POINTING A PARALLEL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2167, 29 May 1886, Page 5 (Supplement)

POINTING A PARALLEL.

•• Have you erer thought, ' a&ktd Theodoie Thomas>, ''ot the sunikuity that exUts between an orchestra and a news paper olfice? Just look at it fora moment ¥011 see me stand at the front, baton in hand, directing proceedings calmly and unconcernedly. It I want a certain depth or lightness of expression or it I require such and such treatment to this or that theme, I indicate with my baton what I desire, and my wish is executed. I am the managing editor; it is under my personal and immediate dnectiun that nil the muMc is made. The fiddlers are the reporters ! they have to work pretty much all the time, and they are called upon to treat every variety of subject. The clarionet and flute represent special writers; they have less work than the fiddling re porters, but what they do has to be of the best quality. The bass violinists are what you newspaper folks call the heavy editorial writers; they discuss the tariff and other ponderous themes iv music. See how solemn and impressive they look ; they never get excited, but they keep right on sawing wood day in and week out. The basoons are the paragraphic*; somotimeathey arc really humorous, but their principal object in life seems to be to skirmish around. Sometimes they hartnonizo with the rest of the orchestra, but occasionally they get off a good thing, and, as the public seems to enjoj their capers, they arc cTicprfully tolerated. The trombones, tubas, and horns of the orchestra aie the "Old Subscriber,'" "Constant Reader," and "Justice" ol newspaper columns. They an- constantly on hand with their contributions, atid in variably they arc decorous, but once in a while they pot so importunate and combative as to make it decidedly uncom fortablc for the rest of the orchtstrj, 01 paper, as you please. >% — Chicago News.