Office Rules

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 89, 7 January 1886, Page 4

Office Rules

♦ -, r The follcwiug simple rules should be placed in a coi.s:icoi.i place T iif every •ditoriul room in the couutry, for the guidnnce of Tisitors : . " **" " We hare plenty of time— it's monej >• aw after. ' ' ■' . l>tii: ]Sbne but chestnut vendors allowed to remark, smilingly, to 'the editor* Using ;his ■""iijaoM, ," Ah, writing original s-ditoriahi?" „'" Wu«n the visitor says he believes it is /tl.timo for him to go, it is consigtantj to ■:ghbw bis iaith by his works, ; ■ ' 2 Always ask what the circulation is now r If you want to please the editor, never . ..eompliment what he lias written, but praise what h« hag clipped from an ex- ■■" ff you don't find a chair handy, «it on ■ r -'^« 'editorial deski > v ' '■* •'' Don't hesitate to speak to the editor when he is Writing ; you may 'catch "a 7Krlllia,nt thought, hot from the^reg, so Ao^penk. . ■.',..'/ ' fteTer nubscribe until pwased to do so, aud then remark casually to send the .bill round sbineijirtie.. '.. • !' \ Don't fail to leok over what proof and c*py may be on the desk. iThil may -prevent serious, erreri. /T , , . ' 1 ' ,' r By all means, suggest to thtf editor ' " j(ow the paper sbould be run. Thfey all , d,P it. ■.. . v ■■■■■.'' . . ■.•'"When you want ah exchange down i in ;.'\ftia..bott»jn of the basket, never accept ', , IJip! editor's .invitation to look for it. 'Assume a holpless. expression', and let him waste his 1 time digging it out for • ' •'• y»u> • ' ■■-.-.. ■ : ; ' ■?. . ! ; • : . Always ask if the fighting editor is in. 1 tfhi,B is not a ehestnut outside the guild. 'Copie .again. —Merchant Traveller. : . i i— l[ ' i '—— '— — ■ '''' ' ' ==