Editing a Paper.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 33, 7 July 1885, Page 4

Editing a Paper.

Editing a paper is a vei'ynice business, aud thoso who know nothing about it consider it a very ea*y business. If we publish jokes people *ny we are rattle-h nails;, and it' we omit jokes we nre tokl we are an old fossil. It wte publish oiiginal matter they blame us for not giving selections and if we publish selections folk* wiy that we ,are lazy for not writing .something ; thtfy Ulia'd :ndt- mid m sbme ! bihuir paper. Ignorant of-, what good editing is, people, imagine the getting up of selected 'matter to be the easiest thing m, .the. world, to do, wherea* itria. i'eall y the nicest work on a; paper.. If they find the. editor ..with. scissors' m hari'l, they're sujjcvijai Ait'y. 'ftMEh ! that's thjt^ •way you get s matter, eh??' ticcpmpauyinffrrth«-*V* «,ev. witty qutisrtiohs- A with' air idiot ie" \vink oi 1 stole', r-' ■--:• •■/■ ; "-^ •'■■••>^V--j. vi! TOfMcfcS a^e that ; die;'i^t«re^; i< thfe ,njdvality. t the, ,va,iiei'ty „auU: usefqln.esp df'a pajier dejimid m no small; degree j^inpnutH selected , > matter, nnd few uie^i are capable of the. position who' would notbe-able theni^el'v : cs i! tio : write-in any .of the articles they^electj k sbnsibif ■^€ditor. 1 ' v (leßireß''' l tffthy(leya\hle^^e!ected' matter, ! be.c t a«se i he., knows thfit.pnp \niriil cannot, make as good ; a'.|iaper as sijc.i-iJifcwe.giye.a man-a coin|])Hmentary' notice. we! are censured, foi* *.)ipiri^: pautial/jand^of we) fail ' to^^tv4 complibienta vy nptitj^s we'are informed "'tl|ftt we'are a K6g. If* we iiisert •paper in 'theAc{e.ar; ones', ppinion^is no|i fit to make a .bustle oi. , t If we feaiain . iri our office .and attend. to bm ;; btißineßs' fplks say -w^ are too proml "lo \ mingle with our fellows; but if 'W gb vi 6uV,'ihey say \yo /never attenfllto^nr ' B .#-4-e wear old clothes, jt ia.insiniikteH thrt^ •-bmitieß«'fe%ayfan t a v irw ;^;%^- i gbo^ »rfl8?» $1?&-W ■'?• M Mf lex^Yftgantl ; , A. news^ajier anjl . a ; editor that ppople. don't sometimes ; a^.Hs«PJ ?^ r^i^theP po_or.lcotfGeVrisyJi The I ; men and business *hat an editor somei jiffies* feelsit'k clutyUp defeiid at-tM risk iof making enertfies' 'b¥ Anotherclass^[ai» 5 ofj%n;; tjje ; rUrsJjXtQjahp^h-j gratitude;, lihe^editoi- .whpiexpects to| receive much charity or, gratitude ;|p ; oii ld ; g<> ahead and^sajr , aij^ Vc|p^ wJiat | i ftS-.VlPP^i.e.ullwsly. . .thinks ! . . righ t' /without regar.l to; thp . frowus or* |iJruilei?U--i'Exchangei ;' j ' !i v ' ; |