A TIP TO EDITORS.

Patea Mail, 14 May 1881, Page 3

A TIP TO EDITORS.

Says a humorist at Christchurch : —lf 1 were compelled to choose between becoming an editor or a bailiff or suffering annihilation, I think I should go in for the sndden death clause. lam told the average editor has more enemies than any other professional man on the face of the earth, and, strange to say, the more talented he is, the move his enemies advertise him and bring him into prominence. There surely must be something in a man who is well abused. I am farther assured that a journalist can never hope to attain to positive eminence unless he carries about with him a fist as big as a shoulder of mutton. He must be proficient in the pugilistic art, and prepared at all times to defend his honour and his nose both with his fist and with his quill. There dosen’t seem to be much of the poetry of life about all this, am} fate is hard on the man consigned to the editorial doom. Don’t be editors, dear boys ; life is too short. About those bailiffs I haven’t much to say. You may see one or two of them every day about the Resident Magistrate’s Court, with an eye in a sling, and presenting as battered an appearance as though they had just come off a battle field. However, of the two, I should prefer to be a bailiff; but my tip is for the death racket.”