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it a general magazine for women's interest. I don't think Dreiser was the first editor. There was somebody earlier than he was - some woman whom I can't remember. Anyhow when Dreiser was the editor of it, he was buying all kinds of articles and stories and paying big prices for them.

I met him socially and then went down to sell him an article that I had written. Everybody wrote articles in those days. It was a small world. In those days everybody tried their hand at these things. I had written stories before. When I was in Chicago, I earned myself some extra money writing for Street & Smith under another name. I wrote true love stories. Street & Smith used to pay around fifty dollars. I don't remember the titles of them. They were just terrible. When I told Sinclair Lewis about it and he was working for Street & Smith, he tried to dig them up, but we couldn't locate them even then. I wrote under several different names. One of them was Bertha Warren. Another name I used was Josie Sherman, why I don't know. Bertha Warren had been a childhood friend of mine so that name was in my mind. Those stories were just terrible. They were nothing that you would ever say you'd written. They were just plain horrible.

The word pulp hadn't been invented, but Street & Smith