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Show I Advice to Contributor. You beginners seem to write nothing I but your viewB on politics, and your reflections re-flections on art and your theories of life, which you sometimes even think original. origi-nal. Editors won't have that, because their readers don't want it. Every paper has its regular Btaff of leader writers, and what is wanted from the outside is freshness. An editor tosses aside your column and a half about evolution, but is glad to have a paragraph saying that you saw Herbert Spencer the day before yesterday gazing solemnly for ten minutes min-utes in at a milliner's window. Fleet street at this moment is simply running with men who want to air their views about things in general. Each thinkB ho is as original ns he Is profound, though they have only to meet to discover dis-cover that they repeat each other. They : should write of the things they have Been. Newspaper readers have an Insatiable In-satiable appeti te for knowing how that part of the world lives with which they are not familiar. Write on politics if you will, but don't merely Bay what you think yourself; rather tell what is the political situation in the , country parts known to you, When a I Man's ISingle Barrie. |