LEGIBLE HANDWRITERS AND OTHERS!

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 October 1912, Page 2

LEGIBLE HANDWRITERS AND OTHERS!

A complainant "correspondent of the tloroArhenun Chronicle lately vecc>iv(hl tlio following letter from the editor. Tt is now published "for general information" (as the Gov-

eminent departments sometimes say), there being others whom it may assist on to the straight path: "Dour Blank,--Mow in the name of the god of plain speaking" <lo von expect any comp. to read correctly the words J have underlined in your letterP Our comps. know words like "at," ''because," and "heretofore', (also ".shandygaff.' "cocktail,', "pledge," etc.) Hut Jtny newspaper man who has read enough t<i be awawc that the r'rench Revolution produced uutroiisorod enthiis.iasls »1' the cult you refer to knows too niiK'li tir be content to remain a compositor. In other words, lie is erudite, and endowed with the divine unrest that raises him to an editorial i-liair or ;i hustings. <>r Hi" topmost step of the late Queen's statue at Wellington. when next you desire our compo--i-

tors to print for ymi :i reterence to '■■ sanseiilottes or ihiralapsarians. ''on- [ vey your recou<lite w;ird< in jinuied lettei's. Your bdief that von writ* , plainly is pure hallucinat!-: ; :i. If this editor were settiiM: type rtill lie woiilil puzzle out your hieroglyphics, and in so <loing further I'niivince yon of their copperplate characteristics. Hu'l between linoivp.operators and \]\<' old time band conips. there is sol ;i LL'reat gull. The old-time comp. li'id time i'"r the solving fif puz/.les. but ibe lino- • typer hears the "hurry, hurry up ' of his demon machine every nioii'e'H of the '2"),'200 whi<-b comprise biday's work. The pace is too la-i. ;ind he has no iinie for thinking j while he works.' .