BEAUTIES of EDITING a PAPER

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1026, 21 January 1882, Page 4

BEAUTIES of EDITING a PAPER

Editing a paper is a pleasant business not too pleasant, but just pleasant enough. If it contains much political matter, people won’t have it. If the type is large, it don't contain much reading matter. If we publish real stories, folks say they are nothing but lies. If we omit them, we have no enterprise. If we have a few jokes, folks say we are nothing but end men. If we omit jokes, folks say we are farmers. If we publish original matter, they damn us for not giving selections. If we give selections, people say we are lazy for not writing more and giving them what they have not read in some other paper. If we give a complimentary notice, we are censured for being partial. If we don’t, all hands say we are awfully ghastly. If we insert an article which pleases the ladies the men become jealous, and vice versa. If • we attend church they say it is for effect. If we remain in our office attending to our own business, folks say we are too proud to mingle with other fellows. If we go out, they say we don’t attend to our business. If we don’t pay up promptly, they say we are not to be trusted. If we pay up promptly, they say we stole the money.