Show An Object Lesson Among a lot of newspaper women one ot the group recalled the advice she had received from the man who read her copy back in the years when its preparing was new to her S I expoct she said I was very free with adjectives and one day Sir said to me as Ihanded him some work I Before 1 read this suppose you go through it carefully and take out every superfluous adjective I laughed and did so Then 1 brought it to him again He handed it back without opening Now he said go through it once more and take out all r you have left in I It was a neat little way of giving mean me-an object lesson and since then I have sever written in an adjective without pausing to consider if I could do without it And it is remarkable she finished with laugh how many of these parts of speech 1 have lostNew York Times |