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Show Typewriting In Washington-Up Washington-Up in our department there is a lady the daughter of a distinguished general, now dead-who does a good deal of writing writ-ing for the cheaper class of magazines, and always has her manuscripts copied by one of the. typewriters in the department. depart-ment. One dav she took the manuscript of a short article, written for a .well known woman's niagaine, to a young lady who had recently been appointed as copyist in the department to have it transcribed. The young woman, it seems, had had some dealings with magazines herself, and not being troubled with conscientious scruples, she made two copies of the article, mailed 'one to a periodical to which she had before sold some matter, and under some pretext delayed delivering-the other on'e to its author for some time. 3 a The article was promptly accepted ana a check for it sent to the typewriter. Then the author of the article mailed it to the magazine for which she intended it, and a few days later there was an explosion. ex-plosion. It seems that the typewriter, as such would -have it, had mailed tho stolen matter to the very same editor that its rightful owner had intended it for. The offer of a copy of manuscript which he had already accepted or paid for actually caused the editor to institute insti-tute an inquiry, which in a very short time led to an exposure of the fair typewriter's type-writer's duplicity. She and the author had an awful row. But the latter couldn't very well lay the matter before the chief and ask for the girl's dismissal, for of course she had no rignt to nave the matter copied in the office, and didn't care about having the fact that she had exposed. She will, however, have her manuscript copied elsewhere In future. Washington Critic. |