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Show Cleveland Twins Edit Paper for Sick Mother CLEVELAND. The House News, published almost weekly by young Neal Smith, has perhaps the greatest great-est reader interest of any paper in the country and the smallest circulation. circu-lation. It has an unfailing circulation of one. The staff of the House News consists con-sists of Editor Neal Smith and his dark-eyed star reporter Virginia who also is his 10-year-old twin. I The News may not fare so well financially as papers go, but it is successful, nevertheless. It is a labor of love, written exclusively ex-clusively for the mother of the devoted de-voted twins, who is in poor health. The little paper is printed in pencil pen-cil by Neal, who does the art work. "Th' big story this week," said the little boy, working hard to get out the edition, "is about Nellie-she Nellie-she lives on the next street who fell off the porch and scratched her face. We're bannering it!" Most of the time the paper is four pages one sheet of writing paper doubled in two, but sometimes, when there is a big story, it is eight. When Mrs. Wallie Warfield and King Edward VIII were front-page news the world over the two children chil-dren were just as busy as metropolitan metropol-itan editors. "We were in favor of the marriage," mar-riage," Virginia said earnestly. "So we put down just what we thought and you can see what happened. They did get married!" Another good news week was the one preceding the marriage of their elder sister. They ran stories about what the bride would wear, what they thought of the bridegroom, and the prospects for good weather for the event. When the wedding took place, they couldn't think of anything to say about it "Ev'ryone was there, anyhow," Editor Neal said. "No use writin' what ev'ryone knows about" In a recent issue there was squib about a fire on the next street Virginia covered the fire, ran over and got an eyewitness story and then dashed breathlessly bark just in time to make the edition. When they see an illustration fn a newspaper they like, the two transfer it to their paper by rubbing rub-bing it with wax, laying the print on their paper and rubbing hard. Neal does a weekly comic-strip which he calls "Herky Boy," and which is one of his favorite features "It makes mommy laugh." h said, "even when she's loneiy." |