THE MODEL EDITOR.
A man who runs a paper Should know every human caper, And hold up the torch of knowledge like a gleaming midnight taper. He should be profound as Plato, Pliant as a boiled potato, And as humble to his patrons as a street and crossing scraper, He should honour in his journal ICvcry captain, crank, and colonel, Ann dish up their proud achievements in a hodgepodge looked diurnal. He should puff—the hardened liar— Clubs and concerts, church and choir, With long adjectives, sonorous, sweat seraphic, and supernal. Ho must write tho funny column That makes all the readers solemn, With tho fashions, frills and flounces, furbelows, and—“ what d’ye call ’em ?’ Quell tho copy fiend’s wild revel, .Squelch and massacre tho devil, And put on a brow of thunder that shall petrify and appal ’em. He must be a news refleoter Of the schoolroom and the lector’, And rain down his snrgary torrents on the veteran milk inspector. Ho must be a prompt, adviser to each foreign king and kaiser, And keep out his keyhole telescope to dodge the bill-collector.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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183THE MODEL EDITOR. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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