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Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, The Old-Time Saloon is both a work of propaganda masquerading as “just history” and a hilarious exercise in nostalgia. Featuring original, vintage illustrations along with a new introduction and notes from Bill Savage, Ade's book takes us back to the long-gone men’s clubs of earlier days, when beer was a nickel, the pretzels were polished, and the sardines were free.
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Works Included: Ade's Fables Fables In Slang Knocking The Neighbors More Fables People You Know The Slim Princess About Author: George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright.
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George Ade was a 20th century journalist and playwright whose moral stories were popular among readers. He also wrote historical fiction like Round about Cairo, with and without the assistance of the dragoman or Simon Legree of the Orient (1906).
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The stories of George Ade are energetic, detailed, and affectionate slices of the social life of Chicago in the Gay Nineties. Originally appearing in the Chicago Record between 1893 and 1900, they range from candid character sketches and snapshots of everyday street scenes to fiction and fantasies drawing on the endless stream of inspiration the bustling city provided. Ade was hailed by such contemporaries as Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, and William Dean Howells, and the stories contained in this volume showcase the full spectrum of his skills: his keen eye for the absurd and sublime moments of daily urban life, his ear for the vernacular, his shrewd understanding of the Midwestern character, and above all his firm belief that all of human life was worthy literary subject matter. This volume includes many lively and evocative drawings by John T. McCutcheon, Ade's college classmate and friend who came to be known as "the Dean of American Cartoonists." Also included is an introduction by Franklin J. Meine, incorporating interviews with Ade and letters from John McCutcheon, Mark Twain, and Ade's managing editor, Charles H. Dennis.
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“When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window. “ “If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. “ “Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. “ “A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. “ “If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. “ “Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. “ “Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people. “ “After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. “ “Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. “ "One never can tell from the sidewalk just what the view is to some one on the inside, looking out.” Infinitely quotable, here is a classic collection of humorous and pithy observations in the form of essays that address every day life; simple old time wisdom with a healthy dash of humor sprinkled in for living a happy and enjoyable life. Thirty-three little stories of simple old time wisdom with a healthy dash of humor. The Roystering Blades, The Flat-Dweller, The Advantage of a Good Thing, The Common Carrier, The Heir and the Heiress, The Undecided Bachelors, The Wonderful Meal of Vittles, The Galloping Pilgrim, The Progressive Maniac, Cognizant of our Shortcomings, The Divine Spark, Two Philanthropic Sons, The Juvenile and Mankind, The Honeymoon That Tried to Come Back, The Local Pierpont, The Life of the Party, The Galumptious Girl, Everybody's Friend and the Line-Bucker, The Through Train, The Long and Lonesome Ride, Out of Class B into the King Row, The Boy Who Was Told, The Night Given over to Revelry, He Should Have Overslept, The Dancing Man, The Collision, How Albert Sat In, The Treasure in the Strong Box, The Old-Fashioned Prosecutor, The Unruffled Wife and the Gallus Husband, Books Made to Balance, The Two Unfettered Birds, The Telltale Tintype (cover image courtesy of Alek von Felkerzam)
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Here, in this volume, Prof. Gianakos has collected for the first time the 16 "stories of 'benevolent assimilation'" that George Ade wrote for the Chicago Record where they ran weekly from 8 July to 18 October 1899. These stories serve as a delightful reminder that not everyone at the turn of the century took the beginnings of America's "Days of Empire" too seriously...Ade "thought the idea of Americans trying to transform the Filipinos into Asiatic carbon copies of American democrats was almost too absurd for words."
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George Ade was born on February 9, 1866 in Kentland, Indiana, United States, the sixth of seven children and youngest of three sons. His father, John Ade, had migrated with his family in 1840 from Lewes, England, to Cheviot, Ohio. His mother, Adaline (Bush) Ade, was a native Ohioan of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
At the time of George's birth his father was cashier in a local bank.
Attending the Kentland village schools and working during the summers on a farm, young George developed a reputation as an absentminded dreamer with an appetite for reading but with little aptitude for farming.
In 1881, when he was fifteen, a local newspaper published one of his high school essays, his first appearance in print. Two years later Ade entered Purdue University, the newly established agricultural school at nearby Lafayette.
His father expected him to acquire a useful vocation in agriculture or the mechanical arts, but college only strengthened Ade's literary inclinations. Although he received a Bachelor of Science degree, he dodged mathematics and science as much as possible and excelled in English composition and literature.
