ADVICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3198, 20 May 1879, Page 2

ADVICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

TKe Burlingtcm Hawtey^givesllw^l- 1^ lowing directions to its. correspondents as to the manner of supplying manuscript :— ; orJnk^.j[ti4^|9* A^ gether too plain, and doesn't hold the mind of the editor aridlprinters closely "enough to! their work. If you are compelled.to - , use ink,,never,,use ,tbat vulgarity knqwn asjthe blotting pad,;. Ifyou;:3ropasilolt ofjfl' ink on the paper lick it bffr J The intelli-* V geht compositor loves nothing so dearly to read through' the smear )thtr will' make ,across, 20 or 3f) words. TT We have, < s seen him hang over such, a piece of copy ' for halfjan-yhour, ,s wearing, like, a,p,mate all the time-—he felt thai 'good.' Don't' j,anc|uate..,. v W,eprefer to punctuate all „. manuscript^ seat to us*, Aud'doifti tfse n' ' capitals. Then we can punctuate and capitalise j to;;suit j ourselves,; apd your article when you see it in print, will astonish, even if it doesn't please you. • Don't try to write, toe plainly. It is a sign of plebeiau. origin and State school breeding. Poor writing is an indication of genius that a-good many men. possess^ >'Scrawl your article with your eyes shut; s and make every word as illegiable as you can. We get the same pricer for it from the ragman as though it were oovered with copperplate "sentences. Avoid , all/.pains taking with proper names W^ A know the 5 full fmhd*&&'&#&'* v man, woman, ..and,., chjild, in the United States, and the merest 1 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 36nce litbat\#|u mean Samuel Morrison, even though jou may think you .mean .Mesßeng9r. It is a great mistake that proper names should be written plainly... Always write on both sides of 'the paper, and when you have x fille,d ;) ,up -both sides of; every^age,, .„ trja.il a line up and down every'margin,*" and back to the top of the first-page, cloj- , X) ing your article by writing the signature '' just'"o abov«d -th©s date,.,-, Hp 4 W35 rf .wp,. j ( i dft J( j9 love to get hold of articles written in this style! And how we wouldfjike.to-fetnfj hold of the man that sends them! Just for JO mitfute».'< the woods

with a a revolver in our hip pcoket. rßieveng^ii sweet, yum, yum, yum. Lay£3 Syour. paper on.the ground when you wrUej, the rougher the ground the better. Coarse brown paper if. tbje be|| ffTf n waiting your pan tear j, dbwn an old circus posterj 'arid write on the pasty Bide of it with apen>Bti rck it will do still belter. When your article is completed, jßrnSbk ybur.pi^rli^yogr^^^^r) 1 and carryj it 1 two s Qr»jtfyraß^daW^before v /sending it. This rubs offall superfluous 'pencil marks.. and 'make's r i¥ lighter to If you gn toink of iQW&tiikW page out of the middle of your article.: We can easily supply what is missingi^; /and we love to do,it. ;)We have nothing :) else td=do*;-,-^ ' J ,<o;4-.-':..' J ; i f.» fl fa^Jr ir.R^vk