JOURNALISTS
1 y ARE THEY 0000 HDaMMMf / "Sorry for baina; m *aaaaiate«aßtj,u X laud, to Jam, mtom tfaa b>nHa»t tafab | "Bat •i« ! j<Mir ah* asked. j "Hop***," I raplpd. I mtfaad • pin. 1 ■nph with mantnauia, mi! paaaad tha momtnir paper to her. I wasted bar to read tha, MMib of *c B*v. W. Major < ( Soott, of Dud* (ktm the wbtb aaTof * mwmalad* instaadoTsne paaoU) ea hasband*. ■ It » a proof of tin oouat* tad brad-, mudsdneM of jownaliaai that almost •very paper in the oaontry joined with' the Dulj OmDrit m quoting Out preacher's opuuonl that.— Clergymen am fht moat deanable hasAuthora and journalists! are unsataw'aotory r "I dm over Mr Scott', deft haadinr 'of a. bonquet to himself—presuming that 1 he if a husband," I said "I am more , concerned with the fact fiiat when you act out to'bnd the ideal hnsband you had the bad luck to dropt on » journal**" a "And never realised my bad luck tUL 6 Mr Scott opened my eyes for me," raU i plied Jane,, rather handsomely, I thoughts '•The fact is," I ooDtinned, after I had'4, bowed my acknowledgements, "we journ-% aJiata are so busy looking after other hue f band* that we cannot look after ourselvaa ■• "A ooUaaffue at Dundee (or DulwiehV' w.rrea u«\ that a< man had baao caught',, beatang his wife We do not atop to in-s*) quint whether he w«* a olerKymeß ben^ on ooatradiobntr the Rev W Major"! Soott'i.,statement, or a poor author who** knew no better We rtue our pens, ", writo 'Disirraoeful episode »t Dundee t (or Dulwich)' at the top of the telegram,;'J and then bejirin an indignant leader with-*' itii the words, "Hie man who beats a,'J, woman ezoept m kindncw and for^ her own good, m not worthy-th© proud naoetv of man' *J > "Or we jhear of tin aaicmmlnw tw o{-t ay man who refused to -bay hu wjfe*^. fuijf onat, or a dnunond ring, or a motor-oar-) when she acked for some such trifle This I laahes im to fury 'te tks' ihe England) we need to know,' we ask, 'the Enjrlasd',? of men as generous as they ace brave-' 1 \nd then we ootne home to oar wivee-^^, I mean, of ooorae, to our wife, the edi-' tonal we carrying' with it, like^ aibishporw^ the njrht to but one wife—and* say that owmfr to the strain of life in*-Flset-etreet we may have to withhold the' usual housekeeping ofaaque that^week w 1 "8a I ami afraid, my dear^rthat tou^ 4 must Uk-TuCM we We We are ButTlittl«C journalists weak " i "But not auoh bad huabands r after all "<? said Jane \ '-■ ,V "That's very, kind of you." I repliedlJ, "I wonflor How it can be" 5* \ "PerhatM becau«e you^are not really 1 1 very pood lournaliet after all," said Jane \' and I thu left to appreciate the oomph ment at my discretion t \
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1922, Page 11
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480JOURNALISTS Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1922, Page 11
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