THE MODEL EDITOR.
A man who runn a paper Should know eyeiy human capor, Joid hold up tbe tO'-ch ot knowledge like a gleam ing midnight taper. He bhould bo profound as Plato, Pliant as a boiled potato, And as humble to hiß patroas as a street ana crossing soruper. He Bhonlci honour in his journal Every captain, rrank, and colonel, Attd di9h up their proud achievements In a nodsrepor! k« cooked diurnal. Ho should puff-t'to hardened liar— Clubs and concepts, church and choir, "With long adjei-tivts. sonorous, sweet, seraphic, and supernal. He must w-ite the funny column That nisk"S all the readers solemn, With the fashion, trills ana flounces, furbelowe, and—" wbat d'j c dll 'em ? ' Qiul the cony fiem.'s wild revel, isquelch and mofcsacre the devil. And put on a brow o' thunder that shall petrify and appal 'em. He must ba a news reflected Of th • schoolroom ana the lectur 1 , * And rain dow> his surgary torronts on the veteran Milk Int p ctor. Ha mn-t be a piotnpi" adviser To eacn forugn kv q and ha'ser, And keep out hie keyhole teiescope to dodKe the billc llect r.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 189, 29 January 1887, Page 1
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192THE MODEL EDITOR. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 189, 29 January 1887, Page 1
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