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Show and grammar work la a good one Write about your town, Its local hap penlngs, operations on the farm, im provementa that have been made, th advantages your town offers, th things you think it needs. Improve menta that might be made. This cult I vates not only facility of expression but habits of observation. This much more valuable than writing, on historical or abstract subjects like George Washington or patriotism, for these things are taken out of booki and the writer usually reproduces th Ideas or language of some one else, It la proper to have pupils write on such subjects when you want these historical facta more firmly Impressed on their minds, but to get originality of expression and the habit of observation obser-vation the pupil should write about the things he sees. ' We are reminded of a country girl who sent the editor a story about dukes and lords. Her Ideas were, of course, taken from books she had read, and there was absolutely nothing In the story. Yet, she had considerable consider-able facility In expressing herself and had she taken facts and incidents from the life around her, she could have furnished an Interesting article. Those Leamington pupils have quite a high Idea of what a country paper should contain, yet, we fear that if It rntalned only what concerned the whole town or half of it, and should contain nothing that concerns only one or two persons a good deal of read, able correspondence would be left out We would have to leave out all the marriages and births, the visits of people to their friends and many other oth-er things that people look for In a paper and like to see if it refers to themselves. There are not the Important Im-portant things happening in these small towns that a country paper can Oil Ha columns with them. Of course, the editor can generally find some things of importance to write aboit whea-M vlaMa-aay of these towns iC that is because he has had experience In news gathering. With experience In writing and observing correspondents correspond-ents also become more proficient. This Is about the only kind of writing that has a market value these days. A well written news article is always acceptable accept-able to a publisher. When the editor was younger In the newspaper business he used to attach considerable importance to his editorials edito-rials and wrote a good many. We have gotten over that now, and don't write many editorials except on some live subject. It Is news people want and that's what we try to furnish, although al-though some people think we ought to suppress some newt that we have thought was of public importance. We think the large circulation of the Chronicle has been secured because we try to give all the news and It la as reliable as possible. So. fellow-writers, fellow-writers, send In the news of your town, gain experience as a writer, and perhaps you will graduate on to a :ity paper some day. 1 WRITING FOR THE PAPER. , I Elsewhere we publish a prize com- I P!;Ju by a pupil of tbe Deseret rhool. We will also say that most of tbe iVaeret Irene are furnished by 'He pupils of the school. We think lie suxirtlon of tbe Leamington teacher that pupils should do tola kind r of work In connection with language t |