ADVICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 170, 20 August 1879, Page 3

ADVICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"foe £ Burlington Hawk eye ’ gives the following directions to its correspondents as to the manner of anpp'ying manuscript : Never write with pen or ink. It is altogether too [lain, and doesn't hold, the mind of the editor and printers closely enough to their work. If you are compelled to use ink, never me that vulgarity known as the Hotting pad. If drop a blot of ink on the paper lick it off. The intelligent compositor hives nothing so dearly’as to read through the smear this will make across 20 cr 30 words. \\ T o have seen him-bang over such a piece of copy for half an hour, swearing like a private all the time—he felt- that goon. Don’t punctuate. We prefer to punctuate all menus ripts sent to us. And don't use capitals. Then we can punctuate and capitalise to suit ourselves, and your article, when you see it it: print, will astonish even if it doesn’t please you. Don’t try to write too plainly. It is a sigh of plebeian origin ami State school breeding. Poor writing is an indication of eenins that a good many men possess. Scrawl your article with your eyes shut, and make every word as illegible as yon can. We get the same price for it from the ragman as though it Were covered with copperplate sentences. Avoid all painstaking with proper names. We know the full name of every man, wok#m, and child in the United Slates, and the merest hint of the name is sufficient.

For instance, if you write a character

something like a drunken letter “S," and then draw a wavy line, we will know at once that you mean Samuel Morrison, even though you may think you mean Lemuel Messenger. It is a great mistake that proper, names should he written plainly. Always write on both sides of the paper, and when you have filled up both sides of every page, trail a Hue up and down every margin-; and hack to the top of the first page, closing your article bv writing the signature, just above the date. How we do love to get hold of articles written in this style ? And how woimi wo like to get hold of the man that sends theni ! Just for 10 minutes. Alone. In the woods, with a revolver in our hip pocket. Revenge, is sweet, yum, yum, yum. Lay your paper on the ground when you write ; the rougher the ground he better. Coarse brown wrapping paper is the best for writing your articles on. If you can tear down an old emeus poster, anil write on the pasty side of it with a pen stick, it will do still better. When your article is completed, crunch your paper in your pocket, and carry two or three days before sending it. Tins rubs off all superfluous pencil marks, and makes it lighter, to- handle. If you can think of it, dose one page out of the middle of your article. Wo can easily supply what is missing, and we love to do’>D“ Wd mivo nothing eEo to do.

A harc-footcd darkey while hoeing cotton one day, sew his big too under a clod and thinking if a !n el s head mt it ■'iid hurt himself. Afler working witn if for a while In- got fin'd. sot his foot mr a slump and said : " Well, p* pain away • J dornidc car--, yon h'”T.-; \<- Vusin ye do in-.” . ,I'WP.