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Show A Writer ut A.lvril.i..-it. One would pn.inii.ly hiuijnm that thota onipju anil rary mivertinieiil wnicb be(fiu wilti wiine tjtrUmt; ailvuiiture or sclent ilk' tru and oth-;r iiiu-n-nLing subjects, but invarmUy wind up with a glowing ncpali tlf.ii on tlii wonderful fiuiribi of aoiue puUnt nivftniMi, ar uaiiy wriLUiii and thrown off at hot Intflt ny a rtruily wnu-r. ilut they am Duly anotli'ir InaLani-e of where It requires (Uttkull Ui.iy on the purt of the writer to prmluii' t-ii-iy reading. 1 was engued at a giHd Hilary lo wi ilu tluit kind of articles almoin a ci-rtmii kind of pulnnt uu.-dicinu, but at Uto end of two y-Jim 1 remaned, if 1 had not, 1 would have gone iiiauiiu. 1 was required re-quired to wrlto from ten to twelve dim-rent aril' li, eu' ii one not It-m than a quarter of a column, every day for various uewspaers. For mm hi In everything went along smoothly, and 1 threw off the "ads' from my pen as only the funi-ie of an idle moment; but gradually the work grew umr irksome and eveniually it tm'Hine rnally iiitoWuble. 1 had the whole Held of lu-ieuin, travel, biography, and, in fart, all department of literature to draw from and Ingeniously weave into the articles the "nd" for the patnt iionLrmii. After that ! would takes walk through the streets the some as a nuwwfjaijer reporter ou his round and pick up any Incidents ui be worked over. This did not throw much variety into tbo work, however, tx-i uuau each article had to wind up with the invariable medicine "ad.1 The monotony became exceedingly painful. The constant thought on one to tic, and the strain of study in evolving puzzling methods for utilizing facts and niformuuou for the subject, produced brain fever. The one wearing, monotonous thought of the medicine medi-cine "ad" liud burned itself into my very le-Ing le-Ing and haunted me like a nightmare. My brain hail had no opportunity fur the r err cation, ca-tion, elasticity and fascinating pleasure found in the varied, stimulative work of a newspaper writer, and nature revolted at tho monotonous treatment it had received. U lo bo-Uo 1 1 ioc r it t. |