A SWEDISH NEWSPAPER'S DECALOGUE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 26 January 1884, Page 3

A SWEDISH NEWSPAPER'S DECALOGUE.

- —• /■ 'ft,-' Newspapers aro oyideiitly not very different in Swedetf from those of other countries. One.of them publishes whit it qalls ".The contributor's Ten'{Commandments/: .one of which.ljold qyite'as.' good "in ; New Zealand ,win Scandinavia!£'• you. wish' $' send acommunioation to a'paperjcloit aToneeiv What,is'new atthiir moment is,.no. longer, so concise in your.statement, ifor thereby . you : savo-your own timo and that of tlio reader. Explanations nofc.words-j'fafctfl ||Sj, no. reflections on ( them t (3)' Be simple,-, write distinctly, do not talk . about to-day or yesterday, but give the • name of the dajr or the date; (4).\ Wi'ito sentences, for the! benefjij' of tho iea(lei?< , Use many stops .an'd .commas, and'do not forget to put Aliein in, (!j). Don't correct single letters or but cross the. whole word Out' whet) a' correction is wanted, (6.) First and foremost, writo only one side of tho paper. A hundred lines on one side can be cut into ten pieces,' and pet up by ten compositors in ten minutes. If rtdbm on both, sjdes {' tdrcatf' iWangfc 'it, wliicli will'take', some hours.. (.7).- ; MS. paper whioli; takes some homs in ,getting<into typo . is in danger of .not bijing ' printed tho first day,' r ;; i»; .piisseil. over; tili ' another day. (8), : .iikept till. ' tiio nextday ig iiej, and may not get -in. .-Each i itlay has -ife. own trouble ; yesterday is, always iii tl(e wrojig. ; (9). Put'your, name anil.addresson tho back ol' your: copy, . (10). Above ullj speak tlio truth, and nothing hut the truth. ]f ybit' talk Übout youN s'olf use.the thirdpei'Bon;say .vyhatyou havo to say without false modesty, .but also without conceit." • • " ;