A MODEL EDITOR.
A man who runs a paper Should know evej^r human caper, And hold up the toroh of knowledge like a gleaming midnight taper.* Ho should be profound as Plato Pliant as a boiled potato, And as humble to his patrons as a street and orossing scraper. He should honor in his journal Every captain, crank, and colonel, And dish np their prond achievements ia a hodge-podge cooked diurnal.; He should puff—the hardened liar — Clubs and concerts, church and choir, With long adjectives, sonorous, Bweet, seraphic, and supernal. ', He mnst write the fanny column, That makes all the readers solemn) With the fashions, frills, and flouncei, furbelows, and—what d'ye call 'em? Quell tho copy fiend's wild revel, Squelch and massacre the devil, And put on a brow of thunder that shall petrify and appal'em.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9253, 1 December 1891, Page 4
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136A MODEL EDITOR. Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9253, 1 December 1891, Page 4
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