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Show - Advie-j to orraspoudeiits. Nuvi r wrilft with rn or ink. It ia alt'iellicr Uu, pl.iin, i-mi din .sn't hold t v rniml uf udilur a:id prioiors o!"Bi-ly enough to their ivorl:. If yuu ire compelVI to use ink, uevtir use that vulgarity known as the bluuiuj pud, It yuu drop a blot of ink on the papr, lick it off. The intelligent in-telligent eivnpoaitor lovea nothing so dearly us to read through the smear this will rnnke across twenty or thirty wsrds. We have seen him bang over such a piece of copy half n hour, jnrintf like a pirlu all ttio time, he felt thut ywod. Don t punctuate. U'e prnfur to punctuate all mrniiHcript sunt tu us. Aud duu'l use can lln. Thru w cna punctual and i-npitalizu tj UU our self, and your articltt, wheu you ace it iu priut, will astonish even if it doas not please you. Don't try lo write too plainly. It is a sign of plebian origin and public-school public-school breeding. Poor writing is an indication of genius. It's about tbe only indication of genius that a great many men poaseu. Scrawl your articles ar-ticles with your eyes shut and make every word as illegible as you can. We get the same price for it from the rag-maa as though it were covered cov-ered with copper-plate sentences. Avoid all painstaking with proper names. We know the full name of every man, woman, and child in the United States, and the merest hint all the nama ii anfTiiflnt harimrni if you write a character somathin like a drunken figure "8," and thei draw a wavy line, and the letter J and another waving line, we wi. know at once that you mean Samui Morrison, even though you ma think you mean "Lemuel Mei senger.'' It is a great mistake tha proper names should bo writtei plainly. Always write on both sides of thi paper, and when you have filled bott aides of every page trad a line up am down every margin, and back to th top of the first page, closing youi article by writing the signature jus above the date. How we do love tc get hold of articles written in thii stylo. And how we would like to gel hold of the man who sends them. Just for ten minutes. Alone. In the woods, with a cannon in our hip pocket. Kevenge is sweet; yum, yum, yum. Lay your paper on the ground wheu you write; the rougher the ground the better. Coarse brown wrapping papr is the beat for writing your article on. If you can tear down an old circus poster aud write on the pasty side of it with a pen slick, it will do still better. bet-ter. When your article is completed, crunch your paper In ynur pocket, aud carry it to or three days before sending; it in. This rubs ofl the superflnous pencil marks aud makes it lighter to handle. If you can think of it, loss one page out of the middle of your article. We can easily supply what is missing and we love to do it. We have nothing else to do. Burlington Hawkeve. |