Show DECLINED HIS OWN COPT A conscientious editors nici little plan speaking of editors the caad of an editor who wants to contribute an article to some other periodical than his own a magazine for instance is a curious one for the tims being he puts himself in the place of a contributor tri butor and feels the pangs of a timid author the listener once knew a newspaper editor who was inspired to write an article of a light and entertaining character suitable for a magazine he wrote it in his odd moments and then to speculating as to whether it bad any particular value tt seemed to him that it had but the reflection that tie might be prejudiced in its favor troubled him he had had precisely the same feeling when somebody had brought him an article that he wanted to judge favorably how was he to got his own impartial judgment on his own article he thought about it some time and finally decided thattie only way to get the necessary conditions was to send himself the article through tho mail to receive it with other contributions and to treat it all the way through as if it was somebody alses the plan worked to a charm the editor wrote little note to himself to accompany the article stamps for a reply or a return of the manuscript and mailed the whole at the postoffice post office towards the close of the day when the editor was near the end of a lot of wearisome communications and had got himself into the declining mood that comes with fatigue his article arrived after he had allowed it to lie around a while he broke the seal and read it then ho took a little slip wrote on it reflectively it with the man in a big envelope and put it into the compartment marked post office in the tin box that hung by the side of his desk ext morning he received the parcel back and read with breathless interest this note which accompanied the manuscript unavailable too discursive and trivial in its tone should have been elaborated with inore care many passages paa sages not needed in the presentation of the idea contains promise however author is advised to try again |