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Show Encourage tho Editor. As a rule, an editor gets about 1,000 kicks to one caress. Once in a while ho gets o kind word, and it worms and cheers his weather beaten, storm racked heart, to the innermost core. Most people are afraid to tell an editor when lie writes an articlo flint particularly pleases tbeiu, for fear of making him proud, wo suppose, but if they Gud anything any-thing that does not accord precisely with their views, they will neglect their business to hunt him up nnd tell him of it. Pshaw dear friends, don't think you will spoil the editor by giving him an occasional word of cheer, any more than you will spoil your child by complimenting ii upon a piece of patchwork it has finished. fin-ished. Of course you could U-nt tin job yourself, but that doesn't d.-ter you fron1 lien ping words of" encouragement on tin child. It litis done iis best.. io you coul; doubtless beat the average editor at running a p;'ier.' Of cuiinw, you can. The mnu 'lis.'-not 'lis.'-not live who can't beat an editor nt running jiht. The editor is willing to acknowl ede that you can. He only runs it bee-ni:--. you have not. time to: but this fact need not deter you from givin him a word of en dura foment occasionally. Uansnile (X. Y.j Ui'eeiO. I |