A thoughtful but popular student, he was president both of his fraternity, Sigma Chi, and of the literary society. He also frequented the Grand Opera House in Lafayette, where he took undifferentiated delight in the dramas, light operas, comedies, and minstrel shows performed by touring companies. After finishing college Ade briefly studied law.
Early in career Ade had indifferent success as a reporter for Lafayette newspapers and as an advertising writer for a patent medicine firm.
In 1890, on the advice of John T. McCutcheon, a Purdue friend who became a noted political cartoonist, Ade moved to Chicago and secured a job as a reporter for the Chicago Morning News. His quick wit, his enthusiasm for the Chicago scene, his eye for odd and amusing incidents, and his ability to find interest and significance in ordinary people and events--"shop-girls and stray dogs and cable-car conductors"--soon made him a leading reporter on the Morning News (later the News-Record, and then the Record).
When the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, Ade was given the freedom to develop his own material in a column entitled "All Roads Lead to the World's Fair. " His success with vignettes of people and incidents at the fair led to the establishment of his permanent daily column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town. " Illustrated by McCutcheon, the stories were so popular that the Record collected and sold them in paperback form.
In 1896 Ade published his first book, Artie, composed of loosely related sketches concerning Artie Blanchard, a slangy, good-hearted office worker whose adventures had appeared intermittently in Ade's column. Two similar collections followed, centering about the characters of Pink Marsh, a Negro bootblack (1897), and Doc' Horne (1899).
In 1897, feeling "the necessity of concocting something different, " Ade set out to develop a new form of sketch that would use current idioms and catch phrases, "because they were the salt needed for the proper savoring. " Appearing in the Record on September 17, "The Fable of Sister Mae, Who Did as Well as Could Be Expected" (as it was later titled) was the first of his celebrated "fables in slang. "
Encouraged by readers, friends, and an alert publishing house, Ade wrote a number of such pieces for his column in the Record; a collection, Fables in Slang, appeared in 1899. The book was an enormous success, selling 69, 000 copies in the first year. Readers and critics alike were delighted by the character types impaled on a single phrase in this and subsequent volumes--the Martyr Who Liked the Job; the Music Teacher who came twice each week to bridge the awful chasm between Dorothy and Chopin; the Boarder who belonged to a Social Purity Club that had a Yell; Conventional Young Men, of the Kind that you see wearing Spring Overcoats in the Clothing Advertisements.
Ade's audience also enjoyed the satirical deflation of country ignorance and city pretensions; the language, a mélange of contemporary colloquial expressions and clichés leavened by Ade's ability to twist new colloquialisms out of old and to create remarkable vernacular metaphors whose imaginative brilliance was often masked by their homely rhetoric; a style of capitalization that provided an overwash of irony; and capstone morals that parodied the sober pomposity of the tales in McGuffey's Readers.
Syndication of the fables soon followed, as did other collections in book form, including More Fables (1900), Forty Modern Fables (1901), The Girl Proposition (1902), and People You Know (1903). Ade left the Record in 1900 and for a decade devoted his energies to writing for the stage.
He produced a series of hits in both musical comedy (The Sultan of Sulu, 1902; The Sho-Gun, 1904) and dramatic comedy (The County Chairman, 1903; The College Widow, 1904, his best-known play; Just Out of College, 1905; Father and the Boys, 1908; and others). Both plays were enthusiastically received and had extensive New York runs followed by long-lived road company productions.
Ade's royalties occasionally amounted to $5, 000 a week. He invested much of the income from his writings in farmland in his native Newton County, Indiana, including a 400-acre country estate, Hazelden, near Brook, where he settled permanently in 1904.
He spent the later years of his life in extensive foreign travel, in entertaining his many friends at Hazelden, and in social, political, and philanthropic activities.
He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1908, trustee of Purdue University (1908-1915), chief national officer of Sigma Chi, and director of publicity for the Indiana State Council of Defense during World War I.
One of his last books, The Old-Time Saloon (1931), expressed his opposition to prohibition.
Ade suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in June 1943 and died nearly a year later in Brook, Indiana. He was buried in the family plot at Fairlawn Cemetery in nearby Kentland.
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Quotations:
"Give the People what they Think they want. "
“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity. ”
“A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana. The smarter they are, the faster they come out. ”
“One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach. ”
“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. ”
“He was so Democratic he was ready to Borrow from the Humblest. ”
Member of the National Institute of Arts and Letter (1908)
Ade never married.
