will let me glance over my books for a moment I can tell you just what I have on hand. In the way of Christmas greetings, at Christmas trees and such occas ions I have already delivered and yet to be called for thirty-seven speeches. Of this number only four are to be taugi't. I mean on ly four of the thirty-seven persons who are to deliver them have come to me to learn how to speak their speeches. Six of them are old pu pils and would have taken lessons had I thought it necessary. Twenty are new customers. "There are just 102 names on my books for toasts and replies to toasts to be delivered within the next two months. Most of them re fer to Christmas, but others are for Washington's birthday, Lin ,coln's birthday, Lee's birthday, and some few for St. Valentine's. As to toasts on 'women,' 'our wives' or 'our sweethearts' I keep a supply on hand. I write them whenever I have a moment to spare, knowing only too well they will be taken off my hands almost any day. "Most of the women customers want patriotic speeches or cleverly worded toasts. Sometimes it is a reply. 'To the Ladies,' but'not of ten as one might expect. As a rule I think that women who attend men's dinners are quite willing to allow the men to do the talking. I have had some amusing incidents conwected with my w'omen custom ers; but nothing like the side-split ting affairs with the men. "There is a certain man in this town with something of a reputa - tion as an after-dinner speaker, a hungbrist, who comes to me for every word he utters in public. He was among my filrst customers. A few wveeks after I opened my of - fice,'wh*en I was doing all the busi ness alone, that man appearedon morning and stated his wants and said he could only give me two days to write the speech. He was ~such an awkward ungainly sort -of a man that I hadn't the slightest suspicion of his position. He didn't say where the speech was to be de livered. only gave me the subjech said that he wanited something very -good and was quite willing to pay for it. "He was on hand promptly to get the speech and as promptly turned in the other half of my fee for writ inmg it. Then he asked if I would Sobject to reading it over to him. As this was to be his maiden effort he wanted to hear just how it would sound to his listeners. As there wasi no lack of self-confi dence, I suggested that he do the reading and let me make correc tions, if any were necessary. Such reading., I never heard before and never expect to hear again. He emphasized every 'and' 'the' and 'but' in the paper to such an extent that the other words had no exis tence. It was ,the funniest effort at reading I had ever heard. I -have considerable self-control, but not enough to have taken me through that man's performance. When I begani to smile I simply' couldn't stop: the laugh had to con:e ogt WYhen firaily I could control t-:el su&icntly to ex plain the man wasn't the slightest bit offended. "'That is all right,' he replied. 'It shall go that way. I want the fellows to laugh. Don't matter if the speech is intended to be ser ious. I hate a serious dinner. I'll give the fellows something to laugh at.' "He gave them something to laugh at, for the next morning the papers told of his speech. They all agreed that it wasn't what he said, but the way he said it. Oh, he's a famous after dinner speaker now. My other customers don't know it of' course, but he gets the refusal of all my work, speeches and toasts. He is able and willing .to pay. It is a matter of business with me. The last time I saw him was on the street. He was much disturbed. He sahs astm the night before !i,unt been as succesful as usual He was sure it wasn't the fault of the toast, but of the dliverv. be cause he was learning to read an( recite like other men. He want ed to know if I couldn't give hir lessons, teaching how he used tc do. That was impossible and I told him so. No civilized humar being except himself had ever don( as he had done. "Women as a rule don't car( m nucl, about their delivery. The) say. and I expect they are quite right, that the members of theii clubs never listen to the speeche: and papers read at their .meetings They either sit and whisper or the) think about outside affairs. The do the thing for tne sake cf the re putation it gives them and to se( their name in the papers of the re ports of the meetings. If one of m3 speeches is printed in a magazine a paper or an anuual I require ar extra payment. "Women never object to this They seem quite satisfied with th< reputation of having produce( something worth printing. Met are not so easily satisfied. T'.ei think one payment ought to suffic< unless they get some money re turns for the printed article. Ever then they will haggle about it. 0: course, I always have ec argu ment to bring them to their senses I always ask: 'What would you' friends and the public say if : should insert as an advertisemeni my affidavit claiming that article a the product of my brain and re search ? I don't have to ask tha question often, however, I an thankful to say. People as a ruh are willing to standd by their bar gains. "Next to the Christmas seasor the graduation season is the busi est for me. I couldn't begin to tel you how many graduation speeche. I have written in my time. A least half my orders for sucl speeches come from the parents o the boy or girl to b graduated When I remind them that boys anc girls are not supposed to get assist ance in such work it does no good only distresses them. "My methods are very simple To begin with I came to New Yor_ with the intention of writing fo: the papers. I didn't make much o a success, and seeing this opening I determined to step in the breacd and try my hand at working up business. Realizing the necessit: of a convenient locality I rente< this studio. From some half doze1 customers, most of them club wo men, my business has grown unti now I am : -,d to employ two re gular assistan.,. and anm alread: dreading the day whe. a.nother wil have to be broken in. ')ne assist ant does my office work, while thi other spends all her time in thi libraries. I have to have materia to build up articles and speeches o1 and it is her business to get a ~mtch as the libraries can give. "Couldn't I make as much mor ev as a magazine or newspape riter? I certainly don't believe could make half as much. There 1 a great difference between speak ing and reading. A speech or arti le that would pass muster and ev en be considered clever when we. spoken might prove both flat an unprofitable reading. There1 nothing original in my work few jokes, not always new: a fes facts, historical or to suit the sub ject under discuss'un, clothed il good English. Any well educate< woman willing to give her tim and mind to it 'might do as well. I is lack of time among the peopi who are rushing about in their ef forts to keep up with everythin more than anything else that put money in my pockets. The rm jority of the men and wvome whose speeches and toasts I sul ply could do just as wvell themse es if they only had the time t think them out." CAPT. GRIFF'ITH MARRIBS. Sperintenplent of Penitentiary Wed Lexington Woman. Columbia, January 7.-This al ternoon. at the home of the brid in Lexington county, Mrs. Sti Kinsler and Capt. D. J. Griffit were married, the Rev. C. A. Free< of Columbia, officiating. Cap Griffith is the superintendent of thi state penitentiary, a position whic he has held for nearly ten yeart and he was formerly senator fro; Lexington county. Immedisatel after the wedding Capt. and Mr Griffith left for Knoxville, whel they will visit Capt. Griffith daughter, Mrs. Brice, formperI Miss Bertha Griffith. / -OF THE COMMERCIAL BANK ( under call of State Bank Exai December 16, 1907. 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