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Show One Ileporler's "Copy.' Tlie writer is tempted to tell a story at the expense of a lovely nnd gifted lady who begun a few years ago a career as a society reporter. Every week her copy went to the editoi beautifully written nnd faultless;, considered as copy from the printer's point of view. Lut any little suggestion sho wanted to make she ran it along with tho article in tho following fashion: "Mr. and Mrs. Crown-Smyth gave on Monday an elegant blue dinner of fourteen four-teen covers. For goodness' sake, spell her name Smy last week it went in ftmi. and she was as mad as hops about it Mrs. Indigo Blueblood hits sent out cards for a ball, at which she will introduce intro-duce into society her lovely daughter. This is all right. This Mrs. Llueblood lias some sense, and doesn't in the least mind seeing her name in print. It's tho other Mrs. lilueblood we had tho fuss with. Mrs. Uptown gives a pink tea as soon as Lent is over. Don't stick her down at the tail end of the column, whntever yon do. I want to please her anyhow, because liur.t week she just went in as one of the 'many others.''' If it had not been for the discriminating discriminat-ing editorial blue pencil that fashion and society column would have been very delicious reading on Sunday morning morn-ing since a printer follows copy, and a parenthesis on tho paragraph's brim a plain parenthesis is to him, and it is nothing more. Baltimore American. |