| Show HER contribution ACCEPTED her brother paid for it at advertising rates here Is the amusing experience of an amateur literary aspirant which was told to me a few days ago says a writer in the new york commercial advertiser A young woman in new york wrote one day a short skit intended to be humorous it aroused favo favorable rable corn com ment from her circle of friends and she made up her mind that it was good enough to be published in one of the humorous periodicals accordingly sho she submitted it to first one periodical then another it was a brief skit only about fifty lines in all and ae as her brother indulgently said couldn coulden t possibly have done any harm but still the hard hearted editors failed to see the humor of it t and kept sending it back to her finally the young author lost heart completely and was about to bury her poor little skit in the depths of her portfolio then her brother took pity on her and said here give me your skit III get it published or know the reason why A week or two later her skit appeared in one of the humorous papers and the young contributor enjoyed all the delights of first authorship sending marked copies of the paper to friends etc etc the contribution did not occupy a prominent place it was among the advertisements but the author bad had seen many comics among the advertisements ti and she was too contented to see her contribution in type to inquire farther she never knew what that twinkle in her brothers eyes meant and that he had paid full advertising rates to insert her skit in fifty lines space single column one insertion |
