EDITORIAL AMENITIES

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 519, 19 June 1869, Page 3

EDITORIAL AMENITIES

The following is a schoolboy's idea of an editor:—"The editor is one of tbe happiest animals in the work!. Ho can go to the circus, afternoon and evening, without paying a cent; also to inquests and hangings. He has free tickets to picnics and strawberry _ festivals, gets wedding-cake sent him, and sometimes gets a licking, but not often, for lie can take things back in the next issue, which be generally dees. I never knew but one editor to get lickt. His paper busted that Jay, and he couldu't take anything bade. While other folks have to go to bed early, the editor can sit up late at night and sec all that is going on. The boys think it a big thing to bang on to ten o'clock. When I am a man I mean to be an editor, so i can stay out late of nights. Then that will be bully. The editor doesn't have to saw wood or do any chopping, except with the scissors. Railroads get up collisions for him, knowing if they didn't he'd make them. In politics, be don't care who he goes for, if they are on bis side. If they ain't he goes for 'cm anyway : bo it amounts to nearly tbe" same thing. There is a great many people trying to bo editors who can't, and some of them have been in the profession for years. If I was asked if I bad rather have an education or be a cirens-rider, I would say, let mo bo an editor."