The Editor's Daughter

New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 291, 19 January 1945, Page 9

The Editor's Daughter

FASCINATED by the title of this serial, we asked of one who should know what is peculiar about being an

editor’s daughter. Well, she told us, you only notice it at breakfast time. If father works on a morning paper he is still asleep, breakfast is piani8simo and daughter grows up like Cordelia with a voice ever soft, gentle, and low, and 2 flair for eating toast quietly; with an evening paper father is present at table in body, but not in spirit, for the: birthpangs of the day’s editorial have begun, and daughter learns not to ask fhen for a bus fare nor to disturb the milk-jug against which is propped the freshlyopened iniquity of the rival daily. Apart from this, life was as normal and unexciting as for the next’man’s daughter. But in the grip of 1ZB’s romance, we.decided that our friend had been unlucky, for Editor Foster, like the skipper of the Hesperus, takes his daughter right into the thick of things; he even ferrets out and writes up the scandal of the village for her so that she may make scoops on a New York paper. No doubt small town editors have much more fun than city giants, for they have a finger in every pie; and indeed Editor Foster is so busy arranging his neighbours’ private affairs and assisting daughter’s career that we are beginning to wonder how his newspaper ever gets published, just as we used to wonder how that old busybody Doctor Mac ever fitted in the daily. routine of peratures, blood pressures, and chest ndises.