Then the fancy
takes him that the girl is a modern Undine and has not yet
received her woman's soul. The story relates his effort to
beautify, illumine the face itself by evoking a mind. I never
learned who was the actual girl with the features of an angel and
the face of a fool.
In the case of "He Fell in Love with His Wife," I merely saw a
paragraph in a paper to the effect that a middle-age widower,
having found it next to impossible to carry on his farm with hired
help, had gone to the county poorhouse and said "If there's a
decent woman here, I'll marry her." For years the homely item
remained an ungerminating seed in my mind, then started to grow,
and the story was written in two months.
My war experience has naturally made the picturesque phase of the
Great Conflict attractive material. In the future I hope to avail
myself still further of interesting periods in American history.
I find that my love of horticulture and outdoor life has grown
with the years. I do not pretend to scientific accuracy or
knowledge. On the contrary, I have regarded plants and birds
rather as neighbors, and have associated with them.
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