Show THE EDITORS WIFE down in georgetown texas there lives a very popular and brilliant editor who edits the georgetown commercial his name is lee J rountree and besides being a prince of good fellows he is vice president of the national editorial association a distinction worth while because ot of the tact fact that it means the gent lemans election to the presidency next year alt t los angeles this Is only halt half the story however mr rountree has a most dost charming and brilliant wife a prime favorite with every member of the N E A and who with her distinguished husband aided materially in making the tour ot of the great state of texas which followed the annual meeting of the association held at houston texas in april ot of this year one of the most n ost successful and pleasurable kilps ever made by the organization at tho the meeting of the association mrs rountree Roun treo gave an address on the editors wife filled with many bright sayings the following paragraph appealing particularly to wifeless editors and which might help the cause of the editor of your home paper to understand an editor is better than to condemn him to love an editor is better than to abuse him I 1 to mike an editor better and happier Is the noblest work of tiny any woman girls try it and live happily ever afterwards mrs rountree closed her citver clover address with the following original hoem the editors wife bif e chave I 1 have searched the dictionary for words to rhyme with wife I 1 have looked till my eyes are weary and I 1 found only lite alfeo rite rife strife I 1 have stretched poet license till the thing was tit fit to t 0 bust and in prose ive tried to write it till I 1 gave up in disgust for she bhe Is something more than human though ashes something less than man arid and ill try my best to paint her though my lines they may not scan sh she Is mighty good example ot of this complex modern life she s of industry a sample a Is the editors capable wife when youre born ashes first to welcome with the greeting of a friend when you die she still pursues you ath a write up at the end i she juggles well with adjectives and adverbs too she knows ste she conciliates conelli ates the and nd likewise the editors tees fees tween times she does society and then she has to write it and if there Is a wedding tia her duty daiy to it sho she reads the proofs full often and silo she soothes the printers wrath when the pi is almost hopeless and the hour flour for press Is past there are few ew jobs in the business which she cant do in a pinch and the editor without her ter would be in bad a cinch ashes had little time tor for leisure in her useful happy life for her job it keeps her busy just being an editors wife olt oil no im not a poet you may safely stake your life but my subject well I 1 know it for I 1 am an editors wife |